KKIINNDDEERRGGAARRTTEENN“ISKRICA”“ISKRICA”

ZAGREB – CROATIA

PRINCIPAL:RENATA GRDIĆ

COMENIUS PROJECT PARTICIPANTS: SANJA CHAMBERS HORVAT, english teacher (coordinator)

MARINA KUBINČAN GRUIČIĆ, english teacherHELENA TOPOLOVEC, english teacher

DIJANA MAMULA, english teacher

THE HISTORY OF “ISKRICA”THE HISTORY OF “ISKRICA”- Our kindergarten first opened its

doors on August 8th, 1950.

- The first nursery was opened as a part of the state railway workshops in the area Trnje.

- On January 17th, 1967, we moved into the spaces in Kruge, and into the first purpose-built nursery, that would have the capacity for 60 children between the ages of 6 weeks to 3 years.

- In 1971 a new upgrade of our building was started.

- On December 26th, 1974, we began working as new facility with a capacity of up to 350 children.

- In 1978 we merged with our kindergarten building in Bosutska street, which was the first purpose-built kindergarten in Zagreb in 1948.

- In 1991 Kindergarten gets its present name Iskrica (Spark).

- In 1991 the Ministry of Education appointed Iskrica to a Teachers Academy training facility for the Physical education.

OUR FACILITIESOUR FACILITIES

OUR PROGRAMSOUR PROGRAMS• REGULAR FULL DAY KINDERGARTEN PROGRAM • SPORTS PROGRAM• RELIGIOUS PROGRAM• EARLY LANGUAGE LEARNING - GERMAN• CREATIVE ARTS PROGRAM

• SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMPROGRAM

• ETHNO PROGRAMETHNO PROGRAM

• EARLY ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAMEARLY ENGLISH LEARNING PROGRAM - - DOLPHINS AND FROGSDOLPHINS AND FROGS - -

WE LIVE AND LEARN IN HARMONY WITH NATUREWE LIVE AND LEARN IN HARMONY WITH NATURE

...EXPLORING AND USING NATURAL MATERIALS...EXPLORING AND USING NATURAL MATERIALS

... AND WITH a LITTLE HELP FROM OUR PARENTS ... AND WITH a LITTLE HELP FROM OUR PARENTS WE KEEP OUR ENVIRONMENT SAFE AND CLEANWE KEEP OUR ENVIRONMENT SAFE AND CLEAN

OUR ECOLOGY AND RECYCLING CENTEROUR ECOLOGY AND RECYCLING CENTER

SOS – SAVE OUR PLANETSOS – SAVE OUR PLANET