My favorite place in Sweden

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Lunch in school

The food in our school

Sweden is one of the few countries in the world where the students can eat free food in our cafeteria.
The food is free from daycare up to the end of Upper secondary school
Where does the money come from? Adults pay taxes to the state, and some of those taxes go to our cafeteria food.

What do we get to eat?
We always get fish once a week, and every day we get some kind of salad, almost every day we get pizza salad and grated carrots.
We get to choose between milk and water to drink.
They serve us bread every day, and when it's soup for lunch, they even give us soft bread and cheese. Normally we just get hard bread and butter.
The best part of the year in the cafeteria is during christmas when they give us "julbord", apple juice, and gingerbread cookies. Everybody gets jolly!

When we enter the cafeteria we get to choose between two different cues, and normally we pick the slower cue because there are usually more vegetables and different kinds of food there, and if you have some kind of allergy, you are served special food.

If you want something sweet for dessert, we've got a little shop next to our cafeteria where you can buy some pastries for dessert for a cheap price.
Some people in our wonderful class spends a little too much money there, and they end up hungry when they have no more money. :(
The fika which we can purchase there is extremely cheap, and on some occasions, the fika is practically free!

Welcome to Luleå!

By William C, Oskar, and Samuel

Elementary school

Our elementary school is divided into nine grades, and you start the first grade when you´re seven years old. If you want you can go a preparing class when you´re six years old, it´s a step between kindergarten and elementary school but isn´t mandatory unlike elementary school. A good thing with the school in Sweden is that it´s free.

The school is also divided into three different steps
•1th – 3rd grade, It´s calls “lågstadiet”. There you learn the basics in almost every subject, for example reading, counting and writing.

•4th- 6th grade is called “mellanstadiet”. There do you start reading other languages, for example English. In the 6th grade you also get the opportunity to pick another language that you´re going to continue to read in the next grades, you are choosing between Spanish, French and German. In the 6th grade you get your first grades.

•7th-9th grade and it´s calls “högstadiet” the last part of the elementary school and you have national tests. You´re preparing for high school and you get deeper knowledge in the subjects you´re studying.

Written by: Carina & Julia

Luleå upper Secondary School courses are placed in the center of Luleå.
All school buildings are in walking distance of each other. Luleå upper secondary school is close to many cafés, stores, businesses and institutions which provide good opportunities for interaction with private and local institutions outside the conventional school system.

There are many different educations in the upper secondary school. The biggest building is called Kungsfågeln. In Kungsfågeln you can study work program, electricity program, secondary special school, industry technical program, introduction program, science program, restaurant and food program, the technology program, plumbing and building program and personal care and care oriented.

In the other buildings you can study other programs, like the arts program or the social science program.

/ Frida & Hanna

The Upper Secondary School in Sweden

When you’re 16 years old and have graduated from 9^th grade of elementary school you’re ready for the next grade of school in Sweden – the so called "gymnasium"(Upper Secondary School). There are a variety of different programmes you can choose before starting the 3 years of "gymnasium". During the last semester in 9^th grade of elementary school you make a couple of applications to the programmes you’re interested in. Some programmes are more popular than others. It is the grades from 9^th grade of elementary school that determines whether you make in it or not. Fortunately you have multiple applications to different programmes, so if you don’t make it with your first choice, you’ve always got a second and a third.

Last year the "gymnasium"-school changed, so we are the first pupils who experience this “new” "gymnasium". Some of the changes are:

· A new system of grades (A-F).

· Some programmes are gone, while some are new.

· Within the programmes, the courses have changes by a bit.

Made by: Nils, Gustav, Anton

My favourite place in Sweden

One of my favourite places in sweden is the ”big rapids”.
It is one of the biggest waterfalls in Europe with its 5km long stream of water and 82 meters in vertically fall lenght. In avarage there are 180 000 people that visits ”big rapids” every year.
There is a plateau near the stream where people can stand and watch and listen to the big noises that the stream makes.
The area around the big rapids are a nature reserve which means you’re not allowed to pick up flower etc.. to ruin the environments, but you can swim in the small lakes which i have done and it is pretty cold but fun.
Sometimes there is also an concert with music there, but i have never listened to it.
As you walk around you can find big holes straight down through the rocks, the holes were created long time ago when the rapids were wider and made the stones underneath the surface to spin in place and dig down in the rocks creating the holes.

Grading

Here in Sweden we have the same grades as in the U.S. We have six different steps: A, B, C, D, E and F and the A is the best and the F means that you have failed. It is a little bit hard to get an A in the beginning of a course. This kind of grading has just been introduced to the Swedish school and from the beginning it was MVG, VG and G but the state didn’t think that grading was fair enough and besides it easier to have the same grading as the rest of the world.

Since this grading is very new it is a bit hard to understand even for the teachers but we are working on it. In math the final grade depends a lot on a single big test in the end of the course while in the Social studies the final grade depends on whole course. Most of the pupils don’t like the new grading’s just because it is harder to get an A then a MVG and some teachers think it is inefficient. Well, let’s see what the future says about it!


