07:00I anticipation of the school in the Village – Folkbladet

On Thursday evening, held Free Allow, Nordic International School, an information and discussion meeting with parents in the Wing.

” It was closer to the 200 who came, which we thought was great fun. It was full, ” says marketing and head of new store openings Erik Ramberg.

Free Allow started in 2013, the company took over the four secondary schools which were formerly part of the defunct friskolekoncernen JB. Since then, the has Free Allow has grown to a total of nine schools, including seven high schools.

the Nordic International School is included in the group of Free Allow, with its head office in Norrköping. The group have a secondary school here in town, on the Dragsgatan, and a resursskola, Karmfalkska at Kvarngatan, for pupils who left year nine, but to be competent to high school.

the Group has today a primary school in Växjö, but have the ambition to start more elementary schools, including in Norrköping where you have permission to start an independent school for grades 4-9, but no earlier than the fall of 2017, the Nordic International School.

” We have thought that this school should have an international profile. We want to build it from the ground up, in Smedby, and we have plans to cooperate with the Smedby AIS.

the Group has presented two different lokallösningar in the Village, both close to the Mirum Arena.

” We have a close and good cooperation with the municipality about this, where we look at the plots of land that could be present and how quickly we can be finished with a planprocess. There is a land plot which is located to the east of the Series and one that is located to the west of the Series.

– There are some problems in this area, with noise from the airport, and stormwater.

But that the school should be able to open in the Village, the group has received guarantees of, ” says Ramberg. Preliminary start of construction is set for summer 2017 and the start of school in the autumn of 2018, in Smedby. Prospective property owners are Hemsö.

in Total, the school has already a queue of 700, of which 190 have expressed interest in starting school in the fall of 2017. With the school in the Village do not have the time to be ready for its suggests the group a temporary lokallösning, for a minimum of 80 students, in Norrköping city centre, at Kvarngatan 34, in the same house as resursskolan is located. If it is to get rid of depends on interest from parents. A survey has been sent out.