Introduction/specifics

Elsa Brändström" after-school care centre

Facility:

The facility is located in the centre of Mittweida in a quiet side street on the corner of Schumannstraße and Stadtgraben. Our day-care centre is purely an after-school care centre attended by pupils from Pestalozzi Primary School. Pupils in Years 1 to 3 attend the after-school centre at Stadtgraben 2 c and Year 4 have been attending Pestalozzi Primary School since the 2016/17 school year. Here, some rooms are used by both the school and the after-school care centre.

Pestalozzi Primary School is around a 10-minute walk from our after-school care centre. Due to the traffic situation, it is necessary to accompany the after-school children on their way to school.

Our facility:

• was built in 1988 as a crèche building
• In 2009/2010, the building was completely renovated and converted into a pure after-school care centre
• Capacity 188 places including 6 integration places - 144 in the after-school care centre (grades 1 - 3)
• Since the 2016/17 school year - 44 in the Pestalozzi primary school (year 4) Early and late service takes place for all children in the after-school centre building

Rooms

Premises:

• 4 group rooms, each with a homework room
• 1 reading corner for 3 children with cosy crumpled armchairs
• 1 black light room
• 1 props and costume room
• 3 sanitary rooms
• 1 gymnastics room
• 1 integration room
• Workshop, e.g. with the option of woodworking workshop
• 1 dining room with food counter (also used for cooking and baking programmes and brunch)
• 1 cloakroom

Outdoor Facilities

Outdoor area:

• Various play, exercise and gymnastics facilities
• Football pitch
• basketball hoop
• Climbing apparatus
• swings
• sandpit
• 3 covered seating areas
• construction trailer
• asphalted scooter and bicycle track
• hammock
• nest swing
• Wippo
• Wooden house with seating

Basics

Concept:

"Education is therefore not to create something new, but education is to develop the living in the child, not through formless licentiousness, but by teaching it to feel the sense of well-being in harmonious forms of life.... "

Elsa Brändström - Thoughts on raising children

This guiding principle of the Swedish humanist, whose name our children's centre has borne since 1988, characterises our daily work with the children entrusted to us.

Our aim is to create every opportunity for the children's educational processes by organising the daily routine and all the educational framework conditions to enable them to spend their free time in a varied and meaningful way.

The needs of all school children in grades 1 - 4 are taken into account. This includes the deliberate design of educationally stimulating rooms as well as the organisation of the after-school day so that the children are given sufficient time, freedom and independence to make decisions.

A methodically diverse pedagogical work of the educator team in partnership with the parents and the primary school is the basis for allowing the children to take initiative, be active and think independently. In this way, we educators accompany the after-school children in their educational processes.

Quality Assurance

Participation:

After the weekly class conference in the individual class levels, the after-school council brings the issues raised to the meetings and the problems and suggestions are discussed together.

This then results in joint projects, ideas for the end-of-term party, the holiday programme and much more.

Cooperations

Premises of the after-school care centre in the Pestalozzi primary school:

• Dual use of some rooms by the school and the after-school care centre
• Use of the gym twice a week possible

Outdoor area at Pestalozzi Primary School:

• 2 covered seating sets
• 2 football goals
• Various play and activity equipment

Specifics

The leisure activities offered by our "Elsa Brändström" after-school care centre:

In order to cater for the diverse talents, interests and needs of all after-school children, there are many leisure activities on offer at the after-school centre, from which the children can choose the one that suits them best.

• Choir AG
• Black light theatre
• Handicrafts / felting for special occasions
• Children's yoga according to notice
• Kikus
• Football club

News

Latest news:

• Easter holiday programme with excursions and other activities
• 24.05.2024 Farewell party for Year 4 with all after-school children (all about the ghost)
• Summer holiday programme with many activities, e.g. canoeing, visit to the outdoor pool, Sonnenlandpark, etc.