COMENIUS PROJECT: DUTCH LESSONS IN OUR SCHOOL

Last week (2-9 March, 2015) we were visited by Mrs Bente Toepoel, a Dutch Language teacher in Marne College (Bolsward, Friesland, The Netherlands). She came to our school to give a course on basic Dutch to the 1º Bachillerato students who are going to travel to The Netherlands in May. This activity is included in the Comenius Project “North and South: Building bridges with languages” that we are developing with the Dutch school. Students had two periods of Dutch everyday.

During the week, we organized different activities.

On Tuesday 3rd of March, the 2º ESO Bilingual Students, accompanied by their Music teacher, played the Frisian anthem in the assembly hall to welcome the Dutch teacher. Later, they went on a tour in Luanco to show her around our village.

3º ESO Bilingual students were working on famous Dutch painters both in Arts and in English. They did a painting of Van Goh´s famous picture “Bedroom in Arlés” and prepared power point presentations on three famous Dutch painters: Rembrandt, Veermer and Van Gogh.

Some 1º of Bachillerato students worked in Science and English on two Dutch scientists: Eise Eisinga (Dronrijp 1749- Franeker 1828) and Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek (Delft 1632- 1723). On Wednesday afternoon 4th of March, students presented their works to families and students from the Bilingual Section and 1º Bachillerato and the Dutch teacher gave a talk about The Netherlands and the Dutch school system.

On Thursday 4th of March, there was a sport activity organized by the Physical Education teachers. 1º of Bachillerato students played a competition of a Dutch game called Korfball.

On Friday, after the Dutch lessons had finished, 1º Bachillerato students met in the school library for a competition on The Netherlands. Divided in groups, they had to answer questions about different aspects of the Dutch culture and language. Although it was a close competition, the tie was broken at the end and there was a winner team.

All along the week, we learnt new things about The Netherlands. We enjoyed the visit of Mrs Bente Toepoel a lot.

Here you can see some pictures of the activities.