Ă˜stervangskolen Hadsten
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Our school lays in Hadsten in Denmark. Hadsten is a very nice small town with 7700 inhabitants (2010) We got a pedestrian street with 20 shops, a center with 10 shops (small, but ok), and banks, a station to trains and bus’. Hadsten has a high school (600 students), a technical college (1000 students), a Folk High School (120 students) and some other educational small educational places There are 3 public schools in Hadsten. Hadsten is 25 km from Aarhus and 12 km from Randers.
General info about our school • 516 students at our school, • There are 44 teachers • 5 people working with administration at our school. • SFO is where the young children can go after school and play together with they friends they are 8 teachers at the SFO. • We got 4 service people.
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We go to school about 200 days pr year
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5 times a year we got something called a flexweek. A flexweek is a week where we only have one subject a whole day or all week, but it changes what kind of things we do.
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One time a year we have a vacation called “The Summervacation” it's the longest vacation we got, it's about 6 weeks long, and placed in june/july/august
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Especially just after Christmas we have a lot of small vacations like Winter holiday, Palm sonday, and Easter.
School system •
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In Denmark are we all in the same school we don't have middelschool and stuff like that.. The pupils are from the age of 5 to 15-16 years old. We are all in the same area but in different classes. We go from 1th grade to 9 or 10th grade. In our school we only have to 9th grade grade If you want to have 10th grade you will too go to another school in Hadsten.
School system • Green Flag – We care about the enviroment – We use as little paper and water as possible
• Exchange system – We exchange with German schools in Üelzen and Munich – Denmark 8’th grade – Germany 9’th grade
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In most of the schools in Denmark are the schedules the same, but the subjects are different class to class. There is Math, Danish, English, German, P.E, Carpentry, Arts, Music, Chemistry, Physics, Religion, Biology, Geography, History and Politic Science. Our school starts at 8.05 in the morning - the longest time we can have is 7 lessons in school which means that the day at latest ends at 14.20.
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In 9’th grade, we have a exam before we going out of school. In some subjects you have to take an exam, and in other subjects you extract wheter you will have to take an exam
Café Madkassen •
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We have a cafeteria were we can buy food, fruit and water in the breaks. And it is always fresh. Sometimes we can buy special things like pizza, pasta, rice, potatoes, meatballs, fish etc. At lunch time there is also a big salad bar. A warm meal cost about 2 to 3 Euros, and salad cost about 1.5 to 2 Euros . It is always healthy food, they sell.
Sports • A our school we do a lot of psysical education and have many possibilities to burn som calories in the breaks • Table tennis • Football • Playgrounds • Theme weeks • Theme days
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