Cooperative comprehensive school Schneverdingen

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KGS Schneverdingen
KGS Schneverdingen logo
type of school Cooperative Comprehensive School
founding 1976
address

At Timmerahde 28–30

place Schneverdingen
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 7 '16 "  N , 9 ° 48' 0"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 7 '16 "  N , 9 ° 48' 0"  E
carrier Heidekreis district
student about 1600 students (2011/12)
Teachers 135 (2011/12)
management Mani Taghi-Khani
Website www.kgs-schneverdingen.de
Main building (southeast view)

The Cooperative Comprehensive School Schneverdingen , also KGS Schneverdingen , is a cooperative comprehensive school in the Lower Saxon town of Schneverdingen . It was founded in 1976 and is now the only secondary school in the tourist town of Schneverdingen, which is located in the middle of the Lüneburg Heath and is part of the Heidekreis district as well as the Hamburg metropolitan region. The school authority is the district.

The three school branches of KGS Schneverdingen include secondary school , secondary school and grammar school with the upper level leading to the Abitur . From Monday to Wednesday there is an open all-day offer . With around 1,600 students and 135 teachers (school year 2011/12) it is one of the largest general education schools in Lower Saxony. The JOBwärts project launched by the school in 2011 to place secondary school leavers in vocational training is considered a " school project that is unique in Germany" and is also receiving national attention.

history

founding

Since the population of Schneverdingen grew rapidly after the Second World War , the community wanted to expand its range of schools in 1966 and asked Richard Langeheine, then Lower Saxony's Minister of Education, and Gustav Bosselmann , then Lower Saxony's Minister of Justice , whether a grammar school could be built in Schneverdingen. The request was not granted, but at the end of 1968 the city was offered a cooperative comprehensive school (KGS) as a school trial.

On October 10, 1973, the council of the municipality of Schneverdingen decided to apply for a KGS based on the so-called "Model B" with an orientation level and high school. In December 1973, an initiative group was formed for the establishment of a KGS in Schneverdingen under the direction of the Realschulkonrektor Oskar Eckert. In April 1974 it was decided that a KGS should be provided as an offer school in Schneverdingen. Initial reservations about the new type of school were met with intensive information events in 1974. In a vote requested by the state government, 80% of the parents concerned and 63% of the teachers of the cooperative comprehensive school agreed.

In February 1976 the planning group was constituted under the chairmanship of Oskar Eckert and his deputy Günter Maltz. Finally, with a decree of July 16, 1976, the establishment of a cooperative comprehensive school in Schneverdingen was approved, which then took over the already established orientation level and developed from the 7th grade to the 10th grade from August 1, 1976. With effect from January 1, 1976, the former district of Soltau-Fallingbostel (since 2011 Heidekreis ) took over the school sponsorship. The first general conference of KGS Schneverdingen took place on November 29, 1976.

Extension to include an upper school level

In January 1992 a parents' initiative was founded to introduce a secondary level II at KGS Schneverdingen, chaired by Irmela Schubert. In March 1992, the school administration applied to the district government in Lüneburg to set up an upper level . In December 1993 the district school committee approved this request, which was then rejected in January 1994 in the district committee. After further discussions, the motion was finally granted in April 1994 with the votes of the SPD, FDP and the Greens.

After renovations, from September 1, 1994, the first 11th year could be trained with 35 students.

principal

The first headmaster was Oskar Eckert, who actively accompanied the founding phase. He was followed by Günter Nielebock, Waldemar Lück and Wolfgang Winter. Wolfgang Winter retired in June 2013, his successor became Mani Taghi-Khani, the former head of the secondary school, on August 1, 2013.

Architecture and buildings

In 1972, a school building was erected on today's school premises in a first phase of construction for the orientation level school at that time. In 1973, the extension for the secondary school , built in a second construction phase, was moved into. The building is now referred to as an outbuilding.

Today's main building was added as the third construction phase in 1976; it was built according to the plans of the Schneverdingen architectural office Carsten Rieke Architekten , near the primary school in the Osterwald and the Osterwald stadium as a school building for the newly founded comprehensive school. In the decades that followed, the structure received several additions and, together with these, represents the majority of the current main building of the school.

In 1977 the large gym designed by Soltau architects Hornbogen and Krampitz was inaugurated. The construction costs amounted to 2.4 million DM .

In 1986 the walls and roofs of construction sections I and II had to be renovated. During the renovation, the building was supplemented by a forum and a teaching kitchen . In addition, the function rooms could be equipped.

