Laski Visit

2018-10-16T09:33:41+01:00June 4th, 2014|

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 attend classes and take part in activities with our hosts at Laski; the Laski students then making reciprocal visits to the College.

Our Laski friends were hosted in the student village by the first years and took apart in a wide range of activities – attending classes, doing yoga, hiking, bicycle dressage, visiting a museum in Naustdal and more. The Laski students attended a Norwegian Course – looking at both language and culture – offered by RCN and members of the local Flekke community over several days, and also offered Polish classes for interested RCN students.

One of the goals of the programme is to develop an  integration-game for sighted and non-sighted participants to play together. We had already tested existing games like goalball and table tennis for the blind and are excited to have made good progress developing a version of land hockey; we are now at the stage of drawing up the rules of the game – and it’s going to be fun! The two groups will also be testing an integrated version of basketball when visiting Laski in October.

All in all, a very successful visit and our thanks go to all involved – especially to our very own Paulina Szymczak, for all her hard work and organisational skills.

Here is an album of photographs from an Activity Day that RCN and Laski students spent with asylum seekers from Bergum Mottak.

Svanøy Field Trip

2014-05-29T09:05:42+01:00May 29th, 2014|

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 the Norwegian Deer Center on Svanøy, Johan Trygve Solheim and his small but dedicated team! The objectives of the trip are to experience Western Norway’s landscapes and culture, to do some ecological and sustainability studies – and to help out with some environmental work .

For the Group 4 Science Project, the students were to imagine themselves as visitors from another planet, landing on this rocky island with the brief to explore and name all possible life forms. The 12 teams shared their discoveries in a lively and loud poster conference. The Environmental Systems and Societies students did the same but with an opposite approach: they were given instructions about the intertidal zone and about methods of sea shore investigation which they then put into practice. They also engaged in a study of sustainability of deer farming.

A successful project, with wonderful weather. Many thanks to all those involved in making it happen!

An album of facebook pictures is here.

IB Cooperation

2014-05-27T13:59:57+01:00May 27th, 2014|

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 local businesses is in place.

This is a major breakthrough for our ambition to have a stronger presence in educational activities in our near environment, made possible by good co-operation with Dale vgs, local politicians and the support of local business.

Graduation Day 2014

2014-05-29T10:45:10+01:00May 26th, 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 celebratory atmosphere created for the Graduation Ceremony. Many tears were shed, both from the class leaving and from their friends who will stay one more year by the shores of the bay at Haugland. In the sadness of leaving, we know that our graduates will have some very exciting years ahead of them.

Congratulations to all – and many thanks to all those who worked so hard to make the second year dinner on Friday night and the events of Graduation Day such a success.

Albums of photographs can be seen on facebook:
The Graduation Dinner & the Graduation Ceremony

The Rektor’s Speech on Graduation Day.

Graduating student, Sophia Larney’s address to her fellow graduates at the Graduation Dinner.

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