Metsäniitty Early Childhood Education and Care Centre

The Metsäniitty Early Childhood Education and Care Centre and school building is home to 9 early childhood education and care groups. Two of these are for children under the age of three, two are Montessori groups, one is an integrated group, and four targeted for children between the ages of two and five. The building is also home to pre-primary education and initial basic education activities. The Karonen schoolhouse has two pre-primary education groups, one of which is a Montessori group. The work of these groups is based on learning-by-doing.

In the pedagogic approach of the Metsäniitty Early Childhood Education and Care Centre, methods that respect the child’s preferred way of doing and child participation are centred. The learning environment creates opportunities for meaningful choices, fruitful interaction, and the joy of succeeding. The daycare groups operate as coupled groups, with six personnel acting in flexible cooperation both in their working hours as well as planning the groups’ activities and carrying them out in smaller groups.