My School
SWEDEN
Our thoughts about high school
by Johanna and Victoria
We are now going to tell you about our
wonderful high school Agneberg, here in
Uddevalla, Sweden. The origin of the
school is looking back to the 1600′s local
h i s t o r y, w h e n i t o n l y w a s s m a l l
treehouses. Today on the other hand,
Agneberg is one of the biggest schools in
this area, with two buildings, five floors,
and over 1000 students. It’s a certainly
well-equipped high school, we have for
example a big dining room where we get
our meal for free, a dining room for the
teaches, our own restaurant called
“Gesällen” where you can buy food that
other students have made, a cafeteria
where you can buy pastries, cakes,
sandwiches, soft drinks and smoothies or
just hang out on breaks. We do also have
a library, a huge sports hall (where a lot
of sport events and even some smaller
concerts are taking place), where we also
have a gym and a room where you can
practice dancing. Furthermore we have a
lot of regular classrooms, some kitchen,
laboratory rooms and a room where you
can charge your computer or listen to
music. We do also have a nurse, a
counselor and a study- and careeradviser.
The school has seven main programs; the
child- and recreation program, the
economy program, the business- and
a d m i n i s t ra t i o n p r o g ra m , t h e h o t e l
management- and tourism program, the
restaurant- and nutrients program, the
social science program (which we are
studying), and SPINT- the English and
internationalization program. Every
program has also different orientations
that you are able to choose between
when you are studying your second year.
All in all it’s one of the best schools in this
area at least according to us.
Now: some thoughts about our school
class. We think that our class is quite
good, we are about 25 pupils, both boys
and girls, and we have been a class since
2011 when we all started high school. We
will now do our very best to make you
understand how our classes works and
what we actually are learning in school.
Okay, so the designation of our class is
“the social science program”. In Sweden
we have the ability to choose which
program we want to study. Does it work
the same way for you? In Sweden we can
choose between varieties of different
programs with different directions:
natural science, engineering science,
social science, health and social care,
tourism, restaurant and so on.
As we mentioned above, our class is a
social science class, which basically
means that we learn a lot about the
society (how the government works) and
why humans behave the way they do
(behavioral science). Those are our main