There are 50 teachers and over 500 pupils – aged 12-16 – in our school.
Principal Ms Kaisa Isotalo
kaisa.isotalo@edu.seinajoki.fi
Kirkkokatu 7
60100 Seinäjoki
tel. (06) 416 2350
fax (06) 416 2402

Our school comprises of 7th, 8th and 9th grades of compulsory education. In every grade one group is specialized in music. The music groups have more music education than the other groups. They give concerts and have many performances during the school year. Since autumn term 2009 we also have two CLIL-groups (Content and Language Integrated Learning), which are taught in English in some subjects.

School Year

The school year consisting of 38 weeks is divided into four periods of nine or ten weeks. The education is concentrated on five to seven subjects in each period. Some subjects are studied throughout the school year, eg. sports, handicraft and home economics. All the pupils have on the average 30 lessons per week.

Our school begins in the middle of August and ends in the beginning of June.

School holidays in 2010 - 2011:

Autumn holiday	18.10. – 22.10.2010
Christmas holiday	19.12.2010 – 2.1.2011
Winter holiday	28.2. – 4.3.2011
Easter holiday	21.4. - 25.4.2011
Summer holiday begins	5.6.2011

The motto of our work is:

The right attitude is the key to success.

Student Body

The student body consists of a government (10 members) and 18 tutors who are in charge of the student life.

The tutors’ most important task is to help and guide the new pupils in the 7th grade. They also arrange discos and meetings. The government represents the pupils and takes care of their rights.

After the school in the afternoons there are different kinds of clubs available, eg. in sports, music and arts. The clubs are offered by our teachers and cooperation partners outside the school.

Cooperation

Lyseo is in active cooperation with different partners eg. the parish of Seinäjoki, the police, different fields of town services, associations and enterprises.

The cooperation is based on the educational aims of our curriculum and the activity of the students.Lyseo tries to broaden its learning environment towards the surrounding society and to offer the students the possibility to learn and develop their facilities for the future working life.

Information and Communication Technology

The teachers use the learning platforms and teaching environments offered by ICT when it is pedagogically appropriate. Every new pupil is given guidance to learn the regulations for using a computer and ICT in his studies. ICT skills are thus both a target as well as a means of learning. A new learning platform for the pupils called AKVAARIO (https://akvaario.seinajoki.fi) was introduced in January 2010 and its use is further elaborated by the teachers.

International Activities

International relations have become a natural part of the activities in Lyseo.

The previous Comenius project on student welfare ended in summer 2009. Read more about the project on its website http://www.student-welfare.eu/

We are starting a new Comenius project on the theme youth culture and the cooperation between schools and local cultural entrepreneurs. The preparatory meeting will take place in Hedenäset, Sweden, on the 8th – 9th November 2010. There will be participants from Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain and England.

2010-2011 Lyseo will continue in a language teaching network project Vieko including all the comprehensive schools in Seinäjoki. Its aim is to promote the learning of the so called A2 languages (German, French, Russian, Spanish). It is part of a national Kielitivoli project financed by Opetushallitus, National Board of Education.

We started CLIL teaching in English in the autumn 2009 and have now two groups (one in the 7th and one in the 8th grade) taught in English in some subjects. This has strengthened our internationalization.

Lyseo cooperates with Svenska Föreningen i Östermyra, a local organization promoting the status of the Swedish language in our area. The Swedish groups visit the organization and take part in Lucia day every year.

Lyseo has many foreign visitors each year. A group of 9th graders is educated to perform as guides for the guests.

The contact teachers in international affairs are Ms Leena Oksanen (CLIL), Ms Anne Syrjälä (Lyseo guides) and Ms Soile Pajula (Comenius).
leena.oksanen(at)edu.seinajoki.fi, anne.syrjala(at)edu.seinajoki.fi, soile.pajula(at)edu.seinajoki.fi

Seinäjoen lyseo Kirkkokatu 7 60100 Seinäjoki p. (06) 416 2351 seinajoen.lyseo(at)edu.seinajoki.fi etunimi.sukunimi(at)edu.seinajoki.fi

There are 50 teachers and over 500 pupils – aged 12-16 – in our school. Principal Ms Kaisa Isotalo kaisa.isotalo@edu.seinajoki.fi Kirkkokatu 7 60100 Seinäjoki tel. (06) 416 2350 fax (06) 416 2402