St.Andrews School England
The staff of school.
Headteacher: Kjell Petter Stene
Deputy headteacher: Anne-Marl Flobergseter
Secretary: Elen Gilje Arseth
1 caretaker
3 cleaners
8 school assistants
1 coordinator for the after school activities
9 instructors and assistants working with the after school activities(80 - 90children)
29 teachers (some in reduced jobs. 50 or 80 %)
Organisation of the school
The school is situated in the middle of the town of Molde. It is surrounded by a splendid natural resources that gives opportunity to do historical, cultural, ecological studies as well as physical activities.
We are lucky to have a very lively museum as the nearest neighbour. We are welcome to visit it and use the area, the houses and the little farm with a stable, sheep shed and a barn. There are 1 - 2 horses, goats, sheep, rabbits, pigs and hens. Some of our classes have also grown their own potatoes there.
The seaside is not more than 10-15 mm’ s walk from school, so the classes can easily walk down there to do marine nature studies.
The swimming-pool and the old Football Stadion are also nearby The school make use of the pool one day a week.
The school was finished in 1965 and is named after the farm that owned the land.
The name Sellanra is taken from a novel written by one of the most famous novelists in Norway. ,Knut Hamsun (1859 - 1952).
The school consists of 4 buildings. Three of them are connected by sheds, so it is shaped as an E. The fourth house has PE-hall, room for music-lessons and a section for the dentist and the school’ s health-care. There are 14 classes from grade 1 to 7
The number of pupils in each class varies from 21 to 28. The limit upwards is 28.
There are about 355 children at our school. The number varies with about 10 from year to year.
Most classes have children with special needs. The extra help is mostly organized by having a second teacher in the class.
The pupils start at school the year they are 6 and finish the year they are 13. Afterwards they go to the junior secondary school that lies just a few meters from us.
The children have 10 years of compulsory education. Then all are given 3 years free upper secondary school. Norwegians most often use the right, but some study less, split the courses up or find themselves a job.
The community has 14 schools all together. Three of them also have students on the secondary level.
Four of these schools are situated in the district. They are rather small and have age-mixed classes.
Finances.
The Local Education Department put up their annual budget based on the schools’ records.
The LED is funded by a certain allowance from the Government and the Community itself.
It is political managed and may therefore vary from year to year depending on the politicians interests, knowledge and goodwill.
Unfortunately in the last few years the schools have not been taken good care of neither by the Government nor the Local politicians.
The school leaders and the teachers therefore have to use lots of resourcefullness and energy to find good solutions that cost very little.
In 1997 we received a the new National Curriculum.
The schools use the NC when they work out the annual plans for the classes, The school itself has the opportunity to put in themes specially chosen out by the school, the class or the children.
News in the National Curriculum:
Out-of -door- school.
All classes between 1 and 4 spend 2 - 3 hours out in the area every week.
Aims: Social skills, cooperation, fantasy, make use of what's in nature. Nature studies etc.
ART:
Increase the knowledge about local, national and international art and artists of all kind.
Increase the use of themes
Increase the use of project-work as learning/teaching-methods.
Give the children opportunity to make their own decisions develop a feeling of responsibility for own learning.
