Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) is an important part of the child’s growth and learning path. ECEC lays a foundation for lifelong learning.
The mission of ECEC at Finland International School Race Course is to promote children’s holistic growth, development, and learning in collaboration with their parents. ECEC promotes equality and equity among children and prevents their social exclusion. Knowledge and skills acquired in ECEC strengthen children’s participation and active agency in the society.
Play is a key practice in FIS early childhood education and care. Play promotes the child’s development, learning, and well-being. While children learn by playing, they do not personally see play as a vehicle for learning but a way of spending time, living, and perceiving the world instead. Play combines key elements that promote learning: enthusiasm, doing things together, and challenging personal abilities.
The FIS Race Course ECEC concept introduces five learning areas that describe the key objectives and contents of pedagogical activities in early childhood education and care. Rather than being independent entities that are implemented separately, the themes of the learning areas are combined and applied according to the children’s interests and competence. The purpose of the learning areas is to promote children’s transversal competence.
Activity based learning focuses on a child’s natural way of learning things. Children, like adults, are individuals who learn things in a variety of ways. Most people learn things through multiple channels which means that the learning process is based on stimuli coming through various senses. In addition to more traditional visual and auditive learning, these channels include also tactile learning (based on touch), and kinesthetic learning (based on physical activities).
ECEC at Finland International School Race Course utilizes these learning styles by making them available for children through everyday activities. Mathematics and early literature can be learned while playing with sticks and stones. Using finger paint or drawing to mud can be as effective as paper and pencil. In ECEC we do not teach subject related content and academic skills alone. They are always integrated and mixed together in a meaningful age-appropriate way that promotes learning. Who wouldn’t like to learn English through jumping or maths through singing? This is how we do things at Finland International School Race Course.
Daily ECEC Schedule for the Academic Year 2023-2024, starting in August 2023:
ECEC Reception Year = Child is born October 1st 2019 – 31st December 2020:
ECEC Juniors = Child is born October 1st 2018 – 31st December 2019:
ECEC Seniors = Child is born October 1st 2017 – 31st December 2018:
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