Paula Vorne 2nd grade teacher
City of Oulu has been developing youth work in the past few years and students' opportunities to influence to the decisions that are made in the City council. Every year there is a big meeting where children bring ideas from every area of the city about things that they'd like to improve in their own area. There are ten groups in different parts of the city that the youth workers lead in co-operation with the schools. The schools send students from their student councils to the group. They are usually from the grades 6, 7, 8 and 9.
This week is the "Week of Good deeds" and every youth group at the city planned some kind of activity that they implemented for some other group in the area. It could be something for a kindergarten, elderly people or for one of the schools. In our area the 1st and 2nd graders of Patamäki school were the lucky ones and today the youth group came to our school and organized a sports day for our youngest students.
Group had planned six different activities where the 1st and 2nd graders tried mini bowling, some dancing and stretching and precision throwing of matches, played floor ball and a traditional Finnish outdoor game called "puuropata" = "porridge pot". They also played an outdoor game called "Steal the flag".
The event was a huge success, the older students handled the younger students' groups really well and the younger students really enjoyed the activities. Even though the students didn't know each other in advance the co-operation was effortless and when the day was over we welcomed the youth group for another visit anytime!
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