DATO        HVA SKJER I MAI?
01.            Offentlig høytidsdag - FRIDAG
03.            Svømming 1.-4. klasse
07.            Førskole
                18.00 Styremøte
                20.00 Foreldremøte
08.            Svømming 1.-4. klasse
10.            Svømming 5.-7. klasse
14.            Førskole
15.            Svømming 5.-6. klasse
                Norsk tentamen
16.            TINE-stafett i Tromsø; 5.-7. klasse
17.            Norges nasjonaldag
18.            FRIDAG
21.            Førskole
22.           Svømming 7.-9. klasse
               SYKKELDAG - hvem går videre til kommunefinalen?
23.           Nynorsk tentamen
24.           Svømming 1.-4. klasse
25            Engelsk tentamen
27.           1. pinsedag - konfirmasjon i ytre Lyngen
28.           2. pinsedag - FRIDAG
29.           Svømming 5.-6. klasse
27.           NAF kommunefinale i sykling, Eidebakken skole
31.           Svømming 1.-4. klasse

Helsedirektoratet har laget en liten film om fysisk aktivitet for barn og unge. Filmen skal inspirere til å lære mer om fysisk aktivitet og legge til rette for at barn og unge skal være aktive

Filmen ligger på Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4XbSF6i7xk&feature=player_embedded

Filmen er også å finne på Helsedirektoratets Facebooksider

Amerikanerne John Shoemaker og Brandon Schreiner kom på besøk til vår skole i den første uka i mai. Fra onsdag til fredag hadde de ansvaret for engelskundervisninga på Straumen skole. Amerikanske guttene kjørte sitt eget opplegg og elevene sier at de lærte masse av gjestelærerne. Vi lærte om amerikansk fotball, statene i Amerika og John og Brandon lærte litt amerikanskengelsk som ungdommer i Amerika bruker nå (cool beans, lame sauce bro!). Alle hadde det skikkelig gøy og Brandon og John har til og med besøkt elevene og deres familier hjemme.  

Skiing day

 

Just before we broke up for Easter holiday we went skiing. All the teachers and students at Straumen Skole enjoyed the day and we proved that “Norwegians are born with skies on their feet”. We played some skiing games and we also had a barbecue inside a Sami tent – or a construction that looks like it J The weather did not spoil our day although it was drizzling but all in all the skiing trip was successful.

Carnival 2012

 

As tradition has it, this year’s Carnival was launched on the last school day before winter break. Everyone was looking forward to the dress-up party and the question: “Who are you going to dress up as?” was asked many a time. No student wanted to spill the beans about the character they were going to dress up as – everything was kept top secret. But when the long-awaited dress-up party came some of us had a real opportunity to feel like celebs when the walked along the famous catwalk. Who came to our fashion show? There were 2 spies, Lord Darth Vader, a spooky skeleton, a mourning lady, fashion designers, witches  - just to name a few! After the fashion show we played a balloon game - the aim of which was to burst your opponent’s balloon but at the very same time you had to avoid having your balloon busted by other opponents.   “Pass the orange game” was another game organised. Here are the rules: students were divided into 2 teams. The task was to pass the orange to the next person in a queue, neck to neck - without using hands of course! (or legs for that matter!). Oranges were only allowed to be tucked under one’s chin and passed this way! If the orange fell, the person who made it fall had to bend down, sat on the knee or even lie down and catch the orange under the chin. Then, he/she had to get up like that and then continue passing the orange!

And finally piñata competition – beautifully decorated, filled with candies, and then broken to children’s entertainment !

 

Do you want to see what fun we had! See the pictures!

Celebrating the sun – Solmarsj 2012

 

Hello everyone! Welcome back after a while! Here I come with the latest news concerning our school trips. This time we celebrated the long-awaited appearance of the sun in the sky. Do I hear someone shout: At last! Polar nights are over! Yes, you are right on that one - the long period of darkness that covered Northern Norway is a thing of the past!  It was dark; it was scary but fret no more! The sun is back and every day seems to be longer and longer.

Students and teachers from the Straumen Skole went on a 2-hour long walk. The whole route was longer for the older students who are more experienced in covering long distances. The route was marked with some control posts together with a control flag. When the control post was found, the control card had to be punched with a special puncher (a special tool for making holes). Having done that, the students were ready to go further and further in the direction of Russelv – and then back to school!

As usual Berit and students who have family science classes baked some “solboller”-  sweet buns shaped like the sun and with a delicious pudding center (just to lick with your tongue!). Then, those who wanted could smear sweet buns with icing and coat the buns in coconut sprinkle. Yummy!

