ST. ALBANS FINNISH SCHOOL

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1 Joulumyyjäiset Perinteinen Joulubasaari pidetään tänä vuonna sunnuntaina 9. joulukuuta 2007 koululla. Ovet joulumaahan avataan kello ja vierailla on mahdollisuus tehdä ostoksia, ruokailla ja viettää aikaansa tuttujen parissa kello saakka. Ravintolan menussa on perinteinen jouluateria kinkkuineen, laatikkoineen ja muine lisukkeineen. Kasvisruokaa ja lastenannoksia on myös tarjolla. Pienempään nälkään saa kahviosta voileipiä, karjalanpiirakoita, joulutorttuja suomalaisen kahvin kera. Ja tietysti glögiä ja Lapin Kultaa! Kioskiin on tulossa uusi kuorma tavaraa ja basaarivalikoimista löytyvät monenmoiset jouluiset karamellit, konvehdit ja muut herkut. Leipojia varten on basaariin tulossa siirappia, jauhoja, vaniljasokeria, kardemummaa, raesokeria ja kaikkea muuta tarpeellista. Piparkakkutaikinaa ja joulutortuntäytettä löytyy myös kotileipojille. Ruisleipää ja erilaisia leivonnaisia on myös tarjolla tuttuun tapaan. Jouluisia koristeita ja suomalaisia tuotteita voi myös ostaa basaarista entiseen tapaan. Ostamalla koulun omia käsitöitä ja kortteja voit tukea koulun toimintaa suoraan. Basaariin on myös tulossa designtuotteiden myyjiä. Myynnissä on myös suomalaisia kirjoja tule tekemään löytöjä. Mitä joulu olisi ilman pukkia? Korvatunturin herra vierailee jälleen luonamme ja lapsilla on mahdollisuus esittää lahjatoiveitaan pukinmajassa. Puuha-alueelta löytyy monenlaista muuta ajanvietettä. Tule viihtymään tuttujen seurassa, lounaalle ja jouluostoksille Suomikouluun! Joulubasaari koululla: Marlborough School, Watling Street, St Albans, AL1 2QA, sunnuntaina 9 joulukuuta 2007, Christmas Bazaar The traditional Christmas Bazaar will take place on Sunday 9 th of December 2007 at the school. Doors to the Christmas Wonderland will be opened at 12 noon and you will have till 4 pm to shop, have Christmas lunch and enjoy the company of friends past and new. The restaurant menu features a traditional Finnish Christmas meal with all the trimmings, without forgetting vegetarians and children either. For smaller appetites there will be sandwiches, Karelian pies and pulla available from the cafe. Not to forget Finnish mulled wine and Lapin Kulta! The kiosk will be receiving a new delivery especially for the Bazaar, with many sorts of special candy, chocolates and other goodies on offer. For bakers there will be syrup, special flour, vanilla sugar, cardamom, and other specialty items. We will also stock gingerbread dough and plum filling for home bakers. Rye bread, pulla and cakes will be for sale too. You can also buy cards and crafts from the school table and support the school directly. We will also have several external sellers with design goods and well-known brands. There will also be Finnish second hand books for sale so come and browse. What would Christmas be without Father Christmas? The Korvatunturi resident will be visiting us again and children can pass their Christmas wish lists directly to him in the Grotto. The children's activity area will provide lots of other ways to pass the time to let mums and dads to concentrate on shopping and enjoying themselves. So, hope to see you all at the Bazaar! The Christmas Bazaar is held at Marlborough School, Watling Street, St Albans, AL1 2QA, Sunday 9 th December 2007, to Pirkko Soundy

