m     

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. 
  

• We ask you to share not only the results, but also a report of the learning process: how you discussed, planned, divided tasks, enjoyed working on the challenges etc. 

 

Giving and receiving feedback:

 

• On this school page (below) you'll find text boxes for the feedback from the other groups in your Circle.
  We ask you to give each school feedback, in each of the 4 phases of this Circle.

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

 

---

---

 

Introduction:

 

welcome to class 2a1! This is who we are....

 

 

 

 

Hi! My name is Simon, I’m 13 years old and I am from The Netherlands. My hobbies are gaming and drawing. 

When I’m at my dads house, I live with him and with our cat. When I’m at my mom’s house I live with my mom, her partner, and his son and daughter. 

I usually draw fantasy monsters, and I play games like World of Warcraft, a very fictional game.

I don’t do any sports, but maybe I will at some point. 

My school is called: ‘the Grundel’. My favourite subjects are drawing and Cambrigde English. Cambrigde is basically a more difficult form of English. 

 

I hope you learned something about me, see you later!

---

 

Hello, I’m Hidde Laagland. I’m fourteen years old and I live in the Netherlands. I have 3 sisters and a ferret.  In my free time I: Play video games like CS:GO, Portal 1 and 2, Skyrim and Team Fortress 2, I also do speed skating. I’m 4 or 5 times a week on the skating rink: three times training and once giving group 3 training at in the weekend I sometimes have a competition, in the summer I cycle, skate and run

---

 

Hello , I’m Yvonne and I’m thirteen years old . I live in the Netherlands . We are going to introduce you to the Netherlands . First , I’m going to tell you something about myself . I have many Hobbies, some of these are: Horsebackriding , Gymnastics , running and singing . I live in the town Hengelo . My gymnastic club is HGV.  Horses are my life, I’m almost everyday at the stables. I haven’t an own horse ,but I like horses very much. My favorite horse is Shadow, she is a young horse , and I ride her on Mondays . She has been Ill for 3 months but now she’s fine. I have a dog Beau , Beau is 1 year old . I like to jump with her, She’s a very kind dog .

 

---

 

Hello everybody, I am Anne-Mare and I am from the east side of the Netherlands. I live in the small town called Delden. I live in a house with my parents, my two little sisters called Malyn (11) and Norah (9) and my cat called Mick. I am going to school in an other town called Hengelo, my school called Lyceum de Grundel. In the morning I have to cycle thirty-five minutes to school, every day. In my spare time I like meet up with friends and to play hockey with my hockey team.

 

---

 

Hello, i’m Sebastian. I’m 14 years old. I like to play football.

---

 

Hi everybody! I am Isa ter Elst and I am from the Netherlands. I live in a city called Hengelo. My family consists of: my parents called Marjolein (42) and Stefan (51), my two brothers called Bram (16) and Martijn (16) and my two cats called Mickey (6) and Mouse (6). ☺ The school were I go to is called Lyceum de Grundel. My school is in Hengelo, so I only have to cycle for about 10 minutes. In my spare time I like to play hockey with my hockey team, and I like to hang out with my friends.

Greetings Isa. ❤

---

 

Hello there, on the other side of the world. My name is Sander Flink. I am 13 years old. My hobbies are gaming and playing soccer. Watching YouTube videos is my hobby too. I live in Hengelo, a place in the Netherlands. My family consists of my parents; my brother and my cat called Twiggy. The Telgenkamp was my elementary school and now I am in the secondary school the Grundel. This is my second year on this school. My best school subjects are languages like French or English and I hate biology and maths.

---

 

Heey! my name is Stef Schrooten from the Netherlands. I was born in Hengelo and I still live there. I’m thirteen years old and I have one little brother called Wout. He’s eleven years old. My mother’s called Marion and my father Stefan. I also have a dog, Bibi. My hobbies are athletics and soccer.

