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No kindergarten is better than the people who work there.
Meet our team
No kindergarten is better than the people who work there. The staff is the most important resource. We would like to introduce you to them.
OddveigEducational leader
Oddveig is an educated kindergarten teacher from 2006 and started to work here right away.
She is working especially with children’s language development. She conducts language groups for the children with international background.
Oddveig is passionate with art and crafts and music. She is a good guitar player. The kindergartens library is good taken care of with upgrades every year.
PernilleEducational Leader
Pernille is for the moment on maternal leave
Pernille is for the moment on maternal leave
Pernille has her education as a kindergarten teacher since 2017 and has finished her master’s degree in Kindergarten Knowledge the summer of 2024. Pernille emphasize the importance of the staff being good role models for children in relation to counteracting bullying. Staff working with Pernille says she has a way to create a calm and warm atmosphere. She has good skills in food and nutrition and like to explore the nature with the children.
MarielleEducational leader
Marielle is for the moment on maternal leave
Marielle is for the moment on maternal leave
Marielle graduated as a kindergarten teacher in 2021. She started working with us in August 2024. Marielle emphasizes the importance that all children should be seen and heard during the day and the importance to have good relationships between adults and children. Marielle works with the youngest children and likes to use song and music for a good interaction with the children. Marielle emphasizes that song, music and rhythm can be used for children to express themselves.
OlgaEducational Leader
Olga started working with us in March 2026. She is an educated kindergarten teacher with further education in children's physical and motor development and activity in kindergarten from OsloMet since 2017. She has nineteen years experience from three municipal kindergartens. Olga is originally from Belarus with a background as an English teacher in primary and upper secondary schools. She has a strong love for nature and an active lifestyle. Whether outdoors exploring the environment or indoors engaging in physical activities, she believes movement is an important and natural part of children's learning and well-being. Olga also has a great passion for reading books and having conversations that spark curiosity and imagination in children.
MargreteEducational Leader
Margrete holds a bachelor’s degree in Special Education from the University of Oslo, completed in 2015. She has extensive experience from early childhood education, both as a special education teacher and as a pedagogical leader. Through her work, she has developed solid expertise in children’s development and in how to best support children with diverse needs in their everyday lives. Margrete is passionate about promoting strong language development and creating a safe and inclusive psychosocial environment for everyone in the kindergarten. She believes that feeling secure and cared for is fundamental to children’s learning and development.
MaleneEducational Leader
Malene has worked in a kindergarten since finishing upper secondary school, where she completed her vocational certificate as a child and youth care worker. Malene is committed to helping children become resilient and independent, within loving and caring boundaries. She also believes it is important to value children’s play and to meet them in their own arena. Malene enjoys spending time outdoors and using nature and outdoor areas as learning environments, as she specialized in this during her studies at OsloMet. Malene completed her bachelor’s degree in early childhood education in May 2024. She started working with us at the beginning of March 2026.
MagdalenaEducated Child Worker
Magdalena has been with us since 2015 and her home country is Poland. She has an education in basic kindergarten competence from University in Oslo.
Magdalena is passionate about working with art and crafts and a special focus on how to create an exciting and stimulating environment for the children’s senses. She has a great patience in getting the children to feel safe.
She gives an extra support to children with polish language
LeneEducational Leader
Lene is a kindergarten teacher since 2009 and has been with us from 2014. She has further education in Relationship Competence. She has her hart in the relationship between children and staff. She emphasizes that the children need acknowledgement of their feeling and for the staff to use a personal language with the children. She focuses on facilitating playing as much as possible and reminds us that it is not children playing at our workplace but we are working at their playground.
NicoleEducational Leader
Nicole is a newly educated kindergarten teacher from OsloMet. She received her bachelor in 2022. Raised in Hawaii by a Korean mother and a Swiss father, Nicole is used to an international atmosphere and enjoys the internationality of our kindergarten. It is important for Nicole that the children feel safe and know that they are listened to and that their needs and feelings are acknowledged by the adults. She also emphasizes the importance of narrating what we do together throughout the day, putting words to feelings, actions, and things. Nicole also enjoys arts and music and enjoys incorporating them into activities and everyday interactions with the children.
IvanaEducated Child Worker
Ivana has been with us since 2011 and her home country is Serbia. She has her degree in Child work from 2016 and have attended Oslo Met in Norwegian kindergarten education.
