People

Kateřina Pálková

Before coming to Bambíno, Kateřina graduated from a secondary pedagogical school with focus on preschool pedagogy and got much experience in various kindergartens in Moravia (where she comes from). She joined to Bambíno in the beginning in 2009 and we are happy (little Bambínos as well) she has stayd with us!

Mariana Černá

After finishing her studies Mariana became a head of administrative department in a consumer magazine. While looking after her newborn nephew, she realized that for being happy she needs to be surrounded by children. Therefore she used her stay in Australia to obtain Certificate III and Diploma in Early Childhood Education and Care, also with working experience in a Child Care Centre. After coming back to the Czech Republic she was excited to become a part of the nursery in Bambíno. Thanks to high school studies in France Mariana speaks French fluently. She plays piano and trumpet in a concert band. What she loves about Bambíno is the individual approach to children and the inspirational international team.

Lucie Holubová

Lucka comes from South Bohemia. She graduated from psychology in education and early year education. While studies she worked as a nanny. After school she combined her love to kids and to traveling and left to work as au-pair in London. There she spent two years and realised that children are what she wants to do for future. So she came to work in Bambíno. What she loves about kids is their naturalness and laugh. Her other hobbies are history and art.

Barbora Kafková

Bára comes from Prague where she studied high school. She is the oldest of 4 children and apart from babysitting her sisters, she also worked as a nanny, organised summer programs and led clubs. So working with children was her favourite activity for some time already. Therefore, she decided to study at Pedagogical University in Hradec Králové. After graduation, she took a gap year to read stories and play with blocks with children in New Zeland and since 2021 she finally started in Bambíno.

Alena Walterová

Alena has a lot of experience with this work. For several yeas she worked in gastronomy and as a kitchen keeper in kindergarten where she also helped with children. At Bambino, she is preparing healthy snacks for kids and takes care of cleanliness in the kitchen. She likes baking and bakes very well.

Jan Trnka

Honza´s daily responsibility is to take care of Bambínos’ buildings and gardens. If you see him at Bambíno, he will probably be carrying a screwdriver or a drill. All adults at Bambíno are happy to have someone skillful at our kindergarten. The children just love to watch Honza working and often want to help.

Veronika Zýková

Veronika was born in Prague. She studied Pre-school education. During the studies, she realized that working with children makes her happy and that she wants to grow with them. She likes to spend her free time with her friends and family – for example canoeing.

Marie Poncová 

They call me Majda, I come from a small village close to Liberec called Višňová. I studied pedagogical high school focusing on preschool and afterschool pedagogy. With my older sister – teacher as well - I liked to organise competitions, games and happenings for children from our village, therefore preschool pedagogy was an obvious choice for me. What I love about children is their spontaneity and individuality, when you are with them you can never know what the day will bring and every each of them is original, being just themselves. I moved to Prague in 2017 to join my boyfriend and immediately I fell in love with this city. I like to sing and music is my hobby in general. I am learning how to play piano and guitar and I am trying to bring this skill in my work with children. Bambíno is a big experience for me and I am happy to be in a team with so many interesting people.

Jana Šubertová

Jana comes from the small village of Radonice, which is at the edge of Prague. Already in elementary school, she decided that one day she would like to become a teacher. She graduated from the pedagogical lyceum in Prague, where she discovered the true meaning of this profession and her interest in working with the youngest ones. She believes that the first steps are often one of the most important. After graduating, she was looking for a way to finally fulfill this dream, and she found it right in Bambíno. When working with children, she likes to observe their everyday smiles and progress on their path to becoming a great person.

Fabiola Vivolo

Fabiola was born in Venezuela into an Italian family. She studied Education in Modern Languages (English, French, and Spanish) at the University of Zulia, she has previously worked as an English and French teacher for 3-year-old kids where she discovered her passion for teaching kids. Outside of teaching, she also enjoys learning new languages and meeting new people.

