Søve Videregående skole

• Agricultural school since 1893• Beautiful location by the Telemark Canal in

the middle of Telemark – halfway between the Skagerak Sea and Hardangervidda Mountains (an hour away)

• A growing modern school and center for agriculture

By Terje Kristoffersen, Principal

The school and the farmMany buildings around the old farmAgriculture and settlement since the Stone AgeMany reminders from the Stone Age, Viking AgeSchool building designed by the famous architect

Sverre Fehn who lived in the neighborhood75 hectars of agricultural land350 hectars of forest land30 milking cows30 horses300 pigs70 sheepA beautiful farm, park, landscape and view!

First grade Vg 1 Use of nature - a taste of everythingSecond grade Vg 2 Horse related courses, horseshoe making and farriery Vg 2 Forestry Vg 2 Agriculture Third grade Vg 3 Agriculture Vg 3 General study preparing for higher studies Possible deep studies in mathematics, chemistry and biology Vg 3 General studies for pupils from other practical schoolsAgriculture for adult studies We are working with new studies as: Hunting, fishing, wildlife and outdoor skills – second level Horseshoe making and farriery – second level (nationwide offer) Technical high school studies as economy and leadership, sheep –

extracting and processing products from natural resources Renewable energy course is on board.

Søve offers:

Søve offers:

A variable school day and school periods High score among the pupils and parents High quality in every part of the school Great place – great view Modern horse facilities, outdoors and

indoors training and competition New modern cattle house and milk

production process Well - equipped and special classrooms The only school in Telemark offering

Ipad for all pupils and teachers Dormitory Stable and dog-house can be rented A lot of free nature – themed activities Experience for life

We lead an exchange program with Guatemala since 2007. Guatemalan students are visiting us in Telemark and our students visit them at their village

We wish to visit our friends in the Western World too USA and Great Britain are our nearest allies in many areas My family established in Chicago around 1910 – book printers as far as I know

We are in prosess of development of exciting programs of exchange between students from Søve and University of Dakota and Minnesota: Farm working techniques and experience as a principle of the exchange Knowledge and experience sharing between Søve and schools and farms in the

U.S.A. – students, teachers and farm-workers We are in early stages of establishing contacts for similar exchange with Scotland

Exchange program

Telemark University College Norwegian University of Life Sciences (in

Ås) Norwegian School of Veterinary Science

in Oslo Entrepreneurs and farmers Horse centers and horsefarms Farriers Politicians

Partners

Dyrskuen in Seljord – 80 000 visitors Mersmak in Skien – 50 000 visitors Eplefestivalen in Gvarv – 10 000 visitors? Minidyrskuen at Søve – 3500 visitors at our school and

farm (children and families) Newspapers and magazines See our videos - Norwegian text only Visit us in ‘’Little Norway’’ = Telemark!! Our staff and students will do all in power to make you

feel comfortable and relaxed Welcome to Søve! www.sove.vgs.no Telephone (0047 )35 91 87 00

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