Koivukylän koulu

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.

Club activities are arranged for school students in Vantaa in connection to their school days.

In the future, young people ending basic education are obliged to apply for upper secondary education in the joint application.

Day activities for children with intellectual disabilities are offered at all schools providing education for disabled children.

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.

The purpose of school meals is to provide the students with nutritious and tasty food that meets the nutrition recommendations. A school meal is served every day, and it is free of charge.

Students in basic education can get a free-of-charge schoolchildren's travel card, if the travel between home and the local school exceeds five kilometers. Students needing special support are entitled to the school transportation benefit in grades 1-6, if the travel between home and the local...

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.

Due to the student's intellectual disability or autism, their teaching will be held in city-level special support groups.

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.

Workshop operations are intended for young people about to end their basic education for whom the systematic support of their own school and network has not been sufficient, who have accumulated various difficulties and who face the threat of social exclusion.

Vantaa's schools employ youth workers who act as safe adults in everyday school life. The aim of the service is to support the overall well-being and learning of young people.