English Daycare and Preschool in Espoo
Albatross Daycare was established in 1998. It is a private, Finnish owned daycare, in which the working language is English. We offer daycare places for 100 children between 1 – 6 years old. Albatross attracts both Finnish and international families who would like their child to be part of an active environment. Albatross Daycare and Preschool are located in the Leppävaara area, which offers easy access to local amenities such as public transportation.
The daycare founder and owner, Eija Rolamo, received the “Entrepreneur of the year”, in 2006, for recognition of the daycare’s accomplishments.
Albatross as a Partner
Albatross is a reliable partner and takes its responsibilities as an employer and a service provider seriously. Albatross Daycare cooperates with municipalities/ local children’s health centers (neuvola) and schools. The daycare provides pedagogical support for all groups and assists families.
Opening Times
The daycare opens at 7:30 and closes at 17:00.
Albatross Daycare is open for 12 months a year but closed during weekends and on all public holidays. In July the daily opening times are a little bit shorter than normally.
Professional Staff
The daycare has staff members from all over the world, currently we have 15 different nationalities among our teaching staff. In addition to the teaching staff, the daycare also employs a pedagogical manager, a special needs teacher, a general manager and two cleaners.
With these additional staff members, we ensure that the children receive the best early childhood education possible.
Mission
Our mission is to provide quality and reliable early childhood education that meets the individual needs of each child and family in a safe and fun environment, through English.
We want to provide a place where children will be able to participate in a wide range of experiences and develop their full potential.
Daycare Groups
Preschool
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This week, in preschool our International Week theme came to an end. We had the teachers presenting their countries to the children. Parents also had the opportunity to visit our little exhibition and get to know the different countries that are part of preschool this year.
We also continued with Letterland. This time we got to know Sammy Snake. Then we practiced some numbers and we played with the concept of classification using the toys from the classroom.
Overall, it was a wonderful week! 😊
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It has been a busy week for the Hawks, with lots of dances from different places! We had a parent who came and talked about Nigeria 🇳🇬, their food and taught us how to dance; another parent came and shared some yummy snacks, and also taught us a traditional dance and a game from India 🇮🇳. We also learnt about Hungary from one of our teachers 🇭🇺 and celebrated St. Patrick's by listening to a Leprechaun story and learning an Irish dance 🇮🇪
In our flowers of the world project, we made lilies of the valley 🇫🇮 and yellow trumpets 🇳🇬
We also cooked, baked and tasted food from Finland, Canary Islands, Philippines and Ireland.
Lastly, since Easter is approaching fast, we planted the Easter grass.
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Parrots have had another exciting week full of adventures! First up was a trip to the library. 📖 They listened to a story read by Iain the librarian and then got to choose some books for the daycare. 📚
Outdoors they had some snow pile fun ❄️ Climbing and sliding on the ice as well as driving an ‘ice bus’. 🚌
On their round the world tour they visited Cape Verde 🇨🇻 . They saw some beautiful scenery, danced to Cape Verdean music 🎵 and ate delicious Pastels. After, was a trip to the US 🇺🇸 for some games and fluffy pancakes. 🥞 We also visited Greece and India where we practiced dancing and got to taste some treats ☺️
Where will they go to next?
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