Koli school is located in Koli village in Eastern Finland. We have 47 students and 3 teachers in our school. There is classes from pre-school to 9th class. (Elli)

Koli is a village of 250 people in Eastern Finland. Koli is a part of the city called Lieksa. Even the village is small, Koli is very famous place in Finland. Landscapes, tourism and national park bring thousands of people to visit Koli every year. You can for example do downhill skiing in Koli hill, which is 348 meters above sea level. (Janne)

Koli school children have business to collect money for school trips. Families and local companies and societys support our business. (Elli)

Important business partner is Koli Sokos Hotel. They order Christmas presents to every room from school. In every spring our school also clean hotel yard and parking places. (Janne)



Koli school children make every year 75 present bags for hotelrooms. We get about 10 euros/present from the hotell. We make profit about 5-6 euros/bag. It depends how much materials we have to buy. Usually children have made gingerbreads, some handcrafts and a Christmastcard. Usually we also buy some Finnish chocolate candys or local made berryjuice or berry jam to add the value. (Elli)





Every spring we do raking and cleaning in Koli active, which is local business organizing nature and adventure activities, with whole school and they pay us 400 euros (Janne)




We have co-operation also with Koli tourist info. They offer us Tourist info for product selling place at week 8. Week 8 is important because southern part of Finland have sportsholiday at that week and then we have lots of tourists in Koli Hotel, skicenter and rental cottages. We sell homebakings made by parents and children and handcrafts made at school. At school we bake carelian pies with children. Elli)





We do also co-operation with local hunting club. We are performing plays and jokes in their party after hunting season. They reward us for that by giving some money to use in school trips. (Janne)


We have organized twice a pop-up-restaurant on international restaurant day on May. On first time we had burger restaurant in Koli villagehouse. Home economic class did cooking and others did serving. This spring we had Fire cafe in Ukko Koli (Elli)










Last year, in 2016, class 7 got the dream of travelling to London for a studytrip. We started collecting money then. Our first business was to sell sausage and juice and popcorn in a big event by the lake in Koli. In a week 9, it was our London studygroup`s turn to sell our bakings for tourists. The previous week 8 was sellingweek for the other school kids, as you can see above. Our London group has also sold socks for relatives and people living nearby. We order socks, sell them around 10e and we get 4e. Nice and easy business! (Janne)

At the moment we are selling candies and biscuits with the same style. Our next project before Christmas is to sell different kinds of washing powders. Around Halloween we are having Halloween party at school. There is a minimal entrance fee and inside we sell candies, lemonade and so on. There will be a disco and some other activities as well. Next spring we are going to have sellingweek again. (Elli)