Ivana brings in a lot of enthusiasm and eagerness for the children to explore their world.
She emphasize the importance of the children to learning by doing and support their independence.
No one has a bigger hug than Ivana. She brings support to children with Serbian language.
LinhEducated Child Worker
Linh has been with us since 2013. She has several courses in kindergarten work and has her degree in Child Work from 2020.
Her home country is Vietnam and she support children with Vietnamese and German languages.
Linh har special skills with the youngest children and children who need extra support in their development. She cares a lot about how the youngest children can express themselves and has good knowledge of using signs as a supportive language element.
GretheEducated Child Worker
Grethe has been with us since 1997 and has her degree as a Child Worker from 2011.
She emphasizes that children should be involved in their own everyday lives and have an impact on the plans we are making.
Grete is highly artistic and use her knowledge on art with creative project with the children. She has a focus on the psychical environment both inside and outside. Look up in the threes to see creations made with joy and enthusiasm.
Grethe graduated as a child and youth worker in 2011.
Has worked in the kindergarten since 1997.
BrancaPedagogical Employee
Branka has been with us since 2015 and her home country is Bosnia. Branka have for several years been working all the different departments. She therefore has an extended knowledge on the work at every department and know all the children very well.
Branka is an expert in cooperation and are very appreciated of all staff being a known and stable help always being there when needed. Her flexibility and patience are also very helpful in the skilled interaction with the children in all ages.
TomaEducated Child Worker
Toma is originally from Lithuania.
She has a bachelor's degree in sociology and started with us in April 2015. Has taken basic kindergarten skills.
IngridEducated Child Worker
Ingrid has been with us since 1994 and has her Child Work degree from 2014.
She is passionate about using music and she is conducting groups with the children where they enjoy singing, playing instruments, and learning different movements to songs.
Ingrid has workshops where children create art from all kind of materials. She is also the keeper of the history of our local area, and the leader of our expedition to Saraholmen each year for the Maxi children.
ZoranSports Educator
We are lucky to have the Gym available to the children and even more that we have our own sports educator. Zoran has advanced skills in children’s motor development and have different programs for different age groups. He is passionate about how we can use everyday life to keep children active both with their bodies and their imagination.
His homeland is Serbia but living a lot of places he speaks many languages.
GosiaPedagogical Teacher
Gosia has her pedagogical education in 2007 and has been with us since 2012. She also has kindergarten education from Oslo Met.
Her home country is Poland and she gives support to children in Polish language. She is trained in follow up children with special needs, and she emphasizes that all children are important in the group in their own individuality.
Gosia is administrating the kindergartens food service.
Management
Christa earned her qualification as a primary school teacher in the Netherlands in 1998 and spent ten years teaching before moving to Norway in 2005. After relocating, she completed her education as an early childhood teacher and began working as an educational leader in kindergartens in 2009.
Since 2016, Christa has held the position of General Manager at a kindergarten in Bærum, and in August 2022 she joined Det Norske Veritas Kindergarten as General Manager. She completed the National Education Program for Kindergarten Managers at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo in 2018, followed by the Management of Development and Change program and the Law for Managers program at BI in 2023.
Christa is deeply passionate about fostering strong and positive relationships—both between children and adults, and among adults themselves. She believes that the quality of a kindergarten is fundamentally rooted in these relationships and interactions. Through continuous professional development and her everyday leadership, Christa actively promotes a culture of trust, collaboration, and growth. Above all, she is guided by a steadfast commitment to ensuring the best interests of the children in every aspect of her work.
Since 2016, Christa has held the position of General Manager at a kindergarten in Bærum, and in August 2022 she joined Det Norske Veritas Kindergarten as General Manager. She completed the National Education Program for Kindergarten Managers at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo in 2018, followed by the Management of Development and Change program and the Law for Managers program at BI in 2023.
Christa is deeply passionate about fostering strong and positive relationships—both between children and adults, and among adults themselves. She believes that the quality of a kindergarten is fundamentally rooted in these relationships and interactions. Through continuous professional development and her everyday leadership, Christa actively promotes a culture of trust, collaboration, and growth. Above all, she is guided by a steadfast commitment to ensuring the best interests of the children in every aspect of her work.