LITHUANIA

Kedainia nursery-kindergarten

Established 1974 is situated in the centre of Lithuania, Kedainiai town.

Currently there are 190 children and 47 employees in the institution, including 21 qualified teachers.

For 17 years nursery-kindergarten „Puriena“ fosters the ideas of a healthy life style and successfully incorporate them into individual programmes of ecology, ethnoculture and art. Since March, 2017 nursery-kindergarten „Puriena“ has been included into a network of health-enhancing schools. It is also awarded the Green Flag and the Certificate from the Foundation of Environmental Education.

While constantly looking for new and modern ways of developing healthy lifestyle, the educators of the institution, notice that innovations are often our forgotten ancient experience. In addition to health programs, the institution focuses on the child's creativity and the ability to express and communicate by various means of artistic expression. Miss. Pukine Asta will be the coordinator of the project with her team. If she leaves the school the director will make in charge another teacher from the team.

One of the key aspects of the education policy in the nursery-kindergarten is related to the promotion of a healthy lifestyle with the help of healthy nutrition and sports activities. The kindergarten community is actively involved in annual sport events, feasts, health-related activities, campaigns, various games and competitions in any weather and season. The development of child health is integrated into all nursery-kindergarten activities. Thus, health education is ensured on a daily basis.

The institution has also worked in cooperation with Baltic and Nordic countries on the issues of health promotion. All members of the key staff involved in this project belong to a health team, which is responsible for ensuring the promotion of health-related education in the institution. All of them are experienced and qualified in this field, as they take part in relevant training, as well as organize a vast

number of health related activities for the community of kindergarten. The school is an eco school they have ecology classes at school and on the other hand they are working on an e twinning project with more or less same institutions and then the same project is adapted to the erasmus+ project.