 

---

 

I’m Sep, a fourteen year old boy from the The Netherlands (Hengelo).I have two little brothers, one little sister, two patrents and a cat. I lie to platy baseball at the Giants and we are planning to play eerste klas/first class (the highest of class of the Netherlands. I love gaming, especially CS:GO but my laptop crashed so I have to deal with my mother’s old laptop : ( . It would be awesome if some of you have CS:GO or a steam account to, we could play a game together and have fun.  

---

 

Hello, my name is Femke van het Bolscher and I’m 13 years old. I live in the Netherlands and I go to school at Lyceum the Grundel. I don’t have sisters or Brothers and I also don’t have pets. My hobbies are playing flute and I also like playing Handbal.

---

 

Hello, my name is Joey Dean Kattenbelt.

I am 13 years old and I live in the Netherlands.

I have 2 sisters, 1 brother and 1 dog. My hobbies are soccer and gaming. I play games with my friends every day, especially cs:go (a shooter game). The music that I like are pop, rock and base trapmusic. My favourite subject is gym. The subject I hate the most is Biology, because I am very bad at it.

The school were I am now is called ‘The Grundel’.

This is the second building on the other site of the street, there are more classrooms.

This was something about me, Bye!  

---

 

Hello there, my name is Tobias. I’m 13 years old and I love to play games. But isn’t that every teenager nowadays. I also like to play football. I come from the Netherlands and I live in the city: ‘Hengelo.’ I abominate homework!! My parents are separated; with my father I got one sister and a stepmother, and with my mom I got three sisters!  Sometimes they’re very annoying. Now I’m on the secondary school called: Lyceum de Grundel. And my elementary school was called; De Borgh. I also like to watch YouTube videos. 

---

 

Hello, 

 

I am Cheyenne and I am 14 years old. I live in the Netherlands in a house with my younger brother (13) and my parents, I have no pets. I like to play handball very much. I play with the club Olympia and in the Selection. I'm not a fielder but I'm a keeper. This is my 5th season that I play handball, so that's 5 years. 

 

With my parents and brother I will going on a trip to a capital. This year we went to Rome, Italy. The first year that we did that we went to Berlin. These holidays are very cosy and interesting. 

---

 

 

Hi there, my name is Wes, and I am like 13 years old, in a few months I will be 14. I live in Hengelo, a small town in the east of the Netherlands. The Netherlands is a really small country: If you want to cross the Netherlands from west to east by car, you will be able to do it within two hours! Now something about my family: I have 1 brother who is older than me, and his name is Vince, and of course I have two parents. The school I am at is called the Grundel, and I love it here. My favorite subject is Technology or Drawing, because I like being creative. My favorite thing to do is playing guitar and computer games. I have been playing guitar for over 5 years now, and I even have a band here! Well, that was kind of all about me, so I will stop talking/writing now. Goodbye! 

---

 

Hello world, my name is Jelmer. 

I am 13 years old and I come from The Netherlands. My school is called ‘’Lyceum de Grundel’’ 

My hobby’s are playing football and playing computer games. I have two brothers. My oldest brother is 17 years old (Joël) and my other brother is 15 years old (Jonas). When I am at my father’s house I mostly play computer games. When  I’m at my mother’s house I mostly play computer games and make homework. I also have a dog, Molly. My favorite games are Counter Strike : Global Offense and Runescape. Csgo (Counter Strike Global Offense) is an online shooting game and Runescape is an adventure game. My favorite subject is Physical Education. My most boring subject is maths.  

 Greetings, 

Jelmer

---

 

Hello, I’m Maaike. 

I am thirteen years old. I have a brother and a sister called Wouter (sixteen) and Laura (nineteen). I haven’t any pets and my hobby’s are dancing and shopping. I live in the town Hengelo (Netherlands) and I go to a school called Lyceum de Grundel. I have to cycle thirty minutes to school every day. 

---

 

Hello, I am Britt. 

I am fourteen years old. I have a little brother. His name is Thijs and he is twelve years old. I live in the town Hengelo (Netherlands) and I go to a school called Lyceum de Grundel. I haven’t any pets and my hobby’s are hockey and shopping. I have to cycle fifteen minutes to school every day.

