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In the last few years, no extensive research has been done on schools’ morning assembly practices. The last larger study was done in 1989. Since then, the Finnish school legislation and the Finnish National Curriculum have both changed significantly. Our Basic Education Decree obligates us to have morning assemblies as a part of every school day. It states: ”A day’s work must be started with a brief morning assembly.” The main goal of this study was to gather specific and intensive information on two schools’ morning assemby practices. The tradition in Finland is to have both shared morning assemblies where the whole school gathers together, and each class’ own morning assemblies. This study focuses on both types of morning assemblies. This quantitative case study was conducted in two schools (”school 1” and ”school 2”) in November- December 2015. The respondents were teachers and classroom assistants. I used questionnaires to gather the material for the study. Each questionnaire had 31 questions. The gathered material was analyzed in Microsoft Excel; I used percentages to express the results. According to the results, in both schools it was usually the teacher who organized the class’ own morning assemblies. In ”school 1” morning assemblies were usually held in the class room every day. In ”school 2” only 66,7% of respondents answered that they had morning assemblies every day in the classroom. In ”school 1” pupils also took part in the morning assemblies more actively than in ”school 2”. According to the respondents, shared morning assemblies were held at least once a month in ”school 1”. In ”school 2”, shared morning assemblies were held more rarely. In both schools the Evangelical Lutheran Church was usually present in the shared morning assemblies.