This school was founded in 1903. It is located in a
old building.
It attends children between 12 months and 6 years old, although currently
(this year) they do not have any pre-scholar children (in Finland,
amongst 6 and 7 years old), because they were expecting a change
of location (a new school in the same neighbourhood).
At present the children are grouped following this criteria: from 1 to
3 and from 4 to 6 years old. In comparison to other centers which
we visited, in this one there are children from different cultures,
a child from Magrib, a somali and a south american child. They are
considered as children with language difficulties, and because of
this the ratio is reduced.
From the explanations we received and from the center’s spaces,
we had the impression that they organized the activities and the
learnings by means of the arts activities and music.
The educational approach as per the relation family-school, as well as
its running, was the same as we saw in other centers.
It is important to emphasize that, because of the building’s structure,
this school did not have a garden. The children went out to a neighbourhood’s
square, which they used as an open and leisure space. We felt that
this distortioned the school’s rhythm and dynamics: all of
them went outside together, they couldn’t freely alternate
the spaces, the children and the professionals showed more irritability.
We suppose that there will be other colleagues who maybe will be able
to expand this chronicle and
contribute to it with other aspects and observations.
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