KiTa-Portal Köln :: Day-care center :: Kath. Kita St. Joseph :: 51105

Offered age structure

zwei bis sechs Jahre

Address	Kath. Kita St. Joseph Poller Hauptstr. 26b 51105 Köln
Funding authority	Katholino Kindertagesstätten im Erzbistum Köln gGmbH Salierring 47 50677 Köln
e-mail:	kita.st.joseph.51105@katholino.de
Homepage:	https://www.katholische-kindergaerten.de/kitas/36-st-joseph
Phone:	0221 / 8307229 (Joel Mayer)
Opening times	7:15 AM - 4:30 PM o'clock
Closing days	2 Konzeptionstage
Foreign languages	German
Denomination	roman catholic
Specially educational concept	partially open concept, Situation orientated approach
Extras	care with lunch, full day care, overnight care
Pets	Ein Aquarium im Eingangsbereich

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Description and Stations

You can reach our facility by taking line 7 of the Cologne Transport Authority (KVB) to the Salmstraße stop (about a ten-minute walk) and KVB bus line 159 to the Salmstraße stop (right in front of our building).

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Introduction/specifics

The Catholic daycare center (Kita) Sankt (St.) Joseph is located in the Poll district of Cologne, on the right bank of the Rhine, directly on the Rhine and close to the city center.
The center has space for 83 children aged two to six, divided into four groups.
In 2012, the building was renovated, specifically to meet the needs of children under the age of three. A year later, the outdoor area was redesigned to be more natural. As part of the renovation, a fresh food kitchen was installed, where a cook prepares meals for all the children every day and sometimes cooks with them.
Appreciation and acceptance of each child and their family, as well as their uniqueness, is one of our core principles.
In partnership with parents, we accompany, encourage, and support the overall development of each individual child on their journey.
All places are offered as 45 hours per week.

Outdoor Facilities

The large outdoor area was landscaped in 2013 to be close to nature and has an integrated and separate area for children under three years of age (U3).

Food

During the renovation in 2012, a fresh food kitchen was installed, where a trained chef cooks daily for all the children and sometimes also with the children.

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Basics

Our concept of shared education takes into account the individual needs and circumstances of children and their families.

The educational process focuses on each child as a unique individual with their own strengths, interests, and needs.

Through a wide range of educational opportunities, we promote their emotional, social, motor, sensory, aesthetic, cognitive, and creative development, among other things.

Our facility supports and complements the tasks of parenting, education, and care by providing comprehensive and professional services for families in their everyday lives.

The central aspects of our educational and parenting mission are to strengthen children's autonomy, participation, and social responsibility. Of particular importance is the promotion and appreciation of basic skills and resources that mobilize children's strengths and enable them to learn throughout their lives. We help children to educate themselves by mindfully perceiving and shaping their relationship with themselves, their fellow human beings, the world (creation), and God.

(Excerpt from: For Your Child, the Catholic Day Care Center, 19th edition, 2015)

Employee

A total of 18 full-time and part-time teaching staff and assistants currently work at our facility, as well as two part-time staff in the domestic sector.

We provide training and offer internships in the field of education.

Quality Assurance

Quality assurance through:

• Educational concept
• Institutional protection concept
• Parent surveys
• Complaint management
• Counseling
• Participation
• Educational documentation
• Development screening
• Regular training for employees
• Diversity of the employee team

Cooperations

For the benefit of the children, our facility works as a socio-educational institution in cooperation with other social and public institutions and associations, for example: cooperation with early intervention centers, occupational therapists, speech therapists, motor therapists, Caritas counseling centers, and many more within the framework of the family center's cooperation partners.

Effective work is only possible through good cooperation. Cooperation with other institutions is intended to offer assistance and support to children, parents, and the team of employees.
This also includes, in particular, cooperation with elementary schools.

Teamwork with parents

Close cooperation and contact between parents, educational staff, and the provider is a prerequisite for good and successful educational work.

We therefore want to make our work transparent, on the one hand through regular and planned discussions, but also at any time when current issues arise.

The involvement of parents in the parents' association, the parents' council, and the daycare center council is aimed in particular at stimulating cooperation between everyone at the facility. In addition to this involvement in the elected committees, parents are invited to actively participate in the life of our daycare center. With this kind of cooperation, we can succeed in our shared task of working for the well-being of the children.

Specifics

In addition to regular activities involving cross-group work such as experiments, Bible study, soccer club, singing circle, forest days, religious education activities, worship services, reading aloud with reading mentors and reading aloud with elementary school children, library visits, dance group, and so on, there are also project-related activities and celebrations organized by and involving children, parents, and the teaching team, such as parent-child camping, sleepovers, end-of-year parties, and much more.

We have been certified as a “Little Scientists' House” since fall 2015 and are recertified regularly.

Two employees received further training and the team underwent further training as part of the dm project “Singing Kindergarten” in 2016.
In 2018, we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the daycare center. We worked intensively for five years to develop a quality management (QM) system, and at the end of 2019, we achieved DIN ISO 29990 certification following an external audit – a major event for all of us and an important milestone in the development of our facility.

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Overview

We will be happy to inform you personally about the registration process, admission criteria, and the next available admission date.

Prior registration with Little Bird is a prerequisite for all applications.

Care providers are responsible for all profile content. (State: 10/02/2026 12:00:05)

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