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Reasons behind results Visit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu is situated in the northern part of Helsinki close to the airport. The neighbourhood consists of wooden family houses. The school is build in 1999 and is now in it’s fifth year. The shape is oval and the overall idea is to ask for coexsistence by the use of transparent walls and open areas. The school square (The Agora) where the school dinner takes place is also an important element. The transparency is the main idea in the building and in this school in general. www.ankermikkelsen.dk

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu is situated in the northern part of Helsinki close to the airport. The neighbourhood consists of wooden family houses.The school is build in 1999 and is now in it’s fifth year. The shape is oval and the overall idea is to ask for coexsistence by the use of transparent walls and open areas. The school square (The Agora) where the school dinner takes place is also an important element.The transparency is the main idea in the building and in this school in general.

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

Situations from the neighborhood

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

From the school presentation

• The school is a single unit that contains both the lower and upper levels of the comprehensive school

• Learning is a process; learning is acquiring and developing various skills

• The AGORA is the central square, which is the centre of the building. Lunch room, library and assembly hall

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

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The Agora

Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

• In the finnish schools everybody has a hot meal at noon. It might be one of the reasons why the pupils do so well in the Pisa tests.

• Food is important to the learning process

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

Meet the staf

Headmaster Osmo korhonen

and

Deputy Principal

Karoliina Koivujuuri

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

The pupils tell about their school as a place with a great deal of flexibility and enjoyable lessons. The pupils love their school and they talk about their teachers with great respect and do see them as friends.

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

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Situations from the classroom. The engagement is great.

Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

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Transparency - the overall idea of this school.

Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

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Reasons behind resultsVisit at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

Learning process

Eight important features in the learning process at Torpparinmäen Peruskoulu

Social skills

Learning skills

Creativity Ethical skills

Communicationskills

Skills of healthy life

Craftskills

Thinkingskills

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