Levels

The Nursery School is organized into four levels of care, according to the different ages of the children:

A- Infants 1 Level: (84 days to 8 months)
B- Infants 2 Level: (9 to 12 months)
C- Intermediate level: (1 year and 1 month to 1 year and 4 months)
D- Open Education Level: (1 year and 5 months to 1 year and 10 months)

Our facilities

• We have four large rooms implemented according to both children’s needs and their stage of development.
• A game hall and interactive whiteboard, which are daily used in activities to deepen concepts and create instances of learning.
• Two fully stocked bathrooms to facilitate the infants’ diaper replacement.
• Breastfeeding room for the mothers and children who are in this stage. This room has been implemented to achieve a quiet and relaxed environment to foster the bond between mother and child during breastfeeding.

How is child development strengthened at each level?

A. Infants Level 1 and 2: Developing incipient skills and abilities, as well as encouraging the learning of spatial concepts and stimulating communication with peers and adults, establishing emotional ties with the people in their environment.

B. Intermediate and Open Education Levels: Establishing the foundations of concepts of space-time domain, developing skills and abilities, encouraging both autonomy and the social-emotional term.

How is it organized?

The Kindergarten level serves children who are 2 to 4 years 11 months and is organized in 6 levels of care:

• a. Nursery Level A, B, and C (ages 2 to 3)
• b. Middle Level A and B
• c. Pre-Transitional Level

What infraestructure does Kindergarten at CEDIN have?

• We have six thematic rooms: a construction room, a quiet room, an art room, a science room, a home-themed room and a reading room. We also have an interactive whiteboard.
• Two halls to execute motor activities;
• A gym with proper implementation to develop the child’s gross motor skills, such as exercise machines, pilates balls, mats, balls, ribbons, balance boards, among others);
• Two bathrooms implemented according to the children’s ages, which are large enough for six people each.
• A bath with a diaper changing unit, which has an air curtain to avoid environmental contamination;
• Four rooms that have electric curtains to prevent greater sun exposure;
• An office to be used by our multidisciplinary team: a speech therapist, a nutritionist, a psychologist and an English language teacher.

How is child development strengthened at each level?

The middle levels promote comprehensive development as a person to an environment that facilitates the discovery through direct experience. The autonomy is progressively developed, the interrelations with their peers and adults are strengthened, and the psychomotor development appropriate to their stage of maturity is promoted.

The Pre-Transitional level aims to develop the uniqueness as an individual child, fostering the acquisition of gradual responsibility for themselves, relationships with others and their environment.

We aim at introducing the English language into every level at our Kindergarten education. In addition to this, we promote an early rapprochement to Mapudungun, having a result in expanding the field of various languages and fostering our children’s intercultural processes.

We promote the care for the environment, cultivating fine herbs and fruits in school gardens made by children, under the guidance of our educators.