Pre-primary education, services

Children in Finland spend a year in pre-primary education before starting comprehensive education in school. A day in pre-primary education is...

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...

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

The operations of English-speaking pre-primary education are designed in a way that combines the bilingual pre-primary education so that both...

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

Pre-primary education supports a child’s learning, participation, development, and growth. During the pre-primary year, children play, move,...

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...