Over the past fortnight, Ed Love (a doctoral candidate in Egyptology at St. John's College, Oxford) has been on a teaching internship at RCN. He has been visiting classes, contributing to our extra academic programme and has been helping students with advice on how to craft personal statements for university applications - and on one of the last evenings, he gave an outstanding presentation on the wonderful world of Egyptology to a [...]

HM Queen Sonja "Education is the most valuable we can give to you young people". This was the message Her Majesty Queen Sonja gave in front of a packed auditorium at the end of the Cultural Show. "Coming here to UWC RCN is always so invigorating, experiencing so much talent and willingness to share". This is the tenth time Her Majesty has visited our College [...]

The UWC RCN Outdoor department held the Kayak Leader Course on the weekend 16th to 17th of September for staff and students at UWC Red Cross Nordic, enabling the successful participants to lead kayak trips for the students at the College. The course was in two parts over two days. On the first day was in the Flekke fjord by the College to learn the basics of paddling [...]

RCN graduate Tormod Carlsen, with fellow alumna Eli Våge, recently produced a theatre piece in Dale in which some of our second year theatre students took part. 'Radio Fjellom' was one of the performances in the annual Dale Theatre Festival - inspired by experiences at UWC, the director created a visual and sensory feast about Iife in Fjaler. This was a zany and experimental production which made [...]

Her Majesty Queen Sonja will visit UWC Red Cross Nordic on September 21st - 22nd for our programme on inclusion in education: ‘The Power of Diversity’. We are working with the Education Committee and the Administrative Team in Sogn og Fjordane to connect with schools and educational projects in our region dedicated to inclusion. We see this as an opportunity to share and draw on each other’s [...]

Vidar in action Progress is being made on the construction of the Baking House and wood shed – to partner the Silent House as part of the ‘Nordic Tun’ on the south side of the campus; this building will contain a baking oven and will be an educational resource – and a source of enjoyment – for our students, Red Cross summer camps, and other [...]