STUDY VISIT

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STUDY VISIT

• Study visit for education specialists
• Moster school, Tuesday 05.05.2009

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Program for the visit

• Short presentation of the school
• Anne S. Vikanes, Headmaster
• Guided tour
• 1. 7. grade
• 8. 10. grade
• Break Coffee and snacks served
• Ad lib conversation with staff and/or visiting
  schoolyard during recess
• Continued guided tour
• Summary and questions

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Welcome to Moster school!

• Combined primary and lower secondary school
• 350 pupils
• 37 teachers, 9 assistants, 2 secretaries and
  administration staff
• New in January 2009
• Consists of pupils and staff from
• former Håvik school
• former Moster school
• Pupils from Skogbu reception centre for
  asylumseekers

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Håvik school

• Small village school with 30 pupils, 6 staff
• Key strengths
• Mixed age groups
• Close individual pupil/teacher contact
• High expertise in teaching children with special
  needs
• Cooperation between staff at Håvik and Moster
  during autumn 08 to coordinate teaching
• Social gatherings for pupils and staff
• We want to take the best from Håvik school
  and combined it with qualities from Moster
  school.

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Building a new school

• Some history about the old Moster school
• Too small, bad condition
• Large involvement building a new school
• The planning process
• What did we want for our pupils?
• What will they need?
• Traditional or modern architecture?
• Ordinary classrooms ore open landscapes?

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What we chose

• We chose to focus on flexibility, areas with a
  lot of possibilities, enough place for the pupils
  so they can learn, grow and develop.
• The school building has an open layout with many
  smaller rooms (break-out rooms), which permit
  different forms of teaching
• Increased possibility to tailor teaching to
  pupils needs

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School facilities layout

• Three main buildings
• 1. 2. grade day care for school children
• 3. 7. grade common rooms (handicrafts, music
  room, science lab, sports hall, school kitchen,
  library, staff huddle room, cantina area,
  school admin, amphi theatre)
• 8. 10. grade auditorium
• Each grade has its own entrance and wardrobe area
• Most grades also simple kitchen facilities
• Personal office in each main building

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Moster school
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Moster school ICT

• ICT focus.
• In Norway we have a new educational reform,
  called the knowledge promotion, which puts strong
  emphasis on the ability to make use of ICT.
• Moster school Well equipped with modern IT
  hardware 200 laptops for pupils and staff,
  projectors in classrooms and common rooms.
• Its learning (a Virtual Learning Environment)
  used extensively
• Information management and communication tool for
  staff, pupils and parents
• presentation tools for the teachers, but also
  used by the children in their basic training.

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Moster school areas of development 2008/2009

• Efficient organization of new learning
  environment
• Focus on adapted and differentiated education
• Structured communication with pupils about their
  learning and development
• regular and constructive feedback
• Strong teacher leadership - focus on social
  competency
• Physical activities
• School meals (3. and 4. grade - project)

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School meal 3. og 4. grade twice a week

• We use the cantina-area

• Everyone has to clear up after the meal

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All pupils are of equal worth, but none of
them are alike.

• Moster school is inclusive there must be room
  for all.
• Children with special needs are included in their
  respective grade, with education in classroom or
  various break-out rooms.
• We wish to strive for the ideal goal which is to
  give all pupils adapted and differentiated
  education based on their own abilities and needs.
  

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At last

• We wish you
• an interesting day,
• full of impressions
• and valuable learning!

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Contact info

• Postal address
• Moster skule
• 5440 Mosterhamn
• Norway
• Phone
• 47 53 42 36 00
• Mail
• moster.skule_at_bomlo.kommune.no
• Web
• www.bomloskulen.no
• Headmaster Anne S. Vikanes