It's cold in Maastricht! Our primary students went outside to explore how our campus had transformed overnight. They loved looking at the patterns created by the frost and had some wonderings around how the bubbles and shapes are created in the ice!...
Our Year 5 and Year 6 Eco-Ambassadors went out into the playground to clean up litter. Their challenge for the coming period is to assist their families, peers and teachers throwing waste into the bins and separating it even better!...
Meet our primary school council, which has just been installed under the supervision of Director of Primary School Nilde. The students will start with gathering ideas from the classes that they would like to offer during the academic year. Things that have already come up are...
Official visit for our primary school kids! The traditional feast of Sinterklaas is an annual celebration in the Netherlands on 5 December. Children that have been good the past year, will be visited by Sinterklaas and get sweets. So of course Sint and his helpers stopped...
The December holidays are just around the corner! To promote sustainability habits of reducing and reusing, our students organised a second hand market where people could buy their December gifts. The raised money will be used for the organisation of the primary school graduation, later this school...
Our Facility Manager Petra is lowering the temperature, as part of Nationale Klimaatweek in the Netherlands! This simple action will reduce our energy consumption by 8% compared to the same week last year. As sustainability is an intrinsic part of our mission at UWC Maastricht, lowering the...
UWC Maastricht received the 3rd Green Flag from Eco-Schools! Eco Schools is a program for students to think and act sustainably. They take steps with their head, heart and hands to give sustainability a permanent place in their everyday life. Schools that actively work on the...
Summer break is around the corner! UWC Maastricht is closed until 28 August. We look forward to seeing students and staff back in the new school year! ...
The UWC Maastricht community has joined forces in terms of fundraising, while taking on a personal challenge! All primary kids and a couple of staff members ran races and used it as an opportunity to raise funds for a scholarship for a student from Ukraine...
Our Primary Year 6 students have been inquiring into the life cycle of flowers and the process of pollination as part of their Outdoor Learning Program. A local beekeeper came over to give a workshop on how “kept bees” are taken care of, how the colony...
