Weighted-curriculum education in music for 3rd-9th grades
Introduction
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Weighted-curriculum education in music
Music-weighted education can be implemented in a classroom-based or distributed manner. Music teaching in a music-weighted education is provided by class teachers specialised in music in the primary school and by full-time music teachers in the lower secondary school. The teaching comprises themes such as
- singing, choral singing, practising melodies, music theory, and musical exercise
- playing instruments: school and orchestral instruments, orchestra
- listening to music, getting to know the structures and composers of music and their works.
Playing a musical instrument should be started as early as possible. The music teacher and the provider of music teaching work together to guide the students in choosing their instruments. When selecting instruments, the goal is that the chosen instruments will together become a functional unit, both from the music-weighted education and the school’s perspective. The process for selecting instruments can be started already during the spring term.
Weighted-curriculum education in music can have both class choirs and joint choirs for entire grades. Orchestras work the same way. Additionally, a choir comprising students from the school’s different grades has also been established, and in some schools there is also a similar orchestra. These groups also accept students from outside the weighted-curriculum education in music.
Additionally, concert and project-specific choirs and orchestras are possible, and students can also set up their own singing and instrumental groups if they so wish.
Application for weighted-curriculum education in music must be submitted via Wilma during the 2nd grade
Students applying for weighted-curriculum education in music must take part in a test measuring their musicality. All applicants will be tested. Students must be registered to take the test via Wilma from the 16th of November to the 4th of December 2026. The application form can also be filled by paper and sent to the school in which the place is applied for. The student will be invited to the musicality test. The principal of school offering weighted-curriculum education in music will decide which students are accepted by the 5th of February 2027. This decision will be published in Wilma on 25 March 2027.
The following principles are followed in pupil admission to music classes:
- Children living in Vantaa are the primary target of pupil admission. To qualify for this, the children must have their home address found in the Population Register Centre in Vantaa on the day of applying.
- Pupils are selected based on musicality tests. Pupils are selected based on a ranking score. In case there are not enough places for pupils with the same scores, lots are drawn.
- For weighted-curriculum education in music the minimum starting requirement is 18 pupils, and the maximum size is 25 pupils. The head of basic education can decide on a lower requirement on reasonable grounds.
- It is also possible to apply for weighted-curriculum education in musics in sixth grade for grades 7-9. If there are free slots, pupils are selected based on musicality tests. Organising these tests is the responsibility of the school for which the pupil applies.
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It is possible to apply for a place in weighted-curriculum education in music also for the 7th–9th grades, as long as the student has the knowledge and skills needed for studying on weighted-curriculum and if the group has room for new students. The teaching is applied for with the form Enrollment in musicality test for weighted-curriculum education in music. Form must be filled in and delivered to that school where student is applying no later than October 9, 2026. The school for which the student is applying is in charge of carrying out the tests.
Students are selected for the free places based on tests measuring their musicality. Principals of schools which offer weighted-curriculum education will make decisions on students admitted to weighted-curriculum education by November 5, 2026. The decisions are published on the students’ Wilma on January 21, 2027.
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Forms
Vantaa Music Institute
The Vantaa Music Institute offers high-quality teaching lead by trained, professional teachers. The studies include individual teaching, playing together and music theory subjects. Teaching mostly takes place in the music institutes premises or at the student’s own school. The teaching is subject to a charge. The teaching is subject to a charge.
Applying to basic music studies on April 1.-30.4. at vmo.eepos.fi
More information at www.vmo.fi
Find your own instrument!
At the Soiva Talo events in April the Vantaa Music Institute teachers will guide you to experiment with different instruments and help choosing your own instrument.
Location and timetable: www.vmo.fi.
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Wilma application
Wilma is an electronic service which is a communication tool used between the schools and home. In Vantaa, Wilma is used both in basic education and high schools.
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