Theme 1 School!

About our school

We start at 8.30u, and the last lessons end at 16.50u. But nobody has to be at school that time everyday. Some days you have to be at school at 9.20, and you can go home at 15.10. It depends on your timetable. Here is the timetable of Zina: 

You can see that sometimes, she has to be at school till 16 u. So that sucks!! Our lessons takes 50 minutes. We've got 2 breaks, one of 20 minutes and one of 30 minutes.
When you're in 4^th year, you can choose your subjects. We call it ‘profiel kiezen’. You can choose for the science subjects, or for the language subjects. But we all have subjects like: English, Dutch, Math, gym, sociology, classical culture, Latin or Greek…… Generaly you get homework every lesson. It takes more and less 1or 2 ours a day, to make your homework.

Good points: It's always very cosy, and the teachers are nice, and we have a lot of activities after school. Example: In your 4th year you can go on a trip to another country like Italy, or Greece. Another good is that you can choose a lot of weird combinations of classes. ex: economy, society and biology.

A very bad point at our school are the timetables. Sometimes we have to be at school till 16.50! We think that’s way too long! (so we were on strike!!) We can’t concentrate any more at that time!

The school building is very old and it really needs to be renovated.We've got more than 1400 students! We have temporary buildings, big, yellow plastic boxes that stand next to the school, we don’t like them, because they are very hot in summer and very cold in winter.

If we could change something about our school it would be the timetables, and the building because it's to small, sometimes we’re with 33 students in 1 classrooms, while there are only 32 chairs!

Do your parents think that school now is better or worse?

They think it's better in some ways, but it's also worse in some ways. They feel that reproducing knowledge and discipline was more important then. Nowadays, students have more interaction and more freedom.

Was your parents time at school useful for them?

Yes, for all of them. But some of our parents weren't that brave, and some hadn't very good results...

Have their studies helped them in their life?

Yes, they learned a lot at school and it helped them to get a job.