Tammiris R. Lara

Tammy was born in Brazil, where she got a degree in Information Technology. After finishing her studies, she moved to Canada, which intensified her love for languages and culture. She speaks fluent English and Portuguese. Growing up, her teachers inspired her profoundly, so she knew she would want to follow in their footsteps one day. She has been working as an English as a Second Language Teacher for more than five years now. Her first experience working with children was in a Language school for Kids. She arrived in Prague in November 2018 and completed her TEFL certification here. She is excited to be here in the Czech Republic working for such a great school!

David Metaxas

David is from the Isle of Man in U.K. He left the island to study, then travelled extensively. He met my wife 20 years ago and have lived and worked as a preschool teacher in Prague for nearly 14 years. He has an HND in Ceramics and a City & Guilds Cert in Teaching Adult Learners. He has also an Extended Education Cert for Primary and Pre Primary Pedagogy, and led the Junior Achievement program at his previous school for a number of years. He loves art and is a big advocate of teaching through creativity.

Markéta Píšová

Markéta comes from Prague and graduated from the Higher Vocational School of Pedagogy, focused on preschool education. While studying, she sometimes looked after children and also worked for several years in Bambino as a temporary worker. With children, she enjoys solving their daily concerns and being with them in their development. She likes to make art and craft with children, cook and play the piano.

Lucie Pivoňková

Lucie lived in London for 2 years, after finishing grammar school where she studied English and worked as an au-pair. In 2006, she graduated from the Master’s Program at the University in Pardubice with an emphasis on English language teaching. During her studies, she obtained a lot of experience in teaching pre-school and school-aged children. Up until 2008, she obtained management and client care experience. Since 2008, she has worked as an director of Bambíno, and newly takes care of the project of the Primary school Square.

Tomáš Trnka

Before he started to devote his time to pre-school children, Tomáš had been working in the area of development as a sales and project manager. In 2005, he became a member of higher management in the developers’ group, where he was mainly in charge of PR and human resources. Since 2008, Tomáš has been devoted to the Bambino, newly also to the Primary school Square.

Alena Hauptmanová

Alena has completed special pedagogy with specialization in learning disorders and speech therapy. For a long time, she has been engaged in intensive work with either disadvantaged or talented children. Within her leisure time activities and, especially, pedagogical advisory, she has been working on personal development both of children and adults. In Bambíno, she has been assisting in the complex development of children and in putting new educational methods into Bambíno practice. She likes theatre and music. She spends her leisure time travelling or devouring stories of any kind.

Sylvie Stretti

For many years she has been working with children in different situations which include psycho-social fields, such as, development, crisis, family as well as therapeutic. For more than ten years she worked with children in crisis situations, she cooperated educationally for NNO, various firms and at Charles University here in Prague. At Bambíno she will participate in the creation of courses for teachers, which will help them solve difficult situations that children‘s groups can go through. She will also help with new ways of communication when children find themselves in a demanding transitional development period. Why Bambíno? Because this is a Kindergarten that is interested in the children and where children are viewed as a part of a family system. Because a child is a friend in Bambíno and because there are many nice people here.

Zuzana Znamenáčková

Zuzka is from a family of teachers and since she was youg she has been interested in English. English is now one her main hobbies and she has tried it in various forms – from travelling, interpreting and translating through teaching up to managing a language school where she found that she enjoys working with children. After graduating from the University of Economics in Prague she moved back to Slovakia for a while. After returning to Prague she joined our team.

Bára Schneiderová

She was born in Prague, where she also finished her study at the secondary grammar school and earned her Bachelor degree in sociology. Since 2010 she has been working in Bambíno and also had a part-time job at the Safety Line. Eventually, Bambíno has won and Bára has become its full-time employee working with children and in the office as well. While coming back from the maternity leave with two little Bambinos, she is taking over Sylvie´s field of expertise in the socio-emotional support.