The Santa Maria Bertilla intergrated child care centre welcomes children from twelve months to three years and is the first link to a complex reality, but it nevertheless is attentive towards the need of educational continuity, made up by pre-school, integrated kindergarten and after-school for the elementary grades services.

The educational environment of the centre is built, conceived and organized as a living environment in which children can meet their identity, autonomy and competence development needs.

• IDENTITY: to educate a child to be a person, an active subject who knows.

• AUTONOMY: to allow each child to grow his own experience individually and originally; to allow each child to express his/her curiosity, to live one’s relations with peers and adults peacefully.

• EXPERTISE: to meet the needsknowledge both from an objective and subjective point of view and those relating to the creative thinkingof every child belonging to different age groups.

SERVICESON OFFER

• Annual opening takes place during the first week of September;

• Optional attendance is offered throughout the month of July;

• Daily receiving hours: earliest (07.30 hrs) and latest (until 18.15 hrs);

• Ability to attend the child care centreonly for half days (up to 12:30 - 13:00 hrs);

• A canteen that abides by the local HACCPlaw. The lunch menu is approved by the local ASL authority.

HUMAN RESOURCES

• A management committee

• A coordinator

• 2 members teaching staff

• 2 staff assistants

• 1 jack of all trades

• 1 cook

• 1 ASL-authority employee (pediatrician)

• 1 external consultant (psychologist) for teachersand parents

• Voluntary personel