In English

Eriksdalsskolan – A unique school

The school of Eriksdal is the largest compulsory school in Stockholm. You find our yellow functional style buildings situated in the very centre of the city but still facing water and the green open space by the bay of Årsta (Årstaviken) The school of Eriksdal seethes with life from around 1 400 pupils and around 200 well skilled staff members. Together we represent most parts of the world which renders us the manifoldness that is part of our strength and success.

Other contributions to making our school special are our different profiles; the oldest and best known of which are the Art and Design. Classes where the pupils have their own special timetables that include extra time for art. Handicraft and woodwork. Newer, but not less popular are our Sport Classes and our Music and Drama Classes also, of course with their special timetables with extra time for sports and music and drama respectively.

Security and confidence
We are proud of being the largest compulsory school and well aware of the high demands for competence when it comes to preparing our many pupils in the best way for the future lives and studies. To answer to these demands we never crease developing our working methods, modes of co-operation further education and teaching media. We strongly believe that security and confidence found the atmosphere that leads to good learning hence our pupils welfare consists not only of a team of two nurses, a school welfare officer and psychologist, but also of a team of remedical teachers and pedagogues. These team work closely together to ensure that also children with special needs get the help and support they need to be able to meet the requirements of the educational aims. Another of our many ways to enhance a secure and trusting atmosphere at school as well as in the schoolyard is the ongoing work among a group of teachers and representatives from the pupils welfare team. They leave no stones unturned when it comes to solving problems with bullying in the best way for everyone concerned. We also have to staff members who speak the language of the young, and who are there for the pupils when they need an older friend they can trust in confide in.

Benefit of manifoldness
A school as large as ours can, of course, offer its teachers the benefit and support of having many colleagues who teach the same subjects, we have, for instance, no less then ten English, eight art and seven sports teachers which naturally facilitates an enriches mutual work and planning. This is one of the reasons we seldom have problem to recruiting qualified teachers. Apart from a vast numbers of classrooms, rooms for art, music, handicraft, woodcraft, computers, home economics and so forth, we also have an assembly hall takes no less than 650 persons. The assembly hall – among other things used for seminars and performances by music and drama classes – is situated close what form the centre of the school, namely the school dining-halls, the school library, the school café and a room for pupils leisure time.

Organization
The head Mistress, her two assistant Head Masters and assistant Head Mistresses – each responsible fore one of the four parts of the school – form school management. Other supporting areas are the school chancellery and the service & techniques department. A computer technician and a person responsible for timetabling are other valuable assents in the running of the school of Eriksdal.

Address:
Eriksdalsskolan
Ringvägen 58-66
S-118 61 Stockholm
Sweden

Phone: +468 508 40 550
Fax: +468 643 01 48