FAQ

Registration: You can apply by filling in the online form or you can call us: 041 763 13 08

Requesting a place

Visitng the Nursery: We will contact you as soon as possible after you have successfully registered and arrange a meeting at the Nursery for you to look around. This way, you will get a chance to see our beautiful location and meet the Day Care manager, as well as the team in person.

Care voucher: In the meantime, you can take care of all the aspects regarding subsidies.

Care voucher

Settling In: Since children have highly individual needs, we will customize the settling in process to the needs of your child.

Day Care: The regular day care will start after your child has successfully gone through the familiarization process.

Zauber-Stern Nursery accepts care vouchers (Betreuungsgutscheine) issued by the following communities: Hünenberg, Cham, Steinhausen, and Zug. To be eligible for vouchers, you have to be a resident of one of these communities. Please feel free to contact us for further information.

Zauber-Stern Nursery is centrally located in Zug, within 160 meters of the “Kistenfabrik” bus stop and within 850 meters of “Lindenpark” train station.

Here at Zauber-Stern Nursery your child’s settling-in period is aligned exactly with his or her individual needs. In other words, we adjust each step of the settling-in process to your child, as well as to your own well-being.

1. Stage:
The child pays a (1 hour) visit to the group together with their parent or legal guardian. The child can move about freely within the group and discover whatever they want. The group leader will gather important information on the child and explain the daily nursery routine to the parents or legal guardian.

2. Stage:
At this stage, the child’s parents keep in the background, just observing. The parents accompany their child to the group and briefly stay there (approx. 30 minutes). The carer responsible for the group includes the child in a game. The parents then say goodbye to the child and briefly leave the room or wait in the cloakroom (approx. 30 minutes), to find out if and to what extent the child has already developed basic trust.

3. Stage:
At this stage, which extends over approx. five days, the parents do not accompany their child farther than to the cloakroom. The child’s presence is gradually increased from one hour to four hours. Over these five days, the child will be able to experience everything that makes up a regular day at nursery. This stage is very important for the child. The child learns to say goodbye to his or her parents when dropped off at the nursery, and also learns that when his or her parents return in the evening will be the time for the child to go home.

4. Stage:
This stage concludes the settling-in period; it also marks the first time the child will stay at the nursery for an entire trial day (approx. 6 hours). The child now knows that he or she is on his or her own at the nursery and will have a great time, until being picked up by his or her parents in the evening .

In the nursery, children are mostly cared for in mixed-age groups of 12 children. Structures are created in the groups and a daily routine is designed according to the needs of the children.

The educators have completed training in the field of childcare.

We are open from 7 a.m to 6:30 p.m. from Monday to Friday.

At Kita Zauber-Stern Nursery, your child’s well-being is the center of attention. We respect each and every child’s personality and individual stage of development. It is Zauber-Stern Nursery’s goal to provide the kids with an environment that nurtures their independence and in which they can feel at ease and develop. We accept the children as they are and let them be “just kids“.

We offer the children varied monthly themes, on the basis of which we organize suitable daily activities. Our regular outings are aligned with our monthly themes as well. Zauber-Stern Nursery also offers a variety of informal parental gatherings that allow you to get in touch and exchange ideas with the other kids’ parents.

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Personal rhythms and rituals help children find their bearings. Here at Zauber-Stern Nursery, we establish the right setting for your child, so that he or she feels perfectly happy and at ease, every day.

Here at Zauber-Stern Nursery, all meals are prepared fresh daily by our own chef. We place a great deal of importance on a healthy, seasonal and varied diet. We also prepare our own baby food here on the premises. And we allow our little chefs (i.e., the kids) to assist us in preparing our meals.

Your child may attend our nursery between one and five full days per week.

We do not close for holidays, however we are closed for a few days over Christmas and New Year.

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Zauber-Stern Nursery has room for six mixed-age groups (infants and children between three months and Kindergarden age), aswell as a forest group for the ages from 3-5yr.

It is basically the parents‘ responsibility to obtain sufficient health, accident and liability insurance. For events and accidents that happen at the nursery, we may be held liable, the nursery has obtained extensive liability insurance.

Yes, of course. Our day care manager will be happy to give you more information.

In order to protect the other children, sick children cannot be taken care of in the nursery.

The rates at the Nursery are the same for every month, independent of the number of days the particular month has. Absences caused by illness, bank holidays or vacation are taken into account in the all-inclusive price.