Harjunrinteen koulu.pptx

Harjunrinteen koulu is one of three General Secondary schools in Riihimäki. Riihimäki is a small town in Southern Finland about 60 km north of our capital Helsinki. It has about 28 000 inhabitants. In Harjunrinteen koulu there are around 500 students and 42 teachers. The students are 12-16 years old and they go from 6th to 9th form at this school. The school is a public school and it follows the national curriculum as well as the local curriculum. Riihimäki has great reputation about having minimum amount of student who dropout secondary school. Almost every student leaving compulsory school will start next year at some secondary school.

Teaching of robotics has very important status at municipility. Riihimäki was the first Finnish county with robotics curriculum. Our school has profiled itself as a leading school concerning pedagogics of Robotics. We have also held National Competitions at VEX IQ robotics twice in Finnland. Harjunrinteen koulu has been “Greeen Flag” school for many years and we are also eTwinning School.