Description and Stations

Die städtische Kindertageseinrichtung liegt im Stadtteil Rüttenscheid und ist sehr gut mit Bus und Bahn zu erreichen:
Bus/U-Bahn Haltestelle: Martinstraße
Mit dem Auto gibt es gute Anbindugsmöglichkeiten zur: B224; A40; A52
Die Parkmöglichkeiten auf der Brassertstraße und Umgebung sind eher gering.

Introduction/specifics

The Kita Brassertstrasse has been a certified family center since summer 2015. We currently offer places for 107 children from the age of two until they start school. 16 children under the age of three and 91 children over the age of three are cared for in five groups. Children from different nations visit our daycare center. Especially in times of increasing uncertainty about being different, we want to create an everyday kindergarten life with our children that is characterized by respect and tolerance. Furthermore, we would like to organize kindergarten time in such a way that the children can make positive social contacts. In this positive atmosphere, we will encourage and challenge your child according to their strengths. We see it as a central task to be interested in the respective family situations and educational biographies right from the start. It is important for employees to reflect on their own learning experiences and their own attitude towards children and their families in order not to succumb to their own projections. It is of central importance to us to accept and respect the children with their strengths, weaknesses, peculiarities and special features.

Rooms

Our daycare center is a two-story building with an adjacent former granny flat on the ground floor. The three 2-6 year old groups are housed on the ground floor, two further kindergarten groups are on the upper floor. The rooms offer the opportunity to be designed and changed according to the needs of the children and to offer materials that encourage them to act actively. A “learning workshop” on the upper floor invites you to play and do activities across groups. In addition to the group rooms, side rooms and bedrooms, our daycare center has various other functional rooms, such as a large exercise room. The differentiated room concept takes into account the children's needs for movement, creativity, peace, relaxation, etc.

Of course, there are sanitary areas for each group in the daycare center.

There is also a kitchen on both floors for preparing lunch.

Outdoor Facilities

Our daycare center has a spacious outdoor area as well as a small inner courtyard, which offers a protected play area, especially for the younger children. Through differentiated play and climbing frames, swings and child-friendly vehicles, children of all age groups are constantly encouraged to move. Sandpits and a watercourse offer the opportunity to play in the mud and round off our play options. Our children can use all their senses to explore and explore the area at any time of the year. It is also possible to use the adjacent playground on Hedwigstrasse.

Daily Schedule

The individual greeting of each child and their legal guardian is very important to us and ensures a brief exchange of information as well as a transition between family and daycare.

From 7:00 a.m. to around 9:30 a.m./10:00 a.m., the children can eat the breakfast they have brought with them at a nicely set table. Play situations arise throughout the day based on the children's interests/wishes and free play. They also receive impulses through guided pedagogical suggestions from the specialists. Rituals such as a common morning group or story group, birthday parties, toy days, group interests such as a forest group, playing in the outdoor area, exploring the district and more determine day-to-day daycare in the morning and afternoon.

Each group organizes their everyday group life individually and according to their age. From 11:30 a.m. (groups 2-6 years) and 12 p.m. (groups 3-6 years) we serve a warm lunch prepared by our chef. Rest and sleeping options are offered after meals and discussed with the children, their legal guardians and the educational staff as required.

The pick-up time starts at 3 p.m. for the 35 hour care and ends at 4/5 p.m. for the day children.

Food

An important part of our educational work is the children eating together. For us, this means more than just being full. The children sit together at a table, enjoy, have table conversations and exchange ideas. Food appeals to the body and the senses equally. In our daily work with children, the topic of nutrition offers a very good opportunity to combine health and education. Basically, we would like all children to take part in a shared lunch. Depending on your wishes, we can also offer you a childcare place without lunch. It goes without saying that your child can drink drinks at any time.

In our daycare center, the shared food for the children and employees is freshly prepared by a chef every day.

Breakfast: From Monday to Thursday, the children bring their own breakfast. On Fridays we offer a sliding, group-wide breakfast in our "Children's Cafe". This is designed and accompanied by appropriate educational staff in a loving and varied way. Parents are also welcome to take part in this breakfast together with their child/children. The children decide individually whether you want to eat breakfast in the “Kinder Café” or in a group.

We have an afternoon snack every day in the form of fruit, raw vegetables, crispbread, etc. enough.

Of course, the menu takes into account intercultural requirements as well as children's allergies and food intolerances.

