Frisian in the Netherlands
| pre-primary education | primary education | secondary education |
| De Brêge | De Brêge |
Bogerman |
| De Frissel | De Frissel |
|
| It Harspit | It Harspit |
|
| Van Haersma Buma School | Van Haersma Buma School | |
| It Kikkertfiskje | ||
| Master Frankeskoalle | Master Frankeskoalle |
|
| De Stapstien |
De Stapstien |
|
| De Springplanke | De Springplanke |
|
| De Tsjelke | De Tsjelke |
|
De Brêge
|
|
| |
|
| Contact person | Epie Coerts-Jelsma |
| Website | www.nijegaast.nl/debrege |
| Total number of teachers | 6 |
| Total number of pupils | 60 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian, Dutch |
| Teaching material | Teaching material is widely available from CEDIN, but some material is outdated and has to be revised. |
| Remarks | |
|
It Harspit
|
|
| Contact person | Riemer Goet |
| Website | www.harspit-pcbodongeradeel.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 13 |
| Total number of pupils | 150 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian, Dutch |
| Teaching material | The availibilty of Frisian teaching material is good. The quality is reasonable. Most of the teaching material is from CEDIN. |
| Remarks |
It is very important that everyone in the team shares the same goals.
|
|
Van Haersma Buma School
|
|
| Contact person | Joop de Boer |
| Website | www.vanhaersmabumaschool.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 8 |
| Total number of pupils | 109 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian, Dutch |
| Teaching material | The availability of Frisian teaching material is good. The quality is reasonable. The school acquires the teaching material from 'Omrop Fryslân' and 'Taalsintrum Frysk'. |
| Remarks | The main problem with teaching (in) Frisian is the status of the language. Many parents have to be convinced that bi-lingual education is a 'good' thing. |
|
It Kikkertfiskje
|
|
| |
|
| Contact person | Annie Bouma |
| Website | www.pjutteboartersplak.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 2 |
| Total number of pupils | 52 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian |
| Teaching material | The availability of Frisian teaching material good. The municipality also provides material but they are unfortunately only in Dutch. The group leaders also make learning materials of their own. |
| Remarks | The main goal with the Frisian language is to increase the understanding of Frisian and make the children aware that there can be different words for things and thus disconnect the word from the object. This awareness seems to be important for children. |
|
Master Frankeskoalle
|
|
| Contact person | Harm de Vlas |
| Website | www.frankeskoalle.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 5 |
| Total number of pupils | 60 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian, Dutch |
| Teaching material | The availability of teaching material is reasonable and getting better. There could be more CD-roms though. |
| Remarks | The school has different dayparts in which they teach in different languages. The schools notices that learning to write in Frisian gives difficulties because some pupils already have difficulaties with writing in Dutch. |
|
De Stapstien
|
|
| Contact person | Y. Wiersma |
| Website | www.destapstien.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 7 |
| Total number of pupils | 55 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian, Dutch |
| Teaching material | The available teaching material is not of a very high quality. The material looks a little outdated. But fortunately there will soon be new teaching material. |
| Remarks | De Stapstien is part of an exchange network with Kashubian schools in Poland. |
|
De Springplanke
|
|
| Contact person | J.H. Kingma |
| Website | www.springplanke.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 8 |
| Total number of pupils | 61 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian, Dutch |
| Teaching material | The availability and quality of Frisian teaching material is good. |
| Remarks |
Sometimes it is hard to use the language consistently. It is necessary to make good arrangements with the pupils on when to use which language. This is done for example by speaking Dutch in the mornings and Frisian in the afternoon, or by dividing languages among teachers: one speaks Frisian and the other Dutch.
"de Springplanke" is part of an exchange network with Kashubian schools in Poland. |
|
De Tsjelke
|
|
| |
|
| Contact person | Hans de Haan |
| Website | http://www.detsjelke.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 8 |
| Total number of pupils | 110 |
| Languages of instruction | Frisian, Dutch |
| Teaching material | The availability and quality of Frisian teaching material is good. The school acquires its material from CEDIN. |
| Remarks | The main problem with teaching in the minority language is getting replacement for teachers who can teach in Frisian. The school says that learning to write in Frisian is difficult because some children have already difficulties with writing in Dutch. |
|
Bogerman
|
|
| Contactperson | Reitze Jonkman |
|
|
|
| Website | www.bogerman.nl |
| Total number of teachers | 250 |
| Total number of pupils | 2500 |
| Languages of instruction | Dutch and Frisian |
| Teaching material | The availability of teaching material is good, but the quality of the material is reasonable. |
| Main Problem | The main problem on our school is the dominance of Dutch |
| Solutions | The Frisian language has to get a better social position. |