Where shall we go for camp school?

Program and education

for 4 days

Recommended by

The Norwegian Camp School Association

Eco-lighthouse certified

A new environment

Many schools have been good at facilitating outdoor activities and outdoor school in their own local area in the recent years. It is good training and getting used to outdoor life but does not replace going with the class to a new natural environment for a full school week.

For some pupils, this contact with a new natural environment (pupils from the coast and lowlands travel to fresh water and mountains, and vice versa) will often be the first and perhaps only experience of another natural environment. And for some, experiencing a new element of nature becomes a turning point in a young life. If the travel time becomes somewhat longer by completely changing the natural environment, the learning value of coming 2-4 hours from home and seeing completely different crops and landscapes, villages and farms is so much greater.

Norsk Leirskoleforening

Norsk Leirskoleforening (The Norwegian Camp Schools Association (NLF)) organizes 52 camp schools spread across the country.

The places can be owned and run by organisations, private individuals or municipalities, but common to all is that the teaching is run by municipally employed teachers. In this way, camp school is part of primary school, now also a statutory part.

An NLF-recommended camp school site guarantees that the teaching staff at the camp school are employed by the municipality and that the program is laid out by the educational department in the host municipality.

The idea of going to camp school during primary school is precisely to get away from home and fend for yourself for a week. Packing lunch, keeping things in order, getting to know others, dressing according to the weather, not having contact with parents, sharing a room with others and many other learning factors, can only be experienced through a camp school stay. Some of the learning objectives at the stage can only be completed outside the classroom, for example at camp school.

Brennabu started with a camp school in 1965 and since then has experience in giving 12-year-olds an experience of a lifetime with a stay in a safe, but exciting mountain farm landscape 850 m above sea level at Vaset in Vestre Slidre in Valdres. Easily accessible 1,100-metre peaks are within reach, but also mountain waters suitable for leisurely paddling trips. The area does not have steep mountains with avalanche hazards and is therefore well suited for ski training and snow activities.

Spisesalen i hovedhuset. Foto: Christine Stokkebryn

Brennabu leirskole. Lærer hjelper med klatresele.

A recommended camp school such as Brennabu will also be able to guarantee a well-worked educational plan, safety assessments and the necessary safety equipment for all activities, specialist expertise by camp schoolteachers with long experience and accommodation in approved and suitable premises where food and housing and fire protection undergo regular public checks. After a camp school stay at Brennabu, our educational department will send documentation of which learning objectives for the stage have been reviewed during the camp school week and thus free up time in the classroom for the rest of the year.

Brennabu can accommodate several school classes at the same time. This often provides good and exciting social meetings between school classes from different backgrounds. In this way, the camp school stay also becomes an arena for social training in meeting others.

We therefore invite schools from the lowlands and coast to a stay at Brennabu and a whole school week with experiences and learning for life. If the school wishes, we can make fixed agreements for fixed weeks for years to come.