Fine spring weather has continued in Sigtuna. The whole of March has been warm except for small setbacks with snowfalls over a couple of days. The forecast is for colder spells, in other words normal April weather, so we can expect snow and icy patches followed by warm days. We [...]
Spring weather has come to Sigtuna. This year spring has come early and we wonder if it is here to stay or whether there will be some setbacks? The mornings are much brighter and it is now relatively light in the evenings. The last of the snow disappeared during a [...]
In the most recent newsletter I expressed a wish that we would soon have good conditions for skating and now we have. As a part of our ice hazard awareness training, the school along with the Sigtuna Rescue Services arranged for pupils, who so wished, to take a winter dip [...]
After a well-deserved Christmas holiday we returned on Sunday ready for the start of term on Monday January 9th. From the beginning we were beset with the problem of a power cut, which also set off a fire alarm leading to a somewhat complicated start to the day. Everyone took [...]
Winter has not come to Sigtuna as yet even though it is becoming colder. We are hoping for a little ground frost before the snow falls so that it remains without turning immediately to slush. In addition, we hope for good skating ice on the lake before everything is covered [...]
I apologise for a somewhat delayed newsletter for November but due to the month beginning with the midterm holiday and since then a number occurrences, which I come to in the following lines, I have purposely withheld this letter for a few days. After a hectic and at the same [...]
There are today some 800 Jews in Sweden who survived the Holocaust, but only a dozen or so who have the strength and courage to talk about it. Tobias Rawet is one of them, this wednesday, on the year-day of the “Kristallnacht” he visited SSHL to share his story about [...]
Autumn has come to Sigtuna. September has had a few rainy days but on the whole we have enjoyed beautiful autumn weather with real summer temperatures. Despite the absence of night frosts autumn colours are increasingly dominant and migratory birds are beginning to head south, for those who have the [...]