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Report on the Immersion Camp 2010 |
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“A soggy wet start to the tto immersion camp 2010”
On a rain soaked Wednesday morning, 79 students and their teachers boarded a double decker bus and headed for the “Venice of Holland” Giethoorn to begin a three day immersion camp. Naturally excited but understandably hesitant the students waved goodbye to their parents to begin the first part of their educational journey in tto.
Along the way the bus stopped at Holland’s National Park, the Hoge Veluwe for a practical geography fieldtrip. Armed with waterproof jackets, Wellington boots of many colours and designs and much needed umbrellas the students were equipped with measuring tapes, right-angled triangles, test tubes, fishing nets and buckets. For three hours the students jumped and croaked like frogs as they clambered and squelched over boggy heath lands which were laid down by ancient glaciers during the last ice-age. These glaciated lowlands are richly wooded and timing with a wide variety of flora and fauna. The students measured deciduous and coniferous trees, took sandy soil samples, studied pond ecosystems and observed and recorded the littered forest floor which is filled with ground dwellers of the crawling and creepy kind and much to our enjoyment the quintessential toadstool with its large white stem and brown-spotted cap.
Following a much deserved lunch, the students discarded their muddy Wellington boots and boarded the bus that headed for the farm house in Giethoorn which would be their home for two nights and three days.
Once they arrived the students couldn’t wait to enter and to conquer a bed. After a general meeting the students were expected to demonstrate their punting skills and the fine art of group cooperation and collaboration in a narrow boat containing seven students. Most struggled to punt in the right direction without hitting each other and despite screams of encouragement and instruction from their teachers, most students still careened into banks of the ditches. After one hour the boats were returned to the sheds and the students sat down to a scrumptious Chinese take away meal. The evening was spent writing silly but hilarious Limericks in English and competing in a challenging geo-city quiz. Exhausthed but too excited to sleep the students retired to their sleeping quarters, although some were suffering from an extreme bout of insomnia.
The next morning the students awoke to the rays of sunshine beaming through the windows of their dormitories. It was time to show case their rowing skills and head towards the Oude Aarde museum to take part in a gold hunt and rock and fossil quiz. Whilst some students were hunting for gold others were putting the final touches to their comic strips about a story which had Giethoorn as the setting. These stories varied from a murder mystery in Giethoorn to a kidnapping that went wrong. Students were busy taking pictures and using the scenery as the back drop for their comic strip.
In the afternoon the students gathered for a light lunch on the Bovenwijde lake with their teachers. This was also the starting point for a hunt for treasure on a deserted island in the middle of the lake.
The treasure hunt was followed by an exquisite BBQ prepared by Mr. Manesse and Mr. Blom. which featured sizzling sausages and hamburgers, accompanied by a fresh salad prepared by the students and mouthwatering french fries.
This truly exciting day was rounded off with the “tto talent shownight” performances. All students had to prepare a number of small performances in English in groups. These acts included skits, dances, songs, jokes, comedy quiz shows and to end the show a special song was performed by Joaquim, about all the countries of the World.
Before returning to school the next day, the “ great clean-up campaign” began with the task of returning the farm houses to the same spotless condition we had found them in. Sadly, however, it was the end of another incredible tto immersion camp!
Sylvia Blom & Esther Sartori
Tto coördinators
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TTO: Eight Day Trip to England! |
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On the 19th of April 2010, the two TTO-classes, 2L & 2M went off to England by bus.
All the students gathered at 08.30 in the morning in front of the school. At 9 O’clock we left Hoofddorp and headed towards Calais, France. When we arrived in Calais we took the train to Dover. The first thing we saw, once we arrived, were the iconic white, chalk, cliffs of Dover. We continued our journey to Dover Castle, that is located on top of the remarkable cliffs...
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By Parminder Singh, Sithy Reza & Seline Keijzer (2M)
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Phileas Fogg Theatre Company bezoekt Lyceum! |
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Zoals ieder jaar kwamen op 18 maart twee acteurs, dit jaar Mike en Kate, van de Phileas Fogg Theatre Company uit Engeland drie voorstellingen verzorgen op de school. Eerst in de ochtend twee Drama Workshops voor de twee brugklassen van het Tweetalig Onderwijs (tto) en erna First World War Poets voor de leerlingen van de I.B. (International Baccalaureate) groep Engels in 4 Vwo. Alle workshops zijn zeer interactief en bedoeld om de leerlingen op een plezierige manier vertrouwd te maken met het gebruik van Engels in presentaties. Alle leerlingen hebben een rol in de workshops en daarbij is ook Team Building een ander doel. De brugklassen oefenden gedurende anderhalf uur vol enthousiasme de presentatie van reclames voor verzonnen producten en de uiteindelijke resultaten waren verrassend.
