Accessibility in Oulu

In the meeting in Braga our main theme will be "Celebrating Difference". We are going to consider different kinds of special needs and disabilities. We will, for instance, explore the city from a different perspective: how does the city take into account different kinds of special needs?

To get our students who were willing to participate the meeting in Braga in to the theme, we asked them to make videos about accessibility in Oulu, our home town. Here you can see two of them.

The first one is made by Laura, and it's in English.

The second one is made by Emma, and it's in Swedish, but you'll understand it for sure.

Enjoy the videos! :)

Photo Exhibition in Melilla

In the meeting in Melilla we had a photo exhibition where every school had sent two to three photos. Theme in all the photos was equality in daily life. Here you can see almost all the amazing photos seen in the exhibition. (Unfortunately we don't have names of all the photos or photographers.)

PS. Have you noticed that three of them can you see in the Erasmus+ corner in our school? :)

"Equality in Sports", Wales

Wales

Wales

"Together We Stand Against Inequality" Jenni Oikarinen, Finland

 "Friends with Everyone" Julius Hugg, Finland

"Celebrating Diversity" Elias Mäkinen, Finland

"My God's name doesn't define me" Toscano Antonio, Italy

  

"Fear of revealing oneself" Casella Alessia, Italy

 "We all have the same colourful soul" Soviero Daria, Italy

"Frienship for a lifetime", Spain

Portugal

Portugal

 "Diversity in Music", La Reunion

"At the local market", La Reunion

"Friendship beyond barriers", Spain

"Team work doesn´t know about races", Spain

"Are you wondering if we are a couple or friends dancing together? 

Why wouldn't you think instead if we are happy?" Milja Holappa, Finland

"Genius has no race. Strength has no gender. Courage has no limit." Emma Näpänkangas, Finland

 "Together, Stronger", Wales

"Working hard", Wales

Our school and Swedish speaking Finns

This is our school seen from the street. It consist of four buildings, and under those roofs there are students from pre-school to high school. Students' ages variate thus from 6 years to 19 years. 

Our school seen from the inner court.

Erasmus+ corner in our school

In the PowerPoint presentation below there are facts about our school and the Swedish speaking population in Finland and in Oulu. Presentation is made by our students Emma and Peppi.

Meeting in Melilla, April 2017

In April 2017 we met our partner schools again. This time we had also our students with us. The students lived in the Spanish host families and participated the lives of their host sisters and brothers. 

Our students Alexandra and Ossi represented Finland together with students from Laanila High School.

At the internationell brunch Alexandra and Ossi taught the others to make some typical Finnish-Swedish starters, rye bread with cold potatoes and salmon.

We got to know also a lot of Melilla´s Old Town, Melilla la Vieja,  with Spanish students as our guides.

The whole Finnish team at the wall of Melilla la Vieja


Melilla, located on the north coast of Africa, is an unique place, and it's also a port for the immigrants to reach Europe. During the week we learned for example about the four religions living in harmony beside each others. We also heard about fantastic work that is been done with the immigrants and less fortune children and young people.

The week was amazing and fruitful. We all learned a lot not only about the global perspective but also about ourselves.


Here you can see a slideshow about our week in Melilla (made by the local school):

Racism Free Day

Racism Free Day in our school. We tried for example how it feels when someone greets you in a different way than you are used to, and what it's like to make a puzzle together when everybody has a different way to do it. Students were given roles in a random way.

Theme day: Sexual Minorities

Today we had a theme day about sexual minorities. In various workshops we learned new things and challenged our ways to think. It was amazing how motivated our students were.

International School Day of Non-Violence and Peace

International School Day of Non-Violence and Peace in our school.


This is our video to participate international celebrating. Music is performed by Emma and her ukulele, quote is said by Peppi and filming is by Emil. Peace and Love!

"Be the change you want to see in the world"

See the whole video below. (In the video you see our part at 08:00)

The Newspaper Project

Under the Finnish course about media our students wrote different kinds of media texts. All of the products were about the project themes: minorities, equality, racism and refugee crisis. We collected the texts and made an own newspaper called "Lights".







Johanna wrote an article about equality. For the text she interviewed the headmaster and asked about the equality in our school.




Isabella wrote an reportage about a cartoon exhibition that presented refugees' journey to Finland. "We should try to understand immigrants better", she says.




Kristina wrote an article about racism and interviewed her friend who is immigrant.




Mikael wrote an comment about the refugee crisis.

Calle wrote a column about reception centres.

Aro interviewed his brother about the refugee crisis in Europe.

Kaapo interviewed his father about his emigration to Sweden. "I was surprised that the Finnish people were mean to my father for hanging out with the Swedes", he tells.

John attended a Ken's concert and wanted to share his thoughts about it.

Aino wrote an article where she discusses down syndrome from her uncle's point of view.



Samuel wrote a review about Showtime's serie called Shameless. "The serie gives a different perspective on equality", he says

Ester wrote about a traditional hymn that people are used to sing in the end of school year. It has been discussed if we should quit it because it's a hymn and may be against other religions' ways. "It's weird how they blame certain religious groups for the problem that the Finnish people have created themselves", she says.





















Ossi wrote a column about how people behave racist in the Internet.





Beata and Eedith wrote a column about shameless language and freedom of speech without any responsibilities. They also wrote an article about a girl who used to dance ballet and became a soldier. "It's strange how little amount of girls want to do military service", they say.

Leading Lights logo

In the meeting in Caserta we decided to create an own logo for the project. From every school we sent two suggestions and of them we voted the winner.

The winner logo above is made by an Italian student. It's awesome, right?

Our students created awesome logos as well. Below you can see the suggestions that we sent to the competition. They are made by Nea (from group G1) and Ronja (group G2).