Kindergarten Week is an event organised in the AEFE's Central and Eastern Europe Zone from 24 to 28 March 2025.
For a whole week, this second edition will be showcasing all the projects designed by and for kindergartens in the Central and Eastern Europe Zone.

Upstream of Kindergarten WeekA poster competition was organised to illustrate the event.
The productions had to relate to nursery school (rules of procedure).

The posters had to refer to the following theme:
Move-manipulate-create in French nursery schools

Voting took place online via the PollUnit platform of the 3 to 17 February 2025.

This is theÉcole française de Hambourg - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry which won first prize, and its poster now illustrates the Kindergarten Week.

The other two schools on the podium areInternational French School of Berne and theFrench school in Saarbrücken and Dillingen.

The conference was not to be missed Les amitiés à la maternelle et le développement des compétences sociales chez l’enfant from Lucie Rose Wednesday 26 March at 5.30pm on ZOOM!
To see or re-watch it in full, go to our channel YouTube.

From "my best friend" to "not my friend any more", a child's day at school is full of social relationships. The aim of nursery school is to enable children to take their first steps towards living together at school, supported by dazzling cognitive and emotional development. This conference provides an opportunity to understand this development and how the social discoveries made in kindergarten lay the foundations for future friendships in primary school.

Lucie Rose is a doctor of psychology and psychologist specialising in neuropsychology, with the Université Lumière Lyon 2 and the Observatoire du Bien-être à l'École.
Her research focuses on the development of social relationships in children and adolescents, and in particular on the development of behaviours that benefit others.
Vous pouvez découvrir son travail sur son site Internet : www.lucierose.info

New this year for the new edition of the Kindergarten Week the digital group and trainers from the Central and Eastern Europe Zone had the pleasure of launching a robot challenge to all nursery classes, from nursery to kindergarten!

The students had to find a code to move the little robot. Bee-Bot on a squared surface to the right squares leading to the key to a treasure.
Participating teachers were provided with an educational support booklet that enabled them to run "turnkey" sessions with their pupils in preparation for the challenge.

Watch the video presentation of the project: Bee-bot and the treasure of the abyss.
All the documents you need to prepare and take up the challenge can be found at here !

L'ERTZ teamthe organiser of the ZECO would like to congratulate the 12 schools (involving more than 25 classes) on their participation and success in this challenge. Well done to them all!
The students and their teachers have shown a great deal of motivation, perseverance and creativity in meeting this challenge!
Visit here is a short video compiling all the class entries.

Finally, at the Kindergarten Weekstudents will be able to take part in a Maternathlon !
A kind of athletics game for nursery classes, the Maternathlon offers individual and team events designed to develop children's motor skills, among other things.

Running, jumping, throwing...games will be organised in these three sporting disciplines.

Visit here the activities on offer and how they are carried out.