Pre-primary education, services

Children in Finland spend a year in pre-primary education before starting basic education in school. A day in pre-primary education is 4-hour-long,...

Pre-primary education starts one year before a child starts going to school. Pre-primary education is four hours a day and it’s run during the...

Preparatory pre-primary education (valmistava esiopetus) is intended for 6-year-old children who do not yet speak Finnish well enough. Preparatory...

Starting school is a significant event for the child, the guardians, and the school personnel. In school, the child will be working with different...

English-enriched pre-primary education helps create natural opportunities for children to gain interest in languages and encountering different...

Instruction preparing for basic education is arranged for those children with immigrant backgrounds whose Finnish-language proficiency is not...

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...

Children start school the year they turn 7 years old. In some cases, for special reasons, starting school may be postponed by one year.

In addition to pre-primary education, a child of pre-primary education age is entitled to early childhood education if necessary.

Children start school the year they turn seven years old. For special reasons, school can sometimes be started one year earlier.