Nurturing Talent
For those who have the desire and will to cultivate professional interests even more.
21
Dec
2021
Reflections on Equality
Reflections on Equality Four days of exchange spurned desire for more In the beginning of december the students in 3.akm focused on equality together with guests from Croatia, Germany and…
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19
Dec
2021
Alternative School Days in the Capital
Alternative School Days in the Capital The IB2 students in Copenhagen A few weeks ago on a Monday morning the IB2 students, the IB Coordinator and two teachers made for…
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29
Nov
2021
What do the Seasons Sound Like?
What do the Seasons Sound Like? An interpretation of this question in a joint musical effort of more than 120 students It was an extraordinary pleasure this year to open…
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24
Nov
2021
Exit Polls Came Close
Exit Polls Came Close Social Science students learning outside the class room 2500 voters in the local municipality, Norddjurs Kommune, spent a few minutes filling in a questionnaire for Grenaa…
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14
Nov
2021
Language Learning and Cultural Exchange via App
Language Learning and Cultural Exchange via App Elnaz boosting her German with the help from a new German friend What to do when you discover a discouraging big gap between…
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03
Nov
2021
Free Helping Hands
Free Helping Hands IB students reaching out in the local community Sofie Søndergaard Christensen, Olivia Ulrich Poulsen and Dumitru Frumoso are IB students at Grenaa Gymnasium’s boarding school. One of…
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28
Oct
2021
IB Students Organising Art Exhibition
IB Students Organising Art Exhibition Welcoming people from the local area at a combined art and halloween event Grenaa Gymnasium is renown in the local area for its many dedicated…
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10
Oct
2021
Visiting Both Sides of a Border
Visiting Both Sides of a Border What shapes identity? Global group students on an eye-opening visit in the Danish-German border region Five students from Grenaa Gymnasium’s Global Group went on…
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03
Oct
2021
The Wildest Things at the Oceanarium
The Wildest Things at the Oceanarium How far can aeresols travel? – students from Grenaa Gymnasium demonstrating science After a year’s unintended pause due to Covid 19 the national Natual…
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23
Sep
2021
Study Trips
Paris, Berlin, Munich and Vienna Understanding better what one sees with one’s own eyes Recently the third year STX-students and the second year HF-students returned from their study trips, their…
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22
Aug
2021
Science Award
Science Award to former student How fast will the ice cap melt? – the scientific research of a year 2008 graduate from Grenaa Gymnasium helps to answer this question Earlier…
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17
Aug
2021
IB Admissions in Record Numbers
IB admissions in record numbers Many new faces at Grenaa Gymnasium, and not only among the students During a time when some schools in Denmark have to let staff members…
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30
Jun
2021
When School Becomes Your Favorite Place to Be
When School Becomes Your Favorite Place to Be Two HF-graduates looking back In these weeks, end of June and beginning of July, it escapes no one that upper-secondary graduates are…
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29
Jun
2021
STX and HF Graduation 2021
Diamonds at Grenaa Gymnasium 48 HF students and 71 STX students graduated “Diamonds are made under pressure.” This was the remark from a graduate earlier this year when he handed…
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04
Jun
2021
Kirsten Bech in Memoriam
Kirsten Bech in Memoriam This year’s IB Cap Ceremony at Grenaa Gymnasium saw the first recipients of a new grant At the recent celebration of this years graduating IB-students a…
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30
May
2021
Celebrating IB2 Graduates at the end of Exams
Celebrating IB2 Graduates at the end of Exams Cap Ceremony 2021 at Grenaa Gymnasium This year saw 37 IB2 graduates at Grenaa Gymnasium IB World School, and on May 21st…
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25
Apr
2021
Sharing Creativity in Class
Sharing Creativity in Class Pre-IB student from Grenaa Gymnasium in national creative writing contest Skrivecup is an annual national competition in creative writing for upper-secondary students, and Grenaa Gymnasium always…
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16
Apr
2021
Science: Observations Before Theory
Observations before theory Inquiry Based Science Education at Grenaa Gymnasium – It is rare to meet two persons identical in their fascination of science and sharing the same drive and…
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10
Apr
2021
2.u Saving the Climate
