The Danish Education System by Sebastian Drejer

Introduction
The Danish educational system consists of 10 years in an elementary school, and after that, you can additional choose an upper secondary school education which can consist of high school, commercial college, technical education or something quit different.
When you have completed the upper secondary school education which consists of about 2-3 years, you have the opportunity to take a more advanced education, or just educate to what you want to be working with in the future. In Denmark there are also a number of continuation- and “high”-schools, which can be chosen instead of the last year in elementary school and you can take upper secondary educations there to. Now I will go through the educations mentioned, to give you a glaze of what the Danish educational system is about.
Elementary school
At the age of seven year you begin your first year in elementary school. Elementary school’s first year is called preschool class of 0th grade. The purpose with the preschool class is just to give the very young pupils a vision on how it is to go in school. In the preschool class there is used a lot of games and activity in the lessons, and the lessons aren’t structural in the same way as they are going to be taken on.
After one year in preschool class you move op in to 1st grade. It is in 1st grade that it begins to get more ”serious”, and you have started in school for good. As you move up in higher grades you get, in the period from 1st-9th grade, introduced by different subjects, such as music, art, needlecraft, the more creative subjects. In 9th grade is the year where you finish your subjects and get prepared to your finishing examination, who everyone that completes elementary school has to take.
In elementary school finishing examination you shall go through a written and an oral part. The written part consists of mathematic calculation, essay and multiple choice exercises. In the oral exercises you are going to present or analyse a paper or a topic.
So the main principle of the Danish elementary school is to give the children a brighter vision on, how it is to go at school. The purpose is that they shall have a feeling of what it means to do homework, be taught in unknown materials, to put it simply, to learn things. At the same time it is the elementary school responsibility to make safe environments for the pupils, because they shall have a good feeling about going at school.