School for Young Talent in The Hague is excellent: ‘The enthusiasm splashed off’ – Omroep West

Monday 23 January 2017, 14:14

DEN HAAG work Very hard and create an environment in which both pupils and teachers flourish. That is the “secret” of an excellent school, ” says director Jan van Bilsen of the School for Young Talent of the School of fine Arts in The Hague. The school was Monday, the predicate 'excellent school', an appreciation for the particular qualities and also be an inspiration for other schools. “The enthusiasm is enormous’, concluded the jury.

Students at the school combine two things: they go to the havo or vwo and follow in addition, an intensive pre-vocational program in the field of music, dance, or visual art. The students therefore get a double program. And that is awfully heavy, ” acknowledges director Jan van Bilsen. “They work really hard. That can not be otherwise, because otherwise no place more to get into the world of the arts.”

According to Van Bilsen is the “secret” of his excellent school of two parts. 'Work very hard and it is also the art is to create an environment where children, teachers and non – teaching staff can best function so that the talents that are out there for students and teachers to be optimally exploited. And I think we succeeded.'

Customization

this is also apparent from the figures. In the school year 2015-2016 flowed to 92 percent of the students to higher education. And all the students took their regular high school diploma. That is, according to the school itself, by customization: the pupils are very well supported. The teachers 'go to extremes' to the artistic talent in the pupils and they have to make sure that they got their degree.

In the Netherlands came Monday 54 excellent schools. A training period of three years that predicate. The number of excellent schools is since the first issue of the designation in 2012, has grown substantially. In primary education this is to this is more than double, from 31 to 69 schools. In secondary education the even a fourfold increase, and increases the number of excellent departments from 22 to 93.

Talents

An excellent school is a school that in one way or the other excels. This could be because education fits in well with the situation in the neighbourhood, or because the teaching is well adapted to the needs and talents of a student, or because teachers have a very inspiring way of teaching. In any case, it is the quality of education at an excellent school always fine.

state Secretary Sander Dekker of education is pleased with the growth. 'Schools know more and more education at a higher level. That is a wonderful development.” Dekker would still be more excellent schools like to see: 'We should not be satisfied with enough. We should go for excellence.'

On www.excellentescholen.nl is to see what other schools by the jury to excellent have been labeled.