I have a question, now what?

Sick at home
A sick call should be communicated by your parent/guardian by phone (040-264 59 92) between 08.00-10.00 hours. Your parent/guardian will then enter a selection menu where they can choose from the following options:

Option 1: for mavo and the campus.
Option 2: for havo and vwo.

If the teaching assistants are not available at that time, your parent/guardian will automatically be transferred to the front desk. The receptionist will then take the sick call. If necessary, one of the teaching assistants will contact them at a later time.

Sick during class
You report to the teaching assistant. This will contact home and together they will decide if it is better to go home.

Regular absenteeism
In case of regular absenteeism, the learning coach and/or student affairs coordinator will discuss this with you, your parent(s)/guardian(s) and a letter will be sent home.
If the absenteeism then persists, a report will be made to the GGD. This will contact your parent(s)/guardian(s).

At our school we think it is important that everyone is neatly in class on time. If you are late, you must report the next day before 8 a.m.

Joker
It can happen to anyone that you are late or that reporting the next day is very inconvenient. For these cases you can use a joker 2x per school year. This should be discussed in advance with the teaching assistant. You do not have to report then.

Repeated tardies
If you are 5 times late, a letter will be sent home. If you are 10 times late, compulsory education will be called in and if you are 15 times late, you will be summoned by compulsory education.

Not reported
If you have not reported the day after you were late, the report remains open. You have to report the next day and have to stay after school.

If you missed a test due to a valid reason, you must make it up.

During class
If the test was missed during class, contact your teacher as soon as possible and agree on a new date to catch up.
Attention!!! This is your own responsibility. A missed test must be made up as soon as possible and will be marked in SOM with an *.
Failure to make up the test may result in a 1.0.

During the test week
If you have missed a test during the testing week, there are catch-up days immediately following the testing week. You will be told when the catch-up days are and the subject teacher will tell you at what time you should catch up the test. This is also your own responsibility.

Many missed tests
It may happen that you have missed several tests (e.g. due to prolonged absences). You will then sit down with your learning coach as soon as possible to make a schedule for the missed tests.

Right of resit
If you miss or fail a test without permission, you are not entitled to a resit or catch-up test (in junior high).

Truancy is not permitted
For each lesson missed, you will have to stay past two lessons at a time that the teaching assistant schedules you for this. You will find this time in your timetable.

Repeated truancy
After 5x truancy hours, a letter will be sent home and compulsory education will be called in.

We like to keep things tidy and pleasant in class. If you do not contribute to this, a teacher may decide to expel you from class with a yellow card.

Procedure

1 yellow card
You leave the class and go and get a yellow card from the teaching assistant in 2.32 (lower school) or 9.42 (upper school).

You fill in the yellow card and return to the teacher after class for a discussion. The teacher also fills in the yellow card, decides whether there will be a sanction and informs parents and the student affairs coordinator.

You take the yellow card to the student affairs coordinator and discuss the card. The coordinator also fills in the card.

You take the card home and discuss it with your parent(s)/carer(s).

2 yellow cards
You will receive a warning for internal suspension.

3 yellow cards
For 3 yellow cards in a school year, an internal suspension follows. A letter will go home and your parent(s)/carer(s) will be informed.

There may be times when you need extra support or guidance. There are several steps you can take to access this support:

The learning coach
The learning coach is your first point of contact. Discuss the situation with the learning coach, together with your parents, and find out what options are available.

The student affairs coordinator
Is more support needed than the learning coach can provide? The support team can be called in via the Student Affairs Coordinator. This opens up more options for additional guidance.

Support team
Sometimes a pupil needs extra support to enjoy going to school and to develop to their full potential. This may involve, for example, support relating to dyslexia, ADHD, autism, giftedness and high intelligence, high sensitivity, social-emotional challenges or long-term illness. The support team works with you, offers advice and, together with you and your parents/carers, seeks a suitable solution. Thanks to our broad expertise and collaboration with various internal and external specialists, we can offer a bespoke approach and quickly provide the right support. Click here for more information about the options available.

