27-651: Torslanda is an urban district situated in Gothenburg Municipality , Västra Götaland County , Sweden. It had 10,129 inhabitants in 2005. A Norse pagan place of sacrifice to the God Thor was once located here, which gave rise to the name Torslanda; meaning "Thor's land". Volvo Cars operates one of its largest automobile plants, Torslandaverken in Torslanda, under the motto "Increased capacity – for ever-higher quality". It opened in 1964 and some models produced at
54-495: A single phase where programmes are typically designed to provide fundamental skills in reading, writing, and mathematics and to establish a solid foundation for learning. This is ISCED Level 1 : Primary education or first stage of basic education. Within the English speaking world, there are three widely used systems to describe the age of the child. The first is the "equivalent ages"; then countries that base their education systems on
81-448: A synonym, "elementary school" has specific meanings in different locations. School building design does not happen in isolation. The building (or school campus) needs to accommodate: Each country will have a different education system and priorities. Schools need to accommodate students, staff, storage, mechanical and electrical systems, support staff, ancillary staff and administration. The number of rooms required can be determined from
108-557: Is situated within the municipality, but there are also some other localities as well as rural areas. In 1990 the municipality was subdivided into 21 stadsdelsnämnder (district boards), sometimes translated to boroughs , which they really are not. In 2009 the two district boards of Frölunda and Högsbo were joined. It has been decided that from the start of 2011 many more will be joined leaving 10 new district boards. The boards carry responsibility for primary school , social, leisure, and cultural services within their respective areas. In
135-587: Is sometimes used in the US, although both this term and elementary school may refer to the first eight grades, in other words both primary education and lower secondary education . The term primary school is derived from the French école primaire , which was first used in an English text in 1802. In the United Kingdom, "elementary education" was taught in "elementary schools" until 1944, when free elementary education
162-616: Is to stop the construction of the West Link , obtained 14 seats in the assembly, making it the second-largest party. The Green Party and the Left Party announced on 6 November that they would draft their own municipal budget together, along with Feminist Initiative - thus abandoning their traditional cooperation with the Social Democrats. This has been recognized as the three parties forming a local political alliance which has been referred to as
189-572: The Red-green-pink coalition . As a result of this the Alliance were able to take the power in Gothenburg for the first time in nearly 30 years. The municipal executive committee ( kommunstyrelsen ) has 13 members, representing the six parties from the two major political coalitions who have seats in the assembly. The chairwoman of the municipal assembly is Åse-Lill Törnquist (MP) and the chairman of
216-576: The Social Democrats (S), Left Party (V) and the Green Party (MP) about forming a majority coalition that could rule the city for the next four years. These negotiations broke down but S, V and MP could still take the power despite being a minority with only 40 out of 81 seats since C continues to refuse cooperation with the Sweden Democrats (SD). There were ten political parties represented in
243-522: The election of 1998 three boroughs ( Askim , Torslanda and Älvsborg ) held local referendums on forming their own municipalities, but their petitions were rejected by the government of Sweden . Boroughs: The municipality has a municipal assembly ( kommunfullmäktige ), consisting of 81 members, elected for four years. The municipal assembly meets in the Bourse , a building located on Gustaf Adolfs torg . There are nine political parties represented in
270-575: The "Blue Hangar" ( Den Blå Hangaren ) at Torslanda Airport. The collection comprised about 5-6 vehicles, only two of them in working order. Other vehicles were stored across Sweden in various Volvo facilities. Unfortunately, fire destroyed the hangar a few years later, but most of the vehicles escaped unharmed. The collection was moved into a permanent location with the opening of the Volvo Museum in Arendal on Hisingen on 30 May 1995. Notably, The Blue Hangar
297-562: The "English model" use one of two methods to identify the year group; while countries that base their systems on the "American K–12 model" refer to their year groups as "grades". Canada also follows the American model, although its names for year groups are put as a number after the grade: For instance, "Grade 1" in Canada, rather than "First Grade" in the United States. This terminology extends into
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#1732852823730324-675: The Ripper — hailed from Torslanda, and had been christened at the Torslanda Church (pictured above). The following sports clubs are located in Torslanda: Gothenburg Municipality Gothenburg Municipality ( Göteborgs kommun or Göteborgs stad ) is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden . Its seat is located in the city of Gothenburg . When
351-561: The airport, was renovated in 2007, and is one of the last remaining artifacts of the airport, much of which was demolished in 1997. In recent years, the original land from the Torslanda Airport has been redeveloped into a residential area known as Amhult, eventually to become a garden village with 900 new homes, a commercial centre, preschool and school. After the closing of the Torslanda Airport as an actual transportation facility (1977), Volvo housed its collection of historic vehicles in
