Norssi – a safe path to your future
Turun normaalikoulu (Norssi, The Teacher Training School of Turku) is a very modern and versatile school with many sections:
- elementary school, grades 1 – 6
- junior high school, grades 7 – 9
- national Finnish senior high school
- international IB school, senior high
- Turku International School (TIS), grades 1 – 9
- class teacher practice section
- subject teacher practice section
- teacher in-service section
Basic education, grades 1 - 9
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National Finnish senior high and IB school
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Teacher training
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Turku International School (TIS)
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In-Service training in Turku and abroad
What is Finland University
Finland University combines the power of leading 
Finnish research universities: the universities of Eastern Finland, Tampere, Turku, and Åbo Akademi, each in the top 2% of global university rankings. Together the universities have 78 500 full-time degree students, thousands of teachers and 900 professors.
Turun normaalikoulu is closely working in co-operation with Finland University by arranging school visits and actual in-service training in our school. The visits can be tailored in length and content from a few hours to several months. Many of our teachers have also been training teachers abroad in countries like China, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
Study environment
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School values, visions and strategies
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Norssi history
The predecessor of Turun normaalikoulu, Käkisalmi comprehensive school in Karelia, was established in 
1892. During World War II the school was not much in operation and was finally re-established on a governmental decision in Turku, next to the market place. The school was called Turun Yhteislyseo.
In 1957 the teacher training school of Turku, Turun normaalilyseo, started to operate in a building of its own in Mestarinkatu. The training of subject teachers started the same year in Norssi.
The ’jubileum’ students in the photo who graduatedmore that 50 years ago were eager to visit present-day Norssi. 
The training of class and subject teachers was combined in 1974 and was called Turun normaalikoulu. However, it was not until 1980 they started to operate under the same roof when the building of a new school was completed in Varissuo.
In the 1990’s Norssi turned very multi-cultural when
more and more pupils and students were immigrant parents’ children. The International Baccalaureate (IB) school was launched in Norssi in 1991 and teaching in English was expanded to cover grades 1 to 9 as well. In 2001 Turku International School became part of Norssi financed by the town of Turku. TIS follows mostly the Finnish curriculum but the language of instruction is English.
At the beginning of 2017 we were able to move back to our school after a complete renovation which lasted for a year and a half. At present Norssi in Turku is the most international school in the whole of Finland with more than 45 nationalities represented.