Our Crèche Team
Barbara Ramos Picado (*1982)
Barbara is the center leader of the crèche. She holds a diploma in Early Years Education and another in Special Education from Spain. She has international experience working as an art teacher in London in a Reggio Emilia kindergarten. Barbara loves using art as a tool of self-expression and to offer the children the tools they need to be happy, safe and amazing! Barbara speaks English with the children.
Prabhjot Kaur Nagra (*1983)
Prabhjot holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in education from India. She works in our Caterpillar group. Her goal as an educator is to promote physical, mental, and social development of each child by encouraging creative thinking and by participation through indoor and outdoor activities. It´s her life’s passion to work with children.
Paulina Salgado (*1993)
Paulina is the group leader of the Caterpillar grouup. She studied Psychology in Mexico. She worked with kids in poor and rural areas of Mexico promoting self-awareness. One of her passions in life is enhancing mindfulness in children, like mindful eating, emotions and feelings. Seeing how the kids develop compassion, focus, empathy, curiosity and happiness is her main motivation. Paulina speaks English. Once a week she is working for an hour in our kindergarten as mindfulness teacher.
Lyndsay Cook (*1987)
Lyndsay is our Butterfly Early Years Teacher from Birmingham, UK. She worked in Germany as a teaching assistant for 2.5 years in an international kindergarten. Lyndsay enjoys being creative and doing hands-on activities as well as spending time outside. She loves to watch children grow and learn, and especially to support them in the area of language development.
Zolzaya Nyamtaivan (*1993)
Zaya was born in Mongolia. After several internships with Little Daisies, she finished in August 2022 her degree as assistant teacher. Zaya works in the Caterpillar group. She really enjoys working with children and watching them grow intellectually and socially. Zaya speaks German with the childrenn.
Thu Bui (*1995)
Thu is our deputy center leader and leads our Caterpillar group. It is important to Thu that the children feel comfortable with her. She wants the children to reach their full potential, and to continue developing their strengths through multiple platforms. She sees something special in each child. Thu speaks German with the children.
Jeannine (*1984)
Jeannine spent the last 6 years in Strasbourg in a German-French crèche. Before that, she had experience with children from other age groups, but working with crèche children is what she enjoys most. It is important to Jeannine that the children are curious about their interests and their abilities and can try out and learn new things. They should be happy, self-determined and allowed to be “themselves” – exactly as they are! Jeannine would also like to convey to the children through her own active example how important values such as empathy, appreciation, charity, respect, acceptance and authenticity are. Jeannine speaks German with the children and works in the Butterfly group.
Domenika Tien (*1995)
Domenika is a trained teacher assistant. She really enjoys working with children, and she finds it particularly interesting how quickly children develop and research with curiosity. Domenika likes to encourage the children in their imagination and creativity through crafts or painting activities. Domenika speaks German with the children and works in the Butterfly group.
Lilli Aigner (*2004)
Lilli has completed her high-school diploma and is now doing a federal volunteer year in our crèche. Lilli is very sporty in her free time and also started babysitting at an early age. She loves to play with children and see the world through their eyes. Lilli speaks German with the children..
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Patrick Stamm (*1978)
Patrick loves to work with children, because no day is like the other with them. Patrick consults the crèche as well as the kindergarten team in his role as “Fachkraft Sprache” in the areas of language, integration and parent-partnership. Furthermore Patrick is doing the German Preschool and the “Vorkurs Deutsch” with the kindergarten children.