YOUR SCHOOL
At Your School, we believe in fostering a healthy and positive mindset in each child. We focus on developing social-emotional skills by encouraging exploratory learning and play. We offer autonomy to each child and as teachers, we act as guides to facilitate their learning.
We believe in the power of children and draw inspiration from their creativity and innovations. We are committed to putting our students at the center of their learning by providing dynamic and engaging projects that meet their specific needs.
The curriculum at Your School is based on the Finnish national guidelines for early childhood education and care along with the Espoo city guidelines for early childhood education.
This model has 4 guiding principles:
Each child is unique
Children thrive in positive relationships
Children learn best in enabling environments
Children learn in different ways and at different rates
Furthermore, there are 5 transversal competence areas that shape the educational programs at Your School. All areas are important and inter-connected.
Transversal competence areas:
Thinking and learning
Cultural competence, interaction and expression
Looking after one self & every day skills
Multi literacy skills & ICT skills
Participation & influencing
We support children in five learning areas, through which the transversal competence is strengthened and applied and provide the children with a strong introduction to the academic curriculum they will meet later in their school years.
Learning areas:
Rich world of languages
Many ways of expression
Our community and me
I explore and act in my environment
I grow, develop and move
To summarize, following three areas are particularly crucial for igniting children’s curiosity and enthusiasm for learning and for building their capacity to learn, to form relationships.
Personal, Social and Emotional Development
Physical Development
Communication and Language