Polish students present their trip to Finland-Erasmus+ programe

1. OUR TRIP TO
FINLAND

2. SAUNA
• The Finns have got sauna in almost
every house. Maybe it is so because
they want to enter this hot room
when they come back from the
outside.

3. WITHOUT SHOES
• In school they don’t wear shoes, they wear just
socks, like we do in the photo. For us it was a little
too cold without shoes, so we took to school cleaner
shoes.

4. ICE-SKATING
• In our school we ride to the swimming pool.
In Finland they go ice-skating. They are really
good at it.

5. SCHOOL CANTEEN
• In this school they have got a canteen. At 12 o’clock
everyone goes there to eat lunch. There are always
some students who clean the canteen after lunch.

6. THE FINNISH CHARACTER
• When our teacher told us we were going to
Finland, we were so happy. We started
watching some videos and reading blogs
about Finnish culture. A lot of people were
telling us that the Finns are sad, mean and
pesimistic. But that's not true! Everybody was
really kind to us! Teachers were open and
friendly, host families were lovely and even an
old woman from the bus started talking to Ola
in English.

7. WEATHER
• In Finland it was rainy and not so cold, just 0
or +2 degrees. The Finnish people were very
disappointed and everybody was sorry that
we couldn’t see a real Finnish winter. They
were expecting -20 degrees and a lot of snow.

8. FAZER FACTORY
• One of the best trips in Finland was a visit to the
Fazer Factory. This is the most popular brand of
sweets in Finland. They make delicious chocolate
bars, snacks, cakes and more. In this factory they
showed us the history of Fazer company, how it
looks from the backstage. Then we went to a big
room with a lot of Fazer sweets. We were allowed
to eat as much as we could. In the end they gave
us a surprise bag: a few sweets and some
vegetable bread. That was an awesome place!

10. RECYCLING CENTER
• The recycling center was also a really good place.
There were a lot of cheap products. We could find
there furniture for home, clothes, plates, jewellery,
cups, books, toys and many vintage things. The best
thing about this place is that people don’t have to
trash useless things. They can bring them all here
and do something good for the others and for the
environment.

11. EDUCATION IN FINLAND
• Kids in Finland start education when they are 7 years old and they
finish it when they are 16. Children in classes 1-6 have all lessons
(without PE, wood arts and foreign languages) with the same
teacher and in the same classroom. They start learning English in
3rd year and they also learn Swedish. Every Monday, students and
the teacher sit in a circle and talk what was good and bad during
their weekend and what book they read last week. When they
read something in their school books, they sit in a circle again and
every student reads aloud one sentence after the other. Students
in primary school learn also cutting out of wood or burn metal
plates. They use saws, grinders and many other dangerous tools.
Students also sew at school. Children learn playing the guitar,
keyboard, drums, transverse flutes and percussion. Education in
Finland is very different from the Polish education.

12. WOOD ARTS

14. The end
Presentation made by:
Ola Lewandowska
Julka Marek
Zuzia Gamańska