Summer 2015 - Rijnlands Lyceum Wassenaar

MOTTO
Summer 2015
In this edition:
Leiden’s Past in the
Present
Poetry in 2nd Year
Mad Inventions
2nd Year Scriptwriters
Sand dune Project
Upcycling
Art at Oosterpark
Art Product Design
Ecology in 1st Year
Rebuilding Rome
Persuasive Advertising
DEMUN 2015
IB news
From the TTO coordinator’s desk
I hope that you enjoy reading the TTO Newsletter as much as I have. Mrs. Campbell does a
wonderful job showcasing the work of our TTO students. I would like to thank the teachers and
students who contributed to this issue.
We can look back on a successful year. We are very proud of Gijs Bremen who represented the
school at national level in Public Speaking. Our Year 1 students have worked extremely hard to
master basic English skills, I was delighted to see the effort that they put into their Leiden
reports. When I listened to their presentations as they built ‘’Roman Cities’’, during History
lessons , it was hard to believe that in September, most students were English beginners. It
proves that hard work and determination are important TTO student requirements.
Our MUN group hosted a successful DEMUN on Saturday May 30th. Mr. Favier and Mrs. Stout
do an amazing job with our MUN group . I visited the school during the conference, it is always
interesting to see your students in a different role. MUN not only involves research, debate and
speech making it ,also means smart outfits and business suits .The atmosphere at school for the
DEMUN was highly professional. It was very interesting to observe the students embrace their
role as world problem solvers.
Naturally we wish all our Senior TTO students the very best for whatever the new academic
year brings. For those starting university, the transition should be easier; you will be able to put
your years of English, essay writing, presentation and group work will stand you in good stead.
Sjoerd Koopman is graduating this year, he will study and play basketball in America at the
University of Wisconsin Superior. Mr. Reames introduced SJ, to basketball when he was in Year
1. We are very proud of SJ and we wish him much success.
We look forward to hosting the Reeds’ school hockey students - year 2 boys and year 4 girls during the October holiday from Monday October 19th until Wednesday October 21st. Reeds’
is our oldest exchange partner and of course they host year 2 TTO every year for an amazing
day during the London week. Last year a fantastic group of parents welcomed members of the
Reeds’ hockey team into their homes. The exchange program is only possible because of the
generosity of host families. It is also a wonderful opportunity for RLW students to practise their
English. I look forward to hearing from parents who are able to host a student in October.
Finally two TTO events for your agenda, the Junior TTO Graduation is at 4.00pm on the
23.9.2015 and the IB and Senior TTO graduation is at 4.00pm on the 25.9.2015.
Wishing you all a safe and sunny summer,
J.van Otterloo
Cover illustration by Charlotte Taets van Amerongen A3a
Brugklas Leiden Project
Once again our year 1 students had a wonderful cross-curricular
week in Leiden where they completed assignments for History,
Geography, Biology and Art which together with English TTO formed
their Leiden projects.
English TTO - Leiden’s Past in the Present by Jacobien Wiersma B1b
I have lived in Leiden for eleven years, to me Leiden is part of my
history.I have walked lots of times where we walked during the
Leiden week.I know the city really well. It was special for me to look
at Leiden from a totally different perspective.
I think the history of science is a long and interesting history.A lot of
famous scientists from The Netherlands studied or lived in Leiden. This
might be because Leiden’s university is one of the oldest. The Hortus
Botanicus is a beautiful example of Leiden’s past in the
present.Although the garden is used for other reasons today, it still
looks a bit the same as it did in the olden days. In museum
Boerhaave, I could see the development of science and medicine. It
was fascinating to compare the way people looked at the human
body in earlier days and how they look at the human body now.
The famous artist Rembrandt van Rijn was born in Leiden.He was not
the only famous painter in Leiden. In the Lakenhal, I saw lots of work
of other painters through history, for example Lucas van Leyden and
Jan Steen. I found the collection of the museum a good and big
collection. There was not only art from olden days, there was also
modern art and there were a lot of real life like portraits.
