Anne Frank Gymnasium Aachen
| Anne Frank Gymnasium Aachen | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Language Lycée |
| founding | 1979 |
| address |
Hander way 89 |
| place | Aachen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '18 " N , 6 ° 3' 6" E |
| carrier | City Aachen |
| student | about 700 |
| Teachers | 62 |
| management | Wolfgang Gurzan |
| Website | www.anne-frank-gymnasium.de |
The Anne-Frank-Gymnasium (AFG) is a high school of the city of Aachen in the Laurensberg district . It was founded in 1979 and was named after Anne Frank , a Jewish girl who became a victim of the Holocaust . The previous institution was the Gymnasium am Brusselser Ring (previously Waldschule Breuer). The AFG has around 700 students and 62 teachers.
School history
The Anne-Frank-Gymnasium emerged from the Gymnasium am Brusselser Ring, which was founded as a private school in 1955 and transferred to municipal sponsorship in 1970. With the move into the newly built school center in Aachen-Laurensberg, the school was renamed the Anne-Frank-Gymnasium in 1979. This was preceded by a lengthy discussion about finding a name. The name Edith-Stein-Gymnasium was originally intended for the grammar school. The Realschule on Lütticher Straße, which was also moving into the school center, was to become the Franz Oppenhoff School; the third facility - the secondary school on Vetschauer Straße - was to be named Anne Frank Hauptschule. After moving into the new building, however, the school conferences of the three schools agreed to use a single common name with the addition of the school type. Of the three intended namesake - all victims of National Socialism - Anne Frank appeared to be the best identification figure for schoolchildren.
In the mid-1980s, Aachen local politics brought the school center of the three Anne Frank schools to the fore as a location for a new comprehensive school to be established. Hauptschule and Realschule should expire due to falling registrations and give their space to the comprehensive school to be founded. Despite the high number of registrations, the grammar school was also up for grabs. After fierce resistance from students, parents and teachers, a compromise solution was found: The grammar school was to remain in the school center next to the comprehensive school, whereby the lack of space in the comprehensive school was to be remedied by an extension. Heinrich-Heine-Gesamtschule , Anne-Frank-Gymnasium and the evening high school have shared the school complex on Hander Weg since 1989 .
In 2010, the advanced chemistry course at the Anne Frank Gymnasium was awarded the Brigitte Gilles Prize for its active engagement with the gender issue and its high-profile approach .
School profile
- Pedagogical midday care: The AFG offers pedagogical midday care for all pupils in the 5th to 6th grades. The children are looked after by employees of the “Betreute Grundschulen eV” association Monday to Thursday from 1.20pm to 3.30pm. After a supervised lunch break in the canteen, the children can take advantage of various childcare options. There is homework assistance every day. There the pupils have the opportunity - under supervision - to do their homework.
- FILOU (Promotion of Instrumental Learning Optimized for Lower Schools): Since the 2007 school year, the AFG has been offering instrumental lessons in small groups for flute, clarinet and violin under the name FILOU. This project was and is funded by the Association of Friends of the Anne Frank Gymnasium, which ensures that the instruments are made available free of charge for one year, so that only the lessons have to be financed by a monthly fee.
- Working groups: lower and upper school choir, orchestra, school band, improvisational theater, theater, MINT, IT, football, basketball, volleyball, cycling, mediators, traffic assistants.
- Promotion of excellence: Since the 2018/2019 school year, the AFG has been offering excellence promotion for gifted pupils. It is aimed at students in grades 8, 9 and EF who achieve above-average performance in MINT subjects.
- Sports advanced course : A sports advanced course with a practical focus on athletics and volleyball has been offered for the first time since the 2018/19 school year.
- Foreign languages & electives: English (from grade 5), French or Latin (from grade 7), Spanish (from grade 8), computer science (from grade 8), sports-biology-health including sports assistant training (from the 2020/21 school year from Grade 8), European Studies (from the 2020/21 school year from Grade 8).
- International remedial class (IFK): Since 2014, the AFG has had an international remedial class, a preparatory class for newly immigrated pupils with little knowledge of German and who are generally suitable for high school.
- Student exchange: Offers for students in grades 7 to Q2. The exchange programs with France, England and the Netherlands are school-related, the exchange with Russia and China is open to all students in the corresponding age groups.
- Self-study center: offer for students of all levels with access to the Internet. Possibility of using it during breaks and free periods to work on projects or to research information for lessons.
- Profile courses: In cooperation with partners such as the Aachener Zeitung, the Stadttheater, the Ludwig Forum and various RWTH institutes, high school students in the advanced courses in German, Mathematics, English, Biology and Pedagogy have the opportunity to study subject-matter in an application- and project-oriented manner at extracurricular learning locations employ.
- Digitization: The Anne Frank Gymnasium plans to introduce iPad classes in the future.
principal
- Dr. Werner Haubrich (1978–1997)
- Burghart Klein (1997–1998, acting)
- Berthold Winterlich (1998-2013)
- Klaus Busse (2013–2014, provisional)
- Wolfgang Gurzan (since 2014)
Former students
- Peter Adrian Grauer (Abitur 1989)
- Anke Feller (Abitur 1991)
- Jens Kindervater (Abitur 1994)
- Birgit Mock (Abitur 1989)
literature
- Werner Haubrich (Red.): Anne Frank Gymnasium. For the inauguration of the new school building on May 17, 1980 . Aachen 1980.
- Ders .: 10 years Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Aachen. Report on the years 1979-1989 . Aachen 1989.
- Esser-Palm / Haubrich / Winterlich (Red.): 25 years Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Aachen . Festschrift. Aachen 2004.