{"id":16225,"date":"2024-03-29T09:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/de-romeinen-gaan-terug-naar-school\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:09:50","slug":"de-romeinen-gaan-terug-naar-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/de-romeinen-gaan-terug-naar-school\/","title":{"rendered":"The Romans Go Back to School"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":{"categorie":33,"afbeelding":10924,"auteur":"Harry Lindelauf","fotografie":"Harry Lindelauf","contentbuilder":[{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":"<h3>It is 2024. The pupils of primary school De Veldhof are ready to meet their very distant ancestors \u2014 the Romans. Thanks to a special project, the Romans are coming back to school.<\/h3>\r\nThe \u201cRomans\u201d today are Miriam Souren and Frans Essers \u2014 not from Rome, but from Eijsden and Kerkrade, dressed in modern clothes. Their story is about the Romans who once lived in the villa of Voerendaal. The story is told through a specially made presentation shown on the classroom\u2019s smartboard, in teacher Dennis Voorst\u2019s class.\r\nAnd of course, the Romans truly come to life thanks to the finds from their Roman suitcase \u2014 replicas of artefacts discovered at the villa site in Voerendaal. Thanks to 3D photography and 3D printing, these replicas are indistinguishable from the originals. As a highlight, the suitcase also contains authentic Roman finds, such as a fragment of a 2,000-year-old roof tile."},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst_foto","tekst":"<h3>Bananas and a Key<\/h3>\r\nThe pupils of class 7A at De Veldhof School in Eygelshoven learn about what the Romans brought with them.\r\nWhen Miriam asks what crops farmers might have grown in those days, the question sparks some interesting answers.\r\nAmong the good guesses comes the suggestion that they might have grown bananas \u2014 quickly countered by another pupil:\r\n\r\n\u201cOf course not, they come from a tropical island!\u201d\r\nThe first Roman object to be passed around is a large key.\r\nUsing a model door and lock, Frans Essers demonstrates the ingenious way in which Roman locks and keys worked.\r\nLater, a Roman coin depicting \u201ca kind of king,\u201d a bronze wine strainer, and a roof tile fragment make their way through the classroom.\r\nThe highlight is a replica of the head of the Lady of Voerendaal, passed around at full size.\r\nThe original is carved from sandstone, but the lightweight plastic copy is almost impossible to tell apart.","foto":10921},{"acf_fc_layout":"tekst","tekst":"<h3>The Importance of Preserving Heritage<\/h3>\r\nThe travelling suitcase project comes from Restaura in Heerlen, where archaeological finds are conserved and restored.\r\nIts purpose is to introduce more people to the finds from the villa of Voerendaal.\r\nThe children also see in the presentation how a restorer cleans and preserves artefacts.\r\nAnother goal is to help young people understand the importance of cultural heritage.\r\nThe project \u201ctravelling suitcases\u201d is funded by contributions from the VSB Fund, Cultural Fund, Mondriaan Fund, and the Province of Limburg.\r\n<h3>Your Own Rock Painting<\/h3>\r\nFor De Veldhof School, the Roman visit is part of a lesson programme that links art and history.\r\nDorieke Schreurs from Vazom (Free Academy Parkstad) teaches the lessons, in which pupils \u2014 for example, when learning about prehistoric rock paintings \u2014 made their own paint and then created their own 21st-century rock painting.\r\n\r\nIn Eygelshoven, after an hour and a half of time travel, Miriam Souren wraps up the lesson.\r\nWhen asked what they thought of it, the pupils respond with a shy \u201cfun.\u201d\r\nPerhaps their attention has already shifted outside \u2014 where something as rare today as the Romans inside is waiting: snow."}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16229,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16225\/revisions\/16229"}],"acf:term":[{"embeddable":true,"taxonomy":"category","href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.viabelgica.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}