About Kulturskolen Skanderborg
Kulturskolen is administered by Skanderborg Kommune that offers citizens to be creative in their spare time. Most participants are in their first of 25 years of age but people of all ages are welcome. If you have an idea for a lesson, you’re welcome to contact us.
About the school
Kulturskolen is an offer from Skanderborg Kommune, which offers citizens a creative spare time. This is an offer for all ages and is especially popular in the age of 0-25 years. Do you dream of learning to play an instrument, learning to paint, developing your musical talent or expressing your creative self, amongst others? Then Kulturskolen is the perfect offer for you!
You can get education in music, dancing, drama and many more creative projects. We’re also focused on the community and the joy of gathering pupils. At Kulturskolen, the teachers are highly qualified, passionate and interested in their subjects.
The lessons are mainly based at Kulturskolen in Skanderborg, institutions and nearby schools.
Contact
Address: Kulturskolen Skanderborg Søtoften 2, 1st floor, 8660 Skanderborg
Phone number: 87 94 28 40 – the phone is turned off after 15 o’clock every day.
Email: Kulturskolen@skanderborg.dk
Opening hours at the office: All days from 10:00 – 16:00 (except at lunch time 12:00 – 12:30).
Terms and Prices
PRICES
See our prices here – 2017 2018 PRICES
REGISTRATION
You can sign up here
HOLIDAY PLAN
2017/18 calendar can be found here
PERIODS
The schoolyear is divided into 4 periods, which is important in terms of payment and resignation (resignation period = current instalment + an instalment)
Instalment 1: August – October from 18/08/2017 to 22/10/2017 – Charged at the beginning of October – Latest date of resignation: 22/10/2017 – Date of withdrawal: 07/01/2018
Instalment 2: October – January from 23/10/2017 to 07/01/2018 – Charged at the beginning of December – Latest date of resignation: 07/01/2018 – Date of withdrawal: 02/04/2018
Instalment 3: February – April from 08/01/2018 to 02/04/2018 – Charged at the beginning of March – Latest date of resignation: 02/04/2018 – Date of withdrawal: 25/06/2018
Instalment 4: April – June from 03/04/2018 to 25/06/2018 – Charged at the beginning of May – Latest date of resignation: 01/06/2018 – Date of withdrawal: 25/06/2018
PAYMENT
Payments are made to Skanderborg Kommune (municipality) via payment card. These will be send to the payer´s digital mailbox (E-Boks). You can also sign-up for a payment service.
If you’re already registered in Skanderborg Kommune’s payment service, the transactions from Kulturskolen will occur automatically.
Read more about payment regulations, at the bottom of the page.
INDIVIDUAL LESSONS
TRIAL
If you’re a new pupil, and resign within the first 30 days, you will only have to pay for 1 period.
RESIGNATION
You are enrolled in the selected education until you sign out.
When resigning, you pay for the ongoing period and the following.
1st of June is the final date for resigning for education, that starts after the summer holidays.
CLASSES
LESSONS
If you’re a new pupil, and resign within the first 30 days, you will only have to pay for 1 period.
If you resign within the first 5 days, you won’t have to pay for the one lesson.
RESIGNATION
All classes end before the summer holidays, and you must (unlike the individual pupils) sign up to continue in next year’s class.
If you wish to discontinue your lessons during the year and resign, you will pay for the ongoing instalment and the next instalment
RESIGNATION GENERALLY
All resignations must be done via Speedadmin: https://ska.speedadmin.dk using your login information and the resignation function (at the top of the page). If you don’t receive a confirmation of your resignation, please contact the administration of Kulturskolen.
ABSENCE AND CANCELLATIONS
If you can’t come to a lesson, you must notify your teacher. All the teachers’ phone numbers and emails can be found on this website. If you specially want to find your teachers contact information, you can find it via Speedadmin: https://ska.speedadmin.dk.
If you cancel a lesson or don’t attended classes, the payment will not be refunded.
If Kulturskolen cancels more than one lesson per instalment, we will offset the next instalment.
If you don’t go at Kulturskolen anymore, we will send the money for canceled classes to the payer’s NEM account.
