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The Well at St. Mary's/The Village Well in San Francisco, CA 94123
(5 reviews)
About The Well at St. Mary's/The Village Well
The Village Well, formerly known as The Well at St. Mary's is a community resource that provides a variety programs to educate and nurture families. The group provides an environment where parents, young children, and teens can find inspiration, guidance, and community.
The Well hosts parent education classes, parent-child music classes, play groups, and a parent-child drop-in center.
Morning Club & Afternoon Club are held in the center's popular indoor playspace, filled with age-appropriate toys.
Please see the website for a complete list of resources available at the center, including Saturday birthday parties.
The Well hosts parent education classes, parent-child music classes, play groups, and a parent-child drop-in center.
Morning Club & Afternoon Club are held in the center's popular indoor playspace, filled with age-appropriate toys.
Please see the website for a complete list of resources available at the center, including Saturday birthday parties.
Getting There
Close to bus lines. Parking on street and in the Lombard garage.
Parent Reviews
(5 reviews)
Average Parent Rating:
Rated by 5 parents
- This is like going to grandma's house in the English countryside, and is by far the warmest and best play place in the city. There are two huge play rooms: The plush carpeted downstairs room has tons of educational toys (you name it, it's there, from stacking toys, blocks and dress-up clothes to a fully-stocked toy kitchen and big train table), scores (if not hundreds) of books, rocking chairs for nursing moms, plus home-baked goodies, coffee, tea, juice, and fresh fruit for the little ones. The upstairs room is for more active play, and has arts-and-crafts tables with tons of supplies for free art play (markers, stampers, paints, stickers, crayons, paper, homemade play dough, glue, glitter, etc.), toys for gross motor skills (cars, see-saw, playhouse, tent with tunnels, balls), plus a carpeted "quiet corner" with more books and pillows. Halfway through each club there is circle time (heralded by a little bell the kids love to ring) with songs, rhymes, a parachute, and bubbles. Best of all, it is led by the most wonderful, warmest person imaginable, Jean Rowcliffe, who formerly worked with the British royal family. It's great that you don't have to be a member to go: you can just drop in whenever. This place is great not only for the little ones, but also for moms who need support and the company of other adults during some of those rough early parenting periods. I've been going regularly for well over a year, and it's both mine and my little one's favorite place.
[Submitted by LK6/22/09 - The Well is a wonderfully welcoming place to bring your kids for a play and to connect with other parents. It is my haven and favorite place to take my 14 mos old daughter - we've been going there since she was 6 mos old. Jean is a star and has created somewhere I look forward to going - the community feel, the tea and treats, great toys, wonderful amount of space, now a pediatrician coming by to offer advice, etc. She just keeps doing all the right things!
[Submitted by LCF3/13/08 - jean Rowcliffe has created a haven for moms at St. Mary's. A lovely room filled with toys. Moms can flop and enjoy home baked goodies while getting terrific advising on kids from Jean. If you wnat to have a playdate with a friend and her child -- this is the perfect place. The children will be totally entertained and you will actually be able to talk to your girlfriend!
[Submitted by LOVE the morning club!
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