Early Childhood Centre

We started off this school year with an Early Childhood Centre at full capacity. It is a joy to have 51 students join us everyday for learning and play.

Our students have engaged in four different Units of Inquiry throughout the school year, all focusing on transdisciplinary learning and social and emotional learning.

One unit that really stood out, that both students and staff found very inspiring, was the unit ‘My Body, my Health’.

During this project period we experienced transdisciplinary learning at its best, where our students’ creativity, engagement and skills inline with the PYP learning attributes blossomed.

Art, literature, music, dance and drama make up an important part of our learning and play environment in the ECC. From time to time we have the pleasure of collaborating with different outside organisations, Bergen kommune and Den kulturelle bæremeisen being one. important date for our preschool and ISB as a whole, as a law change required that all private preschools have to become separate legal entities, with separate budgets. For a while this caused concerns for the ECC’s future.

In September we had two artists, a dancer and a musician, join us to provide a workshop for our Kindergarten class with the title “When it rains in Africa”.

All ECC students attended a show towards the end of the workshop, where our Kindergarten students performed and shared their learning. What a great experience, what a joy!

Autumn 2022 was a busy time in the ECC also focusing on the accreditation process, where the whole staff was a part of both preparations and the accreditation week. A great opportunity to reflect, learn, share and develop our practice further.

The big question was if we would be able to run our Early Childhood Centre in a financially sustainable way. Through hard work and enthusiasm from all parties involved, including the ISB board, we solved it and were of the International School of Bergen, owned by the ISB foundation.

Providing a safe, inclusive, predictable and inspiring environment for all students, make up the foundation of the program in the ECC.

Bergen kommune have now started a project collaborating with private preschools focusing on the students’ psychosocial environment. Moving into next school year, this will be one important area that we will be focusing on to ensure that we work inline with the Norwegian Kindergarten Act.

Being part of a learning organisation and an inspiring sharing culture, has a great impact on the quality of the program we provide for our students.

Structrual changes

January 1st 2023 became an able to reassure our staff and families that we will continue to provide a high quality program for children ages 1-5, from August 2023.

We will continue to run an ECC at full capacity with students on the waiting list, where the ECC will be an important part

We look back at this school year with our students, families and staff with gratitude. What a year and what an inspiring and engaging community to be part of.

Thank you all for your contributions!

Ingebjørg Rensvik ECC Principal