The document describes a school located in Lempäälä, Finland. Lempäälä is a small town located 5 km from Tampere and 65 km from Hämeenlinna. The school has around 800 students between ages 6-16 across several buildings surrounded by a yard. Students enjoy the integrated learning, extracurricular activities, friendly atmosphere, and proximity to nature. They feel the school and teachers take good care of all students.

1. Finland
Lempäälä
Where is Lempäälä?
What does Lempäälä look like?
Our school environment
Our school
We live near the nature
What do we think about our school?

2. Lempäälä:
5 km to Tampere and 65 km to Hämeenlinna

3. Finland is a country of many forests and thousands of lakes.

5. The center of Lempäälä has only a few shops, an upper secondary school, a
vocational school, buildings of administration and a church – Saint Birgitta´s
church with a cemetary.

6. The highway through Lempäälä to Tampere and Hämeenlinna

7. Early spring nearby the center of Lempäälä

8. A park in the center of Lempäälä

9. The biggest shopping center of Northern countries, Ideapark, inLempäälä.

10. Our school has many buildings and this one is a part of the eldest.

11. This is the preschool building in the schoolyard.

12. The main entrance is on the left, the high school classes on the right.

13. Just a detail from one part of our yard

14. This is on our back yard, just five minutes from the school.

15. Our school
 We have around 800 pupils in our school.
 We are between 6 and16 years.
 There are several buildings around the yard.
 We have over 50 teachers and almost 20 school assistants in the
classes.
 Every pupil is involved in everything in the school activities.
 We have 21 pupils in our class and there are four pre-primary
classes.
 We learn many subjects integrated.

19. What we think about our school?
 We have a lot to do – we can bake, play outdoors or indoors, we
have maths, music, sports, handicrafts, tasks in Finnish etc.
 We love to have lots of friends.
 Everybody is friendly to each other and nobody is bullied.
 We have nice children, teachers and adults.
 It´s nice that adults take care and like all the children and vice
versa.
 It´s nice that we learn English and other languages.
 The food is good.

20. What we think about our school
 It´s fun to play football on the yard.
 We get many new friends here at school.
 We can learn many kind of new things at school.
 I like this school because the rules are good.
 It´s nice to do the work.
 It´s nice that we have good atmosphere here.
 It´s great fun that we can make trips.
 We get many visitors, for example from other countries.

21. What we think about our school
 We are glad to have got new friends from other countries.
 We like to get older pupils to practice in our class.
 We disapprove bullying in our whole school.
 It´s nice that we have sports.
 We can get acquainted with other countries.
 We have many great happenings during the schoolyear.
 The parents highly appreciate our school.

22. Our class – Eagle Owl Forest