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Scene van Mike met 4 Vwo bij de loopgraaf
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Scene van Kate met 4 Vwo
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In First World War Poets leren de leerlingen over de poëzie uit de eerste wereld oorlog en de ontberingen in het leven van de soldaten aan het front. Drie Engelse dichters, die als soldaat tussen 1914 en 1918 in België aanwezig waren, komen aan de orde, t.w. Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon en Wilfred Owen. Hun teksten worden in de workshop veelvuldig gebruikt. De leerlingen verkleden zich als soldaten en gaan de nagebouwde loopgraven in. Allerlei attributen, zoals wapens, vlaggen en zelfs ratten worden gebruikt. Zo maken ze op speelse manier kennis met de afschuwelijke aspecten van een dergelijke oorlog.
Al met al was het een leerzame en onvergetelijke dag voor alle deelnemers.
Scene van Kate met TTO 1J
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Shakespeariaanse High Tea Party |
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Op vrijdag 11 december vond op het Haarlemmermeer Lyceum de langverwachte High Tea Party plaats, een jaarlijkse gebeurtenis rond een bepaald thema. Dit jaar was dit thema “Shakespeare” en dat betekende dat de tto-klassen (tweetalig Vwo) een aantal scenes van Shakespeare op het podium van de aula in de school opvoerden, natuurlijk in het Engels. Voor deze gelegenheid kwam Marc Norris over uit Engeland, die het script heeft geschreven en in de afgelopen maanden een aantal keren met de leerlingen en docenten heeft geoefend.
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Achtereenvolgens werden de drie delen van de voorstelling opgevoerd: “Meeting Shakespeare” door de klassen 1 tto, “The Quest of Dennis “ door 2 tto en “Romeo & Juliet” door 3 tto. Marc Norris was zeer onder de indruk van hetgeen hij op het podium zag gebeuren. De twee organisatoren, docenten Mrs. Blom en mw. Sartori, hadden voor alle rollen prachtige kleding kunnen bemachtigen, inclusief allerlei vervaarlijk wapentuig, zoals schilden en zwaarden. De techniek was in handen van leden van de Soos. Een andere groep leerlingen heeft onder leiding van docenten mw. van der Rijt en de hr. Berntsen intensief gewerkt aan de prachtige decors, die samen met de kerstversieringen de aula verfraaiden.
Tussen de bedrijven door werd Engelse thee geschonken met vele lekkernijen die door de leerlingen en ouders waren verzorgd. Er was een speciale jury aangesteld om te beoordelen welke klas de smakelijkste en best opgemaakte tafel heeft ingericht. Klas 1K werd uiteindelijk de winnaar.Tegen het eind van deze gezellige middag werden door teamleider van het tto, de hr. Blom, certificaten uitgereikt aan de leerlingen die in schooljaar 2008/2009 drie jaar tto hebben afgerond. Het gaat hier om het “Certificate of Content & Language Integrated Learning” in International Context”, uitgegeven door het Europees Platform, dat verantwoordelijk is voor de inhoud van het tweetalig onderwijs. Het merendeel van de leerlingen, die hun certificaat ontvingen, neemt nu deel aan het I.B. English ( International Baccalaureate) programma dat de school aanbiedt aan de Vwo-bovenbouw- leerlingen.
Vervolgens vond een optreden plaats door de band van de geslaagde leerlingen die op indrukwekkende wijze een speciaal voor de twee organisatoren gecomponeerde song ten gehore brachten. Voordat de hr. Blom alle betrokkenen kon bedanken met vriendelijke woorden, flesjes wijn en bloemen, hield Philip Frankenmolen uit klas 6 Vwo zijn presentatie. In juli 2009 bezocht hij Cebu City in de Filipijnen als onderdeel van een uitwisseling met als doel hulpprojecten op te zetten. Cebu city is een zusterstad van Hoofddorp/Haarlemmermeer.
Er zijn op deze middag in totaal ong. 600 belangstellenden geweest, waaronder leerlingen, ouders en andere familieleden, en docenten.
