About
We envision today’s children as tomorrow’s leadership icons
What is iglookids
We believe in a planned and goal-oriented integration of care, upbringing and teaching. This means that Iglookids want to holistically support the growth, development and learning of children and thus promote overall welfare. Our holistic approach borrowed from Finnish education includes instilling the values of equality, equal opportunities, justice and fairness in the lives of the children.
Iglookids teaches the children to live and thrive in a multicultural society and to appreciate the diversity. At our nursery, holistic development also includes:
- Advice and support for healthy nutrition
- Child growth and health monitoring app for the parents
- Equipment and facilities for physical activity and exercise
- Afternoon clubs for hobbies such as music, sport and art
Our main features
IglooKids specially focuses on delivering high quality pedagogy inspired by the Finnish system and helping discover each student’s individual strengths. We employ teachers qualified to the high Finnish standard, who can adjust the share of care, upbringing and teaching according to the situation and developmental stage of the child. When the basic needs and care of the child are well covered, the child will direct her attention towards other children, the environment and the activities.
To support both individual attention and discovery of individual strengths, we want to involve the parents in close cooperation with our nurseries. Iglookids supports the parents’ involvement as active stakeholders in their children’s growth, development and education. The parents’ active role is enabled by –
- Hosting regular teacher-parent meetings
- Open house days for prospective students and parents to visit the nursery
- Easily available communication and feedback channels
- Ability to monitor the child’s development and health via a mobile app
- Community outreach activities, such as pop-up nursery days in residential communities or schools
For the benefit of the children and the nursery community, our teaching quality is continuously monitored by internal criteria and parental feedback.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nursery where supporting the holistic and age-appropriate development of children guides all activities and interaction with the parents.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to utilize a Finland-based expert team and appropriate technologies to combine the best parts of Finnish early education with the international curricula and delivering it in each country according to the local requirements.
FINLAND IS RATED AS #1 FOR EDUCATION
OUR EDUCATION ECOSYSTEM
Finland is rated as #1 for education and best schools (source: BBC). Best application of different educational theories and practices have for decades been done in Finland. We at Iglookids focus on exporting Finnish education to the rest of the world by establishing nurseries and primary schools across various regions in Middle East, South Asia and Africa.
We stand out by following a teaching philosophy still uncommon in the world – we put the child and her wellbeing in the center.
- Finnish students have consistently topped international surveys, tests and rankings (e.g. PISA) over the past decade, a status earned by going completely against conventional schooling tradition that involves monitoring, standardized testing and long hours.
- All educators, even those who aim to teach the youngest students, must be highly educated. There are no fast-tracks into teaching, and every class teacher must obtain a Master’s degree.
- Schools are fear free places, fierce competition and standardized testing are not used as tools to drive students.
Meet the Team!
ROB MOONEN
CEO, TOPFORGE - FINLAND
MANOJ SHARMA
IGLOOKIDS
INDIA
Päivi Marjanen
Pedagogy Expert – FINLAND
ANNA KIVILEHTO
SALES, SOCIAL MEDIA, PR-FINLAND
GANESH KARPE
HEAD-INDIA
OPERATIONS