As of: February 29, 2024, 4:00 p.m
By: Bert Brosch
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The Harthausen kindergarten continues to develop its pedagogical concept and is now an inclusive rather than integrative facility.
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The Harthausen kindergarten continues to develop its pedagogical concept and is now an inclusive rather than integrative facility.
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- Facility manager Marc Freimann, who has been in Harthausen since 2017, enthusiastically presented the new concept of the children's home to the main committee.
“In recent years we have revised the content of the children’s home’s educational concept,” said Freimann.
It is now an “inclusive” house, where all children with and without disabilities, with or without German language skills, are fully included from the start.
“With the integrative concept, we were only able to include these children in the groups over time,” says Freimann.
Show children the world that goes beyond their own family
There are currently two crèche and three kindergarten groups; the children are between one and seven years old until they go to school.
Eleven children have a physical or mental disability.
Harthausen can accommodate up to 108 children, most of whom come directly from Harthausen.
One goal is for the children's home and the rest of the village to live and grow together in order to show the children the world that goes beyond their own family and circle of friends.
For example, the “hoodlums” (preschoolers) and the “world explorers” (children in their penultimate year of kindergarten) regularly visit the fire department, the farmers, the village shop and even the village theater.
On the other hand, all neighbors and other parts of the village are invited to the festivals.
“We protect the children, accompany and support them in their development,” emphasizes Freimann.
You maintain individual contact with parents and legal guardians, but always characterized by honesty and appreciation.
Children should learn what they can do themselves
One approach in Harthausen is that the children should learn a lot of things themselves: dressing themselves as much as possible, putting food on their own plates, eating alone.
In the kindergarten, children are allowed to work with natural materials: branches, boards, wood, stones, leaves, earth, gravel, sand and water are available.
Children are helped with three important transitions: settling into the house at the beginning, the transition from daycare to kindergarten and the transition to school.
“In order for the children to be able to cope with this successfully, they need time; changes don’t happen overnight,” says Freimann.
All preschoolers receive road safety training and a first aid course, they visit the Neukeferloh community library and the elementary school, and experience a gymnastics lesson in the gymnasium with the support of the TSV.
At the end there is a school rally and a big final party before the children go to school with their parents.