Finnish in Sweden
| pre-primary education | primary education | secondary education |
| Sverigefinska skolan i Upplands Väsby | Sverigefinska skolan i Upplands Väsby | Sverigefinska skolan i Upplands Väsby |
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Sverigefinska skolan i Upplands Väsby
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| Contact person | Maija Vola |
| skolan@sverigefinskaskolan.se | |
| Website | http://www.sverigefinskaskolan.se |
| Total number of teachers | 21 |
| Total number of pupils | 136 |
| Languages taught as subject | Finnish, Swedish, English, Spanish |
| Languages of instruction | Finnish, Swedish |
| Languages used outside formal lessons | Finnish, Swedish |
| Skills trained in the minority language | reading, listening, speaking, writing |
| Availability of the teaching material | The availability of learning material is reasonable; we can purchase materials directly from Finland. |
| Quality of the teaching material | The quality of learning material is reasonable; the level of the language is often far too difficult since the material is meant usually for Finnish speaking pupils in Finland. |
| Developers of the teaching material | Teachers in the school or colleagues; Publishing houses. |
| Remarks | Our school is at the time being participating in a Comenius project with four other European school. We are also in contact with a school in Catalonia, Spain. Our main problems are the lacking interest among the Finns in Sweden and a decreasing amount of pupils in our school. Also the teaching methods needs modernising. |