Support for Studying

The aim of student welfare is to promote the learning, health and well-being of students.

Student welfare means the services of psychologists, school social workers and school health care. Student welfare is executed as multidisciplinary co-operation between Education Division and Welfare Division. Close co-operation is conducted with students and their parents as well as with other partners in co-operation if needed. Student welfare is organized as communal student welfare and individual student welfare.

The school social worker offers help in matters concerning

  • motivation
  • absence from studies
  • concentration difficulties
  • bullying
  • loneliness
  • controlling emotions
  • friendships

You can contact the school social worker on the Wilma web interface. 

Please contact the school psychologist if you are worried about

  • stress
  • feeling low
  • anxiety
  • sleep problems
  • difficulties with regard to learning and concentrating

The student, the guardians, someone from the school personnel or another person/partner who is working with the student in some way, can contact the school psychologist. You can contact the school psychologist on the Wilma web interface. 

You can contact the school nurse about problems or issues concerning

  • growth and development
  • sleep/sleeping
  • food/eating
  • sports
  • mood
  • health check-ups
  • vaccinations

You can contact your school nurse on the Wilma web interface. 

Contact the student counsellor if you are worried about

  • study skills and school attendance
  • self-knowledge
  • further studies
  • vocations, fields of education
  • working life

You can contact the student counsellor on the Wilma web interface.

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