SEŽANA KINDERGARTEN SEŽANA JOŽETA PAHORJA 1 6210 SEŽANA Phone No.: 05 731 02 20 Fax No.: 05 731 02 26 [email protected] www.vrtec-sezana.si PUBLICATION ABOUT US KINDERGARTEN’S ADMINISTRATION Kindergarten Sežana was established by Municipalities of Address: Jožeta Pahorja Street 1, 6210 Sežana Divača, Hrpelje- Kozina, Komen and Sežana. Web site: www.vrtec-sezana.si/ Phone No.: +386 There are 12 locations where our kindergarten is based: 5 7310 220 Municipality of Sežana – with its units in Sežana, Lehte Email: [email protected] Sežana, Dutovlje, Tomaj, Lokev and Povir Head teacher: +386 5 7310 222 Municipality of Divača – with its units in Divača and Accounting department: +386 5 7310 228 Senožeče Dietician and health care: +386 5 7310 234 Municipality of Hrpelje-Kozina – with its units in Hrpelje and Materija Municipality of Komen – with its units in Komen and Štanjel OUR COMMITMENT Helping parents with comprehensive child upbringing, Improving the quality of family life and the life of children as well, in order to create conditions for an optimum-result child development 2 Being in a kindergarten is a very important life event of a child. It is a place where interesting, exciting and fairy-tale like things take place. In our public institution Sežana Kindergarten we offer a variety of educational program. In that way children have many opportunities to get new experience and to develop their competences. We offer the possibility for an optimum-result development to children. And we help parents with a complete child care. Through cooperation with other participants in our environment, we put our commitment to effect. We are happy to make our kindergarten a place where children feel good, accepted and safe. Head teacher: Radica Slavković 3 Municipality of UNIT POVIR Municipality of Povir 24, 6210 Sežana SEŽANA +386 5 73 10 230 HRPELJE-KOZINA UNIT SEŽANA UNIT HRPELJE Jožeta Pahorja Street 1, 6210 Sežana D.B. Brkina 4, 6240 Kozina +386 5 73 10 220 UNIT TOMAJ +386 5 68 90 240 Tomaj 63, 6221 Dutovlje +386 5 73 18 295 UNIT LEHTE UNIT MATERIJA Regentova 1, 6210 Sežana Bač 28 a, 6242 Materija Old part: + 386 5 73 10 229 +386 5 68 90 242 Municipality of New part: + 386 5 73 10 237, + 386 5 73 10 231 DIVAČA Municipality of KOMEN UNIT DIVAČA UNIT DUTOVLJE Kosovelova 24, 6215 Divača UNIT KOMEN Dutovlje 136, 6221 Dutovlje +386 5 73 18 292 Komen 61 b, 6223 Komen +386 5 73 18 294 +386 5 73 18 296 UNIT SENOŽEČE: UNIT LOKEV Senožeče 103 a, 6224 Senožeče UNIT ŠTANJEL Lokev 124, 6219 Lokev +386 5 73 18 290 Štanjel 75, 6222 Štanjel +386 5 73 18 298 +386 5 73 18 299 4 ABOUT US Kindergarten Sežana is an independent public educational Kindergarten in Sežana is open from Monday to Friday establishment for preschool education. It carries out a throughout the whole year. The exceptions are units in publicly valid program for preschool children. The program Tomaj, Povir and Materija which are closed during school is approved according to the law. The professional basis for holidays. Kindergarten Sežana has the autonomy to the educational work is our national document Curriculum decide about the opening hours of each unit. The for kindergartens. This document was approved by opening hours are announced at the beginning of a Slovenia’s Pre-School and Basic Education Directorate in school year. Work in our kindergarten is planned ahead, March 1999. for every day of the year, for the school holidays as well. Preschool education proceeds in two different age brackets: Our employees take great care of children’s wellbeing and safety. We offer children different experience and knowledge for them to get an optimum-result • first age bracket: development. Our professional work strives for positivity children from age 1 to 3 and developing confidence together with self-esteem of each individual. • second age bracket: children from age 3 to school age 5 OUR PROGRAMMES THE CONTENTS WE OFFER Full day An organized preschool education completes family upbringing. First age bracket (children from 1 to 3 years of age), It offers important experience and knowledge that one cannot four meals included. get from a family. Knowing the facts about a child’s evolution, Second age bracket (children from 3 to 6 years of age), from social, emotional to motoric development, is of key three meals importance. It enables an encouraging environment for included. children to learn. We try to carry out a quality education in accordance to the Curriculum for kindergartens. The Curriculum for Half a day program and half a day program with lunch kindergartens is a national document which guarantees the included are only organized if there are a sufficient number of preschool’s quality. Its execution needs to be professional. children enrolled for an independent half a day section. Kindergarten year plan Adjusted program (KYP) is a document that serves as a is carried out in our “developmental” section in Unit guide throughout