African Star

Class 8F worked on a traditional Finnish board game called African Star. Go and learn more about the game! Finnish Games

Erasmus+ theme week: March 29th – April 1st

Coming up soon: Week 13 is to be a special week at our school with activities focusing on Europe, European languages and cultures, particularly on Spain and Spanish culture, and on the international dimension in general. The week also aims to spread information about our Erasmus+ project to a wider public. There will be different types of workshops for our students as well as for pupils from some primary schools invited to participate. Some of the workshops will be carried out by foreigners from different countries (eg foreign exchange students)  living in Joensuu. We will also invite our students’ family members to come and observe the activities.

Mölkky published!

The Mölkky-set donated to our Spanish partner school, made in Lyseo comprehensive school by our technical work teacher Mr Kari Litja

Check out our latest Youtube publication on a traditional game called Mölkky by class 8E. Special thanks to Kerttu Vähä, Roosa Balk and Santtu Räsänen who spent a lot of time and effort on editing the video! See:

Finnish Games

New updates!

Check out our latest updates on Finnish Games “CS” and “Kirkonrotta”  and a beautiful presentation on Joensuu: About Joensuu

 

First joint-staff training event completed!

Eva, Bego and Fran.

The week (23rd -27th November 2015) was a success! It was such a pleasure to finally meet our lovely partner school teachers, Eva Sanchez Serrano, Begoña Rueda Garcia and Francesco Ruiz Andreu, in person. We chatted a lot and got to know each other better, and most importantly, we learned a great deal about each other’s schools and found out about the differences between Spanish and Finnish educational systems. The way our Spanish guests commented on Finnish schools was very flattering – makes you feel proud of what we’ve got and happy that you get to be a teacher in Finland.

We also made a lot more plans for the ongoing project for spring term and for the next school year. Four teachers from Lyseo comprehensive school will travel to Fuente Alámo in April 2016 and a group of Spanish students will visit us in October 2016.

The week also offered an exceptional opportunity for me (Virpi Snabb), as the hostess to our Spanish guests, to visit other schools in Joensuu. I wish we teachers had such opportunities more often inside our own city – it was really educating and eye-opening!

Most 7th and 8th graders from our school also had a chance to meet our guests when they gave a few lessons at our school: the students took a really nice and informative quiz on Spain and they watched some video greetings sent by the students of our partner school, IES Miguel de Cervantes. YOU CAN ACCESS ALL THESE WHEN YOU VISIT THE BLOG OF OUR PARTNER SCHOOL!

Eva, Bego and Fran! Thank you for your visit, we miss you already!

Check out the photo gallery about this amazing week! (See: Short-term joint-staff training event 1)

1st joint-staff training event kicks off!

We are so happy to receive our Spanish partner school teachers from IES Miguel de Cervantes, Fuente Alámo! They arrived on Sunday evening, November 22nd, and we have an interesting week ahead of us.

Mr Francisco Ruiz Andreu,  Mrs Begoña Rueda Garcia, Mrs Eva Sanchez Serrano

Hello our Spanish colleagues! Welcome to Joensuu!

In case you want to check the weather conditions:

Weather in Joensuu

 

8E proudly presents….

 

Check out our presentations on different aspects of  Finnish life and culture by the sports-oriented class 8E! See About Finland

Recently published!

Check out the AdobeVoice presentations on our school made by class 7F! See About our school

Project launched in Lyseo comprehensive school of Joensuu!

We are happy to announce that our 2-year Erasmus+ project with our Spanish partner school IES Miguel Cervantes in Fuenteálamo started successfully in September 2015!