Basics
Pedagogical focus
Our efforts are geared towards realizing the situation-oriented approach. Through play and small group activities, we enable the children to develop their imagination and creative powers. Younger and older children can relate their diverse experiences and skills to each other in joint activities and thus support each other in their development.
Our children can play an active role in shaping life at the KiTa. A conscious examination of values and norms takes place in daily life together. Rules are agreed together with the children. Rooms and their design stimulate the children's own active and creative activities.
Children should be enabled to express their needs and interests not only on their own but also in cooperation with others, to become aware of their own feelings, to gain joy of expression, to gain self-confidence in their own abilities and to show independence in their actions. They should develop a sense of self and self-confidence and thus become aware of their needs, wishes and aspirations.
We place trust in the children's abilities and expect them to do things in order to strengthen their self-confidence.
In addition, children should develop the ability to perceive the needs, wishes, interests and expectations of others and take them into account appropriately in their own behavior. This also includes questioning the validity of social values, representing their own interests in conflicts and acting cooperatively and in solidarity.
In our KiTa, religious education plays an important role in our educational work. We take the first steps with the children to bring faith to life and make it tangible. They should experience themselves in the community, feel trust and security. We support the children in overcoming their problems and take their fears seriously. We do not always have an answer to every question of faith, but we always try to deal with the children honestly and seriously.
We also orient ourselves to the church festivals. By celebrating these festivals together, the children experience themselves as an important part of their community in the KiTa and the church community.
It is also important to us to teach the children how to treat creation with respect through encounters with nature.
Despite all the planning and objectives, we don't want to commit ourselves too much to pre-programmed projects. We want to leave the children and ourselves room for the "unforeseen". It is important for us to have time to pick up on situations that are important to the children at the time so that we can work through them together. Our aim is to help the children grow into our world in small steps.
