{"id":14089,"date":"2019-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/fimmtan-ara-leikskoli-i-althjodlegu-samstarfi\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:02:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T09:02:31","slug":"fifteen-year-nursery-school-in-international-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/fimmtan-ara-leikskoli-i-althjodlegu-samstarfi\/","title":{"rendered":"A fifteen-year-old nursery school in international cooperation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stekkjar\u00e1s Nursery School celebrated its fifteenth anniversary on 8th September. \u201eFor these fifteen years, we have been in constant development and have never had to worry about stagnation.\u201c <\/em>says Alda Agnes Sveinsd\u00f3ttir, the nursery headteacher. She says that this past autumn at Stekkjar\u00e1s has been as lively as ever, and that the school community has taken part in and launched various projects. The local newspaper Fjar\u00f0arfr\u00e9ttir <\/a> This section discusses the professional and creative work of the nursery. <\/p>\n

Agnieszka Alda mentions an ongoing staff research project at the school. The research aims to strengthen the learning community of Stekkjar\u00e1s and also to capture the learning that takes place during outdoor learning in the garden. \u201eOur dream is that through the research, we can contribute additional knowledge to the academic community regarding children's learning in outdoor environments,\u201c says Alda Agnes. Among the staff at Stekkjar\u00e1s are individuals keen to collaborate with colleagues in other countries. Over the years, these staff members have worked hard to forge connections abroad. This has benefited the entire school community through the reception of international visitors at Stekkjar\u00e1si. Strong relationships and ongoing communication have been established as a result of these visits.<\/p>\n

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\u201eFor example, for many years we have been welcoming groups who come to the country through the grassroots organisation Play Iceland. This autumn, we welcomed two groups from them, one on each day. We have also sought to be participants in Erasmus+ projects and in the autumn of 2018 we were accepted onto one such two-year project. That project is about opportunities for outdoor play and how the outdoor area is organised. The participants are four nurseries from England, Scotland, Lithuania and Iceland. Each participating nursery invites the others to visit them once during the two-year project period. This autumn, it was our turn at Stekkjarr\u00e1s to host a visit, which gave all staff the opportunity to take direct part in the project. A programme was organised from Monday to Thursday, running from morning until evening, which consisted of both challenging tasks and entertainment. Our guests were extremely positive and were ready to share with us as well as to receive what we had to offer, and those days passed incredibly quickly.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

On the planning day in October, there were well-attended educational workshops in Stekkjar\u00e1s, which were organised by a professional group on creative nursery work and were held in collaboration with the nursery. A learning lab is a method that is gaining ground here in Iceland and is based on informal peer learning, according to Alda Agnes, who says that in such labs, professional discussion is encouraged and knowledge and experience are shared among participants. Alda Agnes says that the above is only a small part of what is planned at the nursery school, but she wants to emphasise that this kind of work is also important for the development of the school's activities, for increased job satisfaction, and that it pays dividends in many ways in the work with the children.<\/p>\n

An article about the work of Stekkjar\u00e1s Nursery School was published in Fjar\u00f0arfr\u00e9ttir on 21 December 2019.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leiksk\u00f3linn Stekkjar\u00e1s fagna\u00f0i fimmt\u00e1n \u00e1ra afm\u00e6li s\u00ednu 8. september sl. \u201e\u00cd \u00feessi fimmt\u00e1n \u00e1r h\u00f6fum vi\u00f0 veri\u00f0 \u00ed st\u00f6\u00f0ugri \u00fer\u00f3un og aldrei \u00feurft a\u00f0 hafa \u00e1hyggjur af st\u00f6\u00f0nun,\u201c segir Alda Agnes Sveinsd\u00f3ttir leiksk\u00f3lastj\u00f3ri. Segir h\u00fan n\u00fdli\u00f0i\u00f0 haust \u00ed Stekkjar\u00e1si hafa veri\u00f0 fj\u00f6rugt sem fyrr og sk\u00f3lasamf\u00e9lagi\u00f0 teki\u00f0 \u00fe\u00e1tt \u00ed og sett af sta\u00f0 margv\u00edsleg verkefni. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14089"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}