To the Top!
This year UWC Red Cross Nordic was invited to participate in the annual Red Cross event 'Til Topps', an ascent of Norway’s highest mountain, Galdhopiggen. Til Topps is the year’s most energetic multicultural integration event, supported by a phenomenal team of volunteers who ensured that the day ran smoothly and safely. Over 1000 people joined the event this year. The aims of Til Topps are as follows: [...]
Farewells
A year full of hard work, fun and togetherness is nearly over. We congratulate our graduating class and wish them all the best for their road ahead. For these two eventful years they have been supported by dedicated staff members, in and outside of the class room. Also some of the members of our staff are moving on to new professional experiences next year. Our students know [...]
Laski Visit
The second year RCN graduates left the College on Saturday 24th May, and early the following morning ten students and two teachers from the Laski Institute (Association for Care of the Blind) in Poland arrived for a ten-day visit as part of the EU-sponsored Comenius Bilateral School Partnership programme. For several years the College has participated in exchange visits between our two institutions: UWC Red Cross Nordic traveling to Poland to [...]
Svanøy Field Trip
98 students and several staff members returned last night from the two-day ecological field trip to a pearl of western Norway – the island of Svanøy. It is an island widely known for its outstanding beauty and sustainable deer and salmon farming. We have been lucky, privileged and thankful - since the very 1st year of RCN - for the friendliness and hospitality of the leader of [...]
IB Cooperation
A unanimous decision from the Education Committee of the Sogn & Fjordane County Assembly has given approval to the following: The county is positive to a 3 year trial project, for 3 places annually, with IB at Dale/UWC. The case will be finalized with the announcement of places for the school year 2015/16 and the budget 2015-18. The condition is that the external financing of 1 million from [...]
Graduation Day 2014
"Partir c’est mourir un peu" or, in English, "To part means to die a little". The end of this school year for the graduating class of 2014 was celebrated in the auditorium on Saturday, before a record attendance of visitors. The influx of parents, host families, Board members and friends of the College stretched our capacity to the full, but they all contributed to the uplifting framework and [...]