THE’ COLLEGE IN WAREGEM
‘The’ College, as our school is known in our hometown Waregem, consists of two schools:
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The aim of our schools is to give the pupils a broad view and an education that reaches further than the boundaries of school. Therefore, our school has been involved in Comenius projects since 2001.
We also offer education to pupils that need special care because of a disability (a learning, physical or mental disability): ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, autism,… We provide normal classes, but with the extra help of teachers and staff guiding these pupils.
Extracurricular activities involve sports (football, rugby, basketball and badminton are but a few) and participation in multimedia projects. Music, dance, theatre and movie are combined every two years into a performance in the city’s theatre hall and performed to large audiences.
Our school has a long tradition of organising short exchanges for Comenius projects. We have the knowhow to organise the project activities for quite a large group of students from all countries. The outcome of this project work makes the students proud and their enthusiasm and newly acquired skills rub off on the whole school. The school is equipped with numerous IT-rooms that provide the necessary tools to work on the innovative digital methods in this project.
We also offer education to pupils that need special care because of a disability (a learning, physical or mental disability): ADD, ADHD, dyslexia, autism,… We provide normal classes, but with the extra help of teachers and staff guiding these pupils.
Extracurricular activities involve sports (football, rugby, basketball and badminton are but a few) and participation in multimedia projects. Music, dance, theatre and movie are combined every two years into a performance in the city’s theatre hall and performed to large audiences.
Our school has a long tradition of organising short exchanges for Comenius projects. We have the knowhow to organise the project activities for quite a large group of students from all countries. The outcome of this project work makes the students proud and their enthusiasm and newly acquired skills rub off on the whole school. The school is equipped with numerous IT-rooms that provide the necessary tools to work on the innovative digital methods in this project.
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Waregem
Waregem has only been a town since 2000 and used to be a small agricultural community. The prosperous textile mills transformed the village into a genteel town that now boasts about 40.000 inhabitants.
Waregem has a theatre hall, a huge indoor swimming pool and a nice shopping center. Waregem is very proud of their football team playing in the first division. Waregem is very famous for horse races. ‘Waregem Koerse’ is an annual cross country race on horseback that gets national coverage. It’s a very important ‘society event’: apart from this horse race there’s also a competition for the nicest ‘hat’ worn by a lady. |
Flanders
Paragraph. Klicka här - Bruges. Medieval town: one hour away from Waregem. You'd think you 've been time-warped, if there weren’t so many tourists. For years now this quaint town has gone to great lengths to preserve its medieval atmosphere. It has for example succesfully banned cars from the town center (not the coaches and the horses though).
- Ghent: Medieval town half an hour away from Waregem. Ghent is actually more a city than a town. The difference with Brughes is that this place is very much alive: an important harbour, popular shopping-streets... You have a wonderful blend of the old and the new. This holds good from a cultural point of view as well: you'll find the world famous "Lam Gods" (Jan van Eyck) in the medieval St. Bavo's Cathedral, not far from the famous Museum of Contemporary Art led by Jan Hoet, who organised Documenta 96 in Kassel.
- Ypres and the military cemeteries; one hour away from Waregem.
The best thing is to visit just one of these many military cemeteries. There's also a very good open-air museum where part of the trenches have been kept in the state they were in WWI. At the Menin Gate (A war memorial: thousands and thousands of soldiers' names are engraved) the last post is blown every day at 8 p.m. Everybody who's heard it, say they were deeply moved
- Brussels: town centre and European Parliament. The market square in Brussels is probably the most beautiful market square in the whole of Europe. There are some very nice galleries nearby. Brussels is a melting-pot of people from all over Europe, all over the world.
- Ghent: Medieval town half an hour away from Waregem. Ghent is actually more a city than a town. The difference with Brughes is that this place is very much alive: an important harbour, popular shopping-streets... You have a wonderful blend of the old and the new. This holds good from a cultural point of view as well: you'll find the world famous "Lam Gods" (Jan van Eyck) in the medieval St. Bavo's Cathedral, not far from the famous Museum of Contemporary Art led by Jan Hoet, who organised Documenta 96 in Kassel.
- Ypres and the military cemeteries; one hour away from Waregem.
The best thing is to visit just one of these many military cemeteries. There's also a very good open-air museum where part of the trenches have been kept in the state they were in WWI. At the Menin Gate (A war memorial: thousands and thousands of soldiers' names are engraved) the last post is blown every day at 8 p.m. Everybody who's heard it, say they were deeply moved
- Brussels: town centre and European Parliament. The market square in Brussels is probably the most beautiful market square in the whole of Europe. There are some very nice galleries nearby. Brussels is a melting-pot of people from all over Europe, all over the world.