Lupa liikkua Lupa harrastaa activities

The basic education services provide Lupa harrastaa activities free of charge to all pupils in grades 1 through 9. These activities take place after the school day. Hundreds of groups meet in the pursuit of their chosen hobby each week. The group meetings take place all around the city.

Season 2024-2025

• autumn term 2 September - 5 December, 2024 (no meetings during the school holidays)
• spring term  7 January - 16 May, 2025 (no meetings during the school holidays)

Hobby activities calendar (in Finnish)

Lupa treenata grades 7 through 9 refers to free sports and exercise training sessions provided by Tampere basic education, open to all pupils between grades 7 through 9. Some of these training sessions are directed, some up to the pupils’ own activity. You can enter the self-directed training session by telling your name and your school to the training location’s customer service. Places in these training sessions will be filled in the order of arrival.

Season 2024-2025

• autumn term 2 September - 5 December, 2024 (no meetings during the school holiday)
• spring term 7 January - 16 May, 2025 (no meetings during the school holidays)

See the groups, and schedules for youth training groups and register through the hobby activities calendar.

Hobby activities calendar (in Finnish)

The Lupa liikkua classes comprise more than 2500 lessons full of physical activity in daycare centres and schools all around Tampere. These classes take place during the daycare and school day. The purposes of the lessons include to broadly develop basic motor skills and skills in handling sporting equipment, to get to know various sports disciplines and forms of exercise, and to make the breadth of available sports and exercise activities in Tampere better known to children and youth.

The lessons incorporate, among other content: football, Finnish baseball, tennis, badminton, floorball, basketball, gymnastics, skateboarding, parkour, dancing, climbing, cycling, gym exercise, wrestling, judo, tricking, ice skating, skiing, orienteering, athletics, cheerleading, trampoline jumping, and activities in an indoor activity park.

Sporting events for pupils season 2024–2025. School teachers register students for the events.

• Aamulehti and Tampere Pyrintö Viestikarnevaalit, Pyynikki athletics field 
• Athletics, grades 3–6
• Basketball, grades 7–9, October 2024
• Orienteering, grades 3–9 October 2024
• Salibandy, grades 5–9  November 2024
• Cross-country skiing, grades 3–9  February 2025
• Power Mover dance competition, grades 1–9,16 April 2025
• Football, grades 3–9 Kauppi Sports Park May 2025