Pre-primary education in Vantaa
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Pre-primary education starts one year before a child starts going to school. It is four hours a day and it’s during the working hours of the schools. In Vantaa, free pre-primary education that follows the city’s curriculum is available in day cares and in some schools.
Pre-primary education is mandatory. This means that a child must take part in pre-school that lasts one year, or some other for ...
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To whom and on what terms
Pre-primary education is mainly for children who will turn six on that particular calendar year.
Background information
Pre-primary education is free teaching that children receive in a day-care centre or school in the year before compulsory education. Pre-primary education is also organised in private early childhood education and care.
Children in the pre-primary education age, or 6 years, participate in pre-primary education. 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.
If a pupil in pre-primary education needs support, they have the right to the assistance services and aids they need.
Under the Basic Education Act, participation in pre-primary education is mandatory. The child’s guardian is responsible for ensuring that the child participates in pre-primary education or other activities that meet the objectives for pre-primary education the year preceding the start of their compulsory education.