Introduce an international student to Danish everyday life

Seize the opportunity to get to know a student with a foreign cultural background and help him/her to settle in in Grenaa.

Through four visits by the international student, you and your family contribute to:

• Strengthen the relationship between Danish and international students
• Ease the international student’s transition to our Danish school system and culture

Support family contact: why

Most of our international students are IB-students and live at the Boarding School. Some of them speak Danish and are familiar with Danish culture, but have lived abroad for a major part of their lives. Therefore, they are unfamiliar with the Danish school system.

How

Being a support family contact, you and your family decide how much time you want to spend with the international student and what you want to do together.
We suggest four visits as a minimum and that you:
Introduce the international student to the family
Show him/her around Grenaa and the local area
Discuss what it is like to go to school in Denmark
Introduce him/her to things to do in one’s free time, for example by taking him/her to your own sport activities.

When

In the beginning of the school year, Grenaa Gymnasium hosts an introduction event where you will meet your guest student and find dates for four visits during September and October.

In November, Grenaa Gymnasium hosts yet another event for all support family contacts and their guest students. From here on, it is up to you whether you want to continue the new friendship.

Interested?

Please contact coordinator Marianne Abell
ma@grenaa-gym.dk

Every year at Grenaa Gymnasium, a group of students prepare for MUN, which is a role play about decision-making in the UN.
Participation in the MUN delegation gives you:
• Insight into the workings of the UN
• A great international network
• A different learning experience

Interested?

Contact MUN-coordinator at Grenaa Gymnasium Stine Sørensen, e-mail: st@grenaa-gym.dk

Read more about MUN at the Danish MUN-site (in English)
Read more about MUN at the European MUN-site (in English)

OD (Operation Dagsværk) is big, fun and meaningful – join up!

Participating in Operation One Day’s Work means you help young people in a developing country to education.
You do this by donating your wage of one day’s work.
You can also join the school’s OD-group and be part of organizing the OD-fashion show, the OD joint lesson and the OD-party at Grenaa Gymnasium. Jobs have to be found, arrangements must be made with the local media and the day wages have to be collected.

Interested?

Contact Stine Bilde 3.sw or Liv Hansson 3.xs