Early-childhood education

Early-childhood education is a combination of developing, educating, and care for the child. It is structured with objectives, and it focuses on pedagogy, i.e. developing and educating.

Early-childhood education is part of the Finnish education system and an important stage on the path of a child’s growth and learning. It covers the first years of a child’s life from the age of a baby to the start of primary school. All children have the right to early-childhood education, including pre-schoolers.

Early-childhood education has many tasks. It supports a child’s growth, development, and learning, and promotes the equality of children and prevents marginalisation. Early-childhood education supports the guardians with the work of raising a child and allows them to participate in employment or studies.

The main objective of the early-childhood education in the municipality of Salla is a thriving child. This objective can only be achieved through close cooperation between the people who know the child best, namely guardians, and a professional multi-field cooperation network.

Salla’s local early-childhood education and care curriculum includes the role of early-childhood education and care and the general objectives, organisational culture, planning and implementation of activities, and issues related to child development and support for learning, among other things.

The curriculum is based on the national curriculum for early-childhood education and care.

For each child, a personal early-childhood education and care curriculum, i.e. ECEC, will be formulated, in cooperation with the guardians. The ECEC will be agreed upon together with the guardians about how to promote the individual development, learning, and well-being of each child.