Introduction/specifics

Welcome to the St. Anna Catholic Daycare Center in Traßlberg / Poppenricht.

Our logo is adorned with a rainbow. We as a team are as colorful and diverse as a rainbow. People of different ages, different professions and different genders, united under the rainbow with the aim of creating a space of appreciation, trust and well-being for families.

Rooms

Our facility accommodates 3 kindergarten groups and 1 crèche group. The main entrance leads to the kindergarten area, where you will find the group rooms for the Mice, Hedgehogs and Rabbits groups, our gym, the staff room, the kitchen, the toilets (for young and old) and the large corridor with additional play areas, such as our playhouse and the ball pool. The two large kindergarten groups, Mice and Hedgehogs, also have a raised area in the group room and an adjoining room. The garden can also be accessed directly from both groups and the gym.

A side entrance leads to our crèche, the Spatzennest. Both areas are connected by a corridor, so that cross-group work is always possible. In addition to the spacious group room, the children can also use the kitchen, the bedroom and the washroom. Vehicles can also be driven in the crèche corridor or children can romp and slide in the exercise area.

The crèche has a separate entrance and a checkroom with space for baby carriages.

Our group rooms with their different corners are constantly changing to provide new play stimuli and ideas.

The rooms are individually designed according to the wishes and needs of the individual groups. There are different corners or functional tables: Building corner, doll corner, cuddly corner, magnetic building blocks, hairdressing doll's head, Playmobil corner, etc.

The painting table is in constant use. Whether coloring pictures, self-painting or seasonal handicrafts, the painting table is always full and promotes creativity, fine motor skills, pencil holding and life skills.

Many different toys are available on the shelves. These are a joyful offer for daily development and combine fun with usefulness. The children learn concentration, patience, frustration tolerance, dealing with failure and also a sense of achievement.

All of this is used for targeted support, for incidental learning and is the best way to make contact and establish relationships, both with their peers and with us educators.

Outdoor Facilities

The outdoor area in the kindergarten includes a spacious play area with a large sandpit, a large pirate ship and a climbing house (both with climbing facilities and slides). There are also various climbing and gymnastics equipment, a bird's nest swing and a mud pit to try out and various seating areas to relax on. There is a garden shed for storing garden and small toys. Raised beds complete the offer.

The crèche garden also has a small bird's nest swing, a play and climbing house and a sandpit. The crèche children are always free to spend time in the kindergarten garden and play with friends.

Daily Schedule

A day at our kindergarten includes

Drop-off time (from 07.00 to 08.30)

Core time (from 08.30 to 12.30) with

    morning circle
    Snack time together
    Free play time
    Targeted activities/projects
    Lunch
    Stay in the garden / gym / free play time
    Joint closing time

Pick-up time (12.30 to 15.00) with

    time in the garden / gym / free play time

A day at our crèche includes

Drop-off time (07.00 to 08.30)

Core time (08.30 to 12.30) with

    morning circle
    Snack time together
    Free play time
    Targeted activities/projects
    Lunch
    Nap time / free play time
    Stay in the garden / gym / free play time
    Pick-up time

Pick-up time (12.30 to 15.00)

    Nap time / free play time / time in the garden / gym

Food

Snack

We attach great importance to a healthy and balanced snack. Each group has a snack together. Here, the children enjoy eating in good company. Water and juice spritzers are available for the children at all times. Tea and milk are also offered.

Lunch

We receive our lunch daily from König Catering in Amberg. Parents can book lunch for their child individually: daily, on a specific day or for the whole week. Simply let the group staff know. In the event of illness, the child can be unsubscribed from lunch in person, by telephone or via the app. The meal plan is stored in the app and is also displayed on the information walls in the crèche and kindergarten areas.

EU school fruit / school milk program

Our facility participates in the EU school program, which, with financial support from the EU and the state of Bavaria, enables us to regularly provide fresh fruit, vegetables and dairy products as a snack or as a snack between meals. .

Healthy breakfast

Each group has a healthy breakfast once a month on a fixed day. A list is posted on the group doors in advance - each child brings something to eat together.

Birthday celebrations

A birthday is a happy occasion. We also celebrate the child's birthday and a little something to eat on the birthday table is a must. Here you discuss everything (when we celebrate, what the child brings) with the group staff.

