Five days of holiday childcare for employees’ children – outdoors, with animals, with real tasks, and with time for what children want to do anyway.
Families from many countries work at Red Bull, in shifts and project hours. What they need in the holidays is not a stopgap, but a week the children look forward to – and one where the parents know everything is taken care of.
So there is no minute-by-minute animation plan. There is a group, a team that really gets to know the children over the week, and something each day that sticks. English runs alongside – in games, songs, everyday moments. Not a lesson, just a second language that belongs.
And yes: some evenings the children come home dirty. That is not an accident, that is the plan.
This is what a Kinderkamp week could look like. Every day has its own focus – and still enough air for the children to decide things themselves.
The first day belongs to the children and their names. Morning circle in the hall, games that make you remember who is sitting next to you, and the first decision made together: what shall our week be called? Anyone still shy is allowed to be shy – by snack time almost everyone is talking.
An excursion to the farm. There is a pig lying in the middle of the path with no intention of moving. The ponies let themselves be stroked, the berries in the field may be tasted. Some children have never stood that close to an animal – you can see that they will remember it.
The police come by and open the boot. Later it is off to the fire station: holding the hose, putting on a helmet, sitting in the truck and feeling the belt. The questions the children ask are better than any prepared programme.
A morning at the beehives. A honeycomb passes from hand to hand, one child dares to get very close, another would rather not – that is fine too. In the afternoon they build, draw and write down what they discovered.
The last day is the loudest. Out one more time, all together one more time, a group photo that later ends up on the fridge. And in the afternoon the children show what came out of the week – for parents who can make it.
Friday afternoon, pick-up time
Children need to know what comes next. Everything else can stay open. The rhythm repeats every day, the content does not.
Taken during the programme – published with the parents’ consent.
Mixed ages, with its own programme for younger and older children.
Small groups with dedicated key carers.
Drop-off and pick-up within a window, earlier pick-up always possible.
Care close to the site, excursion destinations nearby.
Sites, times, age groups: we look at what you need and send you a concept to pass on to parents.