2.u Saving the Climate A social studies class took an unexpected turn The students in 2.u entered the Easter Break as true climate heroes after having prevented an important EU…
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25
Mar
2021
Increasing Numbers for IB
Growing numbers apply for Pre-IB and IB Diploma Grenaa Gymnasium sees an increasing number of international applicants again this year. March 15th was the national deadline for applicants and Grenaa…
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22
Mar
2021
Art Learning Site
Art Learning Site New learning site with art at Grenaa Gymnasium Anyone who has visited Grenaa Gymnasium knows that no matter where you are there are contemporary art works catching…
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12
Mar
2021
Students’ Art Works in Print
Students’ Art Works in Print Students from Grenaa Gymnasium represented at the final online Young People’s Spring Exhibition It seems that young people’s creativity is not a force that is…
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24
Feb
2021
Rumpolitik og fossilfri fremtid
Space Politics and Carbon Free Future First year students as editors and science journalists Just before the winter break the first year STX students finished a two day cross-curicular project…
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30
Jan
2021
National Charity Event at Full Steam
National Charity Event at Full Steam Help Grenaa Gymnasium’s students to win the fundraising competition Do two good deed in one: make your donation at this year’s national charity event,…
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11
Jan
2021
Considering IB Diploma in Denmark?
Considering IB Diploma in Denmark? Information Meeting about IB at Grenaa Gymnasium IB World School On January 30th from 1 to 3 p.m. we invite you to an online Information…
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08
Jan
2021
Students searching for useful bacteria
Students searching for useful bacteria The students in one of the biotechnology classes at Grenaa Gymnasium participate in a world wide research project combating a global health threat. One Thursday…
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30
Nov
2020
IB Students on Safari
IB Students on Safari IB2 students exploring wild life behavior and conservation at Ree Park Safari What to do when this year’s study trip is cancelled due to the Covid-19…
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26
Nov
2020
Theater Concert in Corona Times
Theater Concert in Corona Times Final year students giving Queen-inspired show Grenaa Gymnasium has a strong tradition for a great musical show every second year. This year the Covid-19 pandemic…
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09
Nov
2020
US Election Event
US Election Event Zooming in on the American election The American election on November 3rd gave social studies students and their teachers a very long but enriching school day. Like…
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09
Nov
2020
Meeting each other in German
Lower and upper secondary students meet in German Two German-language teachers at Søren Kanne-skolen and Grenaa Gymnasium let their students benefit from each other. A few weeks ago Karsten Viholm’s…
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01
Nov
2020
Science Teachers Developing Fun Learning
Science teachers developing Fun Learning EU’s Erasmus+ funds game platform at Grenaa Gymnasium Science teachers at Grenaa Gymnasium are in the process of developing a digital game platform called Mobile…
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28
Oct
2020
Information Meeting at Grenaa Gymnasium
Meet IB World School Grenaa Gymnasium Grenaa Gymnasium opens its doors on November 7th 2020 Considering IB Diploma in Denmark? Visit Grenaa Gymnasium on November 7th from 11 a.m to…
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06
Oct
2020
No Covid-19 Antibodies
Covid-19 Antibody Tests at Grenaa Gymnasium Students conducted tests on themselves The biology teachers at Grenaa Gymnasium did not hesitate when the opportunity to order a large number of antibody…
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18
Sep
2020
Green Flag at Grenaa Gymnasium
Green Flag at Grenaa Gymnasium The Danish Outdoor Council as awarded their Green Flag to Grenaa Gymnasium. At Grenaa Gymnasium has documented it’s efforts to finding more sustainable solutions in…
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18
Sep
2020
Niels Lan Doky Trio visited Grenaa Gymnasium
Niels Lan Doky Trio visited Grenaa Gymnasium Music students and teachers had an amazing jazz experience On Friday September 11the Niels Lan Doky Trio visited Grenaa Gymnasium and gave a…
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19
Aug
2020
New International Head Chef
New International Head Chef Increased admission to Grenaa Gymnasium’s Boarding School Grenaa Gymnasium has experienced a significant increase in the number of students admitted to Pre-IB and IB. The majority…
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19
Aug
2020
Increased Influx of IB students
Increased Influx of IB students Grenaa Gymnasium’s Boarding School extending its capacity On August 10th Grenaa Gymnasium welcomed 183 new first year students and 42 of them were Pre-IB students….
