Idun amatour theater

The school next to the Cathedral have an annual school play that takes place here in January.
It is a play by pupils, and the instructors are from the city´s theatre.

The winner from last Saturdays competition on fb. is... ANDREI CONSTANTIN.

Blue sky...

Outside it is windy with quite a bit of rain...
So today I will put out a photo taken a few days back when the sky was blue and the sun was shining.
That is what it is going to be soon again.

Autumn colours.

It has been a fantastically nice and warm week.
A week to remember!
Now it has started to rain.
And it will be pouring down according to the weather forecast.
Anyway, have a nice weekend!

A new year

A new year with lots of exciting things happening!
Enjoy and have fun!!

Christmas or not...

It is soon Christmas time, and here you see some children waiting to visit the Cathedral.
Today was a perfect day to take a trip in to town. Cold but sunny.

It is up to the parents to say yes or no for their children to attend a church service before Christmas.

Some schools in Stavanger as well as other places in Norway have decided not to use the word Christmas, and instead name it a December event, where they sing the songs but words as Christmas/ Father Christmas have been changed to something "neutral".

Probably difficult to be a teacher and talk about Christmas without using the word....

I guess the discussion will continue also after Christmas this year....

Take a look at this :


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Stavanger this afternoon.

Stavanger this afternoon.

KATEDRALSKOLEN

A door in to  KATEDRALSKOLEN.

Stavanger Katedralskole.

Pupils seen outside the Stavanger Katedralskole.
They are aged between 16 and 19.
The school has a good reputation, and is situated just next to the Cathedral and the city park.

Exams.

It is the time of year for exams.


(Stavanger Katedralskole, next to the Cathedral.)

Sør-Fogn Skule.

The old school, - Sør-Fogn Skule.
Seen from the back, behind the teachers training school.
The front did not look so nice though,  with a damaged door and roof, plus rubbish lying around.
But it did look like it is still being used by someone, students I guess.

The Steiner school.

As I said in yesterdays posting, the xmas market is on the whole weekend.

More music, more entertainment and more to buy.

It looks like we will have a cold, but sunny day here in Stavanger.

Xmas market.

An annual event happening this weekend.
Christmas market at the Steiner school.
I don`t know who they were but these people COULD sing.

Exhibitions of schoolwork, the sale of home made, as well as school made, food and products.
Pony riding, fun for kids and a nice place to be.

The Rudolf Steiner School.

It is already 2 weeks since the teachers and pupils started school again, after 8 weeks of holiday.
This is from The Rudolf Steiner School.

In Stavanger the children finished school on June 21st. and are on holiday until August 22nd

Two months are more than what most parents are able to take as holiday, - so for many families it can be quite a challenge to find someone to look after the children when the parents are at work.

The school "SKEIE", looks like it has been decorated for Easter, but joking aside,- it is a colorful looking school for kids between the ages of 6-13.

Not much color at the schools I went to, so it is a sign that times have changed positively

Another building.

This time from the Rudolf Steiner school.

I think this is the building that the youngest kids use.

(Perhaps a kindergarden?)

Nice shapes, and quite different from most other schools.

Not since the 1980's have we had a STRIKE as big as the one starting tomorrow morning.

17.000 members of different unions are not going to work several places in Norway.

That includes teachers, workers at kindergardens, nurses in hospitals, traffic wardens (probably not too many people who will complain about this one), librarians and some who work at swimming pools. So tonight I guess many families are discussing who will stay at home or who will bring the kids to their workplace....

This picture is from the school, the one next to the Cathedral.

Because of the strike, exams might not happen as they should have done for the Russ/those who might start at the University after the summer.....We just have to see how long the strike goes on for and what will happen....

The KRISTIANSLYST school. (For teenagers. 13-16 years old.)

It was built back in 1970, and is typical for that period of time.

Last Monday the pupils came back to a "new" school. Lots of work have been going on for a very long time. The result looks nice, so I guess all these 16-17-18-19 years old are happy! The news paper used words like the best one in Norway!! Well, this is just the entrance.... more to follow.

This is the "Steiner" school.

A private school with what I find to be an interesting architecture!