Various trips are organised at our school. You will hear in good time which trip applies to you, when it will take place, where it is going and what the rules regarding this trip are.

Bilingual Education (TTO) trips
Trips in bilingual education are compulsory! They are part of the curriculum and lessons and necessary for the tto certificate. So all tto students, are expected to attend these trips. If you have any questions/concerns, please contact the learning coach.

Optional trips
Most other trips are optional. That means you can choose whether to go along. Information about the trips will be distributed in a timely manner. If you have additional questions, please contact the learning coach.

Home stay programme
For most (optional) trips (where almost an entire class/department goes), a home stay programme applies. You will hear more about this from the learning coach and/or organiser.

Costs
There are costs attached to trips. In principle, every pupil may go on a trip, regardless of whether parents/guardians can pay for the trip. However, it is impossible for the school to organise trips when too few parents/guardians pay for them. We therefore ask everyone to pay the invoice for the trip on time. Should this not be possible, you can contact the learning coach and/or organiser of the trip. They can then work with you to find a suitable solution. For a trip to go ahead, a minimum payment of 80% of the trip is required. If this percentage is not met, the trip will not take place.

Chromebook requirement
At our school, all students use a Chromebook. This is compulsory: without a Chromebook, students cannot participate fully in lessons. To ensure this runs smoothly, we work in partnership with Easy4u. They supply reliable, ready-to-use Chromebooks that are tailored to our digital teaching methods. We also aim to make the process as hassle-free as possible for parents and pupils.

Why do we use Chromebooks from Easy4u?

• Pre-configured Chromebook so you can get started straight away;
• Suitable for digital assessments;
• Fast and powerful enough for all your schoolwork, throughout your school career, and fitted with a sturdy casing;
• Managed by the school; secure and always up to date.
• A replacement Chromebook of the same type quickly provided in the event of problems;
• Damage and theft insurance with no unexpected costs.

Ordering: simple and with a discount
You will receive information about ordering your Chromebook before the summer holidays, along with a code. This code gives you access to our school webshop. In this webshop, you will find the selected Chromebooks.

Good to know!
The school will contribute €100,- towards the purchase price. This discount is already included in the ordering process.

Need help with the costs?
Our school and Stichting Leergeld can help you with this. Please contact Stichting Leergeld Eindhoven (040-213 11 41 or info@leergeldeindhoven.nl). The contact person at our school is Ms Sylvia Scholten.

Books
At school, we work with a combination of physical books and digital resources. This way, you benefit from the best of both worlds: the structure of books and the possibilities of interactive learning tools.
For the books, we work together with VanDijk. They know exactly which books you need. So you don’t have to order anything yourself – we do that for you.

How does it work?
During the summer holidays, VanDijk informs you which books have been ordered for you. As soon as they have sent your order, you will receive a Track & Trace code to follow your package.

Contact VanDijk
VanDijk can be reached (also throughout the summer holidays) Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5pm via:
📞 088 – 203 03 03
🌐 www.vandijk.nl/contact-en-service

Other teaching resources
In addition to VanDijk’s books, you will also receive your own teaching materials from your teachers at school. You will automatically receive these teaching materials in class.

Calculator
Several subjects make use of a calculator; we recommend the TI-30XB Multiview type by Texas Instruments.

Atlas and dictionaries
An atlas and dictionaries for the different languages you will study are not compulsory from school, but they may be useful to have!

In very exceptional cases, additional leave may be requested.

Leave requests for one day
Parents/guardians must submit requests for additional leave in advance using this form. The student affairs coordinator will make a decision, and you will receive notification by email.

Leave requests for more than one day
Parents/guardians must submit requests for leave due to special circumstances lasting more than one day using this form. The student affairs coordinator will make a decision, and you will be notified by email.

There are legally defined regulations regarding additional leave. These can be found via the link below. We recommend reviewing them carefully before submitting a request. The request must be submitted well in advance and prior to the intended leave to the student affairs coordinator.

Extra holiday leave
View the (Dutch) rules for requesting extra leave here

Leave for important circumstances
Click here to see the (Dutch) rules for requesting leave for important circumstances