Day care and education

Pre-primary education 2023-2024

The children born in 2017 are  in pre-primary education 2023-2024.
Pre-primary education begins on 10th August 2023 and ends on 31st May 2024.

Holiday times in pre-primary education 2023-2024

Autumn holiday: 23.-27.10.2023 (week 43))
Autumn term ends on Friday 22st December 2023
Spring term begins on Monday 8th January 2024
Winter holiday:19.-23.2.2024  (week 8)

Pre-primary education 2024-2025

The children born in 2018 will start in pre-primary education in August 2024.

Pre-primary education will start on the  8th of August 2024 and ends on the 31st of May 2025.

Pre-primary education

Pre-primary education is statutory education offered to a child to support the child’s learning, inclusion, development and growth. The key purpose of pre-primary education is to support the growth and development of the child and to offer positive learning experiences and many-sided activities together with other children of the same age. Children attend pre-primary education one year before the beginning of basic education. Basic education begins the year the child turns seven years. Pre-primary education is obligatory and a guardian has to take care that the child attends pre-primary education or other activities that meet the objectives of pre-primary education (Section 26a of the Basic Education Act Education).

Pre-primary education is free of charge and its scope, at least, is 700 hours per year. Pre-primary education is offered four hours per day. The schoolyear of pre-primary education follows, mainly, the work and holiday times of school.

In 2024, children born 2018 are to be enrolled for pre-primary education. A letter concerning enrollment for pre-primary education will be sent on week 4 to children’s guardians who live in Rauma, the information  based on contact information received from the Population Information System (DVV). Pre-primary education will start 8.8.2024.

Enrollment is asked to do electronically by using the Wilma-online service. In the letter, there is a keycode for a guardian with which s/he can create a new Wilma-ID or add a child to his/her already existing Wilma-ID. The time frame of option to enroll electronically is between 5th – 18th February 2024.

In case the child is not registered in our population system yet, e.g. a family has just moved in the district / country and  has not received the letter, you can contact Early Childhood Education Service Guidance of the city of Rauma about the enrollment for pre-primary education tel. 040 172 9455 or varhaiskasvatus@rauma.fi.

If Wilma-online service can not be used enrollment for pre-primary education can be done by sending a registration form City of Rauma – Registration to preschool (epalvelu.fi

When the application period has ended and in the middle of the school year, the enrollment is done only with the registeration form.

If needed paper forms are available in Service Point Pyyrman, Valtakatu 2. Returning address of paper forms is Servicepoint  Pyyrman.

Wilma-online service in pre-primary education

Guardians get their Wilma-IDs for use for pre-primary education and the IDs are in use throughout the comprehensive school time.

Wilma-IDs are only used in Rauman freinetkoulu for the enrollment not after that.

Early childhood education needed in addition to pre-primary education

Early childhood education needed in addition to pre-primary education is to be applied separately. Early childhood education is offered in same premises as the child’s pre-primary education. The portion of early childhood education is charged by a client fee.

Hours needed for a child’s early childhood education without pre-primary education hours are counted into those hours reserved in the Client Fee Agreement. In eAsiointi, the hours can be reported in one part if the child attends early childhood education in the morning before and in the afternoon after pre-primary education, e.g. 8 am – 4 pm, whereupon the day care program reduces four hours of pre-primary education from early childhood education hours. Further information on page applying for early childhood education (varhaiskasvatukseen hakeminen).

Pre-primary education premises

Pre-primary education is offered in municipal daycare centres and in pre-primary units in schools of the city. As well, the private school Rauman freinetkoulu offer pre-primary education. Pre-primary education is free of charge. Attending pre-primary education is obligatory. According to the Basic Education Act, during one year before a child’s compulsory education age, s/he has to attend pre-primary education or other activities that meet the objectives of pre-primary education.

Vacant pre-primary education places during the school year can be enquired at Early Childhood Education Service Guidance varhaiskasvatus@rauma.fi or by telephone 0401729455.