SUOMI - FINLAND

We live in Finland

Population:5406018

Capital:Helsinki

Official languages:

Finnish and Swedish

Suomen luonto

• Finnish nature is beautiful and diverse as Finland, there are trees and lakes, and manyanimals. In Finland you can pick berries and mushrooms. FINLAND HAS CLEAN AIR!

Autumn Colours

Finnish Summer Cottage

Finnish Nature in Winter

NOKIA and FINNAIR

• Nokia is a Finnish company of mobilephones. Nokia was sold to Microsoft this autumn.

• Finnair is a Finnish airline

MOOMIES-MUUMIT

• Moomies are created by Tove Jansson, a Finland-Swedish author and artist. One of the most famous character is Muumipeikko (Moomintroll) who lives careless and happy with his moomie family.

SALMIAKKI

• Mainly we finns eat and love salmiakki, typical Finnish candy. Perhaps someGermans, too?

RYE BREAD-RUISLEIPÄ

• Rye bread is healthy Finnish delicacy.

ANGRY BIRDS

• Is a popular video game created by a Finnish company called Rovio Mobile.

Santa Claus-Joulupukki

Santa Claus lives in Lapland in Korvatunturi. It is a mountain in Lapland. The Santa Claus village is in the city of Rovaniemi. Santa Claus travels by Rudolf the Red Nosereindeer. Santa and his elves bring presents for children on Christmas Eve.

The City of Järvenpää

The Sign of Järvenpää

There are Järvenpää

about is situated

40 000 people in

Järvenpää.

NearHelsinki

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

• Sibelius is the most famous Finnish composer

• His most famous compositions are his SevenSymphonies and the Hymn of Finlandia.

• Ainola was Sibelius’s and his wife’s, Aino’s, home.

• Nowadays Ainola is a home museum.

• Sibelius is buried in his garden.

Our School

STUDENTS` UNION

- Students ´ union has two representatives fromeach class.

- Representatives are voted in school election.

- In students` union they plan events and aboutbuying new things.

- At the moment there are 10 pupils in students´ union. (max 12 pupils)

Our Class 4• Our class is nice and we are fair to each other.• The only minus is that we have to study too

much!We have desks instead of tables. Every pupil has hisor her own desk. In the desk pupils store ownrubbers, pencils, exercise books, notebooks and reader books. All pupils have free rubbers, pencils, exercise books, notebooks, readerbooks and rulers. Wooden desks are practical.Our class has 23 pupils. Our teacher is called Paula Kankaanpää. She is also the head of the school. Wecall our teachers by their first names.

THE SCHOOL SUBJECTS

• Finnish, maths, science, English, PE, Music, art, crafts, RE or ethics.

Crafts technical workP.E Hall

Crafts textile work

Library Some tools Special needs teacher’s class

Oinaskatu school

• the number of students is 169

• classes 1-6

• the number of teachers 10

• The other staff: two school assistants, an afternoon club supervisor, a school secretary, a school nurse(1 day in a week), a schoolwelfare officer, a school psychologist, a schoolcaretaker, a school cook and a school cleaner

School Nurse

• We even have a School nurse in our school.

What the pupils can do in a break:

• play tig

• climb in climbing fran

• stand and talk

• swing

• Sit and chat

• Play football, pody 1, 2, 3, diabolo, trick ball

• Jump twist rope

• Skip rope and scoot

In the Break

We’ve free school lunch

It is really good, even if it’s healthy!!!

Thank You For Watching!