Abstract
School facilities encompass the entire educational environment including the school site, the building, the playground, the equipment and instructional materials provided for effective teaching and learning. School plant which is the same with school facility is similarly referred to as the space interpretation of the curriculum, noting that the programme of the school are expressed through the site, the building, play grounds, the arrangement and design of the school buildings. The paper examines school facilities as critical components of early childhood education (ECD). The paper offers detailed explanations about school buildings, instructional materials as well as their valuable support to the ECD teaching. The paper also highlighted concept framework guiding ECD teaching with schematic illustration describing various maintenance which include individual centre custodian maintenance approach, committee maintenance approach and situational maintenance approach among otherapproaches ought to have been adopted by the early childhood care (ECD)centres managers/coordinator and head of caregivers. It highlighted on the advantages and disadvantages of proper maintenance of the school facilities that strengthens and promotes good learning environments and but when the school facilities are poorly or carelessly handled, these would deteriorats mentorship periods, spoil supporting staff spirit of dedications and educational system of the (ECD) centres in the state.This paper focused on the school facilities maintenance towards enhancing learning of toddlers at the early childhood (ECD) centres in Sokoto metropolis with particular reference to school buildings and instructional materials.In the same vein, the paper recommends thatcentre managers, coordinators and care givers in collaboration with government and none government organizations should adopt effective strategies that would generate improved learning outcomes in ECD. They should include robust school facilities managed by well-trained school managers