In 2003–2004 the school was expanded and converted. Based on the existing building structure, a two-storey extension was built as a connecting wing between the secondary school and the grammar school, and the individual structures were thus combined to form today's main building of the school. The added classrooms, specialist teaching and collection rooms are accessed through glass connecting corridors on the ground floor and first floor. The construction costs were around 3.0  million euros , the client was the district of Soltau-Fallingbostel and the architectural services were provided by the Soltau architecture office Krampitz Architekten .

Due to the increasing number of all-day schoolchildren and participants in school lunches , a cafeteria was built next to the school building in 2008 according to plans by the Schneverdingen architectural office Hans-Jürgen Schmidt . The single-storey “all-day building” with a monopitch roof contains, in addition to the cafeteria, a school library designed as a self-study center with a media area, a multifunctional room, offices for the school's social pedagogues and sanitary facilities. The costs for construction and equipment totaled around 1.75 million euros; The building owner was again the district, whereby the city and the country contributed to the costs.

In 2009 the school yard of the adjoining building was redesigned in a natural way.

The classrooms of KGS Schneverdingen are now located in the main building as well as in an adjoining building where the fifth and sixth year classes are taught. The other years are taught in the main building. The sports hall on Harburger Strasse and the Osterwald Stadium are also used.

  • Sign at the main building

  • Outbuilding (south view)

  • All-day building (east view)

  • School gym

Numbers, dates and organization

General

In the 2011/12 school year, the college consists of 135 teachers and 2 social pedagogues. In the 2011/12 school year, they look after almost 1,600 students.

Since the 2004/05 school year there has been an open all-day program from Monday to Wednesday. Since the 2012/13 school year, this offer has been expanded to include Thursdays.

Since the school year 2010/11 is taught in the so-called block model by from the 45-minute lesson 90-minute block was changed (90 minutes) on the. Each break lasts 20 minutes. There is a lunch break between the 3rd and 4th block.

Student numbers

The number of pupils was around 1590 in 1977–1978 and then fell continuously from 1979 (1980: around 1530, 1985: around 1110) until it reached its lowest point in 1989–1990 with around 820 students. Since then, the number of pupils has risen continuously again (1995: around 1080) and has remained constant at around 1600 since the mid-2000s, although the total number of pupils in general schools in the Heidekreis fell by around 5.1% from 2006 to 2010.

Educational concept

General

In the mid-1990s, the school took part in the Süddeutsche Zeitung's “Newspaper in School” project . In March 1996 the students were even able to publish three articles in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

KGS Schneverdingen participated as one of around 200 model schools in 15 federal states in the BLK program "21" - Education for Sustainable Development, which was completed in 2004, with a subject-related teaching project in upper secondary level on the Schneverdingen city ​​park ponds .

As part of an in-house rhetoric project, the school has been taking part in the nationwide student competition “ Jugend debattiert ” since 2004 .

The SOR-SMC logo

Education for tolerance

KGS Schneverdingen is a member of the School without Racism - School with Courage network (SOR-SMC). Monika Griefahn took over the sponsorship on March 19, 2007 . In addition, the school and the students are involved in the Schneverdinger civic alliance colored instead of brown , which works against right-wing radicalism and to which the school has belonged since the alliance was founded in 2008. In addition, the eighth and ninth school year grades regularly deal with the topic of racism during a biennial project week .

JOBforward

Since the beginning of the 2011/12 school year, the JOBwärts project developed by the school has been taking place in the main school branch . The secondary school leavers - who currently have very little chance of finding a training place in general - are supported in finding a career and, if possible, placed in vocational training. Project partners include the Federal Employment Agency / Employment Agency Uelzen , the German Employee Academy (DAA) at the Soltau location and the Soltau branch of the Uelzen Technical Training Center (TAS). In the project, pupils in the 9th year of the main school branch receive practical training once a week, with the essential contents of the 1st year of training being conveyed.

The project was received positively by both the students and potential training companies and can already show considerable successes that were not expected. It met with a lot of public interest and the successful school project of the KGS Schneverdingen has meanwhile been reported several times in the press, radio and television. The concept will be adopted by the Wilhelm Röpke School in Schwarmstedt and the Fritz Reuter School in Bad Bevensen in the 2012/13 school year.

The project is one of the 2012 winners of the nationwide competition Ideas for the Republic of Education , which was held for the second time as part of the Germany - Land of Ideas initiative . On December 18, 2012, Gabriela Oroz presented the award on behalf of the initiative.

Sports

A lot of weight is attached to the subject “ sport ” at the school; For example, a week-long indoor sports festival takes place every year. In addition, the school regularly takes part in competitions and often achieves successes, such as B. at the nationwide school sport competition youth trained for the Olympics . Among other things, the KGS Schneverdingen team took part in the German championship for young people trained for the Olympics in Berlin in September 1979 , and in June 1993 the girls' team of the 1980/81 class was the state champion in athletics for young people trained for the Olympics .

