Day care centre

Educational profile:

Children’s experiences are primarily gained through playing. Playing contributes significantly to healthy mental, physical, social and emotional personality development. It is an essential part of childhood, and is the most important way for children to examine themselves and their environment.

To encourage the child to develop into an independent personality, it is crucial to enable them to experience free playing, without constant observation. Unsupervised playing allows them to explore their environment, test and practise their own solutions in difficult situations, and take responsibility for themselves and others without adult intervention and evaluation.

We believe it is important to give the children enough time to play, and allow them to largely determine their own daily routine.

Time creates space for development, in which the children can increasingly perceive and understand their life and their world. We support the child’s playing abilities by consciously enduring periods of boredom and not simply offering a new activity. Boredom often gives rise to further and very creative playing situations. A child capable of playing already meets the basic requirements for starting school, and can face the challenges of everyday day-care life in a confident, invigorated manner.

The building

… is a stylish old mansion renovated in 1995.

… is adjacent to a lovely outdoor area which was redesigned in 2010 to cater to the children’s need for exercise.

The children

We look after around 70 children in crèche groups, elementary groups and “midi” groups.

The educational team

… regularly undergoes advanced training according to the latest findings in teaching and developmental psychology.

… consists of the day-care management, deputy management, one administrative officer and two educational specialists per group, as well as relief staff who can stand in when other staff are ill.

… consists of educational specialists, a federal volunteer, a trainee an an assistant.

Food

Meals prepared fresh in the in-house kitchen.

… based on the principles of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung e.V. (German Society of Nutrition).

The focuses of our educational work

… are geared around the Hamburg educational recommendations for child day-care centres and take into account the following aspects of education

• The body, exercise and health,
• Social and cultural environment,
• Communication: Language, written culture and media.
• Artistic creativity
• Music.
• Basic mathematical knowledge
• Basic scientific and technical knowledge.

… relate to the idea of “day-care centres as places of health prevention”, and include the following:

• Healthy food.
• Physical education.
• Boosting social and emotional skills based on the Papilio approach for day-care centres (prevention of violence and addiction).
• Teaching health-related knowledge.
• Motivation and practising health-promoting behaviour.

… are geared around the children’s interests and needs.

Special services

… Early music education, cooking in the kids’ kitchen, pre-school work.

Transportation

Take the U1 to Hallerstraße.

We look forward to welcoming your child!