Norway · Trondheim

Birralee, Trondheim’s Cambridge-and-IPC house by the cathedral, not Bekkestua

A state-supported English-medium house in the centre of Trondheim, not an Oslo IB campus. 2026 monthly fees are public. It ends at Year 10. The diploma years live elsewhere.

denníkoedukovanáZkoumáno 1. 9. 2026

Oficiální web Trondheim Norway průvodce

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Kurikulum, jak ho škola uvádí:International Primary Curriculum · International Middle Years Curriculum · Cambridge IGCSE

Jazyky výuky:English

Birralee International School is a co-educational day school at Bispegata 9c, 7012 Trondheim, in the centre, near Nidaros Cathedral, NTNU and St Olav’s. Official site birralee.no. The home page says the Australian founder named it Birralee — “a safe place for children” — and that the house has offered international education since 1973. Elin J. Hitchman is named as Principal. Office +47 73 87 02 60, 08:30–15:30.

It is not Oslo International School in Bekkestua, not International School of Stavanger in Hafrsfjord, and not International School of Bergen in Sandsli. Trondheim is a university Tuesday, not a capital waitlist.

It is a day school. There is no boarding house. It stops at Year 10 / about 16. Families who need an IB Diploma will walk another door — OIS, Skagerak, the UWC at Flekke — in a later season.

The useful questions are: Do you want IPC, IMYC and IGCSE in English, with Norwegian national tests in the mix, rather than an IB continuum? Can you live with Bispegata in January? And have you opened the 2026 admissions line, because the home page still prints a 2025 kroner range.

Who it is for

Families moving to or already living in Trondheim who want an English-medium week from kindergarten through IGCSE, and who meet the criteria to enrol in a Norwegian public school. The admissions page is explicit: the house is open to those children, from Norway and from abroad. Year groups follow the same age rules as Norwegian public school. Parents may apply to Trondheim Kommune, Oppvekstkontoret, for a delayed or early start.

The home page names 300 students, 50 nationalities, 50 staff. Treat that as the school’s own snapshot.

It will not suit a family hunting an IB Diploma on the same campus, or an Oslo commute dressed up as a Trondheim solution. Walk OIS if the paper is IB and the life is Bærum. Walk the municipal grunnskole if Norwegian is the kindest Monday.

The IMYC page quotes a 2021 newspaper line that Birralee was “at the top in Trondheim” on national tests. That is a school-displayed cutting from 2021–2022. We are not ranking Birralee against a municipal youth school.

The campus you can actually picture

One official school address: Bispegata 9c, 7012 Trondheim. The contact page puts it in the heart of the city, close to the cathedral, the university and the hospital. Time that street at 8:00 in January, not a Bekkestua driveway.

Kindergarten shares the premises and is a bilingual house for ages 3–6. It has its own mailbox: c.heggdal@birraleekindergarten.no, +47 45 25 75 90. We will not invent a kindergarten fee the school pages we opened do not print. Ask the kindergarten.

How the years are organised

Kindergarten, 3–6, bilingual, same site
IPC, Years 1–5, ages about 6–11
IMYC, Years 6–8, ages about 11–14. The IMYC page says the Norwegian Directorate approved the curriculum in 2018 and 2020
Cambridge IGCSE, Years 9–10, ages about 14–16

The home page brands the house a Cambridge International School. The primary and middle years the learning pages name are IPC and IMYC. IGCSE is the Cambridge leaving paper. Ask which page this child is actually on.

Norwegian national tests sit in Years 5, 8 and 9. Reading and numeracy are in Norwegian. The school treats that as an extra challenge, not a footnote. Ask how much Norwegian a shy eight-year-old really has before those papers.

The IMYC page prints a 17:1 student–teacher ratio. That is the school’s sentence.

After-school: Years 1–3 get a free ASP place for up to 12 hours a week, the 2026 admissions page says. Fees include trips, outings, books and materials used in school.

How a child actually gets in

Deadline for the following school year: 1 February. Applications in by that date with an August/September start are considered together. Families already in the house confirm in January. Mid-year entry is possible “if necessary and/or possible.”

If the year is oversubscribed, the school uses its own admissions criteria. Those criteria, the page says, follow the mission: English-speaking education for international children moving to or living in Trondheim.

On acceptance, pay one month of fees in advance. That month becomes the first month’s tuition. The place is not guaranteed until the advance arrives.

We will not invent a waitlist length or a language-test score.

Money, as the 2026 admissions page prints it

Use the admissions page, not the home-page range. The home page still says monthly fees for 2025 are 3,539–3,625 NOK, “approximately 300 EURO.” The admissions page sets 2026:

Years	Monthly fee 2026
1–7	3,645 NOK
8–10	3,733 NOK

No fees in July. Eleven payable months if that sentence holds — confirm the live invoice before you multiply. We will not invent an annual total the page does not print.

The home page says fees are reduced thanks to state support. That is why this kroner line is not an Oslo IB conversation. Ask what “state support” means for this child’s rights — PPT, transport, SFO — before you assume a municipal package.

Sibling discount, Years 1–10: 10% for the second child, 25% for the third.

ASP for Years 1–3, up to 12 hours, is free. We will not invent the charge above 12 hours.

Kindergarten money lives on the kindergarten door. Ask there.

What we are not claiming

We are not ranking Birralee against a Trondheim ungdomsskole or against OIS. We are not treating a 2021 newspaper cutting as a 2026 result. We are not inventing a kindergarten fee, a waitlist, or an IB Diploma on Bispegata. We are not calling Trondheim a suburb of Oslo. We are not using the home page’s 2025 range as the 2026 bill.

Stairs questions

Ask whether this child is entering kindergarten, Year 1, or IGCSE, and whether a February file is still open. Ask how much Norwegian the national tests will actually meet. Ask what happens at 16 if the next paper is the IB. Time Bispegata on a dark Tuesday, then the municipal school the address already names.

The Trondheim hub is the short map. The Norway country page is the wider one. Oslo is another city.