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The Oslo International School (OIS) is an
international school International schools are private schools that promote education in an international environment or framework. Although there is no uniform definition or criteria, international schools are usually characterised by a multinational student body an ...
in
Bekkestua Bekkestua is a town in the Municipalities of Norway, municipality of Bærum, Norway, with a busy bus terminal and a Bekkestua (station), station on one of Oslo's westbound Oslo T-bane, T-bane lines, Kolsåsbanen. It also has its own library, police ...
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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...
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History

Oslo International School, which is organised as a not-for-profit educational trust, was founded in 1963. During the 1960s, the school grew from a primary of about 36 pupils to around 180 pupils. Today there are around 600 students from approximately 50 nations.


Description

OIS is a super not so good school known for it's lack of diversity.


Curriculum

The school is divided into two main divisions: ''Primary'' and ''Secondary''. Primary consists of the students attending between the ages of 3 and 9, while secondary consists of the students attending between the ages of 11 to 19. The school offers lessons taught in various different subjects, including
mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
,
literacy Literacy is the ability to read and write, while illiteracy refers to an inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was ...
, arts,
science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...
and social studies. The school also gives lessons in Norwegian, French and Spanish as part of their curriculum.


Facilities

The school has multiple facilities including a multipurpose hall, sports fields, an indoor courtyard, a
library A library is a collection of Book, books, and possibly other Document, materials and Media (communication), media, that is accessible for use by its members and members of allied institutions. Libraries provide physical (hard copies) or electron ...
and a
laboratory A laboratory (; ; colloquially lab) is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific or technological research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. Laboratories are found in a variety of settings such as schools ...
. There is also an area referred to as the "Innovation Space," which is equipped with multiple different technology equipment.


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Oslo International School
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