Everywhere I walked I saw Leiden’s history including the front of the
city hall, the Burcht and the Waag.The market in Leiden is more than
200 years old and has always been in the same place. The Burcht is
one of the oldest places in Leiden, it is the ‘centre’ of Leiden, I had a
great view over the city from there.
My conclusion is that Leiden’s past is in the present.If I would take all
the old things away,Leiden would be nothing. On every street corner
and every square, things woud be missing. When I started looking
around for Leiden’s past I sawold buildings and influences
everywhereThe people have changed and the uses of some
buildings too, but the city might look the same as it did 100 years
ago.
I liked being in Leiden for those three das. Learning in the open air
about interesting things is really nice.I found the museums which we
went to very interesting. I have learned a lot about biology, history,
geography and art.
Hortus Botanicus
English TTO/Art Cross-Curricular Project – Number the Stars
1C and 1D read Number the Stars in the third period of this year. It is
a novel about two best friends living in Denmark during the Second
World War, a novel about friendship and bravery. The students
created a new cover for this book, using techniques they had
learned in their Art & Design classes in this first year of TTO. They had
to choose between working in black and white pencil and marker,
coloured pencil and creating a colourful collage. They had to add
title, author and a short blurb.
English TTO Poetry in the second year
Students studied a wide variety of poetic styles
and reflected on poems they had read in class.
Invictus by William Ernest Henry
I chose Invictus by William Ernest
Henry because it made a great
impact on me. The idea behind
this poem also appeals to me
very much because I don’t want
to he held down by other
people’s opinions. After we read
this in class, I remembered it in
my head and repeated it almost
every day, like a goal for that
day becaue I want to be ‘ the
master of my fate’ and the
‘captain of my soul’.
Tessa Dobbelaar 2B
I liked Invictus the most because
it is a very strong poem. Henry
writes that you cannot just give
up in the hardest times of life.
Even when you have fallen
down, you have to stand up and
go on with your life. The writer
had gone through a rough time,
but he fights back and stands up
to whatever comes down his
path.
Lilian Quist 2B
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Do Not Stand at my Grave and Weep by Mary Elizabeh Frye
I chose this poem because when I read it, it sort of really hurt me. I started to
think about how the words can give someone the feeling that they will cry and
this sort of poem can make people start thinking about the world and their
feelings. Although someone is dead, he or she can still be there, not as a real
person, but as explained in the poem, as the wind, the diamond glints, the sun,
the rain and the starshine. He or she still lives on.
Laura Schretlen 2B
I like this poem the most because it is very touching. I love the fact that the
poem is short, simple and understandable but still has lots of metaphors in it.
Although the poem may not be as deep as extraordinary as the others it still
touches me the most because everyone can learn from it. The poem gives you
comfort, hope and courage to move on with your life while the deceased
person will always be with you and love you.
Marije de Boorder 2B
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Blind Horse by Norman
MacCaig
The poem tells abut a horse
which as lost his sigh and noone is looking after the horse
well, it stands in the field by
itself, he wears blinkers of flies.
The peom makes you feel sorry
for the horse by describing the
frustration, anger and lonliness
of the horse. I think the poem
was really beautifully written, it
makes me emotional.
Cathelijn Bogers 2A
You can feel the horse’s
frustration and confusion. It’s like
he’s in a dark dream, but he
can’t wake up. ‘ He snuffles
towards pouches of water in the
grass’ shows you have bad the
condition of his field is. ‘ His
leather lip drops and he wears
blinkers of flies’ you can feel
that he is suffering, nobody
cleans him. ‘ Stamp on the
ground, stamp the world down.
MacCaig expresses the horse’s
frustration, waiting for the
darkness to disappear.
Thomas van Putten 2B
Then the 2nd years turned their hands to creating their own
masterpieces in a variety of poetic styles.
English TTO – Handy inventions for the busy TTO student
Mute your mother!
No more spelling mistakes…
Bag too heavy?
Bad hair … no time!