2 Voitko auttaa basaarijärjesteyissä? Basaari on koulun tärkein varojenhankintamuoto, mutta sen pystyttäminen on melkoinen urakka koulun vapaaehtoisille avustajille. Voitsitko sinä liittyä joukkoomme tekemään tästä kaikesta mahdollista? Tarvitsemme apua sekä lauantaina 8 joulukuuta, että itse basaaripäivänä 9. joulukuuta: + tavaroiden kujettamiseen koululle lauantaina + koulun koristamisessa ja pöytien järjestelyssä + tavaroiden hinnoittelussa + jouluruokien valmistamisessa + joulutorttujen leipomisessa + myynnissä + koulun järjestämisessä normaalitilaan basaarin jälkeen Voitko lahjoittaa koululle: + sopivia palkintoja arpajaisiin + kirjoja, videokasetteja, CD- tai DVD- levyjä myyntiin + käsitöitä myytäväksi Jos voit osallistua järjestelyihin edes hieman, ota yhteyttä Pirkkoon pirkko@suomikoulu.com tai soita iltaisin. Lahjoitukset voit tuoda koululle 1. tai 8. joulukuuta, koulupäivinä. Kauneimmat Joululaulut - Christmas Carols Sunday 16th December 2007 at 1.30pm St. Stephen s church, opposite to the Marlborough school in St. Albans at the crossing of Watling St. and St. Stephens Hill. Study Group St Albans Finnish School is arranging a regular meeting in Berkhamsted for Finnish speakers and Finnish students. The aim is to have a social gathering and to allow students to practise speaking Finnish. The first meeting will be held at the Old Mill pub in Berkhamsted on Thursday 6th December, Finnish Independence Day and the 90th anniversary of Independence. At this meeting, we will decide when to have a regular meeting and how often. The details will be posted on the Suomikoulu web site. All Finnish speakers and students are welcome. You don't have to be a member of Suomikoulu to come along. If you have any questions, please call Jani Paulden on There is also some interest for a meeting in St Albans and if you would like to be part of it, call Anita Mannion on Itsenäisyysjuhlat SUOMI TÄYTTÄÄ TÄNÄ VUONNA 90 VUOTTA. KOULU MUISTAA VIREÄÄ VANHUSTA LAUANTAINA 1. JOULUKUUTA 2007 KELLO JÄRJESTÄMÄLLÄ TÄYTEKAKKUKAHVIT KOULUN KAHVIOSSA. TULE MUKAAN JUHLAAN!

3 The Realisation of a Dream So what do you do if you happen to live in or around St. Albans, you want your child to learn Finnish and your nearest Finnish school is in Rotherhithe? You start a school of your own, of course, stupid! And that's exactly what this group of Finnish mums decided to do having got together one day in the summer of 1984 in The Verulamium Park to ponder this dilemma. The meeting led to action and the action led to the birth of St. Albans Finnish School, which opened its doors on Saturday, 7th September, 1985 at St. Michael's School. That first term we had 74 children and 39 adults on our roll. No mean achievement! It hadn't all been plain sailing. There wasn't a great deal of help available from any official direction but the group of ladies, led by Marja Wright and Anneli Densham, was indomitable. Sisu, sinnikkyys and sweat had finally got them there but they were also lucky enough to have the support of their menfolk, prepared to sit at meetings till well after midnight, turn into carthorses, when necessary, shift furniture endlessly, have every spare crook and cranny of their house cluttered with school materials and of course, put up with frailed tempers and even deal with the hefty telephone bills. The School grew to such an extent that new bigger premises were required and we moved to Marlborough School. As well as numerous classrooms we now had the use of a proper kitchen and, best of all, a store cupboard. It was heaven! Ulla Fisher- Payne and Marja Wright no longer needed to keep everything in their garages; teachers did not have to take home a bootful of equipment after every school day. Things were definitely looking up. And more and more students walked through the doors. A lot of effort also went into the money raising. There were the Xmas Bazaar and the Midsummer Party but also Summer Fetes, Independence Day Dances, fashion shows, concerts, even a highly memorable Casino Night. We managed to attract ambassadors to our events and speakers such as Erkki Liikanen and Erkki Toivanen, both of whom happen to be speaking at Anglo-Finnish Society's events this autumn. Our school organised the first ever weekend conference for all Finnish School teachers in Britain and, also at Oaklands College, we held intensive study days for adult students. We were also the driving force kickstarting the Finnish Schools' Council. They were heady days! No wonder the ladies occasionally felt the need to get away from it all - and tea at The Ritz fitted the bill nicely (at our own expense, I hasten to add). I was amazed to see the range of activities and events that were being planned, when looking at the minutes of some of the Committee meetings. There is a mention of the visit of Bishop Kortekangas, as well as a Kalevala dance performance by Virvat. We were twinned with Ersta School in Nastola and a video of St. Albans and our school had been made and was to be sent to Nastola. Some of our adult students had been interviewed and a program about them went out on Lahti local radio. Preparations for the Christmas Bazaar were obviously in full swing though the date of this particular meeting was 15th September. The first baking day was going to be 8th October! What was the secret? In those days you could make six phone calls and rely on getting five offers of help at one sitting. People were happy to give their time and expected to have to do their bit. Talkoohenki ruled and the School flourished. A school like ours needs active involvement and an army of volunteers. We all have something to contribute, some hidden talent or practical skill, whether it's selling raffle tickets, designing a poster, icing gingerbread biscuits, decorating Christmas trees or being Santa. Could you, too, be generous with your time? That way we could, once again, recreate a school buzzing with activity, full of fun and life. Mertsi Fisher

