Introduction/specifics

The 3-group KiTa offers space for 56 children from the age of 4 months until school enrollment and also allows integrative care if required. The focus of the pedagogical work in the KiTa is the individual child. The open room concept allows the child to develop through its own play. The child appropriates the world with all its conditions independently and has the opportunity to use the individual functional rooms and corresponding materials according to his or her own interests and abilities. The child is individually accompanied in this self-education process by the pedagogical staff with regard to the individual educational areas. The focus is on independence and confidence in one's own educational potential. We approach the individual child and his or her family with an appreciative attitude, so that a successful educational 

Rooms

The daycare center has 3 groups with adjoining rooms that are assigned to different educational areas that stimulate the child's self-education process and offer age-appropriate, diverse opportunities for play, activity, retreat and movement.

Each group has a washroom and the U3 area has a spacious nappy-changing room. There are also two bedrooms. Here, each child is provided with his or her own bed as a place to rest and sleep.

Among other things, the children have access to a large construction area with many different materials for building and constructing, a car carpet with a parking garage and cars, as well as a variety of laying materials, such as tree discs, cloths, animals, etc. Here, each child is given the opportunity to create his or her own play area. Here, each child is given the opportunity to design his or her own reality, in which the design and the materials offered determine how creatively their own ideas are implemented and which mathematical and physical relationships the children can experience.

The role play area is set up as a "children's apartment" with a kitchen, bedroom and living room and office. It offers the children the opportunity to process experiences and emotions from their own lives through play, to slip into different roles, to experience different perspectives and to engage in intensive play with other children.

The movement room enables the children to actively engage with different materials that encourage movement or to test their abilities in the movement building site and to discover new skills. Here, a wide variety of materials can be used to create a wide range of movement stimuli for the children of the corresponding age groups.

The large hallway area offers the children the opportunity to play, move around and browse through the library. Here they will find a changing selection on the play carpet, enough space to ride the bobby car and mini vehicles, and the bouncy box invites them to jump.

At eye level, children of all ages will find clearly arranged, age-appropriate materials for tabletop games and puzzles on a shelf.

The spacious café in the hallway area is a central contact point, which is used by all groups for breakfast, lunch and a small snack in the afternoon. The café is the central place for meeting and communication in the partially open KiTa. Children of all ages meet here to eat and talk. Above all, the topics of nutrition, health, cooking and baking find a space alongside social and language learning. A traffic light system visualizes the opening hours for the children and the weekly menu is also made clear to the children with photos. The café is also used for guided home economics activities, so that the children have the opportunity to cook and bake once a week or simply to watch.

The creative area offers the children a variety of opportunities for painting, handicrafts and sculpture with different materials, on the wall, on the floor or at the table. It includes a large wet painting area to get creative with brushes and paint, a painting and craft table, as well as a kneading table.

A science area invites each child to be active themselves, to experience and recognize physical relationships. By experimenting with many different materials, the children can consolidate new knowledge, repeat actions again and again, develop things further and differentiate newly acquired knowledge.

Children also need a break. The quiet room (glitter room), offers the children the opportunity to come to rest at any time, to process impressions and to relax. It serves as a place of retreat during free play and can be used for painting mandalas with meditative music, for massaging with different materials, for building caves with pillows and blankets or for looking at picture books.

Outdoor Facilities

Via the so-called "dirt lock", where boots and muddy pants etc. are stored, the children enter a generously laid out outdoor play area. The playground invites the children to play with water and sand, various playground equipment offers opportunities for climbing, sliding, shimmying, balancing and swinging. Bushes and hedges invite individual play and as a place of retreat.  Paths and a large open space are used by the children to drive a variety of vehicles. There is also a kitchen garden on the grounds, which is cultivated and maintained by the children.

The U3 children have access to an age-appropriate sand and mud area, a slide and two swings for individual play.

Daily Schedule

Daily routine in the sunflower (GF III) and dandelion group (GFI)

Times                                  Procedures

07:15 - 09:00                               Bringing phase, open free play in the groups, breakfast possibility in the café

09:00 - 09:15                               Morning circle

09:15 - 10:30                               Open free play phase in the individual educational rooms

10:00 a.m.                                    Hygiene phase

10:30 a.m.                                    Clean-up phase and outdoor play or free play extension depending on the weather conditions

11:15 - 12:00                                End of free play - play circle or free play extension in the construction area.

12:00 - 12:15                                Pick up time

12:15 pm                                      1st group lunch

12:30 p.m.                                    2nd group lunch

Rest period until approx. 13:30

13:45 - 14:15                                 Pick-up phase

13:45 - 16:15                                 Free play in the education rooms, outdoor play, afternoon snack, pick-up phase

Daily routine in the dandelion group (GF II)

Times                                        Procedures

07:15 - 09:00                         Bring phase

09:00 - 09:30                         Common breakfast

09:30 - 11:00                          Free play phase, individual participation in open free play in the educational rooms, outdoor                                                                   play area

10:00 a.m.                              Hygiene phase

11:30 a.m.                              Joint lunch in the dandelion group

11:50 a.m. - 2:15 p.m.            Nap and hygiene phase

14:15 - 16:15                          Pick-up phase, free play in the educational rooms, afternoon snack, outdoor play area

Food

Depending on the number of children booked, they eat up to three meals at the KiTa. The children have the opportunity to eat breakfast in the café in the hallway area during the drop-off phase. Milk, still water and tea are available on the tables for the children to drink with the breakfast they have brought with them. Fresh fruit or raw vegetables are also cut up daily. On Mondays, a rich cereal buffet is available to the children. In the afternoon, the children can also fortify themselves with a small snack in the form of fresh fruit and/or vegetables, dessert, leftovers from morning home economics activities, cookies or crackers in the café or on picnic blankets in the outdoor area.  The café is generally supervised by a pedagogical specialist and/or the everyday helper.