---

 

Hello, my name is Eli Baho. I’m 13 years old and live in the Netherlands. I live in a house with my little brother (Paulus), my big sister (Emily) and my parents. The school where I go to is called Grundel Lyceum.  I love to play games on my laptop. I go to football 3 times a week. That was it about me, Goodbye. 

---

 

Hello!

I’m Gerjanne and I’m 12 years old.

I live in the Netherlands, in a town called Hengelo.  I live with my mother, father, and brother.  I don’t have a pets but years ago I had a rabbit.

My school is called Lyceum de Grundel and I do really like my school!  My most favourite subject is History.  My hobbies are reading and drawing. I also really like dancing, but I don’t dance now.  Before I was doing Worddance.  African dances are my favourites.

 

---

 

 

Hello, my name is Marco Capoccia. I’m 14 years old and I become 15 on the 13th of

November. I live in a city in the east of the Netherlands called Hengelo. I have 2 sisters, one

of them is my twin. I’m half Italian. I have one dog which is called Stella. My school is called

Lyceum de Grundel.

Bye.

---

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---

---

 

Contributions Challenge 1:

 

This is our saving energy plan!

---

 

 

Assignment 1)

In the Netherlands we have solar panels, water centrals and windmills. These are kinds of

sustainable energy.

The solar panels have layers, between those layers electric voltage is generated. These

electric voltages can be used in houses.

In the water centrals flowing water rotates a turbine. The rotary movement is converted into

electricity.

By the kinetic energy of the air the blades rotate. And as a result, some energy is generated,

but you can also move water with the windmills.

The Netherlands are running behind when it comes to sustainable energy. They want to

invest in sustainable energy and no more. They want that big polluters pay and that the

sustainable energy gets more space.

 

Assignment 2)

It’s very important to reuse energy. Here are a couple of ways to save energy easily. At home you can save energy by turning the lights off, don’t use much water or don’t let the plug needlessly in the socket. This way you can save a lot of money and energy at home. On school you can save energy to place solar panels on your school, turn the lights off on the toilet when you’re done. Our plan is to save energy in the little things. Like when it’s winter and you have your window open, close your window and don’t put the heating higher. Or having the lights on when it’s not necessary.

 

By Anne-Mare and Cheyenne

---

 

 

Sustainable energy sources in the Netherlands

in the Netherlands we have;

1.       Solar panels

2.       Wind energy

3.       Water power

4.       Biomass

The plans from the political parties in the Nederlands

Groen links:“We want  climate changing laws in. Here we explain the goals for climate policy for the long run legally fixed.”

 VVD: “A serious environmental policy can only be arranged worldwide. The Netherlands must comply with European environmental standards, but we do not want additional rules .We believe that pollution at the source needs to be addressed. We better clean cars and trucks and then develop  all sorts of municipalities set up complicated environmental zones”

PVDA: “ Our climate targets in the Dutch law initiatiefwet explains: it is for the supply of our children and for the prosperity of Netherlands vital that we now make speed.”

D66: “ To halt climate change, we  want to close the coal plants by 2025. All public transport is emission-free by 2025, hopefully,  and we’ll make electric driving attractive for everyone as soon as possible.

Saving energieplan for everyone

 

1         Turn the lights out if you go away.

2         Lopend op met de fiets naar school gaan

3         Don’t take a Shower not too long

4         Turn down the heat if you leave your house

5         Take a colder shower

6         Use durable devices

7         Use LED-lights

8         Isolate your house well

9         Use durable energy sources

10     Do not load your mobile unnecessarily

11     Disconnect the power plug from a device that you don’t use.

12     Turn your devices out if you don’t use them.

13     Turn your dishwasher on the durable modes.

14     cook with the lid on the pan.

15     Wash your clothes less hot.

16     A carpet helps to heat your room.

17     Turn the foucet off when your brush your teeth.

18     Put your devices on the battery saver modes.

19     Use durable boilers

 

by; Femke, Gerjanne, Tobias and Sander

---

Durable energie

 

In the world we have a lot of several conditions of energie.