P.Blom
teamleider tto en coördinator I.B.English
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Immersion Camp Blown 'Off Course' |
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Giethoorn, 2nd-4th of September 2009
On Wednesday the 2nd of September 2009, 56 excited students from tto 1j and tto 1k left school together with five teachers including Mr. Frangias, Mr. de Beer, the camp organisers Mrs.Blom and Mrs. Sartori and the geography teacher Mrs. van Midden to take part in the annual tto- immersion camp. After loading the coach with students, luggage, rucksacks, sleeping bag and camp provisions, the heavily laden coach departed for farm “Ulenborg” in the picturesque village of Giethoorn. Before reaching our final destination we took a short diversion and paid a visit to the three hundred year old Palace “Het Loo”, close to the town of Apeldoorn. This former royal residence with its sumptuously furnished interiors and reconstructed gardens adorned with their 17th century fountains and statues of gods and goddesses from the Greek myths, proved to be a welcome and delightful stop for students and teachers. Het Loo Palace (The “Wood Palace”) was built from 1684-1686 for the Stadholder-king William 3rd and Mary 2nd of England and remained the palace of residence of the house of Orange-Nassau from the 17th century until the death of Wilhelmina in 1962. After two hours of rummaging through the palace interiors, the gardens and stables, the students emerged with all the answers to the quiz made by Mr. de Beer. We continued our journey towards Giethoorn arriving late in the afternoon. The coach unloaded our eager campers who were allotted two separate farm houses, which would be their home for 2 nights. After unpacking and receiving the camp rules and regulations the students took to the water before night fall to practice their rowing and team work skills on the shallow ditch running along the farm houses. With two students rowing, one student punting and one student steering most students set off in straight lines and facing the right direction. Whilst the students rowed Mrs. Blom and Mrs. Sartori left to collect the evening meal from the local Chinese restaurant. The food was delicious and the students ate until their filled stomachs were full. The first evening at the immersion camp ended with a limerick writing competition. After receiving a few instructions from the teachers on how to write a silly, funny and nonsensical five-line poem, the students were left to create their own masterpieces. Most students kept to the tradition of writing limericks by producing some really silly, funny and even naughty ones. The best limerick of the evening went to Wessel and Sam from tto 1k, who used the word Nipon Kazouwa! ( Japanese beer commerical) to create their limerick which brought the house down every time they delivered it!The immersion camp lights were put out at 11.00 p.m. but most students were too excited to sleep.
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Day two of the immersion camp began with a hearty breakfast served up by the breakfast crew. Right after breakfast Mr. Blom came from Hoofddorp and joined the party. The agenda for the day included rowing through the man-made canals, navigating the big canal and the many low arched bridges and ending with a two- hour rowing trip on the “Bovenwijde” lake.
We were ready to depart when the news came that the weather was going to change drastically by the end of the day.The weather forcast included strong winds from the South-West, near gale conditions( 5-7 beaufort wind scale) choppy sea conditions, and rain. The conditions on the lake were considered by the boat hire companies to be too rough and dangerous for the students. We decided to continue with our plans but row until we reached the “ Oude Aarde” museum and continue our journey by foot to the lake for lunch. Mr. Blom was a welcome site when we reached the museum as the weather was beginning to create problems for our amateur rowers!
The museum offered the opportunity for our students to do some gold-digging, rock smashing and to get up close and personal to rocks and fossils millions of years old. With all 14 boats tightly secured and safe from the near-gale conditions we walked to Smit’s pavilion restaurant for lunch. After lunch we rented a sightseeing boat which took the students and teachers on a 60 minutes trip on the lake and through the canals We ended up back to where our boats were tied up. Now for the difficult part of the day, to row back into headwind to the farm houses. This proved too difficult for some students and the teacher’s took over the rowing. Tired and exhausted all the students arrived safely back to the farm houses and started to rehearse and prepare their acts and fine- tune their performances for show night. Whilst the students were rehearsing, Mr. Blom got the BBQ going with the help of three students. The show night hosts for the evening were Kyung, Jerrrey, Tim and Jasmin, who introduced a variety of acts including quizzes, Grease Lightning dance performance, story-telling with sound effects, “Shame-speare” act and a solo River Dance performance. Show night began with happy birthday celebrations for Kyung and Jimi, students and teachers ( Mrs. Sartori and Mr. Frangias) sang “happy birthday” in 10 different languages whilst the two students blew out their candle-lite birthday cakes. The evening got really going when Mr. de Beer took to the stage and gave an unforgettable performance of Michael Jackson’s “Beat It”. The camp came to an end with a group sing-along to the music of Michael Jackson and John Lennon. Totally exhausted the students retired to their dormitories ready to sleep.
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The next morning the farm houses had to be cleaned and left tidy for the next group of campers. Our campers were packed and ready to leave for home. We arrived back at school at 1.00 p.m. where parents were waiting to take their exhausted but happy children home. A perfect end to yet another memorable immersion camp.
Mrs. Blom
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