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Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Lunch in 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 9th 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 9th 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 9th 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
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
My favourite place in Sweden
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
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
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
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
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.
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
My favorite place in Sweden
A favorite place - Svartlå
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.
I hope you liked my presentation of my favorite place in Sweden :*
My favorite place in Sweden
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
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.