School registration opens up 20.1.2025

School registration to first grade is to be done within the time period 20–31.1.2025. The registration will be done electronically in Wilma.

All children who are born in the year 2018 or earlier who have not yet started their school path are to be registered for basic education.

Wilma is already in use in all of the preschools in Vaasa. If a guardian does not have Wilma-codes yet, they are asked to be in contact with the pre-school teachers.

All students have a pre-assigned neighborhood school in Wilma. It can be seen in Wilma when the registration opens up, ie. from 20.1 onwards.

If the parents want their child to attend another school or a special educational line, they need to apply for a change of school or line by filling in an application in Wilma.

Information events about the special educational lines

• The Music Classes welcome you to come and find out more about their activities and school path on Thursday 9^th of January starting at 18.00. It will be held in the music class of the lower grades at Onkilahden yhtenäiskoulu, Vuorikatu 7.
• There will be an information evening about the Bilingual and English Education at Suvilahti School on Monday 20^th of January starting at 18.00. The info event is bilingual (English-Finnish).

Notice! Starting in August 2025, first-grade students enrolled in special education line (music classes, immersion teaching in Swedish-Finnish and English teaching) will not be entitled to free school transportation. This decision was made by the city council on April 29, 2024, as part of the financial balancing program. This decision does not affect students in grades 2–9 enrolled in special education line who have already been granted school transportation based on existing eligibility criteria in previous school years. The school transportation policy for students attending their local school remains unchanged.

Applying for morning and afternoon care

Morning and afternoon care is organized during school days between the hours 8-16. Students in first and second grade can apply for this. Those students that are in Special Support can as well apply for morning and afternoon care, regardless of grade level. The morning and afternoon care comes with an additional charge. Read more about Morning and afternoon activities here.

The registration for morning and afternoon care is open 20.1.–14.2.2025 in Wilma.

Help with registration

The staff at the Department of Education are more than happy to help with the electronical registration:

• secretary of Administration Therése Kangas, phone 040 647 5611
• secretary of Administration Annika Härkönen, phone 040 520 4516

The City of Vaasa welcomes all new first graders to the school community amongst their new friends!