your schedule at gerlev
Your time at Gerlev is defined by freedom and personal ownership. You are the architect of your own schedule, choosing the subjects and electives that spark your curiosity or help you master a sport you love.
You’ll join us for Morning Assembly, daily classes, and shared community tasks, but your spare time—and the way you shape your curriculum—is entirely up to you. Dive into a passion project or enjoy a free evening, you have the flexibility to make your experience exactly what you want it to be.
Days with an exciting mix of subjects
Your schedule consists of a combination of four subjects. Each 8 week period you will be introduced to a variety of subjects. Choose if you want to go in depth with one subject or if you want to try something new. What are you curious about?
The good thing is that you have the opportunity to choose several times during your stay, so there is plenty of room for new experiences, improving your skills, testing your limits and learning more about yourself and your friends.
In addition, you have several subjects together with the other students – such as Family Group, School Meetings, Gerlev Values, Choir, Evenings at Gerlev and Popup offers… It is usually really good to share, reflect and just be together.
Choose your subjects
New offers every eight weeks
Sports I
Sports I is your one primary physical education subject. Become more skilled at a sport you know, or try something new. The many hours each week provide the opportunity for great professional immersion. At the same time, you can build stronger relationships with the other students and the teachers.
Selected when signing up for the school
Sports II
Sports II is your second primary physical education subject. Go ahead and try something, you have never done before. Get inspired! Go exploring dancing for dummies, become the ball’s best friend in volleyball, football or beachvolley or master the wind and waves on the surfboard or turn it all upside down in a scissor kick in air or on the field.
Selected when signing up for the school
Interest subjects
Interest subjects are smaller subjects in terms of hours. What do you wish to explore? And at what kind of intensity? Both physical subjects such as running, strength training or yoga are offered and subjects where you explore another interest, such as beginner guitar, massage or disc golf. Are you up for the challenge?
Presented and selected upon arrival at Gerlev
Perspective subjects
Perspective subjects are a wide range of subjects that are not physical sports. The subjects change throughout the year and will challenge you with new perspectives and a curious, non-traditional approach. These are both sports-related subjects, creative or music, pedagogical subjects, craft or subjects with management perspectives.
Presented and selected upon arrival at Gerlev
Note: Classes are subject to student enrollment. We reserve the right to adjust our course selection as needed.
other elements in your schedule
What do we do outside sports classes
Folk high school evenings
At Gerlev Evenings we all gather for joint events. These evenings are created to strengthen the student community and provide experiences beyond the daily teaching. Gerlev evenings can be filled with cultural, creative or social activities and vary greatly depending on what we are currently focusing on at Gerlev, general relevance, current events AND students’ wishes!
Family and school meeting
You meet weekly with your family group, with whom you live in the dormitories. You discuss both the big and small details of your life at Gerlev. The weekly School Meeting is Gerlev’s democratic forum. Here, students, teachers and sometimes other employees meet to discuss everyday life, joint decisions and anything that may call for common attention.
Pop-up (where everything goes)
Pop-up is Gerlev’s flexible co-curricular subject where anything can happen! Here, the teachers offer exciting and unique workshops – from an intense martial arts workshop and a crash course in climbing to personal help with your college application. Pop-up is your chance to explore new topics, gain new skills or be inspired in completely unexpected ways.
Gerlev Values and horizon
In Gerlev Values and Horizon we debate or investigate values, social structures, youth well-being, body culture and the joy of movement. We look inward on inner values and struggles. And outward on the world around us and focus on, for example, sustainability, body ideals and other current themes that emerges in the social debate – in school, locally, nationally or globally.