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Weighted-curriculum education in music for 3rd-9th grades

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.

Introduction

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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. Music-weighted education can be implemented in a classroom-based or distributed manner. Vantaa has music classes in several schools around the city.

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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 17th of November to the 5th of December 2025. 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 6th of February 2026. This decision will be published in Wilma on 26 March 2026.

Forms

Enrollment in musicality test for weighted-curriculum education in music (531139e)(pdf, 116.76 KB)

Vantaa Music Institute

Information in other languages

Shqip, Soomaali, Русский, Eesti, عربية

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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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