Clubs and Extra Curricular

1st Stavanger Scout Group, British Scouting Overseas based at BISS

1^st Stavanger Scout Group uses BISS Gausel's facilities as a base for its scouting activities, as well as the Godeset Speiderbase and varying locations in the greater Stavanger area for outdoor meetups. 1^st Stavanger is part of British Scouting Overseas, and the wider, half-a-million strong, British Scouts movement.

We currently run four sections: Beavers, for six to eight year olds, Cubs (eight to ten-and-a-half), Scouts (ten-and-a-half to fourteen) and Explorers (fourteen to eighteen). We accept girls and boys into our programme, and lean heavily on parents to help run our sessions. We meet on Thursday evenings, around 1700-1830, depending on the location. We also run camping events at weekends, with, of course, a close eye on the weather forecast. 

Our programme is geared towards developing new life-skills (including parents!); weather permitting, our programme is predominantly outdoors. Activities include navigation and orienteering, kayaking, camping and shelter-building, pioneering, fishing, camp-fire building, marshmallow toasting, pop-corn making, cross-country skiing, avalanche training, outdoor cooking, bird-box building, star-gazing, nature-watching, and of course working towards the many badges and awards offered by the programme. Our activities make the most of the Norwegian outdoors, and complement the Duke of Edinburgh Scheme. 

More details about Scouts can be found at www.scouts.org.uk . If you are interested in your child joining, or joining as an adult volunteer, please reach out to the following e-mail addresses; Beavers: thomson.stephaniej@gmail.com; Cubs: eric.halstrom@me.com; Scouts: tim.monk68@gmail.com; and Explorers: onepip@hotmail.com. 

PYP4-6 - Tuesdays

Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art blending music, dance, acrobatics and movement. Led by Manuel Quero (SEN department member at BISS, with 12 years of teaching experience locally and with Stavanger Kommune’s “Idrettspatruljen”), this course introduces children in Years 4–6 (ages 9–12) to this dynamic sport. Held in the upper-building gym at BISS Gausel and supported by SFO.

Places: Max 20 students, allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

To apply: Contact Manuel Quero via office.gausel@biss.no

Mr Mbikay, one of our parents runs a chess club for children aged 8 to 15 after school, on Tuesdays at 15:30 to 16:30.

Children wishing to attend should have, at least, a basic knowledge of the rules. 

Please email luozi2175@gmail.com if you would like to attend and for more details.

PYP Thursday 15:00 - 16:00; MYP Tuesday 15:00 - 16:00

The aim of the Be Creative Be Artistic external art club is to let the pupils learn different art techniques, while letting them work with different paint medias such acrylics, water colour, oil paints. They also learn about sculpting, sketching and still life paintings.

Contact: kholasj@yahoo.com or 45461365

The Cricket Club runs on Tuesdays. New children are welcome from PYP6 and MYP. The club starts at 16.30 and finishes at 18.00. Meet at the gym.

Monday  15:00-20:15

Tuesday 15:00-17:30

Wednesday 14:15-17:10

Thursday 15:00-18:30

Friday 15:00-17:45

Lessons are given after school, or weekends to all levels and ages, parents included. Individual lessons are tailored according to our student’s goals and needs. We also offer after school clubs and group lessons. For fees, available instruments and clubs, visit www.imamusician.no or send an e-mail to manqing0125@gmail.com.

PUMA's — Taekwon-do Club - 4  classes on Wednesday between 14:15 - 18:00

Juniors from age 7 and Seniors age 12+

PUMA Norway is an exciting martial arts club held at BISS each week. By providing a welcoming and friendly approach the club aims to provide instruction in the Korean art of Taekwon-Do. Students are also taught stranger awareness and anti-bullying tactics. Through PUMA Norway, students increase their levels of self-confidence, self-awareness and overall fitness. We have a variety of classes to offer all ages and abilities. We are affiliated with The Professional Unification of Martial Arts UK www.puma-uk.com and the International Taekwon-Do Federation. We hold internationally recognized testing three times a year, so that students can develop skills and build on their qualifications at another centre.

Contact Alison Gildert - alison.gildert@lyse.net

Little PUMA's - Taekwon-do Club - Wednesday, 16:30 - 17:00

Class for ages 4 to 7

Little Puma's is a revolutionary way of teaching this age group life skills, using martial arts as a training platform. The Little Puma's syllabus prepares a child mentally as well as physically, improving hand-eye coordination; team-working skills; and, communication and verbal skills. Students will develop the confidence to say NO and to speak up for themselves. The syllabus also enables children to deal with real life issues such as bullying and stranger awareness. The programme is especially designed to help teach young children the important qualities of respect, self-control and confidence in a fun way, utilizing educational games and exercises - but most importantly - they will have FUN!

Contact Alison Gildert - alison.gildert@lyse.net

YoungCoderz Coding club specializes in teaching Programming, Robotics and Electronics. We have courses for students from PYP 3 and above.

PYP3, 4 and 5 will be learning game programming using Scratch, Robotics and Microcontrollers on Mondays/Tuesdays from 3pm to 4.30pm

Year 6 and above - will be learning Python Game Programming, Website Development Mondays/Tuesdays from 3 pm to 4.30pm

More details regarding the course and registration can be found here https://www.youngcoderz.com/registerafterschoolclass/?id=1874 

Please drop an email to youngcoderz17@gmail.com if you have any questions.