Introduction/specifics

The creativity kindergarten at the Leonardo Da Vinci Campus Nauen has 5 main areas of specialisation:

Social life and learning:
Democracy education, e.g. through the children's parliament, children's conference and pedagogical work with children's rights
Participation in community projects and activities on campus, e.g. the KiChiNiFant children's festival, Red Hand Day, World Children's Day, healthy living and learning working group
Creative and aesthetic living and learning:
Early musical education, campus musical
Nationwide reading aloud day
Lantern light festival
Use of the studio, themed months, colour week
Communicative living and learning
Dealing with media, library
Language development integrated into everyday life, morning circle, discussion groups
Final project for pre-school children
English story time with native speakers
Campus musical
Scientific life and learning/sustainability
Research and discovery programmes in the daycare centre
Daycare centre garden, daycare centre field, apple hedge
Excursions with a scientific focus, e.g. planetarium or MAFZ
Sponsored science lessons for pre-school children at our primary school
Healthy living and learning
Exercise, relaxation, nutrition (nutrition pyramid)
Hengstenberg
Participation in the Nauen Old Town Run, Run of Sympathy, "LDVC Cup" indoor football tournament
Use of the sports facilities on campus
For further activities & events on campus: link to the campus blog (https://www.ldvc.de/campus-blog/) and the campus calendar (https://www.ldvc.de/veranstaltungen/).

Rooms

Space as a third educator

There are four areas for our nursery children, four colours with age-appropriate group rooms.

Yellow area - toddler area
Red area - kindergarten area
Blue area - On the way to school
Green area - Piazetta as a marketplace, café,
the campus's own playgrounds and gyms
Functional rooms, e.g. library, studio, Locito

Daily Schedule

from 07:00 a.m.

Arrival at the KITA

from 08:00 - 09:00

breakfast

09:00 a.m.                  

Daily morning circle

09:30 a.m.                  

Children's conference on Tuesdays and Fridays

After the morning circle: (supervised) play and learning activities until lunch

10:30 a.m.                   

Lunch for the crèche children

11:30 - 12:30     

Lunch for the kindergarten children

Lunchtime                       

Relaxation activities such as reading aloud, Kamishibai (storytelling theatre), star hour or nap time

14:00 - 16:00     

(Accompanied) play and learning activities and ongoing snack programme (snack)

18:00                   

End of the childcare time 

Food

The meals served for breakfast, lunch and snack (afternoon snack) are delivered fresh and are based on a varied, balanced and healthy diet. The quality of the food is monitored by a food committee made up of children, pupils, parents, carers and teachers.

Our daycare centre children harvest seasonal and home-grown fruit and vegetables from their own garden.

Basics

Our pedagogical orientation is based on the open work approach, which provides for holistic education and upbringing. As a result, the children learn independence, personal responsibility and self-organisation from day one. We want to break up the spatial structures. Throughout the day, all children use the "functional rooms", which are organised according to their needs, interests and inclinations.

Belonging to a reference group and a reference educator provides the children with a bond, trust and orientation. It serves as a basis for the children to venture out into freely chosen mixed-age play groups in accordance with their natural curiosity and thirst for knowledge and to try things out there.

We see education and upbringing as a joint participatory process between the child, parents and ourselves. Personal dialogue with parents is very important to us: this takes place on an individual basis as well as in regular development meetings. In this way, we succeed in our joint task of supporting the child's development in the best possible way.

Specifics

Consultation daycare centre

Since 2012, we have been a consultation daycare centre in the state of Brandenburg (KOKIB) with a focus on "specialist qualification". We continue to develop our collaboration with specialised schools and the quality of training at both learning locations, school and practice, and their collaboration.

Language daycare centre

Since 2018, we have been part of the federal programme "Sprachkita - Because language is the key to the world." We work together with families within the daycare centre-parent cooperation:

Daily, personal dialogue with the team at drop-off and pick-up times
through various digital formats, such as the video series "What's important to us"
Daily dialogue via team channels

KIEZ daycare centre project

We have been part of the KIEZ daycare centre project since 2020, which focuses in particular on inclusive work in the daycare centre. Thanks to an extensive and confidential parent information and counselling system, we are available for a wide range of topics and problems (e.g. support for parents in crisis situations, deaths in the family, parent-media counselling, social-emotional abnormalities of the child; accompanying children to independence, additional support for acclimatisation if required)

Animal-assisted pedagogy

Our children learn how to interact with animals, their needs and also their limits in everyday daycare. We currently have a daycare dog.

Description and Stations

The creativity kindergarten is located on the grounds of the Leonardo Da Vinci Campus Nauen. The best way to reach the daycare centre by bike or car is via the entrance "Zu den Luchbergen 25 in 14641 Nauen".

You can also reach us by public transport via the bus routes 650, 663 and 667 via the bus stop "Berliner Straße-Nauen" and a five-minute walk to the entrance at "Alfred-Nobel-Straße 10".