Day-care centres
Day-care centres provide early childhood education and care for child groups. The group sizes vary depending on the children’s ages.
Evening care and non-standard hour care are provided for the children of families who need it because of the parents’ work or studies. Day-care centres with extended opening hours: Tuohikontti, Kuoppamäki, Rauhalahti, Länsi-Puijo, Melalahti, Männistö. Evening care and non-standard hour care: Haapaniemi, Juankoski, Nilsiä, Petosenmutka, Maaninka.
Temporary care is intended for under school-age children in home care. Care can be organised to meet temporary needs at all day-care centres and family day-care places when possible depending on the staffing situation.
Temporary care may be used even if the parent receives a child home care allowance or the child has a care place in another municipality.
Enquiries about temporary care should be addressed to heads of day-care centres or family day-care supervisors.
Activities during holiday times
Some of the day-care centres in the City of Kuopio are closed during the week of schools’ autumn and winter break and on days that will be announced separately in summer and around Christmas. For more information about the arrangements for holiday time activities, please contact the unit supervisors.
All Day-care centres details are in Finnish:
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Outdoor groups operate in connection with the day-care centres of Länsi-Puijo, Puijonlaakso,Uppo-Nalle and Von Wrightin.
The group starts its day at the day-care centre. It then heads out to a hut in the forest, where the children enjoy shared activities and free play. Lunch is collected from the near-by day-care centre, and the children have their meal in the hut. After the afternoon snack, the group returns to the day-care centre to wait for the guardians.
The primary learning environment of the outdoor group is the natural environment around the hut. Pedagogical work in this environment is carried out following the curriculum for early childhood education. An early childhood education teacher is responsible for the education.
Activities in the forest support the child’s holistic development and learning potential. The child’s nature-related knowledge and skills improve and their level of physical fitness and motor skills develop.
Children are selected for the group based on guardians’ applications and children’s suitability.