News from the Catholic School of Helsinki and more detailed information about its opening have been awaited throughout the winter. Now, as spring approaches, there is a great deal of enthusiasm and hope in the air. The school’s project manager Mervi Sarimo says that when the new school year begins in August, the doors of the Catholic school in Lauttasaari will finally open as well.
According to Sarimo, enough pupils have already enrolled for the school to begin operating, although there is still room for more. Enrolment therefore remains open. The essential point is that almost everything is already ready, even though the school facilities will still be finalized during the spring and summer. A qualified and enthusiastic teacher, class teacher Anna-Mária Lahdelma, who is still working in Hämeenlinna this spring, is ready to begin, and the lunch arrangements have also already been agreed upon. “The atmosphere can already truly be described as one of positive and expectant anticipation,” Sarimo adds.
The Catholic School of Helsinki will begin its activity as a foundation-based private home school, but from the very beginning it will follow both the national and the local curricula as well as the normal practices of schools. Its goal is also to obtain recognition as a private school as soon as possible. The school is free of charge for pupils and the language of instruction is Finnish.
Marko Tervaportti
The school’s next open house events will be held on Saturday 28 March and 9 May at 11 a.m. at Myllykallionrinne 1, Lauttasaari. More information can be found on the school’s website koulu.katolinen.fi.