Basics

-Ensuring protection and security

- Ensuring children's rights

- individual support for children

- Acceptance of all children regardless of strengths/weaknesses/special features

- Treat children with respect

- including work

- Participation of children

- Openness to their concerns/needs/complaints

- Let children participate in the design and planning of their everyday lives

- Age-appropriate room design

- Create age-appropriate learning and experience spaces

- intercultural work

- Creating equal opportunities (education)

- Make the transition to daycare/school positive

- Collaborative cooperation with the legal guardians parallel to everyday daycare

- Continuous development and exchange within the team

- Cross-group and project-oriented working methods

- dialogic parenting work

- Networking

Additions are welcome

Employee

In accordance with the legal basis of the Children's Education Act (KiBiz), only specialists work in our facility:

Skilled workers

Supplementary forces

Professional intern

PIA intern

reading sponsor

Cook

Additional Offerings

The Brassertstraße daycare center was recertified as a family center in 2019. As such, we offer additional education/consultation services for parents:

- Open parents' cafe

- Parents' evenings on current educational issues: e.g. media literacy; Fit for school

- Parent-child offers: e.g. self-assertion for girls/boys

- Advice and support for families in everyday life: e.g. via the social services & CSE/Anne Beckmann

- Collaboration with day care: e.g. cooperation with childminders from the district

- Leisure activities for parents: e.g. Pilates course

Quality Assurance

Dealing with the quality of the educational work is the responsibility of the provider/daycare facility. Binding standards have been developed to ensure quality. This includes, among other things, that each daycare center creates an educational concept and regularly revises it. Suggestions and feedback from parents are welcome. Your child's development will be regularly documented until you move to school (documentation forms), This also includes your child’s language development. Annual discussions with parents about the child's individual level of development take place in order to jointly support the child's educational path. In order to meet the requirements and tasks of daily work, employees regularly take part in further training.

Cooperations

Networking is of great importance to us; we cooperate with various institutions:

- Daycare centers and primary schools in the district

- “Villa RÜ” community center

- Childminders in the district

- Social services - educational advice center

- Health department of the city of Essen

- other carriers: e.g. AWO; CSE; KEFB.

Teamwork with parents

Our attitude in the team sees parental involvement as the “foundation” for a constructive, cooperative upbringing of the child. The focus here is on the shared upbringing and educational mission. Parents and educational professionals are partners who are in dialogue and not in competition with one another. In this collaboration we would like to focus on the resources and strengths of parents. It is important to us to regularly inform parents about our work through: - personal conversations

Development discussions

Parents' afternoons/parents' evenings

Parent notices

Parents Café

Organizing celebrations

News

In general, all dates and announcements regarding celebrations and events are posted well in advance at the daycare center. The days on which the facility will be closed are determined at the beginning of the year in consultation with the daycare center’s parent advisory board. Upcoming dates for the second half of 2026: Open House: 2nd half of 2026 – Friday, October 2, 2026, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM

Event Series on Values-Based Parenting with Sandra Althoff: Second Half of 2026 Event series on values-based parenting with Sandra Althoff & Nadine Kempkens Thu, Sept 24, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – S. Althoff Thu, Dec 10, 2026, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – N. Kempkens Family Pottery with Saskia Bachert: Sat, Oct 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM + 11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Father-Child Cooking (for children aged 4 and up): Sat, Nov 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM Interested parents may register by contacting Ms. Vahle or Ms. Götte!!!

Ongoing services offered by the Family Center (FZ): Anonymous counseling on all matters related to childcare and family life: Julia Himmelberg, CSE: For further information, please call: 0201/ 88-85270 Mon, July 20, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Mon, Sept 7, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tue, Oct 6, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Mon, Nov 2, 2026, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tue, Dec 8, 2026, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Individual appointments can also be arranged. For information regarding appointments, please contact Ines Vahle: 0201/ 88-85271 Please register by phone with the Family Center in good time!

Pilates with Claudia Krämer: Tuesdays, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM; 8:10 PM–9:10 PM Contact C. Krämer: 01775800228

Pedagogical planning days: 23/01/2026; 20/03/2026; 05/10/2026

Summer holidays: 20/08/2026–01/09/2026 Summer closure: 10/08/2026–28/08/2026                                                       Winter: 23/12/2026–06/01/2027 Christmas closure: 23/12/2026–01/01/2027

Parents’ Café: Open Parents’ Café Every 1st Wednesday of the month

We appreciate your interest! All families—even those without a childcare spot—are warmly welcome!

Projects

Projects arising from children's interests and the observations of educational staff are an integral part of our educational work.In these projects, children and adults engage intensively and purposefully with a topic from the children's own lives over an extended period through a variety of activities.

Child-led interest projects:

• Nature and Environment Project – Exploring and engaging with the natural world and the environment → Ages 4–5
• KidsgoMINT – Fostering foundational skills in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences, and technology (MINT/STEM) within daily kindergarten life; part of the pre-school preparation year
• "Wackelzahn" (Loose Tooth) Project – Pre-school preparation year
• Encouraging making music together, developing a sense of rhythm, and creating sounds using instruments, the body, and everyday noises → Ages 4–5

Holiday Care

The days when the day-care center is closed are coordinated with the parents’ council of the day-care center at the beginning of the day-care year. If holiday care is absolutely necessary in individual cases, please contact the day-care center management. Emergency care is offered in close consultation with other day care centers in the district..

The day-care is closed from, July 29th- August 16th, 2024, during summer vacation !

Parental Interviews

Your opinion is very important to us. In order to receive feedback from you,                                                         

our facility offers various options for expressing your opinion in                                                         

addition to personal conversations:

• Parent survey
• Parents Café
• Parents' mailbox
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