The school took part in the trilateral project TriM - Hattrick for Europe of the German-Polish Youth Office , in which, on the occasion of the European Football Championship 2012, young people from Germany , Poland and the Ukraine in 80 teams with over 560 participants in numerous tournaments in the three countries played and met. The school team qualified for the finals and reached fourth place in the TriM final in Lublin , Poland in June 2012 .

The International Heide Cup , a handball tournament with top German and international clubs , takes place in the KGS hall every year .

Awards

In 2006, the National Committee of the German Commission for UNESCO recognized a joint project of the Alfred Toepfer Academy for Nature Conservation (NNA) and KGS Schneverdingen on the subject of “ sustainability ” as a “ UN Decade Project ”. The project was funded by the EU program “ LEADER + ”.

In 2009 the student company of KGS Schneverdingen, department “flora et labora”, took part in the national competition “SOS-Schulhof 2009” organized by the Federal Association of Gardening, Landscaping and Sports Field Construction together with their regional associations and received an award for their schoolyard redesign concept.

In 2013 the school reached 2nd place in Lower Saxony and 1st place in Lower Saxony in 2017 in the Strong School competition . As the 2017 winner in Lower Saxony, the school subsequently took part in the federal decision and came in second. In addition, the school was also awarded the special prize “Welcoming refugees” and in 2017 was the only school in Germany to receive two federal prizes.

School life

School and public

As one of the cultural and social centers of the city and region, the KGS Schneverdingen is also used regularly for extracurricular events such as concerts , theater performances , author readings and exhibitions . So found z. In April 2012, for example, there was a concert in the school auditorium with the British blues singer Connie Lush and her band The Blues Shouter , and the writer Wladimir Kaminer came to an author reading in the school's forum that same month. The folk dance group of the Heimatbund Schneverdingen e. V. regularly organizes their weekly practice evening in the school auditorium.

At the school there is a representation of pupils and parents covering all branches of the school . In addition, parents are also involved in other areas of school life, such as B. in conflict piloting work .

The former school newspaper Forum , which appeared 2 to 3 times per school year, was replaced at the beginning of 2011 by the newsletter Ranzenpost - Information for students, parents and teachers , which is published at shorter intervals and is intended to provide a quick overview of current and ongoing campaigns. The publisher is the school management.

Partnerships and student exchanges

KGS Schneverdingen maintains international school partnerships and promotes student exchanges with schools in the following cities and countries:

In the school exchange with France, pupils of the French courses in the secondary and high school branches of the 8th year can take part. The exchange with Schneverdingen's partner cities Barlinek and Eksjö as well as with Budapest is aimed at the 9th grade of all school branches. The America Exchange, which has existed since 1983, is open to 10th grade students from all types of schools.

Support association

A non-profit school support association has existed since it was founded in 1993 and currently (2012) has around 530 members. The friends' association supports school plans and projects such as B. the project weeks, the theater group and the English theater , sports festivals and participation in youth trainings for the Olympics , renovations of classrooms, the America-AG, author readings, exhibitions and museum visits. He also promotes u. a. the acquisition of teaching and learning materials, the redesign of the schoolyard and, since 2011, above all, vocational development projects for the secondary and secondary schools.

Well-known former students

literature

  • Magret Hartig (ed.); Friends of the KGS Schneverdingen (ed.): 1976–1996. 20 years of KGS Schneverdingen. Wrage printer, Munster 1996.

