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Mutala School is a Finnish comprehensive school, situated in Joensuu. The school was built in 1952 and it was renovated in 1996. There are about 130 students in our school and we teach children from 1st to 6th grades (7-12 years old).

Mutala School provides quality education for primary kids regardless of their background or level of support by positive reinforcement and international actions. Our motto is Enjoy and learn! (Innostu ja onnistu!)

Mutala School implements various programmes aimed to improve our pupils learning:

1. “Finnish Schools on the Move” –ideas that aims to establish a physically active culture in Finnish comprehensive schools (https://schoolsonthemove.fi) 
2. Verso (peer-to-peer or equal mediation), which have been developed to unite pupils and add pupils' participantship, a method to solve disagreements by educated peers. (https://sovittelu.com/vertaissovittelu/in-english/)
2. Entrepreneurship-program in which we support entrepreneurial attitude towards learning, pupils' active participantship and strenghten the perception of their know-how. (https://pikkuyrittajat.fi/in-english/)
3. Positive Pedagogy. All classrooms have their own systems of positive reinforcement, Positive Posters (Mutalan Myönteiset based on ProKoulu method) in which pupils have clear instructions for behaviour, they are guided in positive manner (https://en.nmi.fi)
4. Digital literacy skills and the use of ICT as a pedagogical tool for teaching (https://peda.net/joensuu/jm)
5. LUMA- project. We are a LUMA (natural sciences and math) school promoting skills for the future, implementing global education. (https://www.luma.fi/en/)

In addition, our school is a part of the UN School network. Besides being a local school for students living in Mutala-Siihtala area, Mutala School aims to extend its teaching and know-how towards more holistic international direction in the future. Our school already has a firm cooperation with the Erasmus programme, and we currently have exchange students working and studying with us. Our teachers are actively developing and participating in international projects and courses.

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