Constanta is part of Dobrogea (Dobrudja) area which is an ethnic mosaic and a model of understanding multiculturalism. In Dobrogea, together with Romanian people here live other ethnic groups, each with its specific tradition, culture and religion. In Dobrogea area cohabits members of 34 different ethnic groups. In Constanta here are important communities of Turks and Tatars, Aromanians, Greeks, Bulgarians and Roma people.
             GRADINITA PROGRAM PRELUNGIT “PERLUTELE MARII” is one of the best public early childhood insitutions in Constanta, Romania (with 8 classrooms and 230 children). It is a 10 hour, 5 day program that provides a creative, supportive, nurturing learning environment for children (three meals and sleep session available). The kindergarten provides extensive opening hours that take account of the needs of working parents. The kindergarten staff is interested in offering a high quality early childhood education and care to all children from age three to age five. The programmes aim to develop the social and emotional competence and promote the cognitive, language, literacy and numeracy skills of pre-primary children to provide them with a fair start in primary school. Our educational programs have been trying to promote science learning and create multiple and varied opportunities to engage preschoolers in science exploration and discovery. Children have a natural proclivity to observe, experiment, explore, learn, and discover the world around them. We encourage and support these basic abilities for science learning among children in the early years. The annual educational offer of the kindergarten offers English as a second language (ESL) at early ages (optional activities included in School-based curriculum), which are highly requested by the parents for their children.
             The School Council, the Head Teacher, the teaching staff and the school community are involved in the school life and they work together. The families support the staff and collaborate in the projects. The School Parents’ Association supports the carrying on of different projects initiated by school and our local community to develop at our students creative and free personalities. 

              The kindergarten has been involved in many local and national projects and partnerships. It is also partner and founder in eTwinning projects (“Fight against obesity from early childhood”, “To be children playing again”, “Flags of Europe”, “Our parents professions”, "Trabelling Box", "Christmas Cards Exchange") and a few International ones. The kindergarten has initiated and setted up a several regional and county cultural contests, sports competitions, educational projects and partnerships and school events. The kindergarten is the coordinator of a county project called “Christmas and Easter Traditions and Customs” – a multicultural project about Romanian customs and all other kinds of ethnic groups. It contains two main activities, a festival of dances, carols and customs from around Dobrogea District and an art exhibition of children’s works.  
                Most of the teachers involved are specialised in teaching to both pre-primary and primary students and a few of them have worked in both orders of school. They are graduated from Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (English, French), Department of Special Education and Masters in Educational Management and Therapies and compensation in speech disorders. It is a team of enthusiastic teachers with foreign language and technological experience. There is also one methodologist in the field of pre-primary education and expert teacher trainer (interactive and participatory teaching/ learning methods suitable for preschoolers).