Andreas-Vesalius-Gymnasium Wesel
| Andreas Vesalius High School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| School number | 166110 |
| founding | 1853 |
| address | |
| place | Wesel |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 39 '30 " N , 6 ° 36' 45" E |
| student | 1290 |
| Teachers | 110 |
| management | Dorothée Brauner |
| Website | www.avg-wesel.de |
The Andreas-Vesalius-Gymnasium (AVG) is one of the two high schools in the Wesel area .
It is currently attended by 1,290 students in grades 5 to 12 (since 2012), previously up to grade 13, who are taught by around 110 teachers. With 477 students, it maintains one of the largest upper schools in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The school is named after the Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564).
history
The basic form of today's Andreas-Vesalius-Gymnasium is more than 150 years old, the first day of class was January 7th, 1853. The name of the school was Evangelical Higher Töchterschule zu Wesel . Due to the large number of visitors, the school moved to a new building after just one year. By order of the school inspectorate in Düsseldorf, the Evangelical Higher Töchterschule was renamed the Municipal Higher Girls ' School in 1878 . In just 25 years, the number of female students has tripled to 150.
The tendency to orientate girls' education towards the needs of men and to fix women on the role of the “educated” housewife and mother is also reflected in the history of the school. In 1912, she was by decree Municipal Lyceum , 1928 Municipal Oberlyzeum so that it was almost identical to the boy high schools, science subjects now emerged stronger in its curriculum with that. Eleven pupils passed their first school leaving exams at the school, and with their acceptance in 1930 it was considered a "comprehensive scientific institution" .
After the National Socialists took over the government in 1933 , the way of the school and the curriculum changed completely. From 1933 there were flag-raising and training courses for the purpose of indoctrination , restriction of scientific teaching in favor of physical fitness and education of girls in the service of the fatherland. As the war went on, there were more and more air raids, air raids , and escapes to the basement, in the end almost every day. On February 16, 1945, British bombers attacked Wesel. The city center was completely destroyed, only the cathedral remained. The school building received two direct hits on February 16.
Five months later, with the approval of the Allies, classes were resumed in the Haus Eder excursion restaurant in Blumenkamp , together with the boys' high school. After five years, the company moved to the state high school on Herzogenring. After three years there, the boys' and girls' high school parted ways: the school moved to a new school building on Ritterstrasse , where it still stands today, and was now called the municipal girls' high school with women's high school .
- In 1955, two years after the move, the number of female students rose to 460.
- In 1959 the gym was inaugurated.
- In 1969 it was rebuilt, the school now had almost 800 students and a few students.
- In 1984 the school was given its final name with the construction of the science wing: Andreas-Vesalius-Gymnasium
- In 1990 the school had over 1,000 students, and over the next few years the number leveled off at 1,150.
Since 1990 there has been a sponsorship relationship with a grammar school in Kętrzyn in Masuria , the former Herzog-Albrechts-Schule .
21st century
Today, the range of courses offered by the school is wide-ranging in line with the large number of students. Advisory teacher teams, usually consisting of two teachers, passively support the students in their decisions about their school career. More recently, in addition to the traditional range of courses, new areas of focus have developed, for example in the advanced course areas of computer science , chemistry and art .
The school building is centrally located in the city center, barely ten minutes' walk from the train station. During the free periods, the students have the opportunity to run errands in the shopping area. The school continues an old tradition of creative activity with new and changed accents, partly in scheduled lessons, partly in voluntary working groups in the fields of music, art, literature, theater, sport. Regular theater, dance and music performances in various forms and styles are an integral part of everyday school life.
The school as a political space manifests itself in the AVG Forum, a platform for lectures and discussions on socio-political and historically relevant issues with representatives of public life and in student exchanges. Together with the grammar school in Kętrzyn ( Poland ), this led to an official partnership between the cities of Wesel and Kętrzyn in 2002. In the school program, which was unanimously approved in 2000, it says: "Lessons (as a central task of the school) are always educational lessons as well , insofar as they do not only strive for cognitive learning goals, but a holistic education of the personality ..."
particularities
In the upper level there are advanced courses in all subjects. Contacts with universities exist from the 11th grade onwards. The gifted revolving door model (according to Renzulli) is a didactic concept for gifted students to support their creativity and motivation through flexible teaching organization and to develop different talents.
In the middle level there are courses and events in the AG area on the topics of Big Band AG, Percussion AG, Musical AG, Photo AG, Aquarium AG and babysitting driver's license. Student exchanges are organized with Poland, Wales and France ( Forbach ). Every year there is a central carnival festival for years 5 and 6 as part of Weiberfastnacht .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Knüfer: The AVG, mission statement and school profile. 1970 - 2003. (No longer available online.) 2003, archived from the original on June 7, 2014 ; Retrieved June 3, 2014 .