Second Year Scriprwriters
Students wrote and acted out their own scripts
Students from 2A
Cathelijn Bogers
Moira Bonnet
Emma Heilig
Marie Savalle
Julia Vriezen
Second Year Scriprwriters
Cross-curricular project Art-Biology
The science….
I always saw nature as the soul of our earth and Art as the interpretation of our
soul. So somehow these two disciplines must complement each other.
We had to experiment with this thought. The 3 rd graders go on an annual sand
dune data collection trip where we study Ecological Succession. At the beach
and sand dunes this is clearly seen. The students run a transect and survey the
plants and animals along the transect. A change in plant life is noted as they
move from the beach towards the woods. In the lab they study the material
collected in more detail.
Usually they then present their findings in a poster depicting Succession.
However this year we decided to let their imagination be expressed in Miss
Roye’s art class.
Cross-curricular project Art-Biology
The art….
Amber van Oijen
Stephanie Oskam
Willem Geurts
Capturing the essence of the dunes
in a semi-abstract collage.
Niki van der Kraats
Cross-curricular project Art-Geography
3rd year Geo/Art theme Upcycling and
socially/politically engaged art.
Upcycling is using garbage or
waste materials and creating a
new object with them without
changing their shape or form in
any way. It’s often used in an
artistic way and was first thought
of by Reinier Piz in an article by
Thornton May in 1994. It was
then adapted by Gunter Pauli in
1996 in his book, ‘The Upcycling
Concept’.
Behind the picture of the sad child made from pieces of chocolate is a hidden
message. This is revealed byt taking away every piece of chocolate. The idea is
that people can donate 2 dollars to take away one piece of chocolate. After all
the pieces are gone, a new picture is revealed showing the image of a happy
child from the Ivory Coast. Jan Willem Schippers A3
Art Assignment Oosterpark
During our visit to Amsterdam we went to the Oosterpark where we looked at
two sculptures: The National Slavery Monument and a memorial to Theo van
Gogh.
To start off we looked at ”De Schreeuw” which is a memorial of Theo van Gogh.
This sculpture is completely made out of stainless steel. It includes six different
types of faces, going from smaller to larger, all fitting nicely into each other.
Every head has a different facial expression. The first head (which is also the
smallest) has it’s mouth closed. The rest of the heads gradually open their mouth
ending with the last face that is giving the impression that it’s screaming.
Because the faces are placed close to each other and are flowing into each
other it tells a story of a man who is screaming, but has to keep his mouth shut.
The theme of this sculpture is actually freedom of speech, which in my opinion is
nicely expressed through this piece of art. The reason why I think the artist made
his theme very clear through this sculpture is because with freedom of speech
it’s about the right to share your opinion, but if you don’t have freedom of
speech you can’t speak your opinion out loud. The last head is shouting, so
having freedom of speech wheres the first head has to shut his mouth, thus not
having the freedom of speech. The sizes of the heads also contribute to this
sculpture because when you have less freedom you’re viewed as smaller, less
important and almost chid like by the ones in power. In my eyes this is why the
first head is made the smallest and then gradually become larger the more the
head opens it mouth.
This sculpture could also be viewed as Theo van Gogh who is made speechless.
The reason why he is made speechless is because he was murdered for
speaking out his opinion. This also relates back to the theme of freedom of
speech.
The other sculpture we looked at was ”The National Monument of Slavery”.It is
made out of broze and has a rough texture to it. It’s made out of three parts
going from smaller and fuller to a larger single piece. This gives it in my opinion a
quite dramatic look, but the dark color adds to that as well.
The idea behind the sculpture is that it is divided into three different stages of the
road from enslavement to freedom: people were first slaves (illustrated with a
group of people that were chained), they were then given a chance to be free
(this is illustrated in this sculpture as stepping through a door into a new life), and
then being free (illustrated as a very relieved person) . In my opinion this does
not really come forward when looking at this sculpture. The reason why I think
that is because at first I did not see the idea behind it, only when I looked it up it
became clear to me. It also looks quite sloppy to me, which some people like,
but I’m not really a fan of that.
