Ojapuiston koulu (temporary school location at Sanomala)

Assessment is a whole that consists of more than giving grades and reports. Providing constructive and guiding feedback helps pupils understand about their own learning and identify their strengths.

Disabled and special needs students will receive the interpretive and assistance services they need for their schooling free of charge.

In grades 7 through 9, pupils study common and optional subjects in line with the national distribution of lesson hours.

The nine-year Finnish comprehensive school provides general basic education. All children at the age of seven living in Finland must go to school or otherwise complete the comprehensive school curriculum.

The school's clubs are usually arranged after the school day on the school premises or on nearby premises. The clubs are free of charge and voluntary.

Children living permanently in Finland are required to attend school. Compulsory education begins at the beginning of the school year in the year in which the child turns seven. Compulsory education will end when a young person has their 18th birthday, or when they have completed an upper secondary...

Guidance counselling supports students to make decisions and choices related to their daily life, studies, future education and future based on their own capabilities, values, backgrounds and interests.

In Vantaa, the support needed by a student is primarily organized at the student's local school with various flexible arrangements.

Either religion or ethics are taught in basic education. A student can also receive teaching in their own religion in primary and lower secondary schools in Vantaa.

School transportation is primarily arranged by public modes of transport, in which case the student receives a free-of-charge schoolchild's travel card. The travelcard can be downloaded at Vantaa Infos. In exceptional cases, however, taxi transportation can be arranged, if it is not possible for the...

The aim of the Schools on the Move programme is to promote a culture of physical activity in basic education and support the expertise and well-being of school personnel.

Teaching of Finnish as a second language (S2) is available to students who do not have native-level Finnish language skills.

Vantaa provides teaching of a student's own native tongue, home language and maintained language for two hours per week.

Working life-oriented basic education familiarises students with working life already during their basic education! The studies of working-life oriented basic education alternate on-the-job training periods at workplaces with teaching at school.