Early Childhood Center Plagwitz

Logo from LIS

The Leipzig Early Childhood Center is a non-profit company, which is an co-educational Kindergarden that is connected to Leipzig International School. A new building for the Early childhood center, after relocating from Leipzig International School was built at Karl-Heine Strasse 95 in Plagwitz, about 1.5 km away from the main building. The ECC building had it official opening on 24.September 2014, but about 100 kids from the youngest one moved into the building on the end of June 2014. 

The mission of the ECC is shared with Leipzig International School by being able to provide high quality international education conducted in English, to children of all backgrounds, thereby supporting the regional community and promoting the international understanding.

As well did they set their motto to "Learning to be a citizen of the world".

Early Childhood Center in Plagwitz

The early childhood center aims are as their mission, by letting the kids/children interact with each other in English with children from all over the world with different backgrounds. English is their shared language, even if many children speak different languages. 

The objectives are to create a safe and stimulating learning environment, to help the children to be happy, well-balanced and interact with other children willingly and effectively. As well as to start educate the children to think and act with openness to different perspectives, values and traditions of other cultures and communities. Furthermore are the children/students enable to understand and express their selves in more than one language. 

The early childhood center is organized in two different buildings as The Leipzig International School from Grade 1-12 and the Childhood center, which is decided into many different departments. Nursery 1 (age 1-2), Nursery 2 (age 2-3), Early Years 1 (age 3-4), Early Years 2 (age 4-5) and the Early Years 3 (age 5-6), which will enter the first Grade at the main building the year after that. 

In fact that the International Schools are know all over the world, is the Early childhood center affected by the external environment, in case of the the world awareness as well s the increasing awareness of the international Kindergarten in Leipzig. Which therefore leads to expanding the kindergarten, which has already happened at LIS. Due too many kids in the early childhood, did the E.V. expand the campus, which lead to more investment into the early childhood in the last year and the year before that. 

Main Building in Schleusig

The Early childhood center provides a service of kids education and children supervision from the age of 1 year up to the age of 6 until they start with primary school.

The head of the Early Childhood center in Leipzig is Laura Willms-Jones and the head of Primary School/ Early Childhood is Sarah Brannon. 

The experience that I have gathered at the Early Childhood center is, that it is sometimes challenging to deal with 10-20 people in one group, but this is what the teachers/ educators are trained for. 

The links that can be made with the business at the Early Childhood Center and our Business Management course is the set up of an business plan as well as providing services to different people as after "school" activities as well as the normal services as education.