Music-oriented daycare centre Pilke Aurora opened in Piispanristi, Kaarina, in August 2019

Pilke Aurora opened in Piispanristi, Kaarina, in August 2019. The daycare centre has a music-orientation, and it provides early childhood education and care also in Swedish.There are five groups in the kindergarten from which two is a Swedish speaking group.

The music-oriented daycare centre’s objective is to provide the children with musical experiences, capacities and skills as well as experiences of learning and success. We also encourage the children to start longer-term musical hobbies. The music-oriented education is implemented in the daycare centre’s everyday operation through singing, playing instruments, listening to music, reading rhymes, improvising, exercising and dancing, for example.

In the implementation of early childhood education and care, we emphasise the importance of play, participation and discovery in warm-spirited interaction with our educators. In addition to musical and expressive pedagogy, the days of small children involve versatile activities in the new daycare centre’s indoor and outdoor facilities and on trips in compliance with the early childhood education and care curriculum.