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29
Jun
2020
IB Cap Ceremony 2020
‘Other people with their differences can also be right’ IB Cap Ceremony 2020 at Grenaa Gymnasium On June 25th 2020 Grenaa Gymnasium celebrated this year’s 33 IB graduates with the…
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19
Jun
2020
A Glimpse of the World
A Glimpse of the World as Seen by Our Pre-IBs The Pre-IBs at Grenaa Gymnasium have explored each other’s views on issues that matter to them Corona virus has changed…
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12
May
2020
One Minute Artworks
One Minute Artworks Online teaching in the time of corona First and second year upper-secondary students in Denmark are not included in the current 2nd phase of lifting restrictions to…
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01
May
2020
Honouring Scientists and Leaving a Mark
Honouring scientists and leaving a mark Two IB students have decorated Grenaa Gymnasium’s new mini-science exploratorium Earlier this year Grenaa Gymnasium’s new science mini-exploratorium was inaugurated. One of the school’s…
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17
Apr
2020
Gradual opening of Grenaa Gymnasium
Pre-IB and IB1 students to continue online classes IB2 Graduation Ceremony postponed This week the Danish authorities started a gradual and cautious opening of schools in Denmark that allows pre-…
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02
Apr
2020
Increased Number of International Students
More students apply for admission at Grenaa Gymnasium Rise in number of applications for Pre-IB, IB Diploma and HF At the closing date March 16th for applications Grenaa Gymnasium had…
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26
Mar
2020
Eye-opening visit at local company
German class visited local company Before Grenaa Gymnasium sent all students and staff home due to the government’s corona measures, a German class visited EC Power Three of the students,…
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11
Mar
2020
Extra-ordinary Corona-update
Important: more stringent corona-measures All students and teachers at Grenaa Gymnasium must stay at home for the next four weeks Grenaa Gymnasium is closed from March 12th to April 13….
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11
Mar
2020
How Grenaa Gymnasium handles Corona (COVID 19)
Corona-virus How does Grenaa Gymnasium handle the spread of the Corona virus/Covid19? Latest update March 11th 2020 During the last few days we have spoken to concerned students and parents…
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24
Feb
2020
Inauguration of a New Science Exploratorium
Inauguration of a New Science Exploratorium Danish medical company Novo Nordic has donated DKr 1,3 mill. for a pedagogical project at Grenaa Gymnasium Trades and industries, as well as the…
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17
Feb
2020
Enthusiasm and a Good Sense of Humour
Enthusiasm and a Good Sense of Humour These were the two main factors behind a successfully student-driven charity donation campaign at Grenaa Gymnasium Refugee children will be this year’s beneficients…
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31
Jan
2020
The IB Experience: Developing Creativity and Critical Skills
The IB Experience: Developing Creativity and Critical Skills Jagna and Andrea reflect on the challenges and benefits of the IB Diploma at Grenaa Gymnasium Jagna Zajac from Poland and Andrea…
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31
Jan
2020
The Boarding School Experience: Freedom to Be You
The Boarding School Experience: Freedom to Be You Two international students at Grenaa Gymnasium’s Boarding School explains about settling down in Grenaa. “This place is like heaven. You are treated…
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30
Jan
2020
From Brahms to Star Wars at Grenaa Gymnasium
From Brahms to Star Wars at Grenaa Gymnasium Violins and cellos become interesting when Aarhus Symphony Orchestra comes by On Tuesday, 28th of January after lunch, all students and teachers…
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29
Dec
2019
High Level Chemistry paves the way
High Level Chemistry paves the way to a wide range of further educations Third year STX science students from Grenaa Gymnasium went to Copenhagen to see chemistry applied. And some…
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16
Dec
2019
What is a Home?