Basics

Our daily work is based on the Basic Law, the Bavarian Child Education and Care Act and the Bavarian Education and Upbringing Plan for Children in Day Care Centers until they start school, as well as its guidelines for children under the age of three. We celebrate the festivals of the year and the church in the groups, in the whole house or in the parish in joint church services.

Children's play is also very important to us in our everyday educational activities. Through play, children actively and intensively engage with themselves and their environment. Play provides ideal conditions for learning processes in all areas of child development. Through play, the child acquires important values and forms of behavior, learns to try things out, to take on roles, patience, perseverance, assertiveness and much more.

Play is holistic (personality) education!

Employee

Each of our four groups is led by an educator. She is supported in her work by a nursery nurse. Currently, there is also another nursery teacher and a trainee nursery teacher working in the crèche. In the two large kindergarten groups, a nursery nurse completes the group team. Our facility manager is responsible for all matters in the office and provides support in the groups. She is responsible for working with the educational assistance dogs.

Additional staff, such as SPS interns & childcare interns and other interns from schools or Kolping, also support the educational work in the daycare center.

Our kitchen/housekeeping assistant is also trained as an assistant and is used to provide support in the groups as well as serving lunch.

In addition to the educational staff, a janitor is employed at our facility, a cleaning company is responsible for the cleanliness of the premises and the accountant from the parish office takes care of the accounting of contributions.

Qualification

All of our employees have completed vocational training in education.

“Whoever rests, rusts!”

To avoid this, we are constantly undergoing further training. In addition to additional training, such as specialist training, nursery teacher, relaxation teacher, Montessori teacher, motopedagogue and many more, we regularly undergo further training in first aid, fire protection and other advanced training courses.

Additional Offerings

In addition to our daily educational work, there are also certain projects for the whole house and for the individual age groups every year. These include

Forest day (once a month - each group)

Breakfast together (once a month - each group)

Jolinchen (healthy eating and exercise - for everyone)

RESI (resilience and prevention of sexualized violence - for all)

Zahlenland (holistic mathematical education - for children in the last year of kindergarten)

Entenland (orientation in space and time - for children in the penultimate and penultimate but one year of kindergarten)

German pre-course (language support - for children with German language support needs)

HLL (Hören Lauschen Lernen - for pre-school children)

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Cooperations

We work closely with various educational institutions, e.g. the early intervention centers of Lebenshilfe, specialist services, youth welfare offices and our mobile special educational assistance.

We also cooperate with our socio-cultural environment. First and foremost, we have a good working relationship with our parish priest and parish secretary. We celebrate festivals together and (co-)organize church services during the church year. In addition, we work together with the community, local associations (e.g. first responders, volunteer fire department) and other institutions to show the children all the diversity and expertise within the community and to create a possible link to youth work.

Teamwork with parents

In the sense of an educational partnership, we recognize parents as “experts” for their child and maintain a lively exchange at eye level.

Mutual openness and honesty are important to us. In short door-to-door conversations, it is possible to talk about problems in the morning, what the child likes at the daycare center or what they are struggling with. This gives us a more holistic insight into the child's world. We also pass on important information and special features of the day.

Specifics

Our two trained educational assistance dogs Maja and Cleo are a special feature. The two dogs regularly come to our facility and are happy about every cuddle, every song or playing together. The children can decide for themselves whether they want to come to the dogs. Targeted activities and activities are firmly established in the annual plan with the dogs and the individual groups.

News

Our facility uses the StayInformed app as a communication medium. Parents receive all important messages and announcements directly to their cell phone via the app. In addition to being able to view the menu, parents can use the app to report their child's illness. Parents can keep track of all important dates for current and future events in the calendar.

To view pictures of our parties, celebrations and activities, parents are regularly sent a link via the app that redirects them to the HiDrive platform.

Parental Interviews

Parents' opinions are important to us, which is why

- the door to the management office is always open for parents' concerns,

- the staff are available for door-to-door discussions during drop-off and pick-up times,

- an anonymous and standardized parent survey takes place once a year.

Overview

The primary criterion is primary residence in the area of the political municipality of Poppenricht or in the area of the parish of St. Michael (municipality of Poppenricht and the villages of Karmensölden and Schäflohe).

Siblings of children who already attend one of our facilities are also given special consideration.

Other factors for allocation may include the age and gender structure of the respective group, etc.