Aurinkokiven koulu
- Address
Aurinkokivenkuja 1
01700 Vantaa
Finland- Postal address
- P.O. Box 2502, 01030 City of Vantaa
Contacts
Introduction
Contact and opening hours
- Address
Aurinkokivenkuja 1
01700 Vantaa
Finland- Postal address
- P.O. Box 2502, 01030 City of Vantaa
Services
Schools arrange subject to a charge before- and after-school activities for 1st-2nd grade students, as well as for students who need special support.
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...
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.
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.
Weighted-curriculum education in music starts in the third grade and continues throughout basic education even if the school changes in between. Students in weighted-curriculum are interested in music and have the prerequisites to study music.
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 over 10 accessible parking spaces are located outdoors over 10 m from the entrance. The width of the parking spaces is less than 3.6 m.
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
- The route has a ramp under 6 m long, with handrails on one side.
The main 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 and the glass doors have contrast markings. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens automatically with an opening button.
In the facility
- The customer service point has three floors.
- For moving around, there is a lift, which can hold a wheelchair; the door opens automatically. 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 a wheelchair lift.
- The doors in the facility stand out clearly. The glass doors have contrast markings.
- The facility has an accessible toilet on the entrance floor.
- There is a second accessible toilet on floor 2.
- There is a third accessible toilet on floor 0.
- Address
Aurinkokivenkuja 1
01700 Vantaa
Finland- Postal address
- P.O. Box 2502, 01030 City of Vantaa