What is a Home? Malak and Victoria have done their exam project in HF Visual Arts together In the recent week at Grenaa Gymnasium one could get an impression of…
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16
Dec
2019
Freedom on the Agenda
Freedom on the agenda Five students from Grenaa Gymnasium at Model EU-roleplay in Germany. A few weeks ago five first-year students and two teachers went to Lübeck in Germany to…
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21
Nov
2019
Study Trips. The Greatest and most Surprising Experiences
Study trips. The greatest and most surprising experiences Seeing Catalonians protest in the streets, going to the stadium to see FC Barcelona play or getting closer to ones classmates –…
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14
Nov
2019
Former Graduate from Grenaa Gymnasium Awarded a Special Prize
Former graduate from Grenaa Gymnasium awarded a special prize Thomas Kruse Andersen is keen on natural sciences. Earlier this year he graduated from VIA University College and is now a…
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12
Nov
2019
Model United Nations at Grenaa Gymnasium
Model United Nations at Grenaa Gymnasium IB students were the organisers of a succesful international conference The human rights situation in Syria, forced migration of Venezuelans, help for displaced people…
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25
Oct
2019
Operation One-Day’s Work at Grenaa Gymnasium
Operation One-Day’s Work at Grenaa Gymnasium Joint lesson for all students kicked off this year’s Operation One Day’s Work fundraising Tuesday, October 22nd the famous Operation One Day’s Work fashion…
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20
Oct
2019
Off to Kenya with seaweed crisps in the trolleys
Off to Kenya with seaweed crisps in the trolleys Students from Grenaa Gymnasium introduced a possible future food to Kenyan students Recently students from Grenaa Gymnasium went on an exchange…
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07
Oct
2019
Latin Class Visiting the Ancient Romans
Latin class visiting the ancient Romans … almost Recently, the students in Grenaa Gymnasium’s Latin class went to Aarhus with their teacher to visit the Museum of Ancient Art at…
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17
Sep
2019
IB Danish Ab Initio students practicing their Danish outside the classroom
IB Danish Ab Initio students practicing their Danish outside the classroom Grenaa Gymnasium offers Danish ab initio for IB-students Practice makes perfect and perhaps even more so when done outside…
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15
Sep
2019
Seaweed at the Natural Science Festival
Seaweed at the Natural Science Festival Students from Grenaa Gymnasium will disseminate knowledge how to turn seaweed into food Preparations are in full sving at Grenaa Gymnasium for the annual…
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07
Sep
2019
Exchange-visit at Grenaa Gymnasium
Exchange-visit at Grenaa Gymnasium Students and teachers from Thomas-Mann-Schule in Lübeck on return-visit In the last week of August students taking German at Grenaa Gymnasium hosted upper-secondary students from Thomas-Mann-Schule…
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22
Aug
2019
Grenaa Gymnasium til kamp mod plastemballage
Grenaa Gymnasium reduces use of plastic wrappings First steps of implementing a student proposal to reduce the use of plastic wrappings and disposable tableware At school start a couple of…
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16
Aug
2019
New School Year Started at Grenaa Gymnasium
New School Year Start at Grenaa Gymnasium On August 12th 172 new students had their first school day as upper-secondary students at Grenaa Gymnasium The new first year students were…
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02
Jul
2019
Graduation Anniversary
Graduation Anniversary at Grenaa Gymnasium Reunite with your IB classmates If you graduated as an IB student from Grenaa Gymnasium in 2009 then this event is for you. For the…
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01
Jul
2019
Graduation Ceremony at Grenaa Gymnasium
