How do you teach schoolchildren about their own environment, history and nature? In Sint Pancras, a new teaching program has been devised for this purpose, for which research is mainly conducted outside the school. Students of Het Baken are the guinea pigs of the new teaching material. “A scavenger hunt is always more fun than doing lessons.”
Joelent, the students of group 5 of children’s center Het Baken in Sint Pancras leave the school in groups to discover their surroundings. The 45-minute scavenger hunt takes them around in their own familiar surroundings. ‘What’s a motherfucker?’ is one of eight questions they have to answer.
You can hear the answer in the report, because NH News went on a treasure hunt with Marit, Jente, Daan, Tino and Tess.
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The curriculum Sint Pancras in ‘t Groen was conceived and created by Marie van der Stelt, Dorine Tamis, Astrid Vreugdenhil and beekeeper Joost Veeken. It’s one of the ideas from the initiatives campaign of the former municipality of Langedijk (now Dijk en Waard, ed.).
Teletime barge
Based on horticulturist ‘Teun van Toen and his teletijdschuit’, primary school children are taught about their own (cultural) history and biodiversity in a few weeks. For example, the horticultural past is discussed, they look for animals and insects, they make an excursion to the Broekerveiling museum and they plant new trees and flowers.
The intention is that other schools in the region can take over the curriculum, with some adjustments.