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Erasmus Days was celebrated in Pyhäjoki in a small-scale way.
The first-years tried their hand on an Erasmus Day bingo and quickly found several people either taking part in Erasmus activities or positive about their experience and willing to share their thoughts. The prizes of candy might have had something to do with it.🍫🍬
All the students from pre-school to upper secondary school students were sent a questionnaire about the skills of the future. The answers were quite uniform. According to our students, in the future people will need reading skills, social skills, problem-solving skills and foreign languages.
On a well-being ambassador course in early October 2026
Erasmus+ coordinators Minna and Marianne from Saaren koulu attended an Erasmus+ training course in the beautiful and historical city of Valencia in Spain, the city of light and innovation.
Organised by Europass Teacher Academy, the course focused on improving learner well-being under the title Becoming a Well-being Ambassador to Create Happy Classrooms and Schools.
The course offered a lot of food for thought and practical skills and tools to make the school environment more inhabitable for all of us but especially for the students.
The knowledge and skills gained from the course will be disseminated across schools in Pyhäjoki during this academic year.
eTwinning with a Czech school in the autumn of 2026
The first-year students have started their school year with an eTwinning activity in cooperation with a Czech school. All together, sixty students and two teachers are taking part in this virtual eTwinning activity about their home town and its surroundings. The project will run until the end of November 2026.
The activity kicked off with introductions and with pictures taken of the landscape and main sights of the participating towns.
eTwinning is a handy platform to reach out to new European partners and engage a larger group of students at one go.
April in Brussels
Two upper secondary students travelled to Brussels with a group of lower secondary pupils from Saaren koulu in April 2026. The lower secondary pupils took part of an extra-curricular activity called Exploring EU and the aim was to get to know the EU and its functions a little bit better. In Brussels, they were joined by a group of Dutch and Norwegian pupils and teachers working on joint EU related tasks. All in all, thirty-seven students and seven teachers took part in this Erasmus+ group mobility.
The upper secondary students focused on social sciences and visited Parlamentarium and The House of European History. The most valuable activity by far was meeting two Finnish members of the European Parliament, Maria Ohisalo and Li Andersson. Our students interviewed them and wrote newspaper articles for their social studies class.
brysselsivu1.pdfbrysselsivu2.pdfbrysselsivu3.pdfThree Italian students joined us in September 2026 for a short-term mobility for school students
Three students from Liceo delle scienze umane e scientifico Regina Maria Adelaide in Aosta spent two weeks with us living in host families in Pyhäjoki, Raahe and Merijärvi and taking part in the school activities. During those two weeks, we had "Messut", the fair organised by the second-year students. The drive to achieve and working together for a common goal impressed the Italian students.
The students took part on lessons, gave presentations on their hometown and history. They also worked on a project on well-being as well as reflected on the differences and similarities of the Finnish and Italian school systems.
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Tre studenti del Liceo delle Scienze Umane e Scientifico "Regina Maria Adelaide" di Aosta hanno trascorso due settimane con noi, soggiornando presso famiglie ospitanti a Pyhäjoki, Raahe e Merijärvi e partecipando alle attività scolastiche. Durante questo periodo si è svolta "Messut", che è una fiera locale organizzata dagli studenti del secondo anno; la determinazione nel raggiungere gli obiettivi e lo spirito di collaborazione per un traguardo comune hanno impressionato molto gli studenti italiani.
Le ragazze italiani hanno partecipato alle lezioni e tenuto presentazioni sulla loro città d'origine e sulla sua storia; hanno inoltre lavorato a un progetto sul benessere e riflettuto sulle differenze e le somiglianze tra i sistemi scolastici finlandese e italiano.
mental and physical health.pdfLife skillsMy Erasmus + experience.pdfPhoto Dump.pdfPresentation of my podcast.pdfVoices of Pyhajoki Lukio.mp3We hosted Spanish teachers during the August job shadowing week 2026
Our latest job shadowing guests arrived from the Navarra region. We had warned them about the temperamental Finnish weather but it turned out to be quite a sunny week. What a Coolcation Finland anyway!
We crammed in visits and activities with us in Pyhäjoen lukio and in Saaren koulu, Yppärin koulu and Päiväkoti Kivitasku.
Our guests also enjoyed different activities such as kayaking and sauna and visited Raahe, Alavieska, Kalajoki and Oulu too.
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From Our Job Shadowing Visitors
Thanks a million for an unbeatable experience. You are the best ambassadors and hosts ever!
- IES Alhama (Corella, Spain) August 2026
Thank you for having us with you there in Pyhäjoki, in what seemed like "nothing." Yet in the middle of that “there's nothing,” there was so much. There was your kindness, hospitality, and openness. In that “there's nothing,” we met many wonderful people who warmly opened their classes to strangers from Slovenia and shared their valuable time and ideas with us. And once again, in that “there's nothing,” we had a truly great time and an unforgettable experience.
- Osnovna šola Neznanih talcev Dravograd (Dravograd, Slovenia) May 2026
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