The Lorentz Casimir Lyceum teaches for the final exam Havo, atheneum and gymnasium. The Higher General Education (HAVO) department provides a general training of five years, the diploma of which gives access to higher vocational education or a flow to vwo 5. The havist is a smart student who prefers to learn through experience and doing things.
The atheneum together with the gymnasium forms the Preparatory Scientific Education (vwo). This is a six-year course, the diploma of which gives access to higher vocational education or to the university. The student is looking for deeper content with which he prepares for a more academically tinted study. In addition to the vwo profile, the gymnasium student chooses to focus on the languages and culture of classical antiquity, which are also the cradle of our current culture and morality.
The mastery of knowledge and the associated skills is an important condition to succeed in a future study and/or profession. The school consequently strives to offer high-quality professional lessons. However, the ambitions of the Lorentz Casimir Lyceum extend further. In addition to the current curriculum, we want to make it possible to create additional challenges in the form of various educational programmes and activities, in which students can excel in specific disciplines. In the four-yearly inspection survey (2018), the school has obtained the rating "Good Value" for the realisation of the above-mentioned ambitions. We are highlighting the most important of these educational programmes.
Cambridge Certificate and DELF Scolaire
More and more students want to study abroad or aspire to an international career. Each year, a number of students leave abroad after their exam to study at renowned institutes. Intensified language teaching consequently occupies an important place in our school. For English, students can follow the Cambridge programme, for French DELF Scolaire.
During the first two years of study, all students follow English, Cambridge PRE. This means, among other things, that there are mainly English is spoken. From the third year onwards, both at havo and vwo, talented students are offered the Cambridge programme, Cambridge PRO, in preparation for the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (C1). This is an internationally recognized certificate. Subsequently, students can prepare for the Certificate of Proficiency in English (C2) in vwo 5, the final level of which is qualified as "Near-Native'.
For French, talented students can participate in the programmes DELF Scolaire B1 or B2, which they can conclude with an internationally recognized certificate. The level B2 shows that they study French at the level with which they can influx into HBO or university in France or French-speaking countries. The students who opt for DELF receive one hour extra French per week in the fifth and sixth classes.
This enhanced language teaching does not require a voluntary contribution. Examination fees do result in a compulsory contribution by parents/carers in participation. The costs for these external exams are approximately 280 euros for and 145 euros for DELF and are paid by the school to the institution that takes the examinations.
The Lorentz Casimir Lyceum offers excellent students the opportunity to participate in BrainSport, an additional curriculum with guest lectures, practical assignments, excursions and floor assignments.
The project lessons of BrainSport Junior focus on enrichment. Students are getting started on the Big History curriculum; They examine in groups the history of the universe and man from the Big Bang to the present. This includes subjects that do not belong to the standard curriculum such as astronomy, philosophy and psychology. Students are given freedom in the choice of their research question and in the way they present their findings. BrainSport Junior lessons take place during the school day; As a result, selected pupils miss one or two regular lessons weekly. Guest classes and excursions outside school are also organized.
The program is given in vwo 1, vwo 2, and vwo 3.
Since 2012, for the above average interested or talented students, the top-level program BrainSport has been developed. In a pre-academic learning environment, students get acquainted with applied science, challenging practical assignments and special theories. The program for vwo 4 and vwo 5 consists of guest lectures or workshops by external experts and excursions to research institutions and companies. In vwo 6 the subject matter is mainly deepened. The BrainSport programme contributes to the development of research skills, and to deepening and broadening knowledge in the (beta) subjects. The series ends with a festive meeting and the award of certificates. This school year students can choose in vwo 4 and vwo 5 from a program Society or Beta.
Olympiads are competitions that offer students the opportunity to develop their talents and to deepen their knowledge. Students can thus test their knowledge and skills outside the regular curriculum and measure with the best in the country. Since 2012, the Lorentz Casimir Lyceum has held the predicate Olympiad School. In the superstructure, many students participate in different national olympiads in the subjects of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, geography and Dutch.
The base has its own variant of this: the IJSO (International Junior Science Olympiad), the OECD (European Union Science Olympiad), the Physics Olympiad Junior and the Biology Olympiad Junior. At the international Kangaroo mathematics competition and the Olympics our school regularly achieves a national podium place, after which winning students can also regularly compete for the international top positions!
From the autumn to the provincial preliminaries of the debate contest On the way to the House of Commons (usually February/March), the members of the debate group meet weekly to train in the field of presentation, debate and speech. The group selects students who represent us in the BNNVARA student debate contest. Our debate group is very successful and has already ended many prestigious contest winning, including (twice) the live broadcast final of the student debate contest On the way to the House of Commons with the winning speech. During the year the so-called "bootcamps" are also offered to the students of the debate club, provided by the DebateUnion.