We offer all our students the possibility to study bilingually. At the same time though we take into account the preparation for the Finnish matriculation examination.
We have a lot of students and teachers coming from different cultures and together creating a multilingual community. Our common languages used in everyday school life, school occasions and celebrations are Finnish and English.
Different courses are studied according the following table:
General Stream | Society and Economics Stream | Science and Technology Stream | English stream | |
Compulsory | f | f | f | ef |
National specialization courses | fe/ef | fe/ef | fe/ef | fe/ef |
School based specialization courses | fe/ef/e | fe/ef/e | fe/ef/e | fe/ef/e |
Abi courses | f | f |
Bilingualism in different courses:
f (in Finnish)
fe (80 % in Finnish / 20 % in English)
ef (33 % in Finnish / 33 % free choice / 33 % in English)
e (in English, for matriculation exams vocabulary/concepts in Finnish, too)
Exeptions:
Civics course Finnish law (Lyh4) is an f-course.
Finnish History (Lhi5) is an f-course.
Ethics compulsory courses are fe-courses if there are not enough students for two study groups. Uskonto suomalaisessa yhteiskunnassa (Lue5) /Kulttuurit katsomuksen muovaajina(Let4)-courses are f-courses.