Children between the ages of six months and six years can attend daycare facilities. These are regarded as an important element of educational work and prepare children in an age-appropriate way for later attendance at school.
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Diverse learning opportunities are important for children so that they have good prospects for the future. For parents, good childcare also makes it easier to reconcile family and working life. Attending kindergarten and school in Germany is precisely regulated. We have compiled an overview of important aspects here.
Children between the ages of six months and six years can attend daycare facilities. These are regarded as an important element of educational work and prepare children in an age-appropriate way for later attendance at school.
Attending a day care centre is very important for the development of children. Children have the possibility to learn the German language faster and to get in contact with children of the same age, so the social behaviour in the group is promoted.
In Siegen Wittgenstein there are day-care facilities for children in all city districts. These differ in terms of the hours of care and the sponsorship.
As an alternative to childcare in day-care centres, your child can be looked after by a trained childminder as close to home as possible. The care takes place either in the flat of the day care person, in nurseries or in special cases in the flat of the parents.
The registration of a child always takes place directly in the day care facilities. Please contact the kindergarten directly to find out which things still need to be done and brought along so that your child can visit the kindergarten.
You can get the addresses of the daycare centres in your district from your local Familienbüro, on the Internet or from the youth welfare office. Furthermore, our interactive map provides orientation.
Attending a day-care centre for children is not free of charge. The childcare costs for attending a day-care centre are calculated on the basis of the parents’ income. The amount of the care costs is calculated by the Youth Welfare Office.
If the parents should get social welfare assistance, ALG II, rent subsidy or child allowance supplement, these parents do not have to pay anything for the childcare.
The children’s lunch in kindergarten must be paid for by the parents in addition to the childcare costs.
Parents, who get social welfare assistance, ALG II, rent subsidy or child allowance supplement, can apply for a subsidy for the lunch over “Bildung und Teilhabe” . One receives information on this support upon registration at the day-care centre.
Further questions about childcare in a day-care centre for children can also be found in the Familienbüro (family office) of the respective city district. Addresses and telephone numbers are available on the Internet. Furthermore, our interactive map provides orientation.
Compulsory schooling in Germany is a legal regulation that obliges children, adolescents and adolescents of a certain age to attend school. This applies until a certain age or until the completion of a school career, at the latest, however, until the end of minors. As a rule, compulsory schooling lasts ten years.
In general, your child will start compulsory schooling when it celebrates its sixth birthday. In North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Bavaria and Brandenburg, all children who reach the age of six by 30.9. are obliged to attend school from 1.8. of the same calendar year. Compulsory schooling does not only apply to children with German citizenship. The general obligation to attend school also applies to foreign children.
Yes. Parents are obliged to send their children to school.
If you do not comply with this obligation or if children refuse to attend school, the authorities may impose administrative penalties (fines). In North-Rhine-Westphalia, the school authorities check whether the parents have tried to arrange for their children to attend school. If they can prove this credibly, a fine can be waived. A fine proceeding against pupils themselves can only be carried out if the pupil is of criminal age.
“Compulsory schooling” doesn’t just mean that all children have to go to school. It also means that all children have the right to attend school. This is one of the children’s rights: The right to education. The right to education is so important because a good education is a good basis for leading a self-determined life.
The simplest form of participation and at the same time one of the most important is the direct conversation. Each teacher should normally hold one hour per week as a consultation hour for parents’ questions. Parents can, for example, ask what grade their child has and whether they are doing well in class. A teacher must answer this question openly.
The parents of a class meet at least once a year for a parents’ evening. Teachers use this opportunity and involve parents in their decisions. At the parents’ evening, for example, the destination of the upcoming class trip can be discussed, or new forms of learning such as weekly planning can be explained. In addition, the parents elect two representatives as contact persons for the school’s parents’ council.
When parents engage constructively in school, this can have a positive impact on their children’s learning. When parents get involved in school, their children can develop a positive attitude and their learning behaviour can improve.