the whole school Sežana. year. Goals and tasks are set in advance, the programs and activities An induction free of charge are defined and so is the whole For all children who are enrolled for the first time, a organization. Planning our work in four day induction free of charge is offered. The advance enables the working introduction hours are from 9.30 to 11.00. During conditions undisturbed throughout that time, the children with their parents get to know the whole year. Planning includes the establishment, the daily routine and the different fields of activities (indoor classrooms. They also make first contacts to the and outdoor activities, language, Arts, kindergarten workers. social skills, nature, Maths) and the Playing hours ways they are correlated. It also are meant for the children that are not enrolled to a includes playroom organization, kindergarten. The time and place of playing hours are resting hours, meals and other announced through public media and posters. everyday activities. Kindergarten workers act according to the goals and principles set in the Curriculum. The goals and principles are the ones ENRICHED ACTIVITIES guiding our decisions and activities. We strive for the possibility Enriched activities are a part of each kindergarten’s curriculum. to organize such activities that enable the children to learn They can be executed for a shorter or a longer period of time, through games and experience and to be independent, active, depending on children’s and parents interests. They are initiative, creative and participative. All mentioned according to carefully prepared by professional workers within one’s age and developmental stage. The children are a part kindergartens. Their goals and principles are in complete of our activity planning and evaluating. They can also accordance to the national document - curriculum for offer suggestions and ideas. All of that is implemented kindergartens. Enriched activities can be held in the into our work. Individuals and groups are all included. kindergartens working space, through different projects or Children have a chance to choose the activities, place ad workshops within daily activities, or they can take place materials. When working with children, social and somewhere else. Parents cover the costs of different enrollment emotional atmosphere is very important and so is the part fees, transportations if necessary. Otherwise, enriched activities when children learn about the environment. We prepare are free of charge. regular quality programs enriched with different celebrations The enriched activities are all thoroughly described in a (Culture day, National day, Birthdays, times of the year, end Kindergarten’s year plan. The quality programs that we of school year,…) and activities. offer are: “The green rucksack” – a project of environmental educations executed in collaboration with intermunicipal society Friends of the Youth Sežana and a program called “The reading dwarf” which is carried out together with Kosovel’s Library Sežana. Another program is seasonal tickets for the plays in Kosovel’s culture center in Sežana. Our professional workers are mentors to a children’s folklore group, hiking club, etc. 7 PROJECT 8 S Projects are a part of our kindergartens’ daily life. The purpose of projects is to make the quality of our work better. They are tightly related to the developmental goals that are the main theme of life and work in a kindergarten. Some of the recent projects that have already raised the quality of our preschool work are: EKO Project – ECO School as a way of living Project Pollen-Fibonacci – early science teaching The Unicef projects Exercising Fit 4 kids Reading comprehension Project »Language and Culture of environment« Projects in cooperation with faculties and societies Playful architecture Living landscape (international project) Innovative project Out and about (project o f imposition of a foreign language) A wave to the world Friendship circles (international project) Current projects: Exercising Fit 4 kids (international exercising project) • Ethics and values • Self-evaluation • Traditional Slovene breakfast • Safe under the sun • “The armadillo” Possible new projects are described with aims and principles in each year’s Kindergarten year plan. We offer a lot of other activities that are being carried out in the afternoons by different local individuals or groups. They are not a part of our daily activities. parents or their legal guardians. FOOD AND HEALTH Our menu is carefully prepared by our diet expert. He or she follows the dietetic guidelines suitable for different ages of children. The food we offer combines a variety of foodstuff from the nutritional pyrami d. Children with specific health problems (allergies, etc.) are offered an adjusted diet. All kinds of local and ecologic food are included in children’s meals like seasonal fruits and vegetables, milk and bread.