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2020-02-19
The joint application period to vocational and general upper secondary education taught in Finnish or Swedish will be open from 18 February at 8:00 until 10 March at 15:00.
2020-02-14
The online application for early childhood education is not available from 14 February to 9 March. If your child needs a place in early childhood education from August 2020 onwards, please do not submit your application until 10 March 2020.
2020-02-04
The City Board of Espoo today confirmed Espoo’s participation in the Finnish Municipality Experiment on Employment to be carried out in 2020–2022, in which municipalities will assume broader responsibility for organising employment services.
2020-01-31
The upper secondary schools in Espoo celebrate "penkkarit" on Thursday 13th February and the traditional Seniors' Ball is arranged on Friday 14th February.
2020-01-29
If you will need early childhood education for your child starting from August 2020, please submit your application starting from 10 March 2020.
2020-01-27
The City of Espoo is one of the main cooperation partners of the Association of Friends of the University Children's Hospitals in 2020. In addition to the Elämä Lapselle charity concert to be held at Espoo Metro Areena in September, there will be numerous #kummitila events held throughout the city over the year.
2020-01-10
Espoo has 10 Finnish-speaking day-time general upper secondary schools. All of them offer the general line/programme. In addition, the schools have different weighed-curriculum options, lines and educational specialisation tasks. Two of schools host a separate IB-programme. The IB programme is studied in English. Open doors and information evenings for applicants are held in January. Welcome...
The assessment of learning outcomes, conducted by the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre (FINEEC), produced mainly positive results with regard to Espoo schools. The learning outcomes in Espoo comprehensive schools and upper secondary schools were once again better than the national average.
The City of Espoo has sent a new pupils’ letter to all guardians of children born in 2013. The letter contains instructions and a unique code for registering the child for first grade. If you have not received the letter, please contact the Finnish Education unit as instructed below.
2019-12-22
Pupils at Espoo International School became enthusiastic about reducing food wastage with a Wall of Fame rally. Pupils are keen to compete on which class can produce the least amount of food waste.
2019-12-19
In Espoo general upper secondary schools and comprehensive schools end autumn term on Friday 20th of December. Spring term begins on Tuesday 7th January 2020.
2019-12-16
Enrolling in pre-primary and in the 1st grade of comprehensive school education takes place between 8th and 20th January 2020. Enrolling in the 7th grade of comprehensive school is between 8th and 16th January 2020.
2019-11-26
Hösmärinpuisto School is going international at home with a multicultural day and a language of a month. 60% of the pupils speak a language other than Finnish as their mother tongue.
School year 2020-2021 begins in general upper secondary schools and Finnish speaking comprehensive schools on 13th of August. Swedish-speaking comprehensive schools start back up on 18th of August.
2019-11-25
Applying for the 7th grade of comprehensive school takes place through the electronic Wilma-service between 8 and 16 January 2020. More information about applying on espoo.fi/schooladmissions.
2019-11-22
The Transport Workers’ Union AKT has announced its intention to go on a sympathy strike on Monday, 25 November, to support the postal workers’ strike. If the AKT sympathy strike begins, the majority of HSL buses will not run in the capital region. The City of Espoo will not organise school transport for pupils affected by the planned bus strike.
2019-11-20
We ask you to fill in this short survey and assess your satisfaction with the early childhood education provided by the City of Espoo’s Finnish early childhood education providers.
2019-11-12
The Culture Calls instrument package brought a refreshing program to the Viherkallio kindergarten’s staff and children got to know different musical instruments and they created a great musical performance.
2019-11-11
This autumn, students from Espoo’s upper secondary schools have familiarised themselves with international communications on the Global Communications course. The students have, for example, visited the United States Embassy in Helsinki and the gaming company Supercell and heard top experts’ fascinating presentations about intercultural communication and the transformation of diplomacy.
2019-11-05
During this school year, the children and staff from the City of Espoo day care centres get to participate in interesting cultural experiences as part of Culture Call. Culture Call is a new service that brings cultural professionals to day care centres to perform and to hold workshops. The children at the Vindängen day care centre immersed themselves in the world of theatre and improvisation und...