Coalenergy: (fossil fuel) coals are compressed rests of plants of more than 300 million years old with a high energylevel.

Geothermal energy: (fossil fuel) energy is extracted from the heat sources of the Earth's surface.

Solar energy: energy from the sun in the form warmth and light. Electricity from the sunlight is durable and inexhaustible. Nuclear energy: this is energy comes from uraniumß this found we in the earth’s ground/surface.

Waterpower energy: waterpower is energy from running water, there orginate no damaging dusts.

Biomass: Energy from biomass comes from combustion, gassing or fermentation of organic materials. (like wood and garden quit).

 

In the Netherlands, we have a lot of sustainable energie. Here are a few examples, and how we use them in the Netherlands.

 

- Windenergy: Windmils

- Solar energy: Solar panels. - geothermal energy : Hereby people use sources from the surface, but in our country there are no sources from the surface. So we have to dig deeper in the earth’s surface to find geothermal energy.

- hydroelectric energy: Water has to move to produce energy, but in the Netherlans we have no hills. So we use watermills.

- Coal: In the past people used to get coal out of mines. But now, in the Netherlands, we use coal stations.

- Nuclear energie: We have two nuclear power-stations.

- Biomass: More than sixty percent of the sustainable energy produced in Netherlands is energy from biomass. Through combustion, gasification and fermentation, we get energy from biomass.

 

 

But the Netherlands isn’t a durable country. Soon the elections again in our country. We have examined how each party thinks about the environment.

 

PvdA

The PvdA stands for the party of the work. This party thinks that it is really important that the Netherlands are clean. They have with an other party a climate law inserted, for a deduction of CO2 emmision and durable energie facilities.

 

Greenleft

This party wants to make from the Netherlands a cleaner country. The party wants to generating wind en make solar panels affordable. Also they have together with the PvdA a climate law inserted. This law have to reduce the ejection.

 

VVD

The VVD in the Netherlands stands for the people’s party for freedom and democracy the partijleider from the VVD is Mark Rutte. Mark Rutte wanted to invest sustainable energie for the future, he wants for example that the emissions from C02 reduced and that the climate will be good again, He wanted to choose one energy source and that we find a energie source fort he future.

 

CDA

The CDA stands for Christion-Democracy Appèl and the partyleader from the CDA is Buma. Buma wanted that fossil fuel scattered worden, that the Netherland not dependent are from one specific country. He wanted to do more on saving energie.

Less energie

To use less energie you can do lots of things, here are a few tips you can use at home!

- Keep the temperature from your house as low as possible. - Shower shorter, one minute less showering can spare lots of money! - Keep the fridge clean, and espacially cooling-elements. - Turn off the lights when there is nobody there. - Don’t use the dryer in the summer, and hang your clothes outside to let it dry.

 

by; Julia, Milou, Emily, Charlotte and Nickyrina

---

What kind of sustainable energy sources are available in The Netherlands?

There are a few kinds of sustainable energy available in The Netherlands. For instance ;

 

-Hydroelectricity (Energy collected out of water, like watermills)

 

-Wind Offshore (windmill parks in the North sea)

 

-Solar energy (solar panels)

 

-Wind Onshore (Windmill parks on land)

 

-Geothermal (Heat that can be found underground at 100 m deep, it gets collected and can be used to warm houses)

 

 

 

 

What are the effects of these energy sources?

Hydroelectricity : Hydroelectricity is a mill (most of the time) that spins because of the water that flows through the mill. A dynamo collects the energy the mill creates.

 

Wind Offshore : Wind Offshores are windmill parks in the North Sea (most of the time) to harvest wind energy to generate electricity.

Solar energy: Solar energy is energy collected out of sunlight (solar power). A lot of people have solar panels on their roof, and some football stadia have their roof full with solar panels.

Wind Onshore : Wind Onshores are windmillparks on land which spin so they can produce electricity.

Geothermal: Geothermal is heat that can be found underground at 100 m deep, it gets collected and can be used to warm houses

What plans are there in the Netherlands to solve the energy problems?

