How to use this school page:

 

• This is the page to introduce yourselves to the other groups/classes in your Learning Circle and post all your challenge contributions. 
  

• Please see the page 'Background information' for detailed information. 

 

Giving and receiving feedback:

 

• On this school page, you'll find text boxes for the feedback from the other groups in your Circle.
  We ask you to give each school feedback on their work and contributions. 

• If you want to give a brief remark to a group, please use the comment box at the bottom of the school page.

 

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Introduction:

 

Hello there! We from De Nieuwste School all wrote a piece of text about ourselves. Hope you enjoy them! But, first, here's something about the Netherlands:

 

We're from the Netherlands, as you probably already read somewhere else on this page. It’s quite a boring country unless you love water, and if you live in Noord Brabant (a region in the south of Holland where our school is located), there isn’t that much of that stuff either. Just forests and fields where cows graze or fields with corn to feed the cows. Anyway, that’s just an opinion, if you’d ever visit the Netherlands you could also go to historical cities as Deventer or Delft, to gaze at “grachtenpanden” as we call them in Dutch, houses along a canal where rich people once lived (that hasn’t changed by the way, though I doubt those houses are as expensive as a house in the centre of Londen). Those houses are from the time we call the golden age, the 17^th age in which the Netherlands were very rich and sailed all over the world to buy and sell stuff.

 

Well, that was that, and now the pieces about ourselves. 

 

Hello, my name is Ilan, and I really love to learn new things, to stroke my very, very, very soft cat Ronja, to row (not very professional rowing, but still, rowing) and to read books like Tobie Lolness or Northern lights. I also read books in English sometimes. I’m 13 years old and that means with our school system that I’m in the second year of high school. I'm looking forward to getting started!

 

With the best regards,

Ilan van Elk

 

 

Hello,

I’m Eva Rijnen. I am thirteen years old and I live in Holland, Tilburg. It’s a nice town. I like it here. My hobbies are playing piano, sailing, dancing and swimming. I have a mother (Denise) a father (Marcel) and a sister (Roos). I am older than my sister. I skipped a class so I am the youngest.

Bye Bye

Eva Rijnen

 

Hello, my name is Jaco Delissen. I’m 14 years old. I have a mother (Bella), a dad (Paul) and a brother (Bram). My hobbies are athletics, trampoline jumping and tennis. I do vwo and school is very easy for me. To sport is the most fun thing in my life, that means everything to me. That was about it.

Goodbye,

Jaco Delissen

 

Hi there, I'm Benjamin. I'm 14 years old and I've got two brothers, and of course a father and a mother. My hobbies are longboarding and freerunning and I also teach freerunning. My best friend is Jaco.

With regards,

Benjamin.

 

Hi, I'm Robin Veldhuis. I am a twin, me and my twin sister are 14 years old. About 5 years ago me and my family moved to Austria. We wanted to live there forever but after 3 years we moved back to the Netherlands. This was a big life experience for me. I do a lot of sport. I love to play basketball but I also play jiu-jitsu. That is a martial arts. These are the most important thing to know about me.

 

Greetings Robin

 

To contact eachother we created a Skype account by the name of: 

The Netherlands: DeNieuwsteSchool

We hope that you can maybe add us so we can contact eachother.

 

Here are a few photos:

 

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Contributions Challenges:

 

We chose this Challenge: well, that's a long story: we thought that you just had to make all the exercises, which means that we actually chose both of them... Luckily, we did notice after a while so we didn't make assignment 4, but we did make assignment 1, 2 and 3.

And this assignment: Well, we made assignment 1, 2 and 3. Those about the "green" energy that is used in our country, about making an energy saving guide and about investigating how sustainable a brand is. (we chose the brand that produces the best chocolate available in Holland, in our opinion)

 

This is assignment 1:

assignment 1 - what kinds of clean energy are used in our country_.gdoc

 

And this assignment 2:

Assignment 2 - create an energy saving guide.pdf 

 

And 3:

Assignment 3 - Research Project.gdoc

 

questions & answers

After days and days of work (not really), we finally found a good question and we hope you like it! Here it is:

Which ways of green energy could the Netherlands still use?

We're looking forward to seeing your questions and we hope you like ours. We do wonder what your answer will be... =^..^=

 

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Evaluation: 

Hi! We are students from Mrs.Bowers grade 9 geography class at Senator O'Connor. We were unable to answer your question on the question and answer page, so we have sent our answer here.

 

6% of the Netherlands green energy comes from bio fuel, hydro or wind power, solar and geothermal energy. You can work on increasing that number using those sources of energy more often.

 

 

 

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Feedback from: Hey Benjamin! My name is James and i am from Senator O'Connor in Canada. I am also 14 years old with two older brothers. My hobbies are snowboarding, hockey and fortnite. Looking forward to hearing back from you.      Later.

James 

 

 

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