Beautiful lakes and forests, clean air, sauna, kind and tolerant people. Finland has a lot of charm.I visited Klassikka for the first time in October 2020. I was very nervous, but everything was new and exciting for me. I enjoyed going to school every day because everything was differ
Hello everyone. I’m Toru from Chiba, Japan. I have been working as a science teacher for 5 years at a senior high school in Japan. I stayed in Finland to learn about the Finnish style of education and to volunteer as a Japanese language teacher for 3 months. Before I came here, I had
Jolanda Varis reporting: A yearly tradition in Klassikka is a day where some of the new students of that year are auctioned to help upper graders during the day. This year this “YYA day” was held on September 6th. Altogether there were over 50 first grade students volunteering. The mo
Jolanda Varis reporting: During this school year Klassikka has participated in multiple Erasmus+ projects. These projects are Robot Dance, On your Bike and C.H.A.L.L.E.N.G.E. What are these projects about? What do the participating students think of these projects? Here are all the an
Ella Mustonen reporting: In a few days this school year will end. Especially our third-year students will celebrate finishing their studies on the first of June. Other students will continue at Klassikka in the autumn – except our exchange students. I interviewed our school’s exchange
Haidar Al-Morayed reporting: On February 15th, the annual Vanhojen tanssit celebration was held in Kuopion klassillinen lukio. Vanhojen tanssit (the Finnish version of prom) is a ball held the day after the oldest students have left the school to study for their matriculation exams in
Ella Mustonen reporting: Who’s a person who takes care of everything but whose work nobody seems to notice? In Klassikka this person is the principal. Jukka Sormunen has been the principal of Klassikka for over sixteen years. He came to Kuopio as a physical education teacher but later
Jolanda Varis reporting: Wadi Abimeri describes himself as a social person who likes to play football and enjoys reading as well. He lives in Mérida, Yucatán, southern part of Mexico. Wadi has already been visiting Finland and Klassikka for half a year, and among other things he descr
Jolanda Varis reporting: Have you ever wanted to visit Canada, or learn more about it? Meet Cameron Butler, a seventeen-year-old Canadian who is currently in an exchange in Klassikka, Kuopio. What qualities are important when in exchange? What does Cameron tell us about Canadian educa
