Ferdinand Daycare offers a family-oriented atmosphere, a nature-based environment, and a clear educational concept. We encourage independence, creativity, and social skills – for happy children and satisfied parents.
There, children can observe animals and engage in imaginative play with earth, stones, leaves, and wood.
Children’s yoga doesn’t need many rules – it needs imagination.
Fitness indoors and outdoors: football, obstacle courses, and gymnastics.
Cooking, baking, playing board games, and doing arts and crafts.
At Ferdinand Daycare, it is important to us that every child feels safe, comfortable, and cared for.
We have created a well-structured daily routine that helps children find their bearings and feel secure throughout the day.
Our educational concept serves as a guiding framework for our teachers. It is regularly reviewed and adapted in the best interests of the children in our care. The concept outlines our educational approach – the rights of the children, our core principles and values, and the way we live and learn together.
Our rooms are designed to give children plenty of space to explore, play, and retreat when they wish to spend time on their own.
07:15 am The day begins! The children arrive at the daycare.
07:45 am Breakfast is served and the day’s activities are discussed.
08:45 am Children not participating in the daycare breakfast arrive.
09:15 am Morning activities and free play. Weather permitting, we will be outside.
11:00 am Lunch is served to children and staff.
12:00 pm Younger children will brush their teeth, then nap. Older children have an activity.
02:00 pm Afternoon activities. Weather permitting, we will be outside.
03:00 pm Afternoon snack. Weather permitting, we will be outside.
03:30 pm Free play.
04:30 pm Parents arrive to pick up children.
05:00 pm Stories and play hour.
06:45 pm Parents arrive to pick up remaining children. Staff give daily status reports to parents.
At Ferdinand Daycare in Zollikon, we embrace an approach that allows children the freedom to grow and express themselves, while maintaining clear rules and boundaries that give them a sense of security and guidance.
An open and honest dialogue with parents, children, and staff fosters an atmosphere of trust. In this way, any conflicts can be addressed respectfully and resolved together – for the well-being of every single child.
At Ferdinand Daycare in Zollikon, our caring team ensures that every child feels truly at home in a warm and joyful atmosphere. Through individual attention and shared group experiences, children explore, learn, and grow – with the freedom they need for their own development. At the heart of everything we do is the holistic well-being and growth of each child.
In everyday routines like getting dressed, brushing their teeth, or eating, we give children all the time they need. With gentle support, they gradually learn to do things independently – step by step.
Each child is respected as a unique individual. In our daily routine, there is space to express emotions, resolve conflicts, and gain valuable social experiences. Along the way, children learn to understand and manage their own personal, physical, and emotional boundaries.
To support the children in a focused and age-appropriate way, the younger ones are cared for in small groups by the older children between 9 and 11 in the morning.
The rooms at Ferdinand Daycare offer plenty of space for quiet moments, shared play, and creative exploration. The children encounter different roles and can express them freely through play. In addition to age-appropriate activities, they learn to use a variety of materials and tools while following their own interests and needs. Furthermore, the daycare provides ample space for playful, rhythmic, linguistic, artistic, and gardening activities.
In addition to structured activities and free play indoors, the children spend as much time as possible outdoors in nature. There, they can observe animals and engage in imaginative play with soil, stones, leaves, and wood.
Fixed rituals enrich our structured, child-friendly daily routine: birthdays, seasonal celebrations, St Nicholas Day, Christmas, and Easter – as well as our Open Garden Day, when the children can sell their homemade and home-grown creations and invite whoever they wish to join.
Ferdinand Daycare is located at Alte Landstrasse 106 in Zollikon, on the ground floor of a residential building in an elevated and sunny south-facing position.
A total of 124 m² of space is available to the children. The rooms are designed to allow group play, individual activities, quiet retreat, and movement games to take place at the same time.
A garden area of 77.5 m² invites the children to play outside and enjoy nature whenever the weather is nice.
In the immediate vicinity – just about a 10-minute walk away – the forest and fields offer even more opportunities for movement, play, and active experiences in nature.
Ferdinand Daycare in Zollikon is a family-supporting daycare offering bilingual care (German/English) for children in the Zurich area.
Contact
Alte Landstrasse 106, CH-8702 Zollikon
Email: info@kinderkrippeferdinand.ch
Telephone: +41 (0)43 536 99 09
Whatsapp: +41 (0)76 344 73 17
Opening times
Monday to Friday, 07:15 am – 06:45 pm
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