Bagsværd Kostskole og Gymnasium

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Bagsværd Kostskole og Gymnasium
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School type	Primary school, gymnasium
Established	1908
Staff	-
Students	800 / 650+150
Location	Bagsværd
Website	http://www.bagkost.dk

Bagsværd Kostskole og Gymnasium (Eng: Bagsværd Boarding School and Gymnasium), usually referred to among students, teachers etc. as simply BK, is a private school situated in Bagsværd, a suburb of Copenhagen. As the name implies, BK has a separately run boarding school, called HAGA, an abbreviation of Haraldsgave (Harald's Gift).

1 History
2 Education
3 Social activities and traditions
4 Links

[edit] History

The boarding school was established in 1908 on the site of the current day school, in the then rather rural area surrounding Bagsværd Sø; it was only later that this part of Northern Zealand was urbanized. Sometime during the first half of the 20th century, Haraldsgave was built on a piece of land overlooking the lake as a gift to the school, and the boarding school was moved there.

[edit] Education

Primary school: Up until the 7th grade, the primary school is divided into two lines, A and B. Due to an admittance of extra pupils at this point in the primary school, two new lines are established, whereupon all four lines are referred to as V, X, Y and Z, respectively. Earlier, the two new lines were dubbed C and D, and pupils were divided into these according to their choice of secondary foreign language - C was for those pupils who chose French, and D for those who chose German.
Gymnasium: BK offers students four different branches of tuition, in accordance with the 2005 Educational Reform. These are divided into three main areas:
- Mathematical/scientific:
  - Science: Mathematics A, physics B, chemistry B
  - Bio-tech: Biology A, mathematics B, chemistry B
- Linguistic/humanities:
  - Language and culture: English A, humanities/social sciences B, psychology C
- Sociological:
  - Society and economics: Social sciences A, mathematics B, geography B

A, B and C signify the level of difficulty of any given class, with A signifying an advanced level of education and C being an average difficulty suitable for a likewise average level of understanding.