Located in Tapanila, our school is a primary school that includes grades 1-6. The teaching language is Finnish.
Contact information
Finnish, Swedish
P.O. Box 73302, 00099 City of Helsinki
Deputy principal
Tony Heinonen
+358 9 310 32321
tony.heinonen@edu.hel.fi
Deputy principal
Ville Vanhanen
+358 9 310 53881
ville.vanhanen@edu.hel.fi
Administrative assistant
Nea Päivinen
+358 9 310 28251
toimistopalvelut.tapanilan.ala-aste@hel.fi
Principal
Tiina Tuulari
+358 9 310 82810
tiina.tuulari@hel.fi
School year 2026-2027
Language studies
English, Swedish
English, French, Swedish
Swedish
Available: hall
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Location
Veljestenpiha 2,
00730
Helsinki
The route to the main entrance
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
The main entrance
- The entrance is hard to perceive but illuminated
- In connection with the entrance, there are at least 4 steps, with handrails on one side.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door is heavy or otherwise hard to open.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
The entrance "alternative entrance"
- The main entrance parking spaces may be used for this entrance as well. The distance from the parking spaces to the entrance is over 10 meters.
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
- The passage has at least 4 steps, with handrails on one side.
- The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated.
- In connection with the entrance, there are at least 4 steps, with handrails on one side.
- The entrance has a ramp over 6 meters long with an intermediate landing.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens easily manually.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The foyer is cramped.
- The customer service point is located on the same floor as this entrance.
The entrance "Entrance to gym"
- The 3 accessible parking spaces are located outdoors under 10 meters from the entrance. The width of the parking spaces is less than 3.6 meters.
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
- The entrance is hard to perceive but illuminated
- In connection with the entrance, there are 2 consecutive steps.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door is heavy or otherwise hard to open.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The foyer is cramped.
- The customer service point is located on the same floor as this entrance.
The entrance "Entrance to "Wooden school""
- The main entrance parking spaces may be used for this entrance as well. The distance from the parking spaces to the entrance is over 10 meters.
- The route to the entrance is soft and illuminated.
- The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated.
- In connection with the entrance, there are at least 4 steps, with handrails on both sides.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens easily manually.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The foyer is cramped.
- The customer service point is located on a different floor than this entrance.
The entrance "Another door to " Wooden school""
- The main entrance parking spaces may be used for this entrance as well. The distance from the parking spaces to the entrance is over 10 meters.
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
- The entrance is hard to perceive but illuminated
- In connection with the entrance, there are at least 4 steps, with handrails on both sides.
- The doors connected to the entrance stand out clearly. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door opens easily manually.
- The entrance has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The foyer is cramped.
- The customer service point is located on a different floor than this entrance.
The entrance "Entrance from the Veljestenpiha street"
- The route to the entrance is smooth and sufficiently wide and illuminated.
- The entrance stands out clearly and is illuminated.
- In connection with the entrance, there is 1 step.
- The entrance has a ramp over 6 meters long with an intermediate landing.
- The doors connected to the entrance are hard to perceive. Outside the door there is sufficient room for moving e.g. with a wheelchair. The door is heavy or otherwise hard to open.
- The customer service point is located on the same floor as this entrance.
In the facility
- The customer service point has three floors.
- For moving around, there is a lift, which can hold a wheelchair that is difficult to perceive; the door is heavy. The floor numbers in the lift cannot be felt with fingers. (The minimum dimensions for an accessible lift are width 1.1 m and depth 1.4 m.)
- The facility has thresholds over 2 cm high.
- The doors in the facility stand out clearly. The glass doors have contrast markings.
- The facility has a toilet marked as accessible on floor 1. The door is too narrow. The toilet seat lacks arm supports on one or both sides.