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
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 in the Netherlands 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.
Cambridge
During the first two years of learning, all students follow English, Cambridge PRE. This means, among other things, that most of the lessons speak English. From the third year onwards, both at havo and vwo, the Cambridge programme is offered to the talented students, Cambridge PRO, in preparation for the Cambridge Certificate in First Certificate (B2) or Advanced English (C1) in grade 4. 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'.
DELF Scolaire
For French, talented students can participate in the programmes DELF Scolaire B1 or B2, which they can conclude with an internationally recognized diploma. The B2 level shows that they have completed their French study at the level with which they can enter the 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 between 120 and 150 euro, depending on the type of exam. The examination fees are paid by the school to the institution which 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.
BrainSport Junior Program
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.
BrainSport Senior Program
Since 2012, the excellence program BrainSport Senior has been available to the above average interested or talented students. In a pre-academic learning environment, students are introduced to 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 or cultural institutions and companies. In vwo 6 the subject matter is mainly deepened. The BrainSport Senior programme contributes to the development of research skills, and to the deepening and broadening of knowledge in the underlying subjects. The series ends with a festive meeting and the award of certificates. Students can choose from a program Society or Beta.
The Company Programme focuses on four substantive areas: law & politics, society & ethics, sustainability and media & art. The Beta programme focuses on the domains of high hech & innovation, medical world, special theories and capita selecta.
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 De Voice van Jong Nederland (formerly On the way to the House of Commons) in February or 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 this student debate contest. Our debate group is very successful and has already ended many prestigious contest winning. .