According to Finnish law (lukiolaki 30§), students must attend school unless they have been granted permission to be absent. Students can miss classes only if they are ill or if they have applied and been granted permission to be absent. It is the responsibility of the guardian or student over 18 to notify the school about the student's absence in Wilma.
Instructions on how to notify about an absence on the same day:
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Open Wilma.
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Go to "Lesson notes" tab in the blue bar on top of the page.
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Click "Notify absence" on the right side of the page.
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Choose reason and save. NB! When a student is sick, there is no need to specify the nature of the illness — "sick" is information enough.
The student or guardian must contact the group teacher if an illness lasts for more than three days.
If a student is absent, the teacher will make a note of this in the Wilma computer system. These absences must be explained and cleared in Wilma by the guardian (or students themselves if over 18) within a week. In order to clear the absence, the guardian must provide a short explanation for the absence.
Absence request in advance
The group teacher can give permission to be absent for 1-3 days (when the absence is known about in advance). For a longer absence request, the request must be submitted to the acting principal Veli-Pekka Lehtinen. The head principal does not grant leaves of absence which are more than 5 school days long. We kindly ask you to take this into consideration when e.g. planning family vacations. Note that it is the students’ responsibility to contact the subject teachers beforehand to agree on possible extra tasks.
All requests must be made beforehand and via Wilma.
Instructions on how to apply for an absence in Wilma:
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Open Wilma.
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Go to "Applications and decisions" tab in the blue bar on top of the page.
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Click "New application" on the right side of the page.
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Fill in and send the form "Exemption from schoolwork".