In the Netherlands we want to switch to sustainable energy, these could be the plans after our election for our politics.

Groen Links, they want to get rid of fossil energy, and want to stimulate the market for sustainable energy by investing in their projects.

CDA, they want to do a reduce the CO2 output and invest in sustainable energy.

PvdA, they want to invest more in cleaner cars and less in asphalt. They want new and exciting energy sources with cleaner air with more trains and less traffic.

PVV, They don't give a crap and think it's a myth.

INTERVIEW SOMEONE! (family, schoolmates)

It's important to save energy so we interviewed some people.

 

 

Carla Laagland, (Writers sister)She has turned off the hot water over day, so she spends less money and saves the world while she's at it, and she unplugs every machine if it isn't used.

Sander Flink (schoolmate), He turn lights off and remove his smartphone from the charger if it is 100%.

Tobias van Os (schoolmate), He turn everything off what he won't use.

Stef Schrooten (schoolmate), He would turn the lights in the rooms he is not in/using.

Wes Wikkerink (Writer), He would disconnect his phone from the charger if it is 100%

Jelmer Veldhuis (writer), He would turn of everything what is using electricity and you won't use

 

 

 

Our own way to save energy

By the page's we have seen the best way to save energy is the shower.

It doesn't cost any money and you can only save money by turning your shower lower and the heat lower. By this way you don't you instantly have to pay a lower bill for water and gas and while your at it your saving the world. LETS SAVE THE WORLD! :]

---

Challenge 1

 

Assignment 1

What kind of sustainable energy sources are available in the Netherlands?

Renewable energy is energy that the humanity of unlimited time can use, without the nature become contaminated. The most well - known forms of renewable energy in the Netherlands are:

* Solar panels

* Wind turbines

 

Solar panels convert sunlight into electricity. This is also known as solar energy. Solar energy is the energy of the Sun in the form of heat and light. Solar panels are places on houses to provide the house with electricity.

 

Wind turbines convert the power of wind into electricity. We call it wind energy. Wind energy is clean and comes from a resource that never runs out, namely the wind. Wind turbines are mainly placed in the sea and the countryside.

 

After this all, the Netherlands is still the most pollution country of Europe.

 

What are the effects of these energy sources?

The effects of solar panels are:

* People save more money

* The energy never stops

* The environment isn’t affected

 

The effects of wind turbines are:

* They sometimes have negative consequences to the nature, especially for birds.

* The environment isn’t affected

* People save more money

 

What plans are there in the Netherlands to solve the energy problems?

The most important goal of the Dutch environmental policy is to create a sustainable society. They want less CO2 emissions and a new climate treaty that should apply from 2020. They want to make sure that the next generation does not suffer from our environment pollution.

 

 

 

Assignment 2

 

What does this school do to save energy?

: teachers have to turn off the lights and the tv in the classroom after they leave. at our school we have solar panels on the roof. We also have heat resistant glass so we keep nice and cool in the school. In the halls of the school we have energy-saving lamps. We also have a high efficiency boiler.

 

What do we think that this school could do more to save energy?

: two buttons for flushing the toilet so you can save water. Rainwater that flushing the toilet. A detector crane so when you put you washed your hands the crane turns off automatically.

 

What are you doing to save energy?

Romy: At our house we have timers on the lights so when its …. Pm/am the lights turn off.

 

What aren’t you doing to save energy, can you change some things?

Romy: I’m showering a bit long, that could be shorter and I never pull the plugger out of the wall-plug. So its better that I do that as well.

 

Assignment 3

 

I tried to save energy last week.

* I showered every day about five minutes,

* I turned the lights off when I leaved the room.

* When the sun was shining I turned off the lights. I did the plugs from the socket when I don’t use them.

 

When everyone do this, you save more energy and the world will be more clean. Every little bit helps.

 

Made by: Lotte, Maartje, Isa, Jet, Romy and Meike

---

 

 

 

 

 

---

  We are having a Skype meeting with .............. group:
                                                        on .............. date 

                                                         at .............. pm/am

 

---

---

 

Contributions Challenge 2:

---

Adidas, clean products or not?

