Valle videregående skole - Valle Upper secondary School
Some information about Valle videregående skole you can see here. The school has following courses - education to offer:
About 160 students, aged from 16 to 20 years (most of them 16 to 18)
Dormitory with 60 rooms for about 68 students.
Two schoolfarms
- ca 120 ha arable land and 140 ha forest. Dairy cows, pigs, sheep, hens, market garden. Some of the students bring their own horses with them to the school.
Number of employees:
ca 50 (26 teachers)
Horses:
We cooperate with the Norwegian Equine Center, and The Norwegian Equine School (only 6 km away), therefore we do not have horses for ourselves. We buy all education in horsmanship from The Norwegian Equine School
Owner:
Oppland county. Almost all our students come from Oppland county.
Methods:
We are open to try out new pedagogical methods, with the aim to help our students to become more independent, and to be responsible for their own learning. Independence and responsibility are the best things the school can learn the students. It will be useful for the students for the rest of their lives.
For about one fourth of the time the students study on their own, with the teachers as couchers or supervisors.
We run pedagogical development project together with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (The Norwegian Agricultural University - UMB). All our teachers are involved in that project.
Students’ enterprises:
In their second school-year all our students have their own students’ enterprises. They have about 100 lessions available to develope and run their own enterprise.
Mentor-system: In stead of form masters, responsible for up to 30 students, all our teachers are mentors for a small group (6 - 8) students. Thus each student has a tight and good contact with an adult during the study. The mentor meets with his group at least once a week.
International cooperation:
Junior Achivement Estonia, Tallinn
Project: Education, Career, and Competitiveness in the Nordic-Baltic Region ( Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Russia, Denmark, Norway). The project is financed by Nordplus. http://www.nordplusonline.org
Valmiera county, Latvia
Several bilateral projects between Oppland county and Valmiera county
Member of ENTER (European Network for Learning and Teaching in Agriculture and Rural Development)
Commenius-project PROSOLVA – The main aim of the project is to collect and support the development of efficient teachers’ problems’ solving methods at scool – France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Czech Republic, Norway,Bulgaria, Greece (first meeting in Spain 9th – 13th November 2005
NASEK (Network for the Agricultural Sector to Exchange Knowledge) – a Leonardo pilot-project with members from Austria, the Netherlands, and Finland.
INPACT - A Leonardo project were secondary schools in Europe offer courses for youth in Europe in the field of agriculture. Participation countries are Greece, Romania, Austria, Netherlands, Latvia, Denmark and Norway.
Inpact hold its Final Conference at Valle Upper Secondary School on the 24th September 2010. The conference gathered 105 participants from 15 European Countries. Here you'll find the documents from the speeches. The speech by Audun Tron the Mayor of Oppland County and the other speeches.
SKOLE - A Leonardo Mobility project that makes it possible for students of Valle to participate in courses in Europe.
LAND - A E-twinning project between students of Smiltene in Latvia and Valle, Lena in Norway to communicate in English by using blog on Internet. See the LAND blog
Warm up Hearts Not the Earth is a Nord Plus project between Smiltene Centre Secondary School (Latvia) and Valle videregåendeskole (Norway). It is about enviromental tasks and takes place 2010-2011. The students are visiting each other's schools.
After two years in our school, the students may go out as aprentices for 2 years - in horsemanship, forestry or by a landscape gardener.
After three years in our school, the students have finished their vocational training in agriculture, or they have achieved university admission sertification and vocational training in nature management.
Valle and its' surounings
Valle is situated in the landscape called Toten, on the western side of lake Mjøsa. 120 km north of Oslo, 65 km south of Lillehammer, in Oppland county. In our county we have very much nature - the highest mountains in Norway, national parks and so on. We also have arable land and forests - a lot of tourists, in summer and in winter. But in Toten we do not see so many tourists. In our district we have agriculture - especially vegetables and potatoes.