Both of the sculptures we looked at were about freedom. In my opinion ”De
Schreeuw” brought its message in a more clear way because I immediately saw
what it represented whereas the ”The National Monument of Slavery” was a bit
vague to me at first. They are both beautifully made and great monuments
because they make us remember how important our freedom is.
Both socially and politically engaged art has a huge impact on society. For
example the artist Ai Weiwei criticizes the government of China through his
artworks making it politically engaged. His art works had a huge impacts on the
western world because inhabitants of China usually are scared to criticize the
government. Socially engaged art also has a huge impact on society think for
example about Vic Muniz who highlights a certain group of people with issues
through his artworks by helping them financially in return for them helping with
an amazing artwork. Muniz is very famous so a very wide audience gets to know
more about this group of people with in issue. Having a great impact on society.
The fact that the two art works we visited are shown outside enables a larger
amount of people to see them. The fact that they are free to view also
contributes to that. The more people see it, the more impact it has.
The two sculptures we looked at both send out messages about freedom, and
awareness that it comes with a price and we can’t take it for granted. With our
project in Geography we also have to send out awareness about a certain
group of society or address a problem. Vera and I did a project about the
floating islands of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean. With our artwork we wanted
people to be aware about this problem and help them prevent it, just like the
two sculptures that are made to raise awareness about freedom of speech and
slavery.
Lucrees Talsma A3a
Bibliography:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oosterpark_(Amsterdam)
http://www.buitenbeeldinbeeld.nl/Amsterdam_O/Slavernij%20monument.htm
https://www.amsterdam.nl/kunstencultuur/kunst-openbare/kunstopenbare/kunstwerken/amsterdam-stadsdeel-0/oosterpark/nationaalmonument/
Art in the 3rd Year
Project: to make a design
booklet showing their
ideas for a new product
and how they have
designed the
imagery/logo and typeset.
The Honey product is by
Fleur Poot G3B.
Daphne Kubbinga A3a,
designed a new travel app.
Here you can see two pages
of her booklet
Biology
Class 1A became true ecologists, armed with plastic buckets and
catching nets they went to the pond to catch insects. Based on the
presence of these insects they were able to assess the water quality.
History – Rebuilding Rome
In one of the lessons of our unit on the Romans with the year one TTO-classes,
students rebuilt a Roman city together, and they did it well!
After several lessons on the origins of the Roman kingdom, Republic and Empire,
we turned to some aspects of daily life for the Romans. How and where did they
live? What are some of the most typical Roman buildings?
To learn about and experience how Romans lived, students were asked to
recreate several Roman buildings in groups as a homework assignment. Not only
were they required to make these physical buildings, but the different groups
also had to give a short three-minute presentation about their buildings,
answering the following questions: what was the building’s function? Who used it
or lived in it? What are the different spaces of the building called?
As the groups presented, the city grew with each group’s building, becoming a
small city in the process. Apart from an insula, our year one TTO classes made a
circus, a basilica (a court and business place), a patrician’s house (where the
rich lived), an aqueduct, a bath house, a triumph arch and replicas of the Leptis
Magna theater, the Colosseum (an amphitheater), and the Temple of Venus
and Roma.
English – Tricks of the Advertising Trade
The best way to get you to buy something is to make you
believe you don’t have to buy it.
We’re
surrounded by
visual cues
nudging us to
buy this or
prodding us to
do that, and
most of the time
we have no idea
it’s even
happening.
Ads sell us products or services, they also sell us
ideas. These ideas influence how we think
about our world and hence how we make
decisions.
People think that their decisions and choices
are made consciously and rationally, but in
reality most of our daily decisions are made on
an unconscious level, which means we are
highly vulnerable to persuasion attempts.
4th year pre-IB students studied these hidden
persuasions which are such a driving force
behind advertising.