Written by: Carolina, Dudu and Daniel

Subjects in sweden

Here in Sweden we have something called "Gymnasium" that is like the american high school. In the 9th grade at primary school you make a chose of which program you want to study at the three coming years, i.e. social science, science program, construction or hairdressing line. Every program has a minimum of intake points. You get your points from the grades you got from primary school.
Everyone in our class has chosen the science program.
Our program is very much about math, biology, physics, chemistry and language. Different program has different subjects that they specializes on, but they all have some subjects that they have to read i.e. math, Swedish, English.


This is our school :)

Hope you liked our presentation and have a nice day in Poland!

// Emilia, Emma and Ida

My favourite place in Sweden

My favourite place in Sweden

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My favourite place- Boheden

My favourite place here in Sweden is my family’s cottage in a small place that is called Boheden. It’s quite close to a village that’s called Överkalix but there is a lake between Överkalix and our cottage.

When we drive to our cottage we can drive two different ways, through the forest or over the lake. If we choose to drive through the forest we have a bigger opportunity to see some wild animals and in most cases we drive this way because it’s a little bit shorter. If you drive over the lake there is a ferry that takes you over the lake in the summers and in the winter you can drive over the ice because there is a road on the ice in the winter.

I like to be in our cottage because it is very quiet and you can do a lot of things. In the winter it’s a lot of snow and you can go skiing, ice fishing and do a lot of other winter activities. In the summers you can do things in the forests, in the water and on the meadows around the cottages. In the forest I walk with our dog and on the meadows I play soccer with my brother and other things and on the lake I windsurf, go water skiing, swim, paddle, fish, and go by boat. We have a little beach about 100 meters from the cottage where we have the boat.

It´s very beautiful around our cottage because there are green meadows around the house and you can see the blue lake outside the window. On the other side of the lake there is a small mountain and around all this there are forests. There are quite a lot of animals there so in the winters when it´s snow on the ground you can see the tracks from different animals even on our terrace. One winter we had a hare that lived under the terrace.

I like to be in the cottage because there are a lot of things to do that you can’t do at home.

My favorite place in Sweden

My favorite place here in Sweden is my grandma and grandpa’s cottage out on Sandön. Sandön is an island located in Luleå’s archipelago. The name is derived mainly from the sand that covers most of the island. To come out to their cottage and be there a few days, just bath, sunbathing, eat good foot, row out with my grandpa’s little fishing boat and fish, drive vehicle with four while. This is relaxation for me, to feel the calm. That is what I love about their cottage. I’ve been there every summer since I was a little baby.

Here are two pictures of Klubbviken. Klubbviken is a tourist attraction on Sandön. In summer, people visit Klubbviken for to sunbathe, swim and to meet people and enjoy themselves. A few years ago my grandpa bought a vehicle with four wheel drive which is frequent used when grandchildren come out to the cottage. Almost every time we visit Sandön we take the vehicle to Klubbviken with grandpa and buy some ice cream.

I hope you liked my presentation. Over and out! ;)

A favorite place - Svartlå

My favorite place in Sweden is my grandmother and grandfathers cabin. When my dad was only one year old they started to build this cabin by hand. It didn’t take that long to get it together. Behind the cabin there is another house, very little, and inside of that there is a sauna. My grandfather is raised in this village and he grew up just on the other side of the cottage. What I love about this cabin is that I can come here and just relax. I don’t have to think of everything that’s happening in the outside world. We have running water in the crane. But the water is from the river so we have to get the fresh water from a cold source that’s just a hundred meters away and there is the best water I ever tasted.


This picture was taken a few years ago, but I didn’t have any newer of the inside of the cabin. The little girl on the picture is my little sister. Sense there is my grandfather and grandmothers cabin the furnishings and decorations are very old, but I just thinks that it fits very good to the cabin and just makes it cozier.

The little house a few meters away is our sauna.

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My favorite place in Sweden

My favorite place in Sweden is in the stable where I have my horse called Wonder. The stable is situated in a small village called Bensbyn, from my home it is about 20kilometers and it takes about 20-25minutes to drive there. I spend the most of my spare-time in the stable and every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I ride for a trainer and that is really good for me and my horse because then both of us gets better and my trainer can tell me what to do to make everything better. In the stable it is 10 stalls and 4 boxes. We have a manage outside as we ride in on the summers and on the winters and when to weather is bad we ride in the riding house, it is not warm there but it is a protection against the wind and the rain and so on. I train for competitions and I often train with two other friends in the stable. When we are at competitions we compete in a team and my team is called “Bensbygårdens ryttarförening”.

My favorit Place in Sweden

One of my favorite places in Sweden is the stable. When you are there you can forget about all your problems and just have fun. I spend a lot of my free time in the stable with my best friend, my horse.

It’s a perfect place to be in when you need to take a break from school or something. It’s always so peaceful and you have nothing to worry about. The stable is located in a village called sunderbyn.

My favorite place in Sweden

One of my favorite places is probably the stable because that’s where I spend the most of my free-time. I like to be there because there is always so quiet and cozy. When you're feeling stressed it can be a really good place to be in, because you can just forget everything and you're troubles seems so far away.

The stable is in a small village called Rutvik and it is about 11 kilometers from my home. Unfortunately I don’t have any pictures of the stable but here is some of my horse.