SIBLING DISCOUNT
There’s a 50% discount for the 3rd enrolled sibling. The discount is given to the most inexpensive lesson/class and can only be used in one subject. To receive a discount, you must notify us when registering. Sibling discount is not given to pupils over the age of 18.
REDUCTION IN PAYMENT
Kulturskolen provides a number of partial economic scholarships. You can apply for this every year. You must apply before the 15th of August, for the regulations to be added to the first payment.
Income: Reduction in payment:
Under 166 401 kr. 75% reduction
166 401 – 243 848 kr. 50% reduction
243 849 – 336 048 kr. 25% reduction
336 049 kr. or more 0% reduction
Contact Kulturskolen’s administration for additional information.
LEISURE CARD
You can apply for a leisure card. Read more here: https://www.skanderborg.dk/fritidspas#støtte_til_deltagelse_i_fritidsaktiviteter
PICTURES AND VIDEOS
Kulturskolen uses pictures and videos on the website and Facebook. You must contact the administration of Kulturskolen, if you do not wish to have material of yourself posted online.
INSTRUMENTS
If you sign up for classes/lessons, you must bring your own instrument for practice. We have a few instruments, which can be rented briefly – ask your teacher for more information.
You will have full responsibility for the instrument(s) you rent – also relating to insurance.
The rental of instruments will be charged along with the payment for classes/lessons.
CHANGE OF TEACHER
If you wish to switch to another teacher, you arrange it with your current teacher. When agreed upon with your teacher, you must contact the administration of Kulturskolen. Then you will be on a waiting list for a new teacher. You will be contact when there is an opening.
WAITING LIST
Pupils on the waiting list will be prioritized by the following:
Pupils who have been on a leave of absence
Internal reshuffle
New pupils
HOLIDAY PLAN
Kulturskolen is following the holiday plan of Skanderborg Kommune’s schools. However, our summer holidays are longer. Lessons that take place in the school’s holidays are not replaced.
You can find the holiday plan at the top of the page.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE
You can apply for a leave of absence for a year by contacting the administration of Kulturskolen. This could be because of boarding school, college or long-term stay in a foreign country.
We can’t guarantee a spot when you return, neither continuing 30-minute lessons, if you’ve previously had those. However, you will be at the top of the waiting list for the desired teacher, and you will get a spot as soon as possible.
SERIOUS ILLNESS
You can apply for a leave of absence if you’ve been ill for more than 3 months. You must contact the administration of Kulturskolen.
PAYMENT REGULATIONS FOR KULTURSKOLEN SKANDERBORG
- Users of Kulturskolen are generally 0 – 25 years in Skanderborg Kommune.
Pupils settled outside of the municipality and pupils over the age of 25 that pay an individual price are under the same payment regulations as others.
Parents in charge of the obligation to support and take part in the registration of children and adolescents under the age of 18, have the liabilities for payment
- The fee paid by the city council annually is charged by the municipality of Skanderborg.
The user is obliged to pay the charged payment when due.
In case of repeatedly delayed or absent payment, Kulturskolen has the right to expel the user.
- The user´s fee is assigned lien and can be added taxes and fees charged by Skanderborg Kommune or SKAT
Skanderborg Kommune (County) can decide that interest rate shall be added in case of delayed payment as well as a fee shall be paid if a reminder has to be sent due to missing payment. Interest rates and fees are determined according to Danish law (lov nr 939 af 27.12. 1991)
- The decision by Kulturskolen and Skanderborg Kommune (County) regarding collecting payments cannot be appealed for at another administrative institution.
You can read more about payment at Skanderborg Kommune’s website.
EAN
Ean number: 5798 0057 21130
CVR (CBR)
CVR-number. 29189633
P. nr.
P.nr. 100 412 9501
Teachers
At Kulturskolen, the teachers are highly qualified, passionate and interested in their subjects. The lessons take place at Kulturskolen in Skanderborg, institutions and nearby schools.
The importance of creative activities for a child’s development, learning and well-being.
Written by: Professor Lene Tanggaard, Ph.d., Aalborg Universitet
(Translated from Danish to English)
Theatre, music, dance, art. It is difficult to imagine a life without it. As humans, we express ourselves with words, sounds, body language and pictures. We tell stories. We shape things that are greater than ourselves. We show each other and our children, that life is worth living and its countless thrilling and thought-provoking experiences, tales and impressions.
