Nordahl Grieg vgs is one of the schools in Norway we have joined together with as part of the Ashoka Changemaker School network. As part of this co-operation, one of our Spanish classes has established a language immersion exchange. The experience started last February with three of our Spanish-speaking students and teacher travelling to Bergen hosted by their students Maria, Benjamin, and Amanda (centre of picture). This [...]

Inga Bostad visited us today here at UWC Red Cross Nordic. Inga is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo and Professor at Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She was appointed director for the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights at the Faculty of Law from 2014-2017 and is, from 2018, at the Department of Education at the Faculty of Educational Sciences. She is also Chair [...]

After months of work in the classroom experimenting, exploring and producing, after countless hours of preparation and setting up, the 2nd year IB Visual Art students of RCN held their Final Exhibition, for all the community to see, on Sunday the 8th of April. This was a very emotional and vulnerable moment for the 2nd year students, as each piece and each space was carefully thought through, [...]

Bonfire outside the new Baking House We have been delighted to be able to host a team of Support Staff from our sister College, UWC Mostar, during the second half of last week. UWC Mostar kindly hosted a team of RCN Support Staff in the summer of 2012 and we wanted to reciprocate. Our twelve guests have had an action packed programme which included presentations, meetings, [...]

Today, April 4th is the International Landmine Awareness Day.  Our project, Survivors of Conflict, which we do in close co-operation with the Norwegian Red Cross and Red Cross Haugland Rehabilitation Centre started by giving young persons affected by land mine injuries education and rehabilitation according to need. Our students will arrange a special day on Landmine awareness on Saturday: 1100-1300: Kantina activities during brunch. Students share information [...]

Nils Vagstad and Mike Doyle The world is facing many environmental problems all around the globe today. In this year's Environmental Global Concerns (GC) we explored some of these issues, with the events of the day being titled, ‘Our Earth, Our Future’. The event was organized by and for the students. The aim of the GC was to raise awareness and to motivate students to make [...]