Basic information about Hello; what you should know
The criteria for admission to Hello Teddy
We accept children from 2 years to 6 years age. We don´t demand knowledge of the English language. Younger children can be accepted to the kindergarten after agreement with our principal. The first criterion – we prefer to accept pre-schoolers. The second criterion – we prefer to accept siblings of children who already visit our kindergarten. The third criterion – we accept children all year long.
Hello Kindergarten Philosophy
We live in a world where everything is made for adults, but we can find an interesting place where everything is only for children. Two Hello Kindergartens are such a place! The Teddy bear ( in Dubina ) and Olw ( in Poruba) live there with a great group of children. Our kindergarten continues to the Hello primary school.
Our program „Step by step“ – Start together is an educational program emphasizing an individual approach to the child, partnership between family, school and wider society in the field of upbringing and education. It promotes and enables the inclusion of children with special needs (children with above-average talents, children with developmental disorders, children with disabilities, it is very effective with children of various ethnic minorities). It also emphasizes a stimulating environment – non-traditional division into activity centers (blocks, book and letters, studio, experiments, water and sand, dramatization, kitchen, manipulative games, workshop), cooperative learning, project-based teaching and integrated thematic teaching. From kindergarten onwards, children’s self-assessment is successfully worked on, which strengthens motivation for active and independent learning.
Who can be in Hello?
Anyone who is 2 to 6 years old can become in Hello. The children don´t have to speak English. Our kindergarten offers a programme for the children in Czech as well as in English language. The children learn this language all day through interesting activities.
Hello in action
The children spend a lot of time in the kindergarten, so we want to make them happy. We play, sing, dance, paint, read, eat, sleep and speak with the children. All activities are accompanied by the English language.Children don´t sit at the table and drill new vocabulary. They practise their English while playing games, singing songs and making different arts and crafts. Everything must be fun not boring. Children can use all classrooms with different aids and games, and a lot of interesting places around the kindergarten such the theatre, the forest, the cinema, the ZOO, the riding-school or the playground.
Our areas
You can find our 2 kindergartens:
1/ in our own new building in Ostrava Poruba, on Čs. exilu street 491/23. We have 4 classes, each with 15 children divided by age. The building includes spacious and well-equipped classrooms, changing rooms and bathrooms for children, facilities for teachers, a school garden and a garden on the roof of the kindergarten.
Food is brought to the kindergarten by a professional company and is served in the children’s classes.
The Hello primary School is right next door and we regularly visit the gym, auditorium or classes for joint activities.
2/ in the primary school Fr. Formana 45, Ostrava – Dubina where we have rented the rooms.
The classrooms – you can find four classrooms with different furniture, aids and games and with a large playing area. The equipment is modern. There is a cloakroom and toilet. The kindergarten fulfills all hygienic norms.
The garden – there is a large garden next to the kindergarten which contains a sandpit, monkey bars, benches, swings and a slide, a garden summerhouse with a table and other equipment for children.
The school canteen – we use the school canteen to have lunch. There are our small tables and chairs for our Teddies. Because our kindergarten is in the primary school, we can use the gyms and the theatre.
Our timetable
The kindergarten is open Monday to Friday from 7.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. The children may arrive at the kindergarten from 7.00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The kindergarten offers two special programmes:
1. All day – from 7.00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
2. Half a day – from 7.00 a.m. to 1 p.m.
3.Full-week attendance Monday – Friday
4.adaptive attendance 3 days / week according to parents‘ choic
The school year starts in September and ends in June.
Our kindergarten offers summer camps.
What do children need before they come to our kindergarten?
- Clothes and shoes for the classroom and the gym
- Clothes and shoes for playtime in the garden (for every kind of weather)
- Pyjamas (except preschoolers)
- A cup, toothbrush and toothpaste
- A cup for drinking – suitable for a dishwasher
- A pillow (only preschoolers)
- A copy of the insurance card
If our Hello kindergarten interests you, write to kubonova@helloteddy.cz
