Graduation day and Independence day

On the 5th of December we celebrated both the Eve of the Finnish Independence Day and the graduation of Iida Viitaniemi. 

                                                             Iida gets the white cap.


                 

  

In the afternoon the whole school celebrated the Finnish Independence Day with different kinds of performances. Our celebration was a kind of dress rehearsal of the big event on the 6th of December when all the people in Hämeenkyrö were invited to come to our school to attend the festivities.

                                              Third year students bring the Finnish flags to the hall.

                                     Third year student Mikko J. giving the welcoming speech.

                          "The boys of the forest".  One of the best known Finnish poems by Aleksis Kivi                                      interpreted by the senior high school boys accompanied by Black Sabbath´s Paranoid.

 

                                        Finnish flute music by second year student Johanna U.

      Pro Patria War Memorial 1939-1945 was revealed on the 6th of December.  It includes the names of all the men from Hämeenkyrö who died in the WWII.  It is situated in the entrance hall of our school so that all young people of our town will see the names.