 

http://www.adidas-group.com/en/sustainability/products/materials/

Adidas is using a lot of recycled or sustainable materials. RankaBrand gives Adidas a D-label, this means that they are already a bit sustainable but they have to improve their company for cleaner products. Nike has the same label.

Materials:

The most commonly used sustainable materials what Adidas is creating are recycled polyester, recycled rubber, organic cotton, "Better Cotton", Polylactic Acid, Tencel (a fibre made from wood pulp), and non-mulesed wool for apparel and leather.

Fair Trade ?

67 percent of Adidas' factories are in Asia, only 13 % in Europe and 20 % are located in America. Adidas says it is all sustainable and clean but we think in reality it seems not. For example: On the Adidas site they say they don't accept child labour, but there are sites and papers who say the opposite.

Made by Jelmer and Sander

---

Made by Tobias and Wes.

---

I have done research to the clothing brand Pull&Bear. This shop is can be find in more than 88 countries. Pull&Bear was established in 1991 with a clear, international vocation and with the intention to make clothes for comitted, solidary and social youth. Young people who dress informally, don’t care about stereotypes and want to feel comfortable.

 

The headquarter:

The headquarter of Pull&Bear is in Spain S.A Polígono.

Made by Charlotte

---

Hai we are  Julia, Nickyrina and Gerjanne from the Grundel,

We have done research about the brand Zara. This is a well known brand, which has established in different countries. It’s a brand for women, men and children.

But is this brand durable?

 

The headquarters stay in Spain, inA Coruña. Zara is fair about their factories and the situations in their factories. Their clothes are made in developing countries. But Zara is active to make the situations better, because it is not good enough. Also has the brand joined to the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) organisation. This organisation tries to improve the situations in factories. They also stimulate actions to collect and reuse.

 

Zara has also made a durable collection. They use next to biological cotton also for the collection reproduced wool and the durable material Tencel. The clothing company say that the clothes from the collection are made of forest- and animalfriendly materials.

What can be better:

-Zara was a time ago bad in the news, because a girl found a dead rat in the hem of her dress.

-Zara doesn’t use sustainable energy.

-there is no published list of factories, so you don't know exactly where everything is made.

 

 

 We think Zara is a nice brand. We don’t care where our clothes come from, but we think that the situations in the factories must be improved.

---

 

H&M

 

H&M is the most durable chlotes shop In the netherlands at this moment. Acording to Rankabrand. (they have a C-label)

Things that came with the H&M all go well what about the durability of the factories.

 

-The H&M has a policy to reduce its own co2 emissions.

- The H&M has a policy to all harmful substances from their products.

- The H&M has the objective to banish all PVC from their products and this all in 90% of the products to take effect.

Things that really still need to be improved to the sustainability of this company.

 

- The H&M does not use the energy from sustainable sources.

- At this company are the vinery not yet optimal.

 

---

 

 

phase 4 completion and Evaluation

https://youtu.be/oMB7rmmvHas

---

We are having a Skype meeting with .............. group: 
                                                      on .............. date 

                                                       at .............. pm/am

 

---

---

Completion:

 

 

---

---

 

Evaluation:

 

 

---

---

 

Feedback from First City Gymnasia :

 

 

---

 

Feedback from Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School:

 

 

---

 

Feedback from Ashram College:

 

 

---

 

Feedback from Lyceum de Grundel 2HA2 Marcel Kienhuis :

 

 

---

 

Feedback from Glebe Collegiate Institute:

 

 

---

 

Feedback from Hope School:

Hello to you to members of THE GRUNDEL school getting to know each and everyone of you all was amazing we as senior boys of HOPE SCHOOL found your proposal very powerful and outsmarted us which is quiet good so we as membersof this school say [*Congratulations* ] and good luck for the upcoming challenges

 

 

---

 

Feedback from Bal Prabhat Boarding:

 

 

---

 

Feedback from:

 

 

---

 

Feedback from:

 

 

---