Activities

Schedule of activities at Żyrafa Kindegarden:

• daily educational activities in English in each age group;
• bilingual programme based on the immersion method
• two teachers in each group: a Polish-speaking one and an English-speaking one; the latter one communicates with children only in English
• daily educational and art activities based on the Core Curriculum of the Polish Ministry of National Education and programmes recommended by the Ministry (e.g. a method of teaching mathematics by Dr Gruszczyk-Kolczyńska, a glottodidactic method by Prof. Rocławski, a method of global reading, etc.)
• clubs (5 times a week)
• eurhythmics with elements of music therapy (once a week)
• swimming (once a week)
• tennis (once a week)
• chess (once a week)
• dance (once a week)
• theatre workshops (once a week)
• dog therapy (once or twice a month)
• horse riding (once or twice a month)
• trips (once a month)
• concerts of the National Philharmonic Orchestra (once a month)
• theatre festivals
• collaboration with international organisations and exchange of English-speaking teachers
• contact on a daily basis with English-speaking children attending our kindergarten
• visits of interesting people
• open workshops and activities for children and their parents
• periodical events, balls, holidays
• kindergarten festivals (e.g. English song festivals)
• speech therapy activities (free of charge consultation, activities adapted to a child’s needs to be paid for additionally; the activities take place in the kindergarten)
• psychologist support for our staff, children and their parents