Graduation Ceremony at Grenaa Gymnasium 107 STX-students and 47 HF-students graduated from Grenaa Gymnasium on June 28th 2019 The ceremony took place in the Assembly Hall in front of proud…
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24
Jun
2019
This Year’s First STX and HF Graduates
This Year’s First STX and HF Graduates A day of happy smiles and sunshine On June 24th at 9 a.m. Angie Hansen Tanaka and Charlotte Lunøe Rohde were the first…
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29
May
2019
The IB World Changers
IB students 2019: “Let’s go out there and make a change” On May 24th Grenaa Gymnasium said goodbye to 43 IB2 students at a ceremony at the school. Parents had…
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20
May
2019
Grenaa Gymnasium in the Finals at Creative Writing Competition
Grenaa Gymnasium in the Finals at Creative Writing Competition Ellen Dujardin, a 2nd year STX student at Grenaa Gymnasium was among the 11 finalists out of 1100 in this year’s…
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12
May
2019
IB-students Win Science Competition
IB-students Win Science Competition Two IB-students at Grenaa Gymnasium won the biology challenge in this year’s Drughunters, pharmaceutical company Lundbeck’s science competition. Jogaile Kripaite from Lithuania and Valerija Barkanova from…
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10
May
2019
Ordering a Burger in French
Ordering a Burger in French Earlier this year the 2nd year STX students had the opportunity to go on a short trip abroad to practice their so called second foreign…
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03
May
2019
Music Event-making by Young People for Young People
Music Event-making by young people for young people This year’s music event Nose Noise takes place on May 11th. For the third time current and former students at Grenaa Gymnasium…
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28
Apr
2019
Exchange trip to Lübeck
Exchange trip to Lübeck Before Easter 21 first year students in STX and pre-IB went on a three days’ exchange trip to Lübeck in northern Germany together with their teachers…
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22
Apr
2019
How Do We Live Our Lives in 2034?
How Do We Live Our Lives in 2034? Students at Grenaa Gymnasium developed their ideas about the future Navigare is the name of a new activity at Grenaa Gymnasium. During…
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07
Apr
2019
A Day of Experiencing Art
A Day of Experiencing Art Again this year Grenaa Gymnasium was well represented at the annual Youth Spring Exhibition in Copenhagen. Traditionally Visual Arts students from Grenaa Gymnasium manage to…
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31
Mar
2019
Theater Concert at Grenaa Gymnasium
Theater Concert at Grenaa Gymnasium 150 of the school’s students have played their parts on and behind the stage. Three nights in March Grenaa Gymnasium welcomed a lot of parents,…
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13
Mar
2019
”Pretty good at French”
”Pretty good at French” Two students from Grenaa Gymnasium won medals at a Scandinavian Language Competition On the 27th of February Mikkel Hansen and Esben Molbech Pedersen, both 3rd year…
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25
Feb
2019
Open House Event with Cakes
Open House Event with Cakes Visitors from the local area had a look inside at Grenaa Gymnasium’s boarding school. Grenaa Gymnasium has a boarding school where around 110 of the…
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10
Feb
2019
BYO Book in Class
BYO Book in Class Since last fall first year students at Grenaa Gymnasium have had the experience of total silence for 45 minutes once a week. Not even the scratching…
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10
Feb
2019
Grenaa Gymnasium won national charity event competition
Grenaa Gymnasium won national charity event competition An annual televised national fundraising event is an integrated part of the school’s global awareness programme. Friday, February 1st saw the culmination of…
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27
Jan
2019
A Sustainable World – how do we get there?
