Basic education’s curriculum and allocation of courses
The curriculum dictates schools’ instruction, learning, and activities. The curriculum specifies the different subjects’ educational goals, essential content, as well as grounds for assessment.
Vantaan OPS -sivusto (Vantaa's curriculum website)
You will find more information on Vantaa’s curricula on Vantaan OPS website (in Finnish). In the website, you will find information for example on the curricula of teaching different subjects in Vantaa.
Vantaa basic education’s curriculum has three levels
Level 1
The Finnish National Board of Education decides on the goals of instruction and on the essential content by ratifying the grounds for the national curriculum (in Finnish).
Level 2
Vantaa's Finnish-language basic education curriculum (in Finnish) has been devised on the basis of the national curriculum. All of Vantaa’s Finnish-language elementary schools apply Vantaa’s curriculum. The curriculum consists of the goals, content, and assessment criteria of instruction in all of Vantaa’s elementary schools.
In addition to Vantaa’s curriculum for all schools, Vantaa's basic education has a separate:
- Vantaa’s curriculum for Swedish-language immersion (in Finnish), which includes the goals and content of instruction in Swedish-language immersion classes.
- The curriculum for Vantaa’s Kaivoksela and Rekolanmäki schools’ English-language classes (in Finnish) includes the goals and content of instruction in the classes in question.
- The International School of Vantaa has a curriculum (in Finnish) of its own; it consists of the goals and content of instruction in the International School of Vantaa.
Level 3
- In addition, all of Vantaa’s Finnish-language basic education schools have a curriculum of their own, which supplements Vantaa schools’ joint curriculum. The schools’ own curricula do not specify the goals and content of instruction because they are the same for all of Vantaa’s Finnish-language elementary schools and can be browsed in Vantaa's Finnish-language basic education curriculum.
You can familiarize yourself with the schools’ own curricula here.(in Finnish)
Allocation of courses
Compliant with the Basic Education Act, instruction is given in specific subjects. The act also specifies the allocation of courses; in other words, how many lessons per week each subject is studied in each grade.
Vantaa's Finnish-language basic education has five allocations of courses.
Preparatory instruction curriculum
Preparatory instruction curriculum dictates instruction in preparatory instruction. (in Finnish)