Welcome
Flensborgarskólinn is an upper secondary school. The school is a leading force in equipping schools and students with cutting edge and up to date computers and software. Our homepage opened in 1996.
As a part of our scheme we formally opened our computernet in January 2000. It was planned in 1998, on the initiative of students who had graduated 20 years earlier.
Information
Flensborgarskólinn in Hafnarfjörður
Box 240
222 Hafnarfjörður
Iceland
Phone: +354 565 0400
Fax: +354 565 0491
E-mail: flensborg@flensborg.is
Number of staff: ca. 65
Teachers: ca. 45
Students: 550 - 600
Headmaster: Einar Birgir Steinthorsson
Vice Principal: Magnus Thorkelsson
ENIS: Member of European Network of Innovative Schools
Flensborgarskólinn's subject pages
In our web we have subject pages linked to each topic. Our subject pages are gathered by our teachers and webmaster. So here you can find links to numerous pages relevant to our subjects. This can be useful when, for instance, carrying out an information-search. As the school network develops, the subject pages are increasingly used for teaching purposes. Teachers demonstrate material from their own subject, either by placing material on the school's web-pages, or by linking to material on their own web-pages. They can also create links to educational pages on the internet. We have subject pages on: Arts, Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Studies, Danish, Economics, English, French, Geography, Geology, German, History, Icelandic, Language Studies, Latin, Mathematics, Media Studies, Pedagogy, Physical Education, Physics, Politics, Psychology, Sociology and more.
Library
The school's library is well-stocked. Books can either be borrowed, or read in the library. Most of the library's material can be borrowed, and it is now possible to search in the library through the school-network. A number of sources are in multimedia, video or on the internet. The library started its operations a decade after the school was founded, during the winter of 1893-1894.
Flensborgarskólinn's choir
Flensborgarskólinn's choir has a long history, and plays a vital part in the life of the school. The choir performs at formal events such as the end of term, but it primarily goes its own way, organizing its schedule and concerts by itself. The conductor of the choir is Hrafnhildur Blomsterberg.
Flensborgarskólinn's students
Social life at the school is varied. The Society's Board, and its various committees, organise and oversee the society's activities. The school's student union, NFF, makes sure student life is fun and exciting.
Album
Album with photographs from special events and the daily life in Flensborgarskólinn.
The History of the School
Flensborgarskólinn is one of the oldest schools in Iceland, and has undergone many changes through the years. Founded in 1877 as a primary school, it became a lower secondary school five years later, in 1882, and that date is usually used as the school's birth-date. Reverand Þórarinn Böðvarsson, Dean of Garðir in Álftanes, founded the school in memory of his son, Böðvar, who died in 1869, at the age of 19. Rev. Þórarinn Böðvarsson bought an old shop in the south of Hafnarfjörður, in which to house the school. Merchants from Flensborg, a town in southern Jutland, had originally plied their trade in this shop. The shop was thus associated with their hometown, and called the Flensborg Shop, while the place was known as Flensborg. This is how the school received its name, and it has kept this name even though it is now located in another part of town. The oldest school house burned to the ground in 1930, and in 1937 the school moved into new premises on Hamarskotstún, where it has been ever since, overlooking the growing town of Hafnarfjörður. Between 1892 and 1908, the school ran a special teaching department. This was the first organized teaching course in Iceland, but it stopped when the Iceland College of Education was founded in Reykjavík.
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