4 Fund Matching - Does your company do this? Do you work for a company that does fund matching for charities? This normally means that however much you raise for your charity in this case the St Albans Finnish School they will match. Therefore doubling the money we could raise for the school. If you know that this is possible where you work, please contact Marianne on ( mariannejh@hotmail.com) and we can raise more money to benefit the school. Tulossa keväällä Haluatko kokeilla huovutusta? Mitä mukavaa voisi villasta valmistaa? Omaatko luovia kykyjä, jotka etsivät ulospääsykanavaa? 9. helmikuuta 2008, järjestämme koululla huovutussession kouluaikana. Ilmoittaudu Pirkolle (pirkko@suomikoulu.com), jos haluat osallistua. Opastus vasta-alkajille ja kaikki tarvikkeet ovat koulun puolesta olemme saaneet lahjoituksena koululle suomenlampaan villoja Eeva Piesalalta PIIKU-liikkeestä Petäjävedeltä. Uusi komitea Koulun vuosikokous pidettiin 13. lokakuuta 2007 koululla. Koulua johtavaan komitean valittiin entisinä jäseninä: Pirkko Soundy, puheenjohtaja Mark Gilligan, varapuheenjohtaja Marianne Juusela-Howard, pääopettaja Anita Mannion, sihteeri Päivi Ylinen, rahastonhoitaja Marita Robertson, rahastonhoitaja Anu Kainulainen Nina Stebbing Uusina jäseninä: Minna Lehtonen Mari Waldron Komitea on aloittanut työnsä. Jos sinulla on ideoita tai palautetta koulun toiminnasta, voit ottaa yhteyttä komitean jäseniin koulupäivinä tai koulun internettisivujen kautta. Koulu on meidän kaikkien yhteinen, ja toimimalla yhdessä voimme kehittää sitä edelleen ja taata, että koulun toiminta voi jatkua. Pääopettajalta - From the Headteacher St Albans Finnish school is taking part in national study project for science. The students will participate in science lessons where they will be using Finnish when predicting and doing their scientific experiments. After two years of work they will be awarded a certificate for their work. We like to base children s learning by teaching them doing things. If you have a talent that you would like to share, please let us know!

5 St Albansin Suomikoulun tuleva ohjelma 2007: 1/12 Piparitalkoot. Gingerbread making workshop for all. Please let Marianne know if you can be in charge of baking the gingerbread men. All welcome to join us for special cake with coffee at to celebrate Finland's 90th Birthday. 8/12 Finland 90 years old-party for kids at More info from website. All the children to dress up as their Finnish hero. Please put a label on with your "name". During/after school preparations for Christmas bazaar. Lots of volunteers needed, please contact Pirkko: pirkko@suomikoulu.com 9/12 Christmas Bazaar Kevätlukukausi 2008: 12/1/2008 First school day, registration 26/1 Science club, registration 9/2 Teachers meeting /2 Kalevala day 8/3 Science club 15/3 Easter witch is visiting 5/4 Science club 26/4 April fools day 17/5 Mayday with sports day 24/5 Science club, Parent teacher discussions 7/6 Summer party 14/6 Midsummer party at Benington around a bonfire Please check all the dates before each school day at If you have any questions or would like to discuss matters relating to the teaching or learning of Finnish/Swedish, please contact me on School Saturdays or phone me on ( mariannejh@hotmail.com). Offers to assist in classrooms would, as usual, be particularly welcome. Marianne Juusela-Howard