Pre-primary education
- Service
- Rovaniemi
- Public service
Pre-primary education is organised in accordance with the local curriculum for pre-primary education and the criteria of the national core curriculum for pre-primary education. A pre-primary learning plan is drawn up for each child.
Preschoolers are entitled to free pre-primary education in the year preceding their compulsory school attendance. Pre-primary education is organised at daycare centres ...
Do the following
1) Consider whether your child needs:
- early childhood education or pre-primary education
- family daycare
- an early childhood education club or an open daycare centre?
2) Familiarise yourself with the locations of the daycare centres, clubs, and open daycare centres. You can contact the service coordination for early childhood education to ask about the location of family daycare provider
3) Submit an application application for early childhood education / pre-primary education.
The main channel for applying for a place in early childhood education or pre-primary education is the online service for early childhood education services (www.rovaniemi.fi/varhaiskasvatus). If it is not possible for you to send an application online, you can use this form: Application for early early childhood childhood education / pre-primary education. Send this form to: Varhaiskasvatuksen palveluohjaus, PL 1009, 96101 Rovaniemi
- You do not need to register in advance for the open daycare centre’s activities.
- If your child would like to join an early childhood education club, you should contact the service coordination for early childhood education.
Background information
Children in the pre-primary education age, or 6 years, participate in pre-primary education organised by the municipality. Those 7-year-olds whose school attendance has been postponed also participate in pre-primary education. It can additionally be attended by 5-year-olds to whom a decision on extended compulsory education has been issued.
The children receive pre-primary education for four hours every morning. During this time, a lunch is served to the children.
Under the Basic Education Act, participation in pre-primary education is mandatory. A child’s guardian is responsible for ensuring that the child participates in pre-primary education or activities that meet its objectives during the school year that precedes the start of compulsory education.