We see our kindergarten as a place where your child can explore the world, grow as an individual and learn in both German and English. Within a warm, structured and supportive environment, we provide engaging, play-based learning experiences tailored to each child’s needs – encouraging them to develop confidence and curiosity at their own pace.
Whether reading aloud, singing or role-playing: languages and different cultures are omnipresent in our international kindergarten. Your child experiences language as a living tool for expressing themselves and making contact with others.
Highlights:
- Daily reading sessions
- Rhymes and songs
- First attempts at writing through crafts and role play
- Library visits and promotion of pre-literacy skills
We pave the way to reading and writing with fun sounds, rhymes and noises. Our learning opportunities promote listening comprehension and lay an important foundation for language awareness.
Highlights:
- Clapping syllables, rhyming games
- Rhythm and music for sound recognition
- First letters in everyday situations
The children encounter mathematical ideas in everyday play situations, whether building, sorting, comparing or counting. This develops a natural understanding of numbers without any pressure.
Highlights:
- Counting, measuring & sorting in everyday life
- Recognising shapes and patterns
- Playful introduction to number spaces
- Mathematics materials in the group room
Our children can express themselves creatively by painting, crafting, dancing or designing. Through these activities in everyday kindergarten life, they develop fine motor skills, imagination and self-confidence.
Highlights:
- Sensory play and playing with open materials
- Craft activities, free painting & design
- Early musical development
- Role play with self-made props
Movement and body awareness are essential for children's development. We use targeted activities to promote balance, coordination and body awareness in our children.
Highlights:
- Sports units & movement games
- Climbing, balancing & throwing
- Games for orientation in space / spatial awareness
- Team games to strengthen social interaction
- Independent problem solving
- Healthy nutrition
At our kindergarten, our children learn to interact in groups, compromise and take responsibility. Teachers guide them with empathy and clarity.
Highlights:
- Rituals and clear daily structures
- Strengthening independence and resilience
- Living and experiencing cultural diversity
We create a trusting, safe and stimulating environment in which children can learn through the playful process of their own efforts. They are constantly encouraged to make decisions, take risks and reflect on their observations.
Through child-centered play and focused learning, all children have the time and space to develop into curious and creative thinkers, unique individuals who thrive in a complex and ever-changing world. This includes taking into account the children's learning needs and abilities in order to plan accordingly. We support the children in their individual development in collaboration with their families.
Musical education plays a central role in everyday kindergarten life. Music comes alive through lots of singing, clapping and trying out instruments.
The children get to know a diverse repertoire of songs that not only promotes their language development, but also strengthens their self-confidence and joy of expression. Together, the children discover the world of sound: they sing, make music on child-friendly instruments and experience how rhythm, melody and dynamics come into harmony. In this way, they playfully develop a fine ear, a feeling for musical structures and a good sense of tempo and expression.
Once a week, our library is transformed into a cosy place full of stories, pictures and imagination. Together with the classroom teachers, the children immerse themselves in exciting worlds of books – sometimes in German, sometimes in English – and learn how to handle books in a playful way. Our goal: to awaken the joy of reading and promote early reading skills.
Activities that promote gross motor skills play a key role in a child's development between the ages of two and five. Children have a natural urge to move, experiment and explore things for themselves in order to gain new learning experiences.
Through sporting activities, your child gains new opportunities for perception and expression and can explore their body holistically. One of our main goals is to develop the general motor skills and abilities of each child in order to support them individually. This is achieved through many different activities, such as balance exercises, testing the ability to react (e.g. catching and throwing a ball) or sharpening the sense of orientation. These activities help your child to develop spatial awareness, which in turn provides them with important cues such as depth and distance, which are important for movement and orientation in the environment.
During physical activities, children play team and coordination games to encourage cooperation and build relationships among peers. Through these activities, independence, social behavior and a sense of community, body awareness, concentration and attention as well as imagination are developed and strengthened.
Does your child still want to move and explore after a day at kindergarten? Life at the Strothoff International School Kindergarten is so much more than our classrooms. Our wide range of clubs, groups and activities after school offer children the chance to extend and enrich their interests, as well as providing opportunities for personal development. It is through a full range of clubs, activities and sports that we help children find their true passions.
Kindergarten AKA’s are separate to those of the school and held in the Kindergarten area. Pick up for AKA’s is at 17:00.
Registration for an activity of your choice is necessary. Just get in touch with us.
For us, healthy eating is just as much a part of learning as books and exercise.
During lunch time children are encouraged to be risk-takers and try different types of food as well as to be principled by using table manners at lunchtime. A hot meal is provided daily for all Kindergarten children from 12:00 to 13:30. The meal includes salad and meat options, fruit for dessert, and sometimes yoghurt or pudding. No pork products are ever used, and vegetarian options are always available.
When choosing a caterer, we have placed great importance on a varied, balanced and healthy meal. Calis, our organic catering provider, is a small family business based in the Rhine-Main area and offers high-quality organic food. https://www.calis-biocatering.de/
Of course, we take into account the individual requirements of the children in the context of the joint lunch.
It goes without saying that we take your child's individual needs into account when serving lunch together.
All children in the kindergarten wear a common kindergarten/school uniform. We are convinced that this not only strengthens the sense of community, but also prevents social tensions and makes everyday life easier for parents.
Would you like to find out more about school uniforms at Strothoff International School? With pleasure! Find out more here.
You can buy our sustainably produced, comfortable clothing in our online store.
Are you committed to sustainability? Pre-loved school clothing is available from the Parents' Council. Please contact our PTO for this.
The last year of kindergarten before starting Strothoff International Primary School is a special feature for us.
Our reception is already part of the school and thus optimally prepares the children for the transition to first grade. Thanks to our bilingual language concept, children without knowledge of a second language can also start without any problems. With our help, your child can prepare for a smooth start to school without any pressure. Find out what makes our entry level so special.
