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Building bridges through play - ping:pong facilitates the transition to school for parents and their 3 to 6-year-old children.

Foundation of ping:pong

Target group

The ping:pong programme is aimed at all parents with children aged between 3 and 6 who are attending a pre-school institution or kindergarten. Socially disadvantaged parents can also be reached with ping:pong.

Modelle

Three implementation models with different focuses are available.

Through the one-year ping:pong pre-school model, parents and children are prepared for starting kindergarten by encouraging the family as a learning environment and through insights and the building of trust with the kindergarten.

The one-year ping:pong kindergarten model inspires the shared design of learning processes by encouraging the family as a learning environment. It aims to build an educational alliance between the parents and the kindergarten staff.    

The two-year ping:pong transition consists of both ping:pong pre-school and ping:pong kindergarten. The two-year programme period means the programme objectives can be further consolidated.    

Management

A local moderator manages the programme. The moderator can be a person who is external to the kindergarten (e.g. a project manager in early childhood support or integration officer) or work in the school system (e.g. school social worker, school head). The moderator is responsible for the acquisition of families, runs the parent meetings and maintains a focus on the objective of empowerment and creates a framework in which all parents feel addressed and valued.

Fundamental attitude

ping:pong is based on a resource-oriented approach. As part of this, the individual strengths of all of the actors involved are valued. The child is the focus of the programme. As an active subject, the child explores their material and social environment. The child learns more when his explorations come from his own interests and he can be curious and motivated. The parents experience their child on a day-to-day basis and spend the most time with them. They are respected as the most important reference people. Through ping:pong, the parents’ skills and resources are strengthened so they can support and encourage their child in an age-appropriate manner. The specialists use their experience to contribute to the educational alliance between the school and the parents.

Origin

ping:pong is based on the VVE Thuis programme that was developed by the Netherlands Youth Institute (NJi) and has been successfully implemented in numerous institutions in the Netherlands since 2009. The a:primo association tailored ping:pong to Swiss circumstances and the education system.