DEMUN 2015
The MUN club has been an amazing experience for me this past year. I had the
chance to go to huge international conferences. One of those conferences was
THIMUN in January 2015. It was held in the World Forum, in The Hague. We got to
debate resolutions written by people from all over the world. I made friends with
people from Egypt and China, but also with people closer to home, like
Germany, Italy, France and even the Netherlands. It was very inspiring to see all
these people passionately discuss topics about problems that are occurring in
the world right now. They composed genius clauses to create a resolution that
thoroughly tackled these problems. Not only was the conference and the
people amazing, the parties were a lot of fun, too! There you met a lot of
people from the conference, too, who you were not in a committee with. We
also got the chance to host students from China. Overall THIMUN was one of the
best weeks of my life – I wouldn’t have missed it for the world, and I hope that I
will be returning next year.
The next conference after THIMUN was our own DeMUN. It was an incredible
experience, as well. It was extremely different to host a conference than to
attend a conference. We got to see a whole other side of MUN: the behind the
scenes organising of a conference. It caused a lot of stress, but in my opinion it
turned out to be a great conference. Especially because of Ms. Stout and Mr.
Favier. That is why I would like to thank them again. It was great to see the
children who signed up for the conference participate so enthusiastically. It was
not just a demonstration MUN for the delegates; it was also a demonstration for
some of the chairs. I hope the participating students had an amazing time. I
know the MUN club of the Rijnlands Lyceum did! I hope I get to organise this
conference again next year.
 Cecile van Keep
Last year I participated in the MUN-club. MUN is the abbreviation for ‘Model
United Nations’. In MUN, you imitate the United Nations. The two biggest
conferences I participated in were MUNISH (International School The Hague)
and THIMUN (The Hague).
MUNISH was the smaller conference of the two, but still of a respectable size. I
really enjoyed MUNISH because I know some people in the ISH. I also know that
next year I will meet some of the same people I met this year again next year.
The committees are a lot smaller than at THIMUN, as well. MUNISH was my first
MUN conference, and it is a great conference to get to know how MUN works.
THIMUN is a conference of an enormous size. With thousands of students from all
over the world, it is one of the largest MUN conferences in the world. The
conference is held at the World Forum, where the Nuclear Security Summit was
being held. The committees are huge as well. It has been a great experience for
me to meet people from all kinds of cultures and what their view is on their
country.
MUN has been a great experience for me. I have met a lot of people. The MUN
world is surprisingly small. One boy I met at MUNISH lived in Switzerland and knew
friends of mine who live their as well. I’m glad I’ve still got a whole year of MUN
ahead of me.
 Mante Kaaks
This year I have had the honour of participating in MUN. This has allowed me to
have amazing experiences; two of which were THIMUN and DeMUN. Both were
great conferences, both with particular pros. To start off I went to THIMUN, a
huge international conference in Den Haag in January 2015. At this conference I
had the opportunity to speak (give a speech!), write resolutions and, most
importantly, make a lot of new friends. There were so many people at the
conference that there is legitimately no way that you cannot find people you
like! I am incredibly blessed to have met all the people I did – overall, it was just
a genuinely wonderful conference. The fact that THIMUN is so big is one of its
biggest pros but also one of its biggest cons. Meeting so many new people and
participating in something that ginormous is incredibly fun but also very
intimidating, this problem however is solved by the third conference of the year,
DeMUN.
DeMUN is short for Demonstration MUN and is held in our humble little school
right here in Wassenaar. The nice thing about this conference is that it is a very
relaxed conference. You learn the ropes of MUN and learn to stand up in front
of a large crowd. This especially, for me personally, was very helpful, seeing as it
gives you a good look at what MUN is about and how it works. The conference
isn’t very big, with only about 4 committees (groups of 20 people debating) it
has the great benefit of not overwhelming you. It really lets the fundamentals of
MUN sink in without any stress.
If I had to choose a favourite of the two conferences I really couldn’t choose
they both made great memories and none of these memories would be
possible without our MUN directors, Mr. Favier and Ms. Stout… So a good old
shout out to them and a very big thank you!
 Timo Scheepmaker
On 5th & 6th May, 50 senior TTO
students sat their IB English A:
Language and Literature Paper
Exams. The questions were tough, but
the students felt rested and wellprepared. Results will be known for
these exams on July 6 and we are
hoping for happy news. Stay tuned!