The centre is located in a pretty old building, more than a hundred years old, spacious and luminous, it was a home for blind children. It's surrounded by a garden where we can see children playing. The name comes from the bird's song that could be heard there. The rooms names on the doors are all birds' names.

The top floor has been adapted into a children's centre that caters for approximately forty children from 1 to 6 years of age. The children are divided into three groups:

- A group of 16 children from 3 to 6 years old in which we can find five children with special educative needs (that is why this group is smaller), with one more teacher and a specialist to attend the children with special educative needs.
- Two groups from 1 to 3 years of age with 24 children in total, the older ones in one group and the younger ones in another.

There are children from other cultural backgrounds.

The ratio children/teacher is the same as the other centres in the city.
The timetable is the usual one, there isn't an extended timetable in the afternoon.

The room for the older kids is very roomy and luminous. It is divided in different play areas and the children participate organising and decorating them. The different spaces cater to different interests and needs. The environment is a cozy and warm one with objects "from home", antique decorative objects and paintings and works from the children. You can tell that this is a children's place.

They work in small groups of children to encourage the dialogue and participation of all, as well as being able to listen and care for each child. Even at lunchtime they split in two groups, one of them goes to another room to encourage the conversations and relations between them.

They want to apply a live education from the children's interests and the day by day reality of the daily situations. They encourage the children experiment and learn by themselves.

They work on the feeling of individuality and self-esteem of each child. Each child together with their parents prepare a personal history with pictures and texts on a display panel and commented on during a week.

We are shown the notebooks in which they gather the scholastic history of the group for children and parents to see and the display board for communication with the parents. Parents are welcome in the centre.

Next to the main room there is a rest room with mattresses and cushions.

The rooms for the small children are spacious with more open spaces to respond to their need of movement, they are cosy and warm too.

There are photographs of the children to personalise the room, as well as their paintings, their birthday dates, etc. We arrived at the lunchtime of the smaller ones and we witnessed the individualisation. The teachers attend the children individually or in small groups of two or three, some eat in a highchair, some at the table. To rest some have cots and some mattresses.

The older ones in another room are singing a song about the different parts of the body.

There are spaces shared by children and adults for eating, spending time, working with the computer, etc… The children are welcome even in the principal's office.

There is a workshop to experiment with water, colours, natural materials that is used freely, as well as a carpentry workshop.

The old sauna is used as such two or three times a year. The rest of the time it is a warm place to rest, play with water, etc.
The cook is part of the life and history of the centre.

On the ground floor there is a multipurpose room. Apart from the movement activities of the different groups in this room, once a week a specialist comes to the centre to work with the children with special educative needs. They consider it important that these children are integrated in normal centres within their neighbourhood getting there all the care they might need. This is what 80% of the children do. The rest, 20%, are children with more severe handicaps that are in special groups inside normal centres. There are only two centres in the whole country for children with extremely severe handicaps and currently they are considering the future of these centres.

Also on the ground floor there are other community services, a good example of multiple uses of the spaces:

- A puppet and marionette workshop and a little theatre used by a group of people. In exchange for the premises they build puppets, marionettes and related items needed in the centres of the area and teach the children how to make them.

- A meeting and exchange of experiences room for teachers of the area. This room is free to use and they only need to advise when they need it.

My overall opinion of this centre is that it is really cozy and warm. Children and adults must feel like they are at home, valued as persons and with the freedom to learn and develop, they must feel really comfortable.