Pre-primary education and schooling, services

Student welfare services aim to render school a safe and pleasant experience for pupils, who should receive necessary guidance and support when...

Pupils in basic education have the right to receive guidance counselling.

The goal in student counselling is to promote the pupils’ holistic welfare and the progress of their studies.

In student guidance counselling you get support in planning your future and further studies. Counselling is given to every student in basic education.

Some schools in Helsinki give bilingual instruction (kaksikielinen opetus). In that case, the instruction takes place in Finnish and another language.

Vantaa provides teaching of a student’s own native tongue, home language and maintained language for two hours per week.

In grades 7 through 9, pupils study common and optional subjects in line with the national distribution of lesson hours.

Flexible basic education allows for studying alternatingly at school and in a workplace. The studies also include excursions, visits to...

Students starting the upper grades of comprehensive school attend health examinations together with their parents or guardians.

In flexible comprehensive education (JOPO), student learns both at school and at workplaces. On-the-job learning is an important part of the...