International KiTa Bonn - Christina Cherry

International Day Care Center Bonn

International day care centre for children

The International Day Care Center has 120 full-day childcare places in eight groups. The childcare places are available to the children of employees of international organisations and of the Interessengemeinschaft Bund. With a time frame of 45 hours per week, children are cared for all day from the 4th month of life until the start of compulsory schooling. The services are offered bilingually in German and English.

Four groups of children aged between four months and four years are cared for, and a further four groups of children aged between two years and the start of compulsory schooling, four to six of whom are children aged between two years.

Our International Day Care Center is open daily from 7:30 am to 5:00 pm.

Equipment and services

4 group rooms, of which 2 groups are connected in a group structure (each with children’s kitchenette and direct access to the outside area), 8 group side rooms, 4 washrooms, 2 changing rooms, 4 wardrobes, 1 large multi-purpose room, 1 canteen kitchen, 1 office, 1 meeting room, 1 staff room, 2 personal WC, 1 visitor WC, entrance and corridor area

4 group rooms, of which 2 groups are together in a group structure (each with children’s kitchenette and direct access to the outdoor area/roof terrace), 8 group side rooms, 4 washrooms, 2 changing rooms, 4 cloakrooms, 1 small multi-purpose room, 1 therapy room, 2 personal toilets, corridor area.

The groups in a group structure work across groups. In each group structure there are different play and functional areas with different materials. These serve the holistic promotion and depend on the interests of the children.

In addition to the group rooms, the corridor, one of the exercise rooms and the outdoor area are available for the children to play in during the play phase. The group rooms and the corridor are divided into functional areas and cover all seven educational areas.

A pram room is available from the outside.

outside area

Our outdoor area surrounds the entire children’s day care centre. It is planted with various shrubs and trees, which offer the children opportunities to retreat, and has fixed playground equipment such as a climbing tower, three slides, two standing seesaws, a hammock swing, a tube to hide, a mud corner and several sand landscapes with water points and a large playground. Various floor coverings such as sand, gravel, wood, stones, earth and paved surfaces provide a variety of movement and sensory experiences and can be used by children in all weathers.

Special offers

The day care centre offers almost all-year-round childcare, which is guaranteed by reduced childcare during the school summer holidays. Permanently installed closing times are limited to the Christmas period and 3 additional days a year.

We are freshly cooked daily by our housekeeping power according to the standards of the German Society for Nutrition. The monthly meal allowance for the hot meal is to be paid to the carrier.

Pedagogical peculiarities

In the foreground of our pedagogical work is the “social education” on the one hand as a method – learning in social relations – on the other hand as an educational goal – education to group ability.

We support the children in dealing with their environment, living together with other cultures and with existing norms and rules, to help shape and apply them. They learn to perceive themselves, their feelings and their bodies. We create space for the children to practice living and working together with others.

Furthermore, we practice bilingual German-English education in our institution. We implement this with the method of immersion (language bath) by means of a native speaker, i.e. an employee with the native language English, in almost every group.

We stand up for the right of children to education, upbringing and care. Regardless of origin, gender, religion, cultural and ethnic orientation, physical and / or mental conditions and regardless of the parents’ life situation, we try to implement this in our day care centre.

The basic attitude of partnership towards the child obliges us to involve children in shaping their everyday pedagogical lives and in this way to promote their self-confidence and responsibility.

The children experience this participation and the contribution of their own ideas through e.g.

Joint definition of group rules and joint responsibility for compliance with them
Design of our premises
Ideas and wishes for the design of activities and miniprojects
Cleaning of the premises

By the end of the kindergarten year 2013/2014, we will select an instrument or method that ensures that children’s wishes, suggestions for improvement and complaints are recorded and dealt with and firmly anchor them in our everyday pedagogical life.

The health of the children is very important to us. That is why we attach great importance to a healthy diet. We ensure this by providing a warm lunch that is freshly prepared every day. We follow the guidelines of the German Society for Nutrition. Furthermore, we plan and prepare a healthy breakfast together with the children once a week, so that the children get a feeling for what belongs to a healthy breakfast. On the other days, we encourage the parents to give their child a healthy breakfast.

Offers for parents

Our offers include:

parent-teacher talks, information afternoons and evenings
Parents’ evening on specific topics
Hospitations and visits to the facility
parent meetings
intensive cooperation with the elected parent representatives
Co-creation of parties and celebrations
All information is given to parents in German and English.

Number of employees

The pedagogical staff is composed as follows:

1 state-approved educator / specialist in social and health care as head of the institution
1 State-approved social pedagogue diploma as head of the institution
1 diploma in pedagogy as group leader
6 state-approved educator as group leader
1 state-approved curative nurse as group leader
6 state-approved educators as specialists, two of them in the position of native speaker
1 skilled worker with a BA in social work
1 state-approved curative nurse as a specialist
1 state-approved health and paediatric nurse as a specialist
1 state-approved children’s nurse as a supplement on the position of native speaker
1 state-certified social worker as a supplementary employee
1 parental companion as a supplement on the position of the native speaker
1 trainee in the year of recognition for childhood pedagogy
1 native speaker (39 hours/week)
1 native speaker (8 hours/week)

In the Downloads section you will find both the education and upbringing plan (Basics) and the respective institution-specific education and upbringing plans.

Our quality management concept combines an internationally recognised standard (DIN EN ISO 9001) with the AWO quality requirements, which are derived from the model of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt.

We are pursuing two key objectives:

The welfare of each individual child and the satisfaction of their parents or guardians
as well as the continuous and systematic review and improvement of our education, training and support work.

We are committed to fair educational opportunities for all children!