Pre-school education
Autumn semester 11.8.2025-21.12.2025, total 360 hours
Spring semester 12.1.2025-29.5.2026, total 360 hours
| Holiday periods for pre-school education: Autumn holidays 13.-17.10.2025 Christmas holiday 22.12.2025-9.1.2026 Skiing holiday 2.-6.3.2026 | Other holidays in pre-primary education: Easter 3.- 6.4.2026 Vappu 1.5.2026 Helatorstai 14.5.2026 |
You can apply for pre-school education electronically via eDaisy 1.–31.3.2026.
For more information on how to fill in the application form, fees, etc., see the application and fees page.
Notification of pre-school hours
Early Childhood Education and Care uses the DaisyFamily service to report childcare hours. Booking childcare hours helps the carer to monitor the number of hours booked and the actual hours used.
The nursery staff can see in their own system the hours booked by the carers and therefore know when each child is present.
Pre-school education
The starting point for pre-primary education is the child and his or her individual needs, abilities and interests.
Early childhood education and care, including pre-primary and primary education, form a coherent continuum for a child’s growth and learning and a basis for lifelong learning. The central task of pre-primary education is to promote the child’s conditions for growth, development and learning.
Pupil welfare is an important part of the basic activities of pre-school education, and it belongs to all pre-school pupils. Student welfare means the promotion and maintenance of good learning, good mental and physical health and social well-being of the child, as well as activities that enhance the conditions for these in the pre-school community.
A personal learning plan is drawn up for the child, in which the guardians, together with the child and the pre-school teacher, set goals for the child’s growth, development and learning.
Pre-school children also have access to curatorial services. The curator services in pre-primary education are part of pre-primary education pupil welfare. The curator’s task is to help and support children and their families in pre-school education through social work.
In Kemijärvi, pre-school education is provided in the Jyvälänpuisto day care centre and the Särkelä day care centre:
| Jyvälänpuisto day care centre Värjärintie 4 98100 Kemijärvi Telkät Preschool teacher: 040 759 5764 (location on map) | Särkelä day care centre Heikinkatu 8 98120 Kemijärvi Preschool teacher: 040 725 1079 (location on map) |
