Presenting HGO, Copenhagen Denmark December 2007
HGO Our school is situated in one of the Copenhagen Districts, Nørrebro, about 4 km from the city centre There is around half a million inhabitants in Copenhagen HGO is short for HeimdalsGades Overbygningsskole
Nørrebro The Nørrebro area consists of two parts, Indre Nørrebro (Inner Nørrebro) and Ydre Nørrebro (Outer Nørrebro) Nørrebro is known for it’s multiethnic society, mostly from Pakistan, The Middle East, Turkey, Kurdistan, Somalia, former Yugoslavia and Albania Nørrebro has a population of You find our school on Outer Nørrebro
Map of Nørrebro
Pictures from Nørrebro/1 Nørrebro Station Nørrebrogade is the main street at Nørrebro. It stretches from the Inner City to Nørrebro Station Nørrebrogade
Pictures from Nørrebro/2 There are a lot of ethnic owned shops in Nørrebro
Presenting the school
Presenting the school/1 Our school consists of two schools: Rådmandsgades Skole (primary school) and HGO (secondary school) In our Primary school we have 475 students. Grade 1 to 6 attend primary School. It also contains preschool classes. Rådmandsgades Skole
Presenting the school/2 In our Secondary school we have 172 students distributed over: 96 girls and 76 boys. Grade 7 to 10 attend HGO. This part of the school is seven years old HGO
Presenting the classes
Our classes/1 We are two classes always working together. There are all together 37 students; 19 boys and 18 girls
Our classes/2 We have these subjects: Danish, maths, English, German/French, biology, geography, science, social studies and physical education Our school starts at 8:20 am in the morning and ends at 1:50 pm in the afternoon
Greetings from Denmark That was our short presentation of our school and our class. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to ask. We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.