About the course

You will be able to speak and understand Norwegian according to you own standards through suggestopedi – a quick and fun learning method. 

You will learn about Norwegian culture, history, geography and society through exhibitions and by travelling and experience Norway fist hand. This year will be a nine months long adventure.  

You will also learn to build and sleep in a snow cave, how to prepare food on a bonfire, how to make and sleep under a gapahuk (shelter), canoing, dogsledging and much more.

I love Elverum FHS. I have learned so much about Norway, and also about myself. The teachers are lovely and all the activities are exciting. I will never forget this year.

Camilla Scotolati, former student

Suggestopedi is a method for faster and more joyful learning. By using music, imagination, humor, roleplay, songs, games and dialogues you increase your learning potential. We emphasize the oral language in class, but offer writing tasks you can do on your free time.

Travel in Norway

• Rafting in the river Sjoa, hiking on the Smørstab glacier and in Jotunheimen 
• Stavanger, Egersund, Lindesnes, Mandal and Kristiansand 
• Copenhagen 
• Finnmark, Hurtigruten and the Lofoten islands
• Røros, Trondheim, Molde, Ålesund, Flåm Railway and Bergen 
• Oslo, Hamar and Lillehammer

August/September: Rafting in the river Sjoa, Clacier hiking on Smørstadbreen, hiking in Jotunheimen national park.

September: You will visit Heddal stave church, Preikestolen, Stavanger and the Norwegian oil museum. We go fishing in Egersund, visit the Lindesnes lighthouse and meet a local artist in Mandal. In Kristiansand zoo you’ll see Norwegian predators.

December:  In Copenhagen, Denmark we will visit Rosenborg Castle, the marble church, the famous Tivoli, the bohemian freetown Christiania, the christmas marked and go for a canal boat sightseeing.

March: You will travel to Finnmark, Kirkenes snow hotel and The Sami Parliament in Karasjok. We go by Hurtigruten to the Lofoten Islands, where you will experience the viking museum, the Northernlights center, local artists and craftsmen, «Lofot fishing» and eagle safari outside Svolvær.

April: You will experience the copper mines in Røros. In Trondheim we see the Nidaros Dome, the Rockheim music hall of fame and Tyholttårnet. We continue to Molde, Ålesund, The aquarium «Altanterhavsparken», The Norwegian glacier museum in Lerdal, the railway from Flåm to Vatnahalsen in Bergen, Håkonshall and Rosenkranz tower, Fløybanen and «Trollhaugen» – the famous composer Edvard Grieg’s home.

Regarding Covid-19

Because of Covid-19 and continuing changes in the infection situation, it is difficult to predict how it will affect the coming school year. We follow all advice and regulations from the authorities. We are planning for a normal school year, and for all travels to carry out as planned. But we will provide good alternative solutions if this is not possible. Destinations on study trips can be changed (including domestically) if natural disasters or other external and extraordinary circumstances occur which the school does not control, and which significantly affect the execution of the trip. No financial compensation is normally given for this.