Trip to Helsinki 26.2

We went to Helsinki with our class for the Taidetestaajat project on 26th of February. The whole trip was from 6 am to 10 pm but we were in Helsinki from 9am to 7pm. When we arrived in Helsinki we had lunch at Unicafe after that we had free time for about 2 hours. At 2 pm we went to Kiasma ( a museum of contemporary art ). After visiting Kiasma we went to eat at MacDonald's. At around 5 pm we headed back to the airport.

 

In the workshop we had to make art from the materials that the guide gave us

                                                    a picture from Helsinki airport                                                             
                                               

an artwork made by Hrafnhildur Arnadóttir

                                                           Helsinki airport railway station  

The whole school reads day on April 9, 2019

 Today we had the whole school reads day, in other words, everyone reads     a book for an hour.  

Everyone brought their own book or borrowed a book from their teachers. 

The vice chairman of our school's schoolboard held a morning assembly, where she told about Mikael Agricola and the importance of reading.

Shrovetide in Finland

Shrovetide was celebrated on March 3rd, 2019. In  Finland people eat Shrove buns.
Shrove Tuesday is not a public holiday,  so you’ still have lectures! 

 The Shrove Tuesday bun, or ‘ laskiaispulla‘ in Finnish, is a special type of bun made just for this occasion by filling a traditional Finnish bun with whipped cream and either raspberry jam or almond paste. Both types of filling have their  supporters. We recommend you to try both, and decide for yourself!

Laskiainen - reseptikokoelma

Skiing trip to Iso-Syöte 12.3.

Hey ! 12th of March we went skiing to Iso-Syöte. If you did not like skiing, you could stay at school.
The bus left early in the morning and everyone was tired but excited. We do this trip almost every year and it is fun. We slept, talked, listened music and ate packed lunch. The ride lasted 2-3 hours and about 10 o`clock we were there. The weather was better than last year: Sun shone and there was a few degrees frost.
 First we went to take tickets and if you needed to rent something, you did that. Everyone had so much fun and the teachers too ! (hopefully)
We ate sausages and pizza what we got from school and it tasted good because everything tastes good in outside. There was restaurant, too where you could buy hamburgers for example.

About 5pm we had to leave and return our skiing gear. Everybody was snowy and somebody was cold. We left home and three hours went fast. The day was really fun and I hope next year we go again ! <3

- Kaisa, Iiris & Maisa

Greetings from Malta!

 

Two of our teachers attended a course called Spice up your teaching at Executive Training Institute in Malta. The course was part of the Erasmus+ project the school is participating in at the moment. This is the first time Pattanen School is taking part in this kind of a project which offers teachers a chance to broaden their teaching competence by attending courses abroad , but it certainly won’t be the last! The whole experience was very interesting and rewarding. The trainer of the course was wonderful and the tuition gave us a lot of great new ideas for teaching. Malta was a perfect location for the course. The weather was wonderful the whole week, at times maybe even a bit too hot for a Finn who’s not used to such a warm climate! Our hotel and the school were in St. Julian’s which is a busy town crowded with tourists and many construction sites as well.

St.Julian's

 

Besides studying we had a chance to do some sightseeing. On Tuesday we visited Valetta, the capital of Malta, which is the smallest capital in the EU and on Thursday it was time to visit Mdina which was the capital of Malta from antiquity to the medieval period. It’s a popular tourist attraction as about 750,000 tourists visit Mdina every year. Cars are not allowed in the narrow streets of Mdina and therefore the town is a very quiet and peaceful place to be. Due to this it is also called “the Silent City”. After roaming the noisy and touristy streets of St. Julian Mdina offered a haven of peace and tranquility.

Mdina

Mdina

Right next to St. Julian’s there is a town called Sliema which you can reach by walking along the beautiful seaside promenade with breathtaking views.

Sliema

There are also many restaurants where you can eat delicious food from traditional Maltese and Mediterranean dishes to e.g. Asian cuisine.

In addition to studying and sightseeing we had a chance to meet some wonderful colleagues from France, Holland, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Estonia, Italy and Finland to mention a few. It was fascinating to exchange ideas and talk about the different school systems and other differences between the countries. Hopefully this will be the beginning of fruitful collaboration in the future!


To sum it up, the combination of gaining fresh ideas for teaching, meeting new people from other countries and sharing knowledge and experiences with them is something that you cannot acquire in your daily work in your own classroom and that is why we can warmly recommend other schools to participate in Erasmus+ projects for teachers!

100th Day of School

First grade elementary school students celebrated their 100th day of school on January 17. A joyous milestone long-awaited and greeted with arts and crafts, mathematics and songs. A hundred winter bird drawings were colored and a show and tell gallery with the same theme was held. In the mathematics class, the students approached an array of numbers from 20 to 100 from multiple angles. In our song we ask: "How much is one hundred?". It is ten tens and twenty times five. It is also fifty multiplied by two and a hundred times number one."

 Class 5B gave 1A, their godchild-class, a small token for reaching their milestone.

                                               

Olympic week - Friday

Olympics get started! We listened national anthems of all those counrties in the opening ceremony. The fire came and the rings of Olympic were fire up. All classes of primary school competed in different games. Games were example Finnish baseball, basketball, throwing a ball, long jump, running, etc. Closing ceremony was wonderful. There other rewarded classes of primary school who had the best attitude in Olympic. End of this week we had fireworks. Thanks to all. It was amazing week, little rain didn't stop us!