Universet Student Kindergarten

The Milky Way flows through the five bases named after constellations in our solar system. The kindergarten has five bases with age-divided groups, with a capacity of a total of 85 children. Both of our bases for children over the age of three focus on the great outdoors and one of the bases focuses on music. We serve hot lunch every day.

Opening hours

07.30 - 16.30

Common academic focus area 2019 - 2020: One hundred worlds to discover! - Play, interaction and relationships in kindergarten.

Children create relationships and learn best through play and action. The student kindergartens must therefore have present, participating and competent employees. It is important that we are predictable and clear in our contact with the children. We must be supportive in child development so that they can learn good play skills, which can be used for the rest of their lives.

The student kindergartens use the cultural diversity and the mixed language environment in play. We work to ensure that all children can be with the children and employees they want across all bases. The staff must be where the children are and we place great emphasis on cooperation, in everyday life and at joint events. At Universet, we see that differences and diversity are an enrichment and a resource.

We are an internship kindergarten for the University of Tromsø. This means that we regularly have students interns with us.

Our outdoor area is located at the edge of the forest and inside the fence we find climbing trees, blueberry heather and a terrain that challenges the children. Both inside and outside, we have a rich bird life that the children are interested in. We have set up a bird box with a video camera, so that the children can follow on screen, and see how life in the bird box develops.

We have bike paths, swings, slides, houses, sandpits and dining areas in the area. In addition, we have a large beautiful lavvo with space for several bases at a time. Two to three days a week, two of the bases open outside and all the bases use the lavvo for activities and meals whenever they want.

As we are this close to the hiking trail and the forest, it is natural for us to go for a walk outside the kindergarten's patio all year round. We have a gapahuk close by where even the youngest can join the hike.

We start the day with breakfast inside the base or outside in the lavvo. The children eat packed meals for breakfast while we serve hot lunch later in the day, and at the end of the day a fruit meal is served. The days consist of regular trip days, preschool club, two-year club, music gatherings, art activities and free play.

We have a large common room, Cassiopeia, in the middle of the kindergarten which is used diligently by both young and old. The youngest children sleep outside in their own pram and those who need to rest have a rest at the base.