Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium Bonn

Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium
type of school	high school
School number	166261
founding	1955
address	Behringstrasse 27
place	Bonn
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 40 '30 "  N , 7 ° 9' 54"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '30 "  N , 7 ° 9' 54"  E
carrier	Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
student	750
Teachers	approx. 60
management	since 2006/07 Christoph Weigeldt (until 2005/06 Bärbel Büttner)
Website	acg-bonn.de

The Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium is a private Protestant high school in Bonn . The carrier is the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . The namesake is Johann Amos Comenius .

Educational work

Teachers have the same training as teachers in public high schools. The same requirements for admission of students and the same performance requirements also apply. Certificates and school-leaving qualifications are equivalent to those of public schools. However, the top grades that have been mandatory for students since 2007/2008 were initially suspended, but had to be reintroduced in 2009.

The language sequence is:

• 5th grade: English
• 6th grade: French or Latin
• 8th grade: French in the differentiation offer
• Year 10: Spanish as an option

In the upper level - partly in cooperation with the Konrad-Adenauer-Gymnasium - students can mostly study German , English, French, art , music (across all schools for all of Bonn), history , geography , mathematics , biology , chemistry , physics and Protestant studies Religious teaching advanced courses are offered.

The curriculum provides for a four-week social internship for all students in grade 10. A psychological advisor who is part of the college and other members of a counseling team offer psychological diagnostics and advice. Students with reading and spelling difficulties can be supported by a specialist in a course at the school. The school has the right to free choice of teachers and students. The church offers the teachers of its schools an in-service training course, which is intended to give them special qualifications for the educational tasks.

The school is subject to the state school supervision, it has the freedom to realize its own educational and teaching ideas.

financing

There is no school fee . The school is financed to over 90% by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Well-known former students

• Theresa Bäuerlein (author and journalist)
• Jan Felix Gaertner (Classical Philologist)
• Isabelle Lehn (writer and philologist)
• Jürgen Roth (writer)
• Angelika Volle (political scientist and journalist)
• Matthias Zachert (CEO of Lanxess AG)

literature

• Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium (Ed.): 50 years of AMOS. Panoramic view and review . CMZ Verlag, Rheinbach 2005.

Web links

• Website of the Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium (Hrsg.): Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium 1985-1995 . Festschrift for the 40th anniversary. Bonn 1995, p. 52 .
2. ↑ Ovid: Epistulae ex Ponto, book 1. OUP Oxford, 2005, ISBN 978-0-199-27721-6 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
3. ↑ Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium (Hrsg.): Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium 1985-1995 . Festschrift for the 40th anniversary. Bonn 1995, p. 58 .
4. ^ Jürgen Roth: From Bad Honnef to Bonn. Faust-Kultur , April 3, 2011, accessed on January 8, 2019 : "... that belongs to the Rhenish Slate Mountains, which I do very well in geography at the Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium in Bonn-Bad Godesberg [...] have gone through. " 
5. ^ Angelika Elisabeth Charlotte Volle: German-British Relations . Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, 1976 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
6. ↑ Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium (Hrsg.): Amos-Comenius-Gymnasium 1985-1995 . Festschrift for the 40th anniversary. Bonn 1995, p. 37 .