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What a wonderful Spring term 2019 we had

School group did a big work to find out all the secrets of life. We started from the birth and followed the whole path and different states of human's life. What a venture. Children really enjoyed to tell their own experiences, ideas and thoughts about the life itself. And what the most wonderful thing was that all children thought that life has to be full of happiness and it has to be lived fully with lots of fun, excitements, make lots of good memories with friends and family. Runeberg torte on Runeberg's Day "Runeberg torte is a Finnish pastry flavored with almonds and arrack or rum and weighing about 100 grams. It usually has rasberry jam encircled by a ring of icin on top. The torte is named after the Finnish poet Johan Ludvig Runeberg who, according to legend, regularly enjoyed the torte with punsch for breakfast. Fairwell to Ambassador of Finland Ms Päivi Luostarinen in London. New Ambassador of Finland is Mr Markku Keinänen from the beging of...

The new vice-chairman

20th January 2019 Satu Oldendorff, vice-chairman of the Finnish Expatriate Parliament, Cenral Europe Region was thanked for her long-term work. At the same time, Kari Henrik Tumelius, the head teacher of Manchester's Finnish school, was selected in London to continue as new vice-chairman. In the picture, Kari-Henrik Tumelius, Satu Oldendirff and Kati Hognes,  the chairman of the area.

Christmas Market

Keep the date and time. The day includes lot of activities and for example, the Most Beautiful Christmas Songs in Finnish, to be led by the head of the Finnish Church in London and rector Marjaana Härkönen starting at 12.00 pm and much more. Children have their own program from  10:00 am - 12:00 pm The cafeteria is open all day, so why not pop in and have a cup of hot drink with Finnish delicacies. Warm welcome.

Easy fundraising

Whether it’s your weekly food shopping or Christmas present orders please remember to activate your Easyfundraising before you visit online retailers and help raise some cashback for the Finnish School in Manchester at no cost to yourself! If you haven’t already signed up please do so, it only takes a couple of minutes and really helps boost our fundraising - please click on the following link to register: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/finnishschoolinmanchester/