Pedagogical Programme of Kiddi-Care English-Hungarian Private Nursery

Due to the fact that the majority of our children are Hungarian natives, who will eventually go to Hungarian schools, we believe it is imperative that we develop their mothertongue language, in addition to English, so not only Incy-wincy spider, but Bóbita Bóbita táncol will also be engrained into their little brains.

Through our Hungarian lingual education our little ones acquire everything other children would do in state nurseries. They will not be missing out on the wide array of Hungarian rhymes, songs, circle time either!

Our pedagogical programme is thoroughly thought through, purpuseful, but not explicit. The main emphasis is on play and learning through playing. Our most important duty is the development of mental and emotional intelligence through play, music, story and exercise. The educational system in Hungary sets way too high expectations towards our 6-7 year old nursery ’graduates’. The only children, who are able to meet these high expectations are the ones, who learnt how to deal with social relationships and interactions as well as their own role in their community. Fortunately there is just about enough time for this: in the 3-4 years spent in our nursery, our little ones get all the necessary emotional security and mental maturity that arms them with tools to handle all the challenges their school years will bring along.

We are extremely proud that in the past 15 years children graduating from our nursery have been able to easily adapt to and deal with the hurdles early school years had on stock for them.

Us, nursery teachers and nursery staff are all nature lovers, who love a good hike, take our children outdoors, to explore nature, teaching them to look after their environment. We believe in the joy of free and happy play, fresh air as well as playful learning, being it an English nursery rhyme, a complex puzzle or a simple cookie baking exercise whilst displaying close togetherness.

Directed learning is far from the concept we build our learning experiences on, as the foundation of everything we do is experience. We allow our children to get covered in mud, so they learn what autumn is about, let them get covered in flour, so they see how bread is made and let them aimlessly stare at a bug for hours on end, so they experience how that little bug lives.

We trust that this type of learning will give them a more profound, life-like knowledge and experience than what the great big pedagogical books would provide.