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NIITTYAHO SCHOOLNIITTYAHO SCHOOLMuurameMuurameFinlandFinland
• Comprehensive school• Classes 1-6• 52 pupils (age 7-12)• 3 teachers, 2 school assistants , cook and a
cleaning lady• English Teacher and Special Education Teacher
visit twice a week• 10 pre-school pupils and eight children in after
school activities• Pre-school begins at age 6 • In Finland compulsory education starts at age 7• Our school is located 5 km from the centre of
Muurame• There are 9000 inhabitants in Muurame• In Muurame there are 3 small comprehensive
schools and one big school (700 pupils)
Our school looks like this.
Staff room
• Niittyaho school has been involved in a Comenius project once before. Our partners at the time were from Italy, Greece, Poland and Bulgaria
• Our school has worked together with Jyväskylä University Teacher Education Department for more than ten years organizing camp schools in the Lofoten Islands in Norway. Groups from Kiruna (Sweden) and Norway have also taken part in the camp schools that are run by student teachers as part of their studies. The pupils from Kiruna have visited Muurame the following year.
Our new gym.
Pupils having an English lesson
Pre-school
Santa’s little helpers.
Gingerbread church
Margit’s favourite pupils
A lake in the fall.
Little bakers near Christmas.
Downhill skiiers in Riihivuori (2007).
Pupils making pizza and salad.