Day care for children

In the Slovak Republic preschool education includes the child education until the beginning of the compulsory school attendance. Preschool education in the Slovak Republic is carried out in non‑institutional form and institutional form. Non‑institutional form of preschool education takes places in the family. Institutional form of preschool education is carried out in preschool establishments being represented by kindergartens and special kindergartens. Preschool establishments admit children between the age of three and six years. Exceptionally, it is possible to admit children from the age of two years. (Preschool education in preschool establishments is also provided to children over six years of age, whose start of compulsory school attendance was postponed or whose fulfilment of compulsory schooling was additionally postponed.)

Preschool establishments are set up with varied lengths of operation such as half‑day, full day, weekly and continuous operation. A prevailing number of kindergartens are operating full day, usually from 6  a. m. to 6  p. m. according the parents’ needs.

There exists mostly state kindergartens, however, church and private kindergartens are becoming quite common too. In most of the kindergartens Slovak is the communication language, though there are several kindergartens (mostly state ones) with Hungarian and Ukrainian as communication languages aimed predominantly at children of those nationalities. There exist a few kindergartens providing education in English, they are private ones.

In Bratislava they are:

• Forel International School (www.forel.sk)
• The British International School Bratislava (www.nordanglia.com/bratislava)
• Galileo School (www.galileoschool.sk)
• Wonderland English‑German Kindergarten (www.wonderland.sk)
• Brilliant Stars Intl. Kindergarten (www.brilliantstars.sk)
• Little Angel Playschool (www.littleangel.sk)
• Babyland (www.babyland‑centrum.sk)
• Fantasy Kindergarten (www.skolka‑fantasy.sk)
• Unity House Montessori Kindergarten (www.unity-house.sk)

 

Some of them are establishments where also primary and even secondary education is carried out.

For the list of kindergartens see the database of the Institute for Educational Information and Prognosis (www.uips.sk, only in Slovak). Look for regional education (“Regionálne školstvo”) available databases (“Dostupné databázy”) list of school facilities (“Register škôl a školských zariadení v Slovenskej republike); search for “materské školy“ in the field of “druh školy“ – school type.

 

Last modified: 2011-06-01