In preparing for presenting our landmarks, we had a discussion in class to make a selection of interesting local, national and European landmarks. From this 'long list', every group of students choose one landmark to present. These are our results.

Vastelaovend

Group: Meike and Iris

The Vastelaovend carnival party is a Dutch tradition which is especially popular in the southern provinces Limburg and Noord-Brabant. In our city (Venlo, Limburg) it looks like this:

Everyone is invited to join in the most beautiful weirdest costumes and make-up. Like this for example:

Bikes

Group: Milou, Fenna, Iris, Katrijn, Meike

In the Netherlands it is normal to go everywhere by bike, so most children in our class go to school by bike.

here are a few different types of bikes:

Group: Bjorn, Maxim, Maurits, Dries

Food and delicacies

Poffertjes

Group: Imma, Janna, Sanne, Lilo

Hello everyone, We are class v1hv1 from the Netherlands. We have made Poffertjes for you. Poffertjes are little pancakes but in a dutch way. They are delicious. This is the recipe and a  picture from the results.

Recipe ‘poffertjes’

• 250gram of flower
• 1,5 teaspoon of baking soda
• Pinch of salt
• 300ml milk
• 2 eggs
• butter

First you beat the eggs well,

Then add the milk, mix until

It is a mix, add the flour and baking powder, mix again and ready.

Grease the poffertjes pan with butter and bake it.

( if you don't have a poffertjes pan, you can also just

put it in a pan, but just make small rounds.)

At the end you can do the finishing touch with powdered sugar/syrup or/and butter

And done! Now you can enjoy your delicious poffertjes ;)

French Fries

Group: Faiyaad, Haidara, Kivanc

Learn how to make this typical dutch dish (french fries with mayonnaise)!

1. Start off by slicing ideally russet potatoes, around 2cm thick.
2. Then soak them in water for as long as you can. (the longer the crispier)
3. Now you have to rinse off the extra starch, do this around 2 times.
4. Heat any kind of oil (preferably neutral oil, like sunflower or canola oil) to 300 degrees.
5. Fry them for 5-6 minutes in batches so that they can get more crispy.
6. Turn the oil up to 400 degrees and do the same.
7. Place them onto paper towels and sprinkle with salt.
8. Serve with mayonnaise as per dutch tradition and enjoy!

This is how it should look in the end:

Pancakes

Group: Michiel, Mannie, Siem, Siem

What ingredients do you  need to make pancakes

• 2 eggs
• 450 milliliters milk
• butter for baking
• a pancake mix (consists of flour and salt)
• And you can also add some nutella, powdered sugar and Apple syrup

Frikandelbroodjes

Group: Milo, Marthijin, Beer, Pim

Hello we have made frikandel broodjes.

First you buy some frikandel and some puff pastry and some curry.

Then you put a frikandel in the puff pastry and then you put some cury over them and close it. And then you put it in the oven for 12 minutes on 160 degrees.

And enjoy!

Tulips

Group: Alessia, Khadija, Aya

The tulip originally comes from Turkey but the scholar named Carolus Clusius is ultimately responsible for bringing the tulip into the spotlight in 1592. the original tulip grew in turkey but in fact traders from turkey brought it to western Europe in the late 16th century

Windmills

Group: Maarten, Soeh, Milou, Denise

Click on the image to see our presentation

Ukrainian flag message wall

Group: all students and teachers from our school

Click on the image to see the 'making of' video