 

 

 

Tradition has it that every year at Straumen Skole we celebrate St. Lucia Day . This holiday is held on December 13 in several countries in Europe, namely Sweden, Denmark, and of course Norway. The holiday is in honor of Saint Lucy. On this day, young girls and boys at our school dress like Saint Lucia in a white robe and a crown of candles. A parade is organised, students sing special songs and they serve saffron-flavoured buns (lussekatter) shaped like curled-up cats and with raisin eyes. This year’s cakes were delectable and our youngest Saint Lucia characters put on a great performance!

And here it is – a long awaited first-hand account of our first (hopefully not the last) study tour to the country where very few have gone before (some of them haven’t even returned home yet). Most of us thought that it would be too courageous to boldly go where few have gone before – and they were right on that one!

Thanksgiving at the Straumen Skole!!

On November the 24, we held another themed classes – this time we settled on celebrating Thanksgiving with all the students at the Straumen Skole. The students were broken into 3 groups according to their age. We held 3 types of workshops – cooking/ arts and crafts and games/ fun activities workshops. Jessica and Gerd together with the kids prepared a finger-licking turkey and salads that went with it. The students also helped a lot with making the gravy and mashing  potatoes. The tables simply groaned with yummy food!

In arts and crafts workshops we coloured colouring pages featuring Pilgrims/ turkey/ Indians and made paper turkeys while in games and fun activities workshops we played Thanksgiving Bingo, sang Thanksgiving songs and played some Thanksgiving-related games. Thanks a lot to all the students and teachers at the Straumen Skole for their effort and grabbing the opportunity I would also like to express special thanks to Fredrik who helped with decorating the school cafeteria!

Have a happy, have a happy, have a happy Halloween !!

On October the 31, we had another themed class – this time we settled on celebrating Halloween. For this occasion I bought myself special, hairy, rubber gloves – imitating hands that werewolves have (LIMITED EDITION!!!). The computer lab was decorated by humble me: the Grim Reaper’s Assistant. Pumpkins garlands were hung on the wall, scarecrows and witches were put out, and the table in the middle of the room featured some jack-o-lanterns. The students at the Straumen Skole sand to the tune: Have a happy, have a happy, have a happy Halloween !!

  Butchering a lamb is no walk in the park – this fact of life is known by every little child in our stunningly beautiful village. Firstly, we had to catch the lamb and that wasn’t a picnic either. As we had helped a local sheep farmer with rounding up sheep at the beginning of October we received one of the lambs for free – as a token of his gratitude. Yesterday, that is on Thursday the 27, we set about cutting up the lamb. See pictures and read more in the subsection: BILDER FRA SKOLEN (on the side menu) .

The Nord Lenangen Mini Marathon – NEW WORLD RECORDS ARE SET!!

The Nord Lenangen Mini Marathon is held in Nord Lenangen every year in October. This world-famous event known to everyone outside Norway who is into running races took place on 21 October 2011. As usual all the students and teachers at the Straumen Skole took part in the race.

Read more and take a quick at the pictures that were taken during this event!

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I would like to share the latest breathtaking news with you -  we are doing a project with Argentinian students who live in very small town called Saladas. Saladas is in Corrientes province in northeast Argentina .

This is a postcard/ email project with our Argentinian friends but in the future we would like to set up Skype classroom conferences so that the students from Argentina and Norway can chat together!! Moreover, the students are going to do presentations on their school, animal and plant life, Christmas traditions  in their mother countries !!

The working language of the project is English !!

It´d like it to be a year-round project that we ´d love to continue on the long run if we ´re both happy to keep supporting it!

So let's get this show on the road and start exchanging emails/ postcards and Power Point presentations !!

Med storhavet som nærmeste nabo, og Fugløya i horisonten ligger Straumen skole vakkert til i den lille bygda Nord-Lenangen. Vi er en fådelt, kristen friskole med omlag 30 elever fra 1.-10.klasse.

Straumen Skole is situated in a small, picturesque village called Nord Lenangen. Nord Lenangen is situated 350 km above the Artcic Circle in Northern Norway !! The school faces the sea and Fugløya (The Bird’s Island) as its nearest neighbours.  

We run a Christian private school with 29 students attending it from the 1^st to the10th grade.  

Bruk menyen til venstre  og les om skolen vår, se bilder fra vår hverdag og fra turer vi har vært på. Følg også med på hva som skjer hos oss framover.

We invite you to use the menu on the left hand side and find out more about our school. Take a look at the pictures taken on a regular school day and school trips we've been to. We will keep you updated with the upcoming school trips, extra-curricular activities and various after-school programs that we will organise in the future!