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...
It is with great pleasure that we announce the appointment of Nilde Pais as the new Director of Primary at UWC Maastricht, effective 1 September 2022. Nilde joins our school following a twenty-year career as Primary teacher, coordinator and Primary lead at various international schools in Switzerland....
Our Primary School students hosted a fundraising event and raised over €2000! This money will be donated to giro555.nl. The event was an effort to raise funds for relief in Ukraine, but also a moment of togetherness with music and poetry. There were homemade crafts from...
Our Year 5 kids had some visitors over this morning! Students from Basisschool De Vlinderboom were there as part of a language exchange programme and they played games together. In English and in Dutch, because those are the two languages kids from both schools are...
UWC has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize! While we are still a long way from being awarded the Prize, the nomination is such a wonderful recognition of our mission and vision as we enter the 60th anniversary year of the UWC movement. It...
