Preschooling for kids

kamalmaheshwari · Post by **kamalmaheshwari** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 8:15 pm

Hi,

We are planing to move to finland soon. I wanted to get some information abot how is schooling for kids overe there. I have a 2.5 year old son. I wanted him to join some english medium preschool/daycare. How much its going to cost us.

ANy information on this will be highly appreciated.

Thanks
Kamal

**Sponsor:**

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:05 pm

School starts at age 7 here,

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Sun Mar 21, 2010 9:29 pm

Where are you going to live?

There are plenty of pre-school English speaking daycares in Helsinki and Espoo for example.
If you are contributing into the Finnish social security system and are staying here for more than one year, you might qualify for a subsidy.

Lots of links in here for Espoo:
http://english.espoo.fi/default.asp?pat ... 5340;36846

kamalmaheshwari · Post by **kamalmaheshwari** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:06 am

Thanks for quick Update.

I am going to be in Helsinki, still not sure about exact address. I wanted to know around how much i need to spent per month if i want my kid to join any english speaking pre-school/day care for 3-4 hours a day, and may be three day a week.

Thanks
Kamal

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 11:40 am

http://www.hel2.fi/social_service_depar ... 0309v1.pdf

These are the private daycares in Helsinki. You can email or call them individually to get more information (some have a website)

Daycare is usually full-time. As demand is quite high I don't think they accept children on a part-time basis but I may be wrong.

ajl · Post by **ajl** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 12:15 pm

One of ours is half day right now in a private english "preschool". That school did have few options
for fewer days a week half/full days so be sure to ask! That particular kid really likes to talk and he
is one of the few native english speaking kids (albeit american english) so it does help the other kids.
The waiting list for full day (for August) is growing so your options might be difficult for the coming
year unless you get right on it.

Gregg10 · Post by **Gregg10** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:58 am

Hi,

we're planing to move to finalnd soon too, where can i find any adresses for pre-shools or shools in helsinki?
My daughter is 6 years old

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:58 pm

Pre-schools I already linked to in a post higher up the thread.

For primary schools: http://www.hel.fi/wps/portal/Helsinki_e ... f+Helsinki

To apply from abroad, call the school direct.

Finland Forum

Find information about moving to, living in and life in Finland