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

What is ping:pong and what does it aim to achieve?

Socially disadvantages families in particular require support tailored to their needs at the transition to kindergarten. The early childhood development program ping:pong supports this transition through moderated parent meetings. The parents learn about how they can support their child with his or her education in an age-appropriate and inspiring way. ping:pong builds a bridge between the worlds in which a child spends his time. Parents and specialists from institutions work together to ensure that the child has a good start in the kindergarten and a fair opportunity for education and social participation.

Objectives of ping:pong

ping:pong pre-school

By encouraging the family as a learning environment and building trust with the kindergarten, both the parents and the child are prepared for starting kindergarten.

ping:pong kindergarten

In ping:pong kindergarten, efforts are made to achieve the shared design of learning processes. This is by achieved by encouraging the family as a learning environment and by building an educational alliance between the parents and the kindergarten teaching staff. For parents, the aim is to improve their parenting skills so they can support their child appropriately. ping:pong creates an educational alliance between the parents and the institution to design the child’s educational processes and manage transitions as well as possible. The activities carried out by ping:pong enable the child to learn through play and exploration.    

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