Redesign the neighbourhood

After lunch we met in the classroom again where an expert, Mr Kaashoek or in english Mr Cheescorner, was waiting for us. He gave a presentation about how the neighbourhood of the school was, is, and will be. He showed pictures and videos of how the neighbourhood will look like in two years. After the illuminating presentation we were assigned to make up a question with our group which contained italians and dutch. Some of the questions were very good and Mr Cheescorner was impressed. Then we had to take a look at the neighbourhood. We took pictures of the buildings that we wanted to change or to replace. When we got back to school, after an exhausting walk through the neigbourhood, there were little bags of chips and drinks waiting for us. After everybody had come back, we started to think about the neighbourhood of our dreams. We could make whatever we wanted but we had to make sure it was sustainable. You could hear everybody's brain work and the pencils draw. Everybody finished their beautiful plans and showed them to the other groups in the hall. Every group explained how and why they designed there neighbourhood as they did. After this everybody got 2 green stickers and we had to put them on the plans we liked. We also got a post- it, where we could write why we liked something, and put it on a plan. At the end we al got back to the classroom to take our bags and jackets and we went all home.






Alessia Basadonne and Alenka Wels

Singing,dancing and dining

Friday evening our Italian guests arrived by plane. Saturday afternoon we started our first 'session'. We went to the beach on bike and this itself was pretty exhausting,the games at the beach were even more exhausting! This meant that everybody was very hungry saturday night...no problem, there was enough food!





This is what Anton and Giulio have reported about saturday night:


The Dutch Presentation:
The Dutch opened their programme with their version of the godfather, in which of course money, drugs and woman played a big role. A Happy end came after all (except of course for the boys' girlfriends), with the help of good old Nederweed. After that we continued with a quiz, which consisted of various subjects on The Netherlands (Geography, Politics, History, Fashion...) and a final question about the coolest school in Holland (it wasn't a surprise the Bona was NOT the right answer).


Then it was time for the Italians to show their programme. At the end, however, it was time for the Dutch to get on the stage once more, and do their final act; A marvellous masterpiece of Music, composed by our greatest and most respected students, Sjoerd and Christiaan. It went into a big success, despite the fears of a total 'fiasco'. (As you might expect when not even half of the quire knew the lyrics, and hardly anybody knew the melody) In one word; A perfect performance!





The Italian Presentation:
The Italians opened their presentation with an amazing quiz called 'Who wants to be an Italian?'' about Italy, and especially Voghera. Almost every answer was given correctly as the public consisted of both Dutch and Italian people. The show continued with the song "' Azzurro"' by the Italian singer Adriano Celentano, followed by a series of dances inspired by the movie "Grease".It took ten minutes to start the dance, as the boys still thought it would fail. At the end the girls performed "This is the life" by Amy McDonald with the guitar.

Finally, we can conclude that both schools performed (almost) as well as each other.

Start EEP 2010

With a lot of help from former students, parents and sixth-formers from our other schoolbuilding at the Fruinlaan we started EEP last week.
After a biological lunch (even the plastics were sustainable) students informed each other about the latest news about scientific and political developments in the field of social and ecological sustainability. We practised our debating skills with the help of former participants of EEP. Experts in the field of sustainable architecture,
agriculture and mobility gave their account of the things that are possible and the problems that you have to solve when you really want to improve things. A flying start indeed !


Met hulp van ouders, oud-leerlingen (of combinaties daarvan) en 6e klassers die speciaal waren ingevlogen vanuit de Fruinlaan is een begin gemaakt met ons uitwisselingsproject met Voghera, Italie.
Het programma was als altijd heel gevarieerd. Biologisch lunchen,informatie uitwisselen over de nieuwste trends op duurzaamheidsgebied, een debat met als stelling: 'social inequality is a bigger problem than the climate crisis' en, last not but least, een meet and greet met 3 experts uit het veld. Daarvoor kregen we de hulp van dhr. van der Stok, specialist op het gebied van verkeersstromen en op dit moment o.a. verantwoordelijk voor de veiligheid rond het nieuwe schoolgebouw. Hij kon ons echter ook vertellen dat Leiden de stad is met de minste CO2 uitstoot die samenhangt met mobiliteit per inwoner van heel Nederland !

Het bureau waarvoor hij werkt heeft een computerprogramma ontwikkeld waarmee alle steden zijn doorgelicht op CO2 uitstoot die veroorzaakt wordt door het verkeer.Ook kregen we hulp van een specialist op het gebied van duurzame landbouw en oud leerling Rogier Groeneveld informeerde ons over de nieuwste snufjes op het gebied van duurzaam bouwen.
Er staan ons nog de nodige bijeenkomsten te wachten, maar dit was alvast een vliegende start.


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