Due to the state of alarm and confinement, daycare centers remained and are still closed. Some autonomous communities are already beginning to draw up plans of how the return of children to kindergartens and kindergartens could be, but without anything clear, nor the number of students, the hours they should be there, the measures with the materials or many Another questions.
Faced with this situation, a network of Catalan nurseries has launched an online project. In the same way that adults have had our leisure and learning time online, children have also had the opportunity to entertain themselves and learn during confinement.
El Guirigall online nursery
The workers of the El Guirigall early childhood education centers decided to self-manage during the hardest stage of confinement and, voluntarily, since they are affected by an ERTE offer your children videos. Among other things, it was sought that the children themselves, between 0 and 3 years old, did not lose contact with their friends and with the professionals who were in their charge before March 14.
As a complement, it is also offered to parents psychopedagogical support necessary to cope with covid-19 within homes. This support is done through a YouTube channel, which is also open to other users who do not have children in daycare.
The measure has been very well received throughout this time. Every week the professionals incorporate new proposals didactics. At the same time, it is an interactive channel and if parents wish they can upload videos of their children. The El Guirigall nursery has centers in L'Hospitalet del Llobregat and Gavà.
Online training for the little ones
This YouTube channel of the El Guirigall nursery It is not the only one that we can access if we want to give our boys and girls, between 0 and 3 years old, a journey similar to the one they would have in kindergarten, although without contact with other children.
Through the resources that they have prepared in the online nursery, you can follow a route similar to that of the school, with activities in English, sensory development tasks, stories or songs. Thus the pace of evolution is not lost prior to confinement.
One of the things that is taken into account in this training is that the little ones lack acquired habits. Children are not able to lend pay attention to the same activity for more than 15 minutes. Therefore, these activities are not very elaborate, but rather symbolic games. They seek the accompaniment of parents while they do their telework tasks. Conciliation within the home of work and care for minors has been one of the great conflicts in this period of confinement.
Is there the possibility of online nurseries?
La Madrid Association of Indirect Management Infant Schools (Ameigi) and the Madrid Platform for Early Childhood Education Zero Six (0-6) have stated the administrations, it has not given them the possibility to continue with their online task for boys and girls between 0 and 3 years old. Besides, many employment contracts have been suspended.
On the other hand, from the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training They assure that they are already preparing a protocol with the Ministry of Health.
We remember that the Junta de Andalucía already It has opened the schooling process for children under three years of age. From May 18 to 25, you can reserve a place for minors enrolled in school.
Likewise, families can request in the same periods the bonus for socio-educational services and school canteen. To do this you have to manage it online through the Virtual Secretary of the website of the Ministry of Education and Sports. Some educational centers in the Andalusian provinces will open next week to carry out administrative procedures. All these registrations are for a return to the classroom, not for online daycare.