Support bilingualism and cultural understanding
Support our children to be truly bilingual and bicultural. Understanding other languages and cultures sets our children off to be both innovative and open-minded: Traits we need in future leaders.
Our school is a non-profit organization, with over 50 families with around 100 children who meet once a week. One or both parents are Swedish and all classes are taught in Swedish. The purpose is to promote students ability to speak and read Swedish, and strengthen the students' understanding of their heritage and culture. Understanding multiple languages and cultures, students capture new concepts, and their ability to reflect and understand the surrounding world grows.
Promoting literacy, we also provide an extensive library of Swedish books for children of all ages.
Our school is a non-profit organization, with over 50 families with around 100 children who meet once a week. One or both parents are Swedish and all classes are taught in Swedish. The purpose is to promote students ability to speak and read Swedish, and strengthen the students' understanding of their heritage and culture. Understanding multiple languages and cultures, students capture new concepts, and their ability to reflect and understand the surrounding world grows.
Promoting literacy, we also provide an extensive library of Swedish books for children of all ages.
Become a member
At Swedish School of San Diego we support the education of the Swedish language as well as the Swedish traditions. We want everyone in San Diego county with a connection to Sweden to have the possibility of connecting to their roots, with no restrictions on current Swedish language level.
We are therefor launching our support membership. As a support member, you will be invited to our events, family BBQ, and Swedish Celebrations. Your household will also have access to all our online resources including language support for all levels (newborn to adults). The site is currently in Swedish but with the help of google translate it’s fairly easy to navigate. Best of all, you will be introduced to a 50-member strong family group of swedes that are proficient in Swedish and always happy to meet and play to foster our traditions and language.
Events that are open to our Support members:
- Any Fundraising Events hosted by the Swedish School
- Easter Games in the Park
- End of School events (usually includes a performance by our school children singing traditional songs from Sweden)
- Lucia (all children of support members are allowed to participate in the actual “Lucia tag” as long as they’ve practiced the songs prior)
- Swedish Christmas Party (including a julbord, lucia performance, visit of jultomten etc. )
Price: $50 per family (one year membership)
Please contact us to become a support member!
We are therefor launching our support membership. As a support member, you will be invited to our events, family BBQ, and Swedish Celebrations. Your household will also have access to all our online resources including language support for all levels (newborn to adults). The site is currently in Swedish but with the help of google translate it’s fairly easy to navigate. Best of all, you will be introduced to a 50-member strong family group of swedes that are proficient in Swedish and always happy to meet and play to foster our traditions and language.
Events that are open to our Support members:
- Any Fundraising Events hosted by the Swedish School
- Easter Games in the Park
- End of School events (usually includes a performance by our school children singing traditional songs from Sweden)
- Lucia (all children of support members are allowed to participate in the actual “Lucia tag” as long as they’ve practiced the songs prior)
- Swedish Christmas Party (including a julbord, lucia performance, visit of jultomten etc. )
Price: $50 per family (one year membership)
Please contact us to become a support member!
How we are funded
- Student tuition
- Swedish government grants (for children over 7 years)
- Grants and donations from private supporters, organizations, and businesses
- Small fundraising events
Ways to support Swedish School
- Cash donations and grants: Help us give our children a varied and memorable education. Examples of what we can do with donations: Buy Swedish books for our library, treat our students to traditional foods, buy supplies, arrange special events such as concerts and experiments.
- Tickets and goods for our Christmas raffle: This is our main fundraising event of the year.
- Swedish children's books: Books are so important, but also the most expensive and difficult material to purchase from the other side of the world.
Activities enabled by donations
- Invited the Swedish kids music duo Longkalsong to entertain the children
- Purchased for our members to use: Special clothing needed for the Lucia procession
- Updated our library with the newest and most popular chapter books for older kids
- Purchased IT systems for safe and efficient handling of finances and legal waivers
- Brought dala horses for the children to paint
- ...and much, much more!
Sending your donation
- Goods for Christmas fundraising raffle, or other gifts: Contact [email protected] for mailing address
- Check: Contact [email protected] for mailing address
- Paypal: www.paypal.me/svenskaskolansd
Tax details
We hold a non-profit status, 501(c) (3). Our Tax ID number is 33-086-4669
We are based in San Diego, California.
We are based in San Diego, California.