Lunch for the coming week is generally chosen by the children themselves with the help of a pedagogical specialist and delivered warm by the kitchen of the St. Josef Hospital, Salzkotten. Depending on your needs, you as parents can order a vegetarian dish or a dish without pork. The weekly menu is visualized inside the café with photos of the individual foods.

The lunch children are divided into four lunch groups. The U3 children eat lunch with the pedagogical staff within their familiar environment in the group room. The older U3 children eat at the same time with a pedagogical specialist in the café. The older children are divided into two groups.

Alternately, some of the lunch children support the daily assistant in setting the tables.

Basics

• True to Alber Einstein's quote: "Learning is experience. Everything else is just information," the open KiTa is designed to provide the children with a diverse learning environment with educational spaces that are set up according to individual educational areas. Here, the focus is on the children's self-education. They make the open work visible and challenge the children to engage intensively with the conditions of their learning environment.
• The KiTa is a family pastoral place. Daily interaction in the KiTa is based on Christian values such as appreciation, charity, tolerance and respect for every child and person. Stories, songs, prayers and celebrations based on the Christian cycle of the year allow the children to experience the Christian faith and Christian values.

Employee

The children of the KiTa are cared for by 12 pedagogical specialists. Additional support is provided by an everyday helper during lunch and afternoon care. 

Among the pedagogical staff is a specialist for integration and participation.

Qualification

Curative teacher

Quality Assurance

The quality management system IQUE (Integrated Quality and Staff Development) systematically and continuously ensures and develops the quality of the educational processes and the educational partnership in the daycare center.

The IQUE quality standards together with the quality cycle form the framework of quality management. Regular training for management, as well as team training and evaluation procedures with the participation of the provider, provide the framework for a lively and reliable design of the quality framework.

Cooperations

Cooperations and/ or collaboration with...

• the parish of St. Marien,
• St. Marienheim (retirement home)
• the Kolping Family and KFD,
• the elementary school Salzkotten,
• various special schools,
• the public library,
• the voluntary fire department
• the traffic police,
• the Paderborn Working Group for Dental Health,                                                      
• the supervising dentist Dr. Votsmeier,
• the Kath. KiTa St. Johannes Salzkotten,
• the Kath. KiTa St. Petrus Upsprunge,
• the Kath. KiTa St. Rochus Tudorf,
• the Kath. KiTa St. Bartholomäus Verne,
• the counseling center for parents, children and adolescents (Caritas PB e.V.),
• the speech therapists and occupational therapists on site,
• the various doctors and the social pediatric center PB

... to expand and qualify the range of facilities for children and families.

Teamwork with parents

The exchange with parents is not only conceptually an important and intensively used component of the trusting cooperation between the KiTa and parents, but also the basis for a successful educational partnership.

During the drop-off and pick-up situations, the pedagogical staff always uses the door-to-door talk as a communication tool.

Furthermore, we always try to respond to the individual needs of each family and provide support. If necessary, appointments for parental talks are made by the pedagogical staff or by the parents. These discussions are based on a partnership in which the needs, wishes, concerns and worries of the parents are taken seriously and the parents are seen as experts for their children. In addition, the KiTa offers a development discussion for parents around the child's birthday.

Specifics

Within the functional rooms during free play, the pedagogical staff offers daily guided activities such as experimenting, cooking and baking, sports for the different age groups, religious units for the different age groups, cultivating a kitchen garden, dancing, creative activities, etc. They also offer religious sessions for the different age groups, the cultivation and care of a kitchen garden, dancing, creative activities etc.

The preschool pedagogy includes a daily support and challenge program for the future school children. They start the week with a joint children's conference and take part in the Würzburg training program "Listen, Listen, Learn" to prepare them for the acquisition of written language. In the course of the week, they experience an art project, the social project, a guided sports lesson and a religious unit at the end of the week, etc.. In connection with the body theme/healthy eating, a visit is made to a dentist's office, the traffic policeman visits us at the KiTa, library license, graduation trip, etc.

Overview

For the admission of the child in the KiTa we consider the following criteria:

• The age of the child
• The denomination of the child
• Individual circumstances
• A sibling attends the facility at the same time
• The social area in which the child lives

There is no entitlement to a place in our daycare if one or more criteria are met.

Description and Stations

The KiTa is located in a traffic-calmed street. There is little through traffic. In the Somonstraße (side street) there is a bus stop ( S90, SK4, SK5) with connection to the city center as well as to Büren and Geseke. There are enough bicycle racks for bicycles and there is a storage room for strollers and scooters etc. The KiTa has 3 parent-child parking spa

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