Kindergarten

Kindergarten is good for your toddler's development. Contact with peers stimulates social and language development. Here, your child can get used to being with other children in a group and according to a fixed daily rhythm. This ensures that the transition from home to primary school isn't as big a step. Moreover, having fun is, of course, central to our Toddler Care!

Kindergarten is also a good choice if you only need half-day care for your toddler or if there are waiting lists at the daycare centre.

• 08:00-9:00 a.m.
  The children arrive and we start the day quietly. The Pedagogical Staff have prepared various toys so that the children can choose what they need at that moment.
• 09:00-10:00 a.m. We eat fruit together at the table. It's a set routine with a song and chatting with each other.
  
  
• 10:00-11:00 a.m. In the circle! During this fun moment, we talk about different themes (animals, music, going to school, etc.) and what we will do today.
  
  
• 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Free play. After the circle, we do an activity that fits within that month's theme, and your child can play freely. And because play and outdoor activities are essential to us, we go outside in our garden every day.
  
  
• 12:00-1:00 p.m. End of the morning. At the branches where Kindergarten closes at noon, this is the end of the day. At the branches that close at 1 p.m., we have lunch with the children between noon and 1 p.m.

Although we often still popularly talk about toddler playgroups, it no longer exists as we used to know it. Previously, toddler playgroups were part of welfare work, but in 2018, toddler playgroups came under the Childcare Act and are officially called toddler care. So toddler care and Kindergarten is the same thing.