A Sustainable World – how do we get there? Cross curricular global-local event day Prizes were handed over at the Thursday morning assembly last week after the Global Kick-starter event…
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24
Jan
2019
Tracking Genghis Khan
Tracking Genghis Khan All IB2 students at Grenaa Gymnasium kick-started their busy last term of school with an excursion to Moesgaard Museum Core elements of the IB Diploma are Creativity…
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22
Dec
2018
An Extra Christmas Blessing
An Extra Christmas Blessing Creating Christmas Atmosphere at Grenaa Gymnasium This year efforts to create a Christmas atmosphere have been intensified at Grenaa Gymnaisum, starting in the beginning of the…
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04
Dec
2018
Creativity as an Approach to Learning at Grenaa Gymnasium
Creativity as an Approach to Learning at Grenaa Gymnasium The Vietnam War experience. A second year history class invited 350 local area lower-secondary students to a morning concert Letters between…
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03
Dec
2018
FIFA at Grenaa Gymnasium
FIFA at Grenaa Gymnasium ”It was the coolest thing to beat 2.t” Many extra-curricular and social events take place at Grenaa Gymnasium and recently a new one was introduced when…
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11
Nov
2018
New Staff Members at Grenaa Gymnasium
New Staff Members at Grenaa Gymnasium Former student is new pedagogue at the Boarding School In late October Anders Cornelius Maltha Winther began in the vacant position as pedagogue at…
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01
Nov
2018
44 Years at Grenaa Gymnasium
44 Years at Grenaa Gymnasium Deputy Head Vagn Rohde retires “But… Vagn has been around forever!” – this was one of many comments from former students at Grenaa Gymnasium, when…
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01
Oct
2018
Environment of Learning
An environment of learning: a community of teachers’ support and students’ responsibility Every year in August Grenaa Gymnasium welcomes new students and efforts are put into giving them a good…
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01
Oct
2018
The Boarding School Community
The Boarding School Community – Becoming a Part of It Grenaa Gymnasium’s Boarding School is the home of 113 students that attend the STX, HF or IB Diploma at Grenaa…
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27
Sep
2018
Natural Sciences at Eye Level
Natural Sciences at Eye Level Students: You learn more when you teach others This week students from Grenaa Gymnasium set out to arouse interest for sciences like chemistry, physics and…
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11
Sep
2018
A Day of Bonding and Team Work
An IB Day of Bonding and Team Work A day of excitement and delicious food evoked bonding and team spirit with in the IB group. Zoe and Bertylle, both IB1,…
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05
Sep
2018
Rule no. 1: Be Yourself
Rule no. 1: Be Yourself Students share some experiences on settling in at Grenaa Gymnasium During these weeks there is a steady shuttle between Grenaa Gymnasium and Mols as all…
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13
Aug
2018
Welcome to New Students 2018
Welcome to New Students 2018 at Grenaa Gymnasium On the 13th of August the doors were opened for 204 new students. Head of School Helene Bendorff Kristensen welcomed the students…
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02
Jul
2018
Graduation Ceremony at Grenaa Gymnasium
Graduation Ceremony at Grenaa Gymnasium 90 students and their closest family members celebrated together with the school’s staff and administration. This year’s graduation ceremony for STX and HF students was…
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28
Jun
2018
Grades are Motivating to Some but Discouraging to Others
Grades are motivating to some but discouraging to others 7 is indisputably a very good result, but a 3 can be an achievement for some. “Dear friends and especially parents…
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08
Jun
2018
Breathe and dive!
Breathe and dive! Students learned about freediving in theory and practice The Danish freediver Stig Severinsen once held his breath for 22 minutes. How is that even possible? A group…
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22
May
2018
IB Students Graduating 2018
IB Students graduating 2018 On Thursday, May 17th 42 IB-students at Grenaa Gymnasium celebrated that their last exam was finished together with their parents and teachers. Since the end of…
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14
May
2018
A cool stick for warm days
A cool stick for warm days Students from Grenaa Gymnasium in the finals of Business Innovation Games 2017/18 Emma Katballe, Sofie Christensen og Joachim Vogel are final year science line…
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27
Apr
2018
Innovation project course inspired by Google
Innovation project course inspired by Google Is it possible to develop cigarette filters that are biodegradable? Could a canteen app be a tool to diminish food waste and reduce the…
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16
Apr
2018
Students learning from students
Students learning from students The IB2 Visual Arts Exam Exhibition Every year in April, the Visual Arts exam takes place and all the works of the students are exhibited in…
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