378-525: The council elected in 2018: Socialdemokraterna Demokraterna Moderaterna Vänsterpartiet Sverigedemokraterna Liberalerna Miljöpartiet Centerpartiet Kristdemokraterna Feministiskt Initiativ Following the 2018 municipal elections , neither traditional coalition of parties (the Alliance and the Red-Greens ) was able to obtain a majority in the municipal assembly. The newly formed Democrats party, whose primary campaign promise
405-514: The council elected in 2022: Socialdemokraterna Moderaterna Vänsterpartiet Sverigedemokraterna Demokraterna Miljöpartiet Liberalerna Kristdemokraterna Centerpartiet Feministiskt Initiativ After the 2022 election it was clear that the governing Alliance could not rule any longer with them winning only 27 seats in the chamber. Soon after the election the Centre Party announced they were starting negotiations with
432-501: The country. The municipality prefers, however, to style itself Göteborgs stad ( City of Göteborg ), whenever legally possible. In March 2018 it was reported that the municipality and municipality-owned companies had 236 employees working with public relations (Swedish: kommunikation), more than Stockholm, to a cost of 400 000 SEK daily or 151 million SEK annually. The major part of the Gothenburg urban area ( Göteborgs tätort )
459-402: The education has to fulfill the needs of: The students, the teachers, the non-teaching support staff, the administrators and the community. It has to meet general government building guidelines, health requirements, minimal functional requirements for classrooms, toilets and showers, electricity and services, preparation and storage of textbooks and basic teaching aids. An optimum school will meet
486-462: The first Swedish local government acts were implemented in 1863 the City of Gothenburg, founded and chartered in 1621, became a city municipality with an elected city council ( stadsfullmäktige ). Its territory has since then been added through amalgamations in 1868, 1906, 1922, 1931, 1945, 1948, 1967 and 1974. The local government reform of 1971 made the city a unitary municipality, like all others in
513-400: The floor area should be 350 m + 4.1 m /pupil place. The external finishes were to be downgraded to meet a build cost of £1113/m . There are several main ways of funding a school: by the state through general taxation, by a pressure group such as a mosque or church, by a charity, by contributions from parents, or by a combination of these methods. Day-to-day oversight of the school can through
540-492: The minimum conditions and will have: Government accountants having read the advice then publish minimum guidelines on schools. These enable environmental modelling and establishing building costs. Future design plans are audited to ensure that these standards are met but not exceeded. Government ministries continue to press for the 'minimum' space and cost standards to be reduced. The UK government published this downwardly revised space formula for primary schools in 2014. It said
567-518: The municipal executive committee (sometimes titled mayor ) is Jonas Attenius from the Social Democrats. The cooperation with the South African Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (established in 1998) is a partnership fostering development of common fields of interest such as solid waste management, public libraries, sport and tourism. Gothenburg had signed an agreement with Shanghai in 1986 which
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#1732852823730594-582: The plant have carried the Torslanda name, including later versions of the Volvo 240 during the early 1990s. It also holds the headquarters for Volvo Car Corporation, AB Volvo, and Polestar . From 1923 to 1977, prior to the opening of the Göteborg Landvetter Airport , the city had been served by the Torslanda Airport , located here. The control tower , located on a hilltop adjacent to the site of
621-466: The predicted roll of the school and the area needed. According to standards used in the United Kingdom, a general classroom for 30 reception class or infant (Keystage 1) students needs to be 62 m , or 55 m for juniors (Keystage 2). Examples are given on how this can be configured for a 210 place primary with attached 26 place nursery and two-storey 420 place (two form entry) primary school with attached 26 place nursery. The building providing
648-495: The research literature. In Canada, education is a provincial, not a federal responsibility. For example, the province of Ontario also had a " Grade 13 ", designed to help students enter the workforce or post-secondary education, but this was phased out in the year 2003. In most parts of the world, primary education is the first stage of compulsory education , and is normally available without charge, but may also be offered by fee-paying independent schools . The term grade school
675-410: Was destroyed by a fire, 31 May 1980; a monument marks the place where the hangar stood. Prior to its use as a de facto museum, the Torslanda Airport hangars had served as presentation spaces for prominent vehicle debuts, including the 1957 Volvo P1900/Sport. Elizabeth Stride , née Elisabeth Gustafsdotter — believed to have been the third victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack
702-568: Was proposed for students over 11: there were to be primary elementary schools and secondary elementary schools; these became known as primary schools and secondary schools. In some parts of the United States, "primary school" refers to a school covering kindergarten through to second grade or third grade (K through 2 or 3); the "elementary school" includes grade three through five or grades four to six. In Canada, "elementary school" almost everywhere refers to Grades 1 through 6; with Kindergarten being referred to as "preschool." Though often used as
729-827: Was upgraded in 2003 to include exchanges in culture, economics, trade and sport. However, the agreement was allowed to lapse in 2020. Primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore ), elementary school , or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age). Primary schooling follows preschool and precedes secondary schooling . The International Standard Classification of Education considers primary education as
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