Esittely koulusta koulussa

Our schoolKuokkalan koulu

My school year

We have four periods at one school year.Our school starts in August and it ends in the

beginning of June.We have two and half months summer holiday I have about six lessons a day. One lesson is

45 minutes long. I have art, Finnish, maths, English, History,

Swedish, PE, health science, home economics, student councellor, Biology and geography,

handcraft, physics and chemistry, RE and music.

Art & Handcraft

Two hours art and three hours handcraft a week.

At seventh grade you can choose if you want study art and handcraft at 8. and 9. grade.

Art and handcraft

History & guidance counselor's lesson

History we study Northern countries and Finlands history

Guidance counsellor tells us about high schools and working life.

Finnish language and maths

Three hours a week of both.

We read books, we do mindmaps, we study writing and reading.

At maths we just studied primenumbers.

Maths 1

Home economics

We study cleaning, cooking, washing laundry and dishes and healthy eating.

Last week we cooked potatoes and meat sauce, vegetable salad and berry dessert.

Home economics 1

Home economics 2

Biology & Geography and Health Science

Half year of biology and half year geography. Biology we have lakes and insects

Health science we study human's body, PE. We also study human's psychology

Swedish

Finland has two official languages; Finnish and Swedish

At 7th grade you start studing first steps of Swedish.

God Dag! Tack! Jag heter ...

Physics & Chemistry & ADP

Half and Half year physics and chemistry

We study elements and we do cemical tests every lesson.

You don't have to study ADP if you don't want to.

PE & Music

Two hours a week of both of them.

You can choose music and some different courses about PE for 8th and 9th grade.

English

Two hours a week We study different

words, we do exercises and we study grammar.

School cafeteria & snack recess

We have a free lunch every day.

The lunch hour is 30 minutes long.

The food is good. We always have

salad.

Snack recess is 15minutes long.

Snacks are very healty and for example a roll costs 80cent (about 1dollar)

Fruits, juice, hot chocolate, rolls, yoghurt.

Lunch at cafeteria

Snack recess