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We celebrate each child’s abilities, curiosity, and potential at AMADEUS Early Years Centre.
Our Early Years Centre is an international kindergarten in Vienna that welcomes children of ages 3-5 years old from all around the world. We foster a safe space for all the different cultures and value the importance of every students’ mother tongue. In our kindergarten, we communicate with our students and families in the English language.
Our kindergarten provides a strong foundation for future learning by promoting children’s individual learning and development in a nurturing and caring environment. This way, the Early Years Centre serves as an english speaking private preschool, preparing young children for their future school life.
A Joyful, International Start to Lifelong Learning
Welcome to our wonderful Early Years community! We are so pleased that you are interested in learning more about what makes our programme such a special place for young children to begin their educational journey.
At AMADEUS Vienna, our Early Years Centre provides a warm, nurturing, and inspiring start to your child’s educational journey. Designed for children aged 3 to 6, our programme combines the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP) with a strong focus on creativity, curiosity, and care.
We invite you to visit, meet our wonderful team, and see our Early Years environment in action. We can’t wait to welcome you and your child into our caring and vibrant learning community!
Our Kindergarten Days
- Opening hours 08:00 – 15:20. Please find our school calendar for term dates and special events.
- Our international kindergarten consists of three classrooms with infrastructure for all types of learning.
- Our kindergarten provides freshly prepared morning and afternoon snacks as well as daily choices of freshly cooked lunches. Everything is prepared by our wonderful in-house catering team.
- At AMADEUS Vienna, we like to get together as a community, and we look forward to building strong, positive relationships that help each child flourish. Throughout the year, we offer many opportunities for families to connect with the learning community through special events, celebrations, and shared experiences. Are you interested in joining our AMADEUS Vienna Community Association? Please find more information about our AVCA.
Ms Mira Koller-Herlt
EY Coordinator
Learning at AMADEUS Early Years Centre
We are all learners.
We celebrate child-centered learning and believe the early years are a time of wonder. In our Kindergarten, we are all learners and teachers at the same time, learning with and from each other every day.
Through purposeful play, inquiry, and a strong focus on the arts, we nurture confidence, independence, and a lifelong love of learning in a safe and supportive environment where every child feels valued. Together, we provide a space where children can grow, discover, and thrive.
What Makes AMADEUS Early Years Centre Special:
- Teachers guide learning through questions, exploration, and play.
- Classrooms are interactive spaces designed to spark imagination and independence.
- Daily activities include hands-on projects that foster critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.
- Outdoor adventures build movement, teamwork, and joy in learning.
Our Curriculum
We focus on 9 subjects: Creative Expression; Social Relationships; Physical and Psychological Well-being; Communication, Media, Literacy; Culture and Art; Nature, Technology, Mathematics; Ethics and Values; Special life situations. By giving our students the opportunity to create their own learning path, they naturally develop research, thinking and self-management skills.
Our Teachers
We are proud to have a team of highly trained and experienced educators. They guide learning through curiosity and play while nurturing each child’s confidence and potential. Every teacher works closely with students to create a supportive and inclusive environment that inspires a lifelong love of learning.
Our Classrooms
Our classrooms are designed to encourage exploration, creativity, and independence. With engaging indoor and outdoor spaces, including a Wintergarden and playground, children have room to learn, play, and collaborate. Thoughtfully organized environments help young learners develop responsibility, confidence, and curiosity.
Our Movement & Discovery
At AMADEUS Early Years Centre, movement is a key part of daily learning. Students enjoy active play, physical exploration, and outdoor activities that support emotional, intellectual, and physical development. Students enjoy movement both in our dedicated Movement Room and outdoors on our School playground. We are proud to offer the best playground in Vienna, providing a safe and inspiring space for play and exploration.
How We Describe Ourselves…
AMADEUS Early Years Centre | Activities & Stories
EY 1: Patterns
In EY 1, we have started to inquire into patterns. The students already understood the concept of something being repeated in order to be called a pattern. Their collected knowledge about shapes helps them with describing and naming various patterns and also enables the students to compare them. ‘Is it really the same colour and pattern, or are you able to spot differences?’
EY 1: ‘You’ve got a friend in me’
The students are busily creating lanterns that will be sold at our Winter Wonderland Festival. In the year 2024, all of our profit will be donated to SUPERAR. (Superar is a not-for-profit organization that empowers children and young adults across Europe by providing cost-free musical instruction and resources. Their objective is to strengthen individuals and communities by harnessing the power of music to bring about a positive societal change.) Please help us to support this important initiative!
EY 2: "Letter Day - ‘d’"
🎶 See me play on the drum. Playing drums is lots of fun, with a /d/-/d/-/d/-/d/-/d/-/d/-/d/-/d/- /d/. See me play upon the drum! 🎶
This week in class we engaged in everything we could think of starting with a “d” sound. We created our own duck art from our handprints, played with our dominos, tried the instrument of the drum, and made some dot art.
Together we have been looking at the importance of making the “d” line extra long up to the top, to not confuse it with our “a”s.
While searching the classroom for equipment and things with “d” we realised that we have four rectangular doors, dominoes, dices, and dance moves we can show off.
EY 2: "Let’s explore materials"
Mixing the water and glycerine for the leave bath got us thinking of what else we can mix to create something new.
With mixing daily used ingredients, like flour, salt, sunflower oil and water, we made our own playdough in class! We measured the exact amount of every ingredient needed and mixed it carefully with the mixer, adding the water slowly in the process.
Each student helped knead the dough until it was ready to dye with the food colouring. We chose our favourite colours and placed the finished playdough in separate bags to keep it from drying.
Together we looked for a suitable space to keep our new material and are using it for many different literacy and mathematical activities.
EY 3: "Storytelling"
We were thrilled to showcase the incredible storytelling taking place in the EY3 classroom. The students have embarked on a vibrant journey of creativity during their “How We Express Ourselves” unit. Each week, our provocations have inspired these young learners to step into the role of authors. With just paper, drawing tools, and their limitless imagination, the EY3 students have been delving into the art of storytelling, bringing their thoughts and feelings to life on the page.
As we near the conclusion of Term 1, we were excited to celebrate the storytelling accomplishments of our EY3 students this week.
In the coming weeks, we will shift our focus to our ongoing Unit of Inquiry, exploring how our year is organised and the various celebrations that occur throughout it. We will pay special attention to light-based festivals as we approach the end of the year. On the morning of December 20th, we will join together with EY1 and EY2 for a light festival celebration.
EY 3: "Spelling CVC words"
This week, we introduced an exciting new game that allowed the children to practice their spelling and reading skills using pictures with CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words. The students enjoyed this fun car-themed activity where they “drove” to each stop sign to say the individual sounds of the words, before reading the entire word aloud in one go. The children quickly grasped the game and even offered some creative suggestions!
Additionally, we wrapped up our reading assessments this week and explored the digraph “ph,” as several students expressed interest in this intriguing Greek-originating “f” sound. Alongside these activities, we continued to enhance our phonemic awareness and sound repetition skills.
To celebrate the upcoming light celebration on the 20th, we sang “This Little Light of Mine” and had a wonderful time making our names “light up” using a chalk technique. It was a week full of learning and creativity!
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