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Today

“Learning together in The School of the Future”

In our school, built in 2018, the phy-
sical learning environment is open,
flexible and gives students and
teachers excellent opportunities to
modify teaching and learning. We
were able to build our school cul-
ture well before the building and
therefore we have a strong forward
looking school culture. The whole
school is as a learning environment
where digitality expands learning
beyond the school walls.

Students in our school district come from multiple and sometimes challenging back-
grounds. 35 % of our students have some special needs, e.g. learning difficulties in various
subjects. Also 20 % of our pupils are with a migrant background, both being reasonable
high percentages in Finland. Apple technology helps us to support every student in their
learning path. We aim to ensure that everyone will have strong skills and readiness for
the future. This includes also our 250 teacher trainees per year. We do not influence only
locally but we equip new teachers with a mindset that helps them to go far and beyond as
new qualified teachers around Finland, too.

We are also a member of the Future Classroom –project which evolves future classroom
environments and digital solutions in European cooperation.

Vision

With collaborative creativity to-
wards innovative future school

Our vision is to provide high quali-
ty teaching and learning for all
students to meet their individual
needs. With innovative pedagogy
and Apple technology students are
able to find their individual ways to
learn and express their learning in
various digital outcomes. Motiva-
tion increases when students are
real owners of their own learning