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Our School

Vesilahti is located approximately 38 km south-west of the city of Tampere. Our school is a  secondary school (the upper level of Finnish comprehensive school, grades 7- 9). The pupils are aged between 13 and 15 years.

Enrolment for the current school year (2009-2010) is 179 pupils. Pupils attending our school come from all areas of the municipality. The teaching staff consists of the headmaster and 19 teachers. The headmaster, Mr. Pietilä, is the head of all educational institutions in Vesilahti.

The staff also includes an assistant teacher, a secretary, a school welfare officer, a school nurse and cleaning staff. In addition to this there are two kitchen workers since the pupils are offered a warm lunch every day.

The enlargement of the school building

Our school was founded in 1992 and since then the number of pupils has continuously increased. Since the increase in enrolment and the shortage of classrooms, the enlargement of school building was planned and agreed on. After careful planning construction work got started in 2008. During the school year  we were pleased to see that the construction work progressed on schedule.

The first finished rooms were the new kitchen and the dining hall in the spring term 2009. Especially the completion of  the dining hall was eagerly awaited. In the beginning of the new school year in August 2009 the construction project, including altogether 14 classrooms as well as offices for school nurse, school welfare officer and pupil counsellor, was finished. The whole process of building was carried out in a year.

The classrooms in the old part of the building were also renovated and equipped with new AV technology. Now there is a computer, a data projector and a document camera in every classroom. One of the classrooms is equipped even with a Smart board. In addition to ordinary computer lab, we now have a portable lap top trolley as well.

Worth knowing: all our classrooms and other rooms are named after towns and cities around the world. You find the headmaster working in ”New York”, Swedish is taught in ”Stockholm”, French classroom is called “Paris” etc. When you come for a visit, we’ll meet you in ”Las Palmas”! (That’s our teachers’ room)

Charity

There is a long tradition in Finnish schools to spend one day in a school year raising money for charity.  Pupils who choose to participate go out into the community to do odd jobs such as yard work, office work, or housework. The money that pupils earn from this day of work goes to charity.