Vartiokujan 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...

Client fees of early childhood education and care are based on the Act on Client Fees in Early Childhood Education and Care. The fee is based on the size and gross income of the family as well as the amount of early childhood education and care needed. The client fees will be calculated as...

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

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.

Pre-school education starts one year before a child starts going to school. Pre-school education is four hours a day and it's run during the working hours of schools. There is free pre-school education in Vantaa that is being given in all municipal and private day cares and in few other schools.

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 5 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 help...

Vantaa is taking part in a national trial for a two-year pre-primary education, where some children start in pre-primary education when they are five years old.