1A with 4h talent journey+ 1h “leeratelier” (enhancing and diversifying your talents or remedial work)
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| Courses | Class periods | |
|---|---|---|
| Language | Learning and Communicating | 12 |
| Dutch | 6 | |
| French | 4 | |
| English | 2 | |
| Human | Living Together and Understanding the world | 3 |
| History | 1 | |
| Philosophical subjects | 2 | |
| STEAM | Discover and create | 10 |
| Geography | 2 | |
| Natural sciences | 1 | |
| Technical sciences | 2 | |
| Mathematics | 5* | |
| Sports | Healthy Living | |
| Physical Education | 2 | |
| Talents | Explore and choose | 5 |
| Economics | 1 | |
| Art and Culture | 1 | |
| STEAM | 1 | |
| Man and society | 1 | |
| Leeratelier (strengthen-deepen) | 1 | |
| Total number of class periods per week | 32 |
* 4h "basis" + 1h differentiation
About this discipline
It is quite a step from primary school to ‘ the big school’. Instead of one teacher, you now have several teachers who each teach one or more subjects. When you enter the first year in our school, you will not only learn the familiar subjects like Dutch, French, mathematics,… We also appeal to your other specific talents. We make the transition to secondary education as small as possible and try to create a warm classroom and school climate through cross-curricular theme days/weeks. In the first year, our pupils receive a basic package of 27 class periods. Extra effort is made on Dutch and math by offering them 5h. The remaining 5 hours are used to explore (4h), strengthen and deepen through a ‘leeratelier” (enhancing and diversifying your talents or remedial work) (1h). In the talent journey we offer our students different dusbjects and try to discover and develop their talents. Class weeks alternate with theme weeks. During these theme weeks, the teachers work with themes that go beyond the subject matter, such as the environment, poverty, traffic, resistance, social skills, …
For this, we work around 4 large clusters in which the various subjects are contained.
DISCOVERING YOUR TALENTS
The students following subjects:
- STEAM
- Economy
- Society & Well-being
- Art & Culture
STEAM
STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics. We offer every student more challenges in science, math, engineering and technology. Through inquiry-based learning, we delve into the wonderful world of science. Through design-based learning, we challenge our students to think like a true engineer.
Economy
The first year lays the foundation for economic awareness. Attention to socioeconomic aspects on the one hand and more conscious choices and critical attitude towards market offerings and commercial messages on the other hand, develop understanding of consumption behavior, income generation and financial products to estimate short and long term budgetary consequences.
Society & Well-being
Man and Society is an introduction to the more humanistic disciplines. We work with themes such as politics, psychology and sociology. Based on the vision of “learning to live together”, students are also introduced to the subject of citizenship, which is taught from the second high school onwards.
FLEX HOURS
Flex hours are organized in:
- In the first year for Dutch (1h), French (1h) and English (1h)
- In the second year for Dutch (1h), French (1h) and English (1h)
In the flex hours, students work independently and individually on the subject matter. This can be practicing the material or skills, pre-teaching assignments, remediation, assignments related to basic literacy.
During flex hours we put the following executive functions in focus:
- sustained attention
- task initiation
- time management
