Sotungin koulu
- Address
Sotungintie 19
01200 Vantaa
Finland- Postal address
- P.O. Box 8511, 01030 City of Vantaa
Contacts
Introduction
Contact and opening hours
- Address
Sotungintie 19
01200 Vantaa
Finland- Postal address
- P.O. Box 8511, 01030 City of Vantaa
Services
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 1 through 6, pupils have their own class teacher who teaches them most of the subjects.
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.
Club activities are arranged for school students in Vantaa in connection to their school days.
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...
Flexible basic education allows for studying alternatingly at school and in a workplace. The studies also include excursions, visits to educational institutes, and school camps. A youth counsellor also works in the class with the teacher. The groups have ten students.
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 that a pupil requires is primarily organised by different flexible means in their local school.
Preparatory teaching is provided for children and young people who are not proficient enough in Finnish language to study in a group taught in Finnish.
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.
A school meal is served every day, and it is free of charge.
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.
Urhea activities in Vantaa lower secondary schools and Sotunki Upper Secondary School support the coordination of schooling and athletics of children and young people that take part in goal-oriented athletic operations.
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.
Accessibility
The route to the main entrance
- The pick-up and drop-off area is located in the vicinity of the entrance, giving easy access to the pavement.
- The route to the entrance is guided, smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated and it uses movement-guiding surface material.
The entrance "alternative entrance"
- The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated. There is a canopy above the entrance.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens easily manually.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
In the facility
- The customer service point has three floors.
- For moving around, there is a lift, which can hold a wheelchair; the door is heavy. The floor numbers in the lift can be felt with fingers. The button for the exit floor stands out from the other buttons. (The minimum dimensions for an accessible lift are width 1.1 m and depth 1.4 m.)
- The facility has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The doors in the facility stand out clearly.
- The facility has a toilet marked as accessible on the entrance floor. One or both sides of the toilet seat lack a support rail.
- Address
Sotungintie 19
01200 Vantaa
Finland- Postal address
- P.O. Box 8511, 01030 City of Vantaa