Web links

Commons : Cooperative comprehensive school Schneverdingen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martina Brinkmann: School project: "Jobwärts" starting your job. A unique project by the Schneverdingen comprehensive school is putting more ninth graders into training than expected . In: Hamburger Abendblatt dated February 28, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Magret Hartig (Red.); Friends of the KGS Schneverdingen (ed.): 1976–1996. 20 years of KGS Schneverdingen. Wrage printer, Munster 1996.
  3. ↑ See projects - municipal building : On: Website of the architectural office Carsten Rieke Architekten , Schneverdingen. Retrieved June 18, 2012.
  4. ↑ Expansion and reconstruction of the cooperative comprehensive school in Schneverdingen . On: Website of the Lower Saxony Chamber of Architects from 2004. PDF file, 42 kB; Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ From the student library to the self-learning center (KGS Schneverdingen) , project report from 2008. PDF file, 3.32 MB; Retrieved June 19, 2012.
  6. ↑ (mk): Warm food and reading food. KGS Schneverdingen cafeteria inaugurated on Monday . In: Heide-Kurier from November 5, 2008, p. 2. PDF file, 5.99 MB; Retrieved June 19, 2012.
  7. ↑ See e.g. B. Information for the 2006/07 school year in: From the student library to the self-study center →  2. Inventory 2006 →  2.1. To KGS Schneverdingen , project report from 2008. PDF file, 3.32 MB; Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  8. ↑ Landkreis Heidekreis (Hrsg.): Education in the Heidekreis - First education report for the Heidekreis . Druck & Medien Kontor Fahlbusch + Hamelberg, Rotenburg (Wümme) 2012, p. 54. PDF file as download (requires Adobe Acrobat 4.x ), 4.71 MB; Retrieved June 20, 2012.
  9. ↑ On March 23 and 24, 1996, the following articles appeared in the Süddeutsche Zeitung , which came from students at KGS Schneverdingen: 170 employees in a race against time ; There is no short, sad existence and no special offers .
  10. ↑ Education for Sustainable Development. Box 21 . In: environmental education practically up-to-date II + III / 2005, pp. 12–14; published by the Pedagogical Center of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate . PDF file, 1.23 MB; Retrieved June 19, 2012.
  11. ↑ Lenthe Thomas: Laura Hirschmann wins “Jugend debattiert”. School decision of the ninth year at KGS Schneverdingen - part of the rhetoric project . In: Böhme-Zeitung of February 10, 2012. Retrieved on June 16, 2012.
  12. ↑ Axel Witt: Laura Hirschmann wins in "Jugend debattiert"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Ranzenpost (school newsletter from KGS Schneverdingen) No. I / 2012, p. 1. PDF file, 2.27 MB; Retrieved June 16, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kgs-schneverdingen.de  
  13. ↑ KGS Schneverdingen is now "School without Racism - School with Courage" ( memento of the original from March 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Report in the Böhme-Zeitung of March 20, 2007 / press review on the website of the network School without Racism - School with Courage . Retrieved June 16, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schule-ohne-rassismus.org
  14. ↑ About us ... . On: website of bunt instead of brown schneverdingen , Schneverdinger citizens' alliance against radicalism and extremism. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  15. ↑ KGS Schneverdingen: Fit for training with JOBwärts. With the JOBwärts project, the main school branch of KGS Schneverdingen is breaking new ground in the field of career orientation in the coming school year  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Press release of the Federal Employment Agency / Uelzen Employment Agency dated June 1, 2011. Accessed on June 16, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.arbeitsagentur.de  
  16. ↑ a b c (mk): “Not expected such a success.” KGS project “JOBwärts” exceeds the wildest expectations . In: Heide-Kurier of June 3, 2012, title page. PDF file, 5.32 MB; Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  17. ↑ Anja Trappe: Lauritz's dream becomes reality . In: Böhme-Zeitung of April 25, 2012. Retrieved on June 16, 2012.
  18. ↑ Ulrike Kressel: "Jobwärts" project in Schneverdingen: Perspective for young people  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Radio broadcast on: Nordwestradio on May 15, 2012. With audio stream , length 3:16 minutes. Retrieved June 16, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / 213.71.18.104  
  19. ↑ In Schneverdingen it's JOBward . On: NDR.de from May 11, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  20. ↑ Lower Saxony's young skilled workers go “JOBwärts” ( memento of the original from January 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Award ceremony Germany - Land of Ideas . Retrieved January 1, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.land-der-ideen.de
  21. ↑ Championship in competition II . In: Böhme-Zeitung of September 19, 1979.
  22. ^ Athletes of the KGS: Landessieger . In: Böhme-Zeitung of June 15, 1993.
  23. ↑ TriM-Finale in Lublin (3rd – 7th June 2012) ( Memento of the original from 3rd December 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Website of the TriM - Hattrick for Europe project of the German-Polish Youth Office . Retrieved June 16, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.trim.dpjw.org
  24. ↑ Committed to the cause. NNA and KGS: Exhibition on sustainability . In: Heide-Kurier of December 17, 2006, p. 2. PDF file, 8.39 MB; Retrieved June 16, 2012.
  25. ↑ (bz): Cooperative comprehensive school Schneverdingen wins nationwide gardening and landscaping competition  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Böhme-Zeitung of April 18, 2009. PDF file, 46 kB; Retrieved June 16, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kgs-schneverdingen.de  
  26. ↑ All winning schools. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
  27. ↑ a b national winner. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
  28. ↑ Rousing voice impressed . In: Böhme-Zeitung of April 26, 2012. Retrieved on June 17, 2012.
  29. ↑ De vergneugten Heidjer ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Website of the Heimatbund Schneverdingen e. V. Retrieved June 19, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimatbund-schneverdingen.de
  30. ↑ "... and go out into the world ..." School partnerships  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 375 kB). Info flyer from KGS Schneverdingen. Retrieved June 16, 2012.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kgs-schneverdingen.de