Tikkurilan päiväkoti

The ultimate goal of this cooperation is to build a string basis for the relationship between a child's parents and the early childhood education personnel.

The city of Vantaa has a day care place guarantee that entitles the child to return to the same day care place after a temporary termination of day care.

The Day-care Centres on the Move programme helps day-care centres ensure that their children have enough opportunities to be physically active every day.

From a child's point of view, it is important to recognize the need for support early and provide the child with a learning environment that supports her/his development and learning, and any other needs.

Our development work strives to strengthen, create and establish pedagogic operational methods, find ways of working together with other operators and develop the services in a way that allows them to meet the local residents' needs even better than before.

Early childhood education and care plan is a curriculum guiding the education of pre-primary school age children, which is based on the early childhood education act and degrees. An early childhood education plan will be compiled for each child attending day care or family day care, working together...

Early childhood education's objective is to support a child's growth, development and learning and promote their wellbeing.

English-enriched pre-primary education helps create natural opportunities for children to gain interest in languages and encountering different cultures through the daily life of pre-primary education.

Evening and round-the-clock care is organised for families who need care for the children also in the evening/overnight due to the work or evening studies of one or both parents.

Starting school is a significant event for the child, the guardians, and the school personnel. In school, the child will be working with different adults than in pre-primary education, and in order to maintain the continuum of development and learning support, cooperation between the family, pre...

In Vantaa, the objective of language, culture and belief awareness in early childhood education and care is to support the development of each child's linguistic, cultural and religious or ethical background and to guide the children to appreciate and respect the different languages, cultures...

The purpose of day care or pre-primary school meals is to provide children with nutritious and tasty food that meets the nutrition recommendations. A meal is served every day the child attends day care or pre-primary education.

Instruction preparing for basic education is arranged for those children with immigrant backgrounds whose Finnish-language proficiency is not sufficient for studying in a pre-primary education group.

If the distance to a school is over three (3) kilometers in length or if for some reason the way to school is too difficult, exhausting or dangerous for the child, children (during their pre-school education) have the right for a free school transportation or to be given support that is enough to...

Vantaa was part of a national two-year pre-primary education trial, where some children started pre-primary education at the age of 5.