The School Board
Het Baken is a oecumenical school and like any other Dutch school with a Christian identity this means that it is not directly controlled by the government (either local or national), but has its own Board of Governors, called: the Foundation for Interconfessional Secondary Education Almere. The FISEA Board is fully authorized to govern Het Baken and carries full responsibility for all matters concerning the school.
Main targets school
The stimulation and development of talent
Our pupils are stimulated to develop their autonomy and competence, which means that they are socially skilled and can work together. Het Baken not only aims at good exam results, but we also think it is important to contribute to our pupils' personal development. Independent learning, developing skills and being able to work and live together are highlighted in our curriculum and counseling.
Educational innovation
The Dutch educational system has been subject to drastic changes in the past few years. Our stafff is schooled regularly in order to meet these new educational challenges, such as a totally new curriculum for the upper top forms focusing on how to study and developing skills and a new set up of vocational education.
Care and attention
Good guidance, counseling and coaching for our pupils have proved to be strong points of Het Baken, even though we realize this is a difficult part of our assignment. It means we take our pupils seriously, that we listen to them and give them the help and counseling they need. We are aware that independent learning is a process that demands a lot of time and attention.
The oecumenical school
Our oecumenical identity is shown in our approach: people work together and are inspired by a Christian philosophy. It is our duty to train and coach people to maturity based on the conviction that the formation of the mind, the body and the soul makes people complete. Our lessons in Religious Studies are not only religious instruction, but challenge our pupils to confront theological issues. We also show how people make choices and the consequences these have in their lives, in society and in their place in society. Our pupils' own choices are also discussed in their form groups. We aim to teach our pupils how to make choices and to make them stand up for their convictions.
Religious Studies
These lessons are taught in all the forms, with the exception of the exam year. Our pupils not only get a fair knowledge of all the world religions, they also discuss subjects that have to do with making choices in life and which often involve social values. Moreover, they learn to respect the opinions and convictions of others and to talk about issues such as love and loss.
Celebrations
The school celebrates the important Church festivities, such as Christmas and Easter. On these occasions we all reflect on themes that involve both issues from our own time as well as those from the original days leading up to Christmas and Easter.
When parents and their children choose our school, it means that they participate in all the oecumenical activities of the school.
Good quality education
For years now, our pupils have maintaines good exam results. When pupils leave our school, they are well - prepared for further and higher education, for a professional life and for participation in society. These are the ultimate aims Het Baken sets for itself. We look upon them as a contract between us and our pupils and their parents. This is a mutual contract, with mutually high expectations.
Quality is a central issue at Het Baken, quality that can only be achieved by providing good education, teaching pupils independent learning and responsibility for their own work.
BAKEN PARK LYCEUM and BAKEN TRINITAS GYMNASIUM
- Gymnasium
- Pre-university education
- Higher general education
BAKEN STAD COLLEGE
- Higher general education
- Vocational education (several levels)
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ALMERE
The International School Almere (ISA) provides education to the international and the internationally orientated community in and around Almere.
The international curriculum will integrate the pupils into an international school environment, introduce them to different cultures and promote international understanding.
The objectives of the International School Almere are:
- to provide its pupils with a solid base for further education in The Netherlands and/or abroad, all according to an international curriculum;
- to provide a curriculum that results in an IB/MYP - certificate and an IB - diploma in preparation to University;
- to see to a safe, positive and stimulating learning environment, with clear objectives and guidelines.
Baken Activities
Het Baken offers a wide variety of extra curricular activities, such as sports activities, school camps, debates, excursions in all the forms, theatre activities and The Baken Academy. Of course there are also the regular school parties and many cultural activities throughout the year.
One of these cultural activities is the Young Jury Project, a national project aimed at broadening young people's interest in reading. Every year, our Dutch Department invites nationally known authors to give workshops about their work to our first and second formers.
We not only try to show our identity by means of Religious Studies, we also put it into practice. Once a year, our Religious Studies Department organizes three - day sessions in a cloister, during which groups of 4th formers get to know what life in a cloister is like. They pray, meditate and discuss issues such as religion, belief and identity. Our own Religious Studies teachers always participate in these sessions as well.
Het Baken welcomes the internationalization of modern education and shows this by an increasing participation in international projects, such as the Plato, Socrates and Comenius projects funded by the European Community. We have thus been able to form warm relationships with schools in Spain, France, Poland, Italy and Greece. Our own special Baken project, initiated by the Flevoland province, has resulted in our long-standing relationship with School nr.6 in the Russian city Dmitrov near Moscow. The school's e-mail projects, exchange programs and of course the trips abroad for the top forms are a yearly highlight in our curriculum.
Interested?
If you have become interested in our school, please do not hesitate to send us an e-mail: parklyceum@hetbaken.nl , trinitasgymnasium@hetbaken.nl for our top forms or stadcollege@hetbaken.nl for our vocational education. We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Video
To get an impression of our schools, click here to watch the english version of our video.
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