Humans are biological living creatures, but also users of signs, symbols and languages. We eat, and we set the table, maybe a bit nicer, when having guests. We give birth to children, help them get dressed and give them names. On roads, streets and alleyways, we navigate by using signs and symbols.
We can’t avoid the cultural and aesthetic, when attempting to understand to the human life. That is why creativity is essential for the child’s development, learning and well-being. This is where children and adults in collaboration, learn about their own and others culture, while benefitting from the art and culture offered to us.
In cultural psychology, which I have completed, we particularly deal with these aesthetic, creative psychological functions, that builds upon the basic biological aspects. Humans are cultural creatures. We shape and recreate culture. We imagine the future, and we visualize memories and images of the past with the help from our imagination. The creative and active part of the human have for several years formed the foundation of my research interests in creativity and creative learning environments. In the following section, I will briefly give you an impression of the research and knowledge we have, about the importance of creative activities for children’s development, learning and well-being. Here’s a summery with headlines:
Complex and comprehensive creative learning processes
When children play music, do theater, sing in choirs, paint a painting or does an experimental performance, they get an opportunity to play and experiment. They work with different materials, learning their roles and how to express themselves with words, sound, images and with their body. The children experience working with other people, and often the activities lead to events, where they have to perform.
It is almost obvious, that it helps with the development. It is evident, that the child learns. The music may be from a former century or a modern composer. Theater has a writer and director, trying to bring out a message. The drama can tell a story. There’s history and life in art. The child may read along – say a line – practice their singing voice – concentrate with the brush. The child may have to be courageous and speak in front of other people. The child may learn to be with others, while cooperating and compromising. These are, after all, quite complex and comprehensive learning processes.
Happiness, imagination and urge for creativity
Kulturskolen is a fascinating place. This is a place where children meet adult teachers, that lives by the art. There is nothing more joyful, than a successful performance with an audience filled with excited parents, locals or other children. To prepare and feel anticipation, joy and anxiety.
To feel the importance. To feel that something is at stake.
When children, for example, have to do a performance or take part in an artistic creation process, they get an opportunity to utilize their imagination into their work. They have to use their imagination and work out something new, that doesn’t already exist. The more one uses their imagination, the more one can develop and access that part of existence and the more one dares to imagine the world differently. It is important for children (and others) that the imagination, can be a place to go and explore. Of course, a practiced imagination can also be a great help when writing assignments in school, drawing or developing new ways to finish tasks at home, work and other places.
We should celebrate more often.
Lately in Denmark, we have been very focused on our children learning mathematics and languages. Those are important subjects; however, a child’s learning path is far more than just a functional set of skills like reading, writing and solving math assignments. As stated above, it is also important to be able to create new things, prepare a performance and learn to cooperate with other people. That is what you learn on Kulturskolen. Of course, you can learn this from other places, but this is a great place to begin. As cultural creatures, we should celebrate the creative learning processes far more than nowadays. They are vital for our existence and are connected to some of the most complex learning processes. In addition, it also gives cause for happiness, concentration and connection to the past and the future. That should be worth celebrating more. Some people say we should live by it. I believe that we should live with and through culture.
References:
http://hansreitzel.dk/P%C3%A6dagogik/FAQ-om-kreativitet/9788741261713
Kulturskolen’s Council
Kulturskolen’s Council:
Kulturskolen’s Council is consultative assembly that discuss strategy and development of the school and management, including classes/lessons, projects and their relevance. Kulturskolen’s Council replaces Kulturskolen’s previous committee.
Kulturskolen’s Council consists of:
Benny Jakobsen – representative of the business community in Skanderborg
Mikkel Xavier Jonassen – representative of culture in Skanderborg
Mette Mølbach – representative of the schools
Lisbeth Holberg-Jørgensen – representative of the parents
Anders Hinnerrup Hansen – representative of the parents
Henrik Nielsen – representative of the staff
Julie Heebøll – Head of Kulturskolen
Tina Quottrup – Secretary
