How is school for kids that do not know norwegian?

Hi,
Where in Norway are you going? Im interested to see if anyone will reply to you as I too have a 7 year old boy and we will be moving to Kristiansand in july.

Hello hello! Well im going to oslo or close

Hi
When u get to Norway wherever u going go their community hall or they call it kommune what you wanting. As I know they have to start in a transcession school , they learn the Norsk as well as the Maths. The quicker they learn the quicker they will go to the proper school or normal school. They get medically check as well if everything seems fine they can start in a week.

I have 2 children who moved here 8 months ago. Neither knew any Norwegian before they came, they both go to the local Norwegian school. They get extra Norwegian lessons 3 times per week during the school day. They are aged 10 and 11.
Mixing with the local children is an advantage and it works both ways, my children help their friends with English and their friends help them with any Norwegian concerns.
They both think the school is much better than their old school in England.
We live in Nordland county so it may differ in other areas. If your children don't speak English then you you may have more problems than we have.

@catherineslupton hi there Catherine ! Well I finally came to Norway in 2019 with my son, he was 10 at the time. We are both originally from Colombia. Norway has a good system to integrate immigrants. When I came, they immediately help us out with the schooling. They might give you and offer for kids who doesn't speak the language yet. In my case I end up in Bergen, and they put my son on a initial school where all were immigrants, trying to introduce the lenguaje. There were people from all over the globe. After a year there in 2020, when they see that they have the basic they will offer you to put the children in the nearest school to your place of living. In my case my son moved from this international school to the closest school by our house and it's been there learning and now he speaks a Norwegian, since he is with other norsk kids around all the time and the clases are all in norsk. So, I will advise you, that if you already know you're going, and where are you staying, give a call to the local school so they can give you this kind of offer. All kids have the right to have it so calling will help a lot in advance. When we arrived, my husband called the local school and a week later he was already going to school. So I wish you good luck and if you have any other question let me know

@catherineslupton hi there Catherine ! Well I finally came to Norway in 2019 with my son, he was 10 at the time. We are both originally from Colombia. Norway has a good system to integrate immigrants. When I came, they immediately help us out with the schooling. They might give you and offer for kids who doesn't speak the language yet. In my case I end up in Bergen, and they put my son on a initial school where all were immigrants, trying to introduce the lenguaje. There were people from all over the globe. After a year there in 2020, when they see that they have the basic they will offer you to put the children in the nearest school to your place of living. In my case my son moved from this international school to the closest school by our house and it's been there learning and now he speaks a Norwegian, since he is with other norsk kids around all the time and the clases are all in norsk. So, I will advise you, that if you already know you're going, and where are you staying, give a call to the local school so they can give you this kind of offer. All kids have the right to have it so calling will help a lot in advance. When we arrived, my husband called the local school and a week later he was already going to school. So I wish you good luck and if you have any other question let me know

- @vanhallenpf

@vanhallenpf thank you so much for your advice and intell, me and my husband are going over at the end of this month to see if this is what we would like and make a decisionon whether we want to live in Norway, and we are going to see if we can have a look at the local schools in the local area and go from there. Very exciting!

@vanhallenpf how long did you wait on your permit? And is the first school of your child near to your address?