Anne Frank Gymnasium Halver
| Anne Frank Gymnasium Halver | |
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| type of school | Language Lycée |
| School number | 169778 |
| founding | 1965 |
| address |
Kantstrasse 2 |
| place | Halver |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 '12 " N , 7 ° 29' 56" E |
| carrier | City of Halver |
| student | 869 (March 9, 2020) |
| Teachers | 72 (March 26, 2019) |
| management | Paul Meurer |
| Website | www.afg-halver.de |
The Anne-Frank-Gymnasium of the city of Halver is now a full high school and a former advanced high school in Halver in Westphalia .
To the type of secondary school
The school called “Anne Frank Gymnasium Halver” today was originally called “ Aufbaugymnasium (of the city) Halver”. This school did not start with the 5th grade, but only in the 7th grade. Two years later, at the beginning of the 9th grade, admission was possible again, but initially not in the 11th grade. Thus the school represented a relatively seldom found type of structure, in which an admission took place in the 7th and 9th grades and so a permeability from the Hauptschule and Realschulen to the Gymnasium was already possible in the middle school. Many students who did not go to high school after primary school were given the opportunity to make up for the missed step after a few years. As a rule, another class was opened in the 9th grade due to the large number of registrations.
Later, students were also accepted into the 11th grade. The large number of registrations made an additional class necessary. Another, even more important, turning point was reached in the 2005/06 school year when the school accepted students in the fifth grade. At the same time, the later admission in 7 was ended, which - despite the continued, but possible in many grammar schools, admission in 11 - meant the end of the traditional structure type.
The school today
The Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Halver (AFG) is located in the urban area of Halver, which lies in the southwestern part of the Märkisches Sauerland shortly before the dialect and state border with the Rhineland. This secondary school was founded in 1965 and is a modern language grammar school. In the 2009/10 school year the school attended 770 pupils, 450 of them in secondary level 1 . These are all taught by 59 teachers. In addition, there are trainee lawyers who are doing their preparatory service at this school. This makes the AFG a medium-sized grammar school.
Since May 1, 2010, Paul Meurer has been a new headmaster who teaches German, Catholic religion and Italian. Before him there were four principals since the school was founded, namely Johannes Horstmann, Werner von Nordheim, Ehrhard Fipper and, most recently, Hans Beinghaus.
In its “school program” from March 2008 (see website), the school is committed to an educational concept according to the principles of which “pupils are educated to be self-confident and critical people”; At the AFG they “receive a fundamental basis for a broad general education and good study ability”. Social learning, media literacy and learning to learn are part of this concept. Another important component is the high level of individual support, which is expressed, for example, in tutoring organized in the tutor system.
The language sequence is English in the fifth grade and optionally French or Latin in the sixth grade. In grade 9 or 8, the other of the second foreign language can be optionally chosen and learned in an intensive course until the end of grade 10. The third foreign language belongs to a differentiation area where the students decide between language, natural science or social science and thus set their focus. There is also a Spanish class for grades 8-11. According to a newer concept, the future upper school students from the secondary schools can attend the AFG from the end of 10. There are also evaluation measures for these pupils in the 11th grade. In the upper level there is a wide range of subjects in the advanced and basic course area. Advanced courses in physics and art are firmly established. Central final exams are in grades 10 and 13.
There is a large and broad range in the field of working groups. There are several dance groups, a school choir for middle and upper grades, a lower grade choir and orchestra and a theater group. The high level of school music is shown in the fact that in the 1970s the WDR was visiting when the musical students were intensively concerned with early music, that in the summer of 1976 the opera by Henry Purcell "Dido and Aeneas" was staged and that in December 2005 the school choir performed Bach's Christmas Oratorio. There is a linguistic exchange with Portsmouth in the south of England in the 8th and 11th grades, a cultural exchange with Katrineholm, the Swedish twin town of Halvers, where groups of pupils from AFG alternate and groups come from Katrineholm every spring.
A not unimportant body is the “Circle of Friends of the Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Halver e. V. “The z. In this way it was possible to finance expensive modern teaching media and work equipment such as video recorders, computers, laptops and a whole IT room, but also to grant grants for school events, performances and study trips. In total, the association has donated almost DM 300,000 to the AFG since 1972.
An alumni meeting takes place every five years; the last was on October 2, 2010. The many alumni, now several thousand, are invited personally. "The whole school is dedicated to seeing you again this evening."
School history summary
After the school was founded on April 22, 1965, it was initially housed in the youth home. As early as June 1966, the "Association of the Friends of the Advanced High School Halver" was founded on the initiative of Johannes Horstmann, the first school principal. In May 1969, they moved into a spacious, modern building on Kantstrasse. In the summer there was the first Abitur.
The school, which was initially a high school of the advanced type ("Aufbaugymnasium Halver"; AGH), accepted an 8th and a 9th grade in the founding year, then preferred 7th, but also 9th grade. In addition, since 1972 the grammar school has had the option of accepting 11 secondary school students in their tenth grade. In the years that followed, the upper level became considerably larger than the secondary level 1. In the 1980s, an upper level group was almost twice as large as a two-course middle school year, which led to the metaphorical name of a mushroom school. In 1987 the name was changed to "Anne Frank Gymnasium"; Since then, the school has felt particularly committed to the name of the Jewish girl who was killed in a concentration camp and later became a symbol for victims of the Nazi era.
For the time being, the last station in the school's history was the conversion of the Aufbaugymnasium into an elementary grammar school in the summer of 2005, when the first fifth grade in the school's history was accepted and the phase of admission in the 7th grade ended. The reason was a new school law that does not allow a schooling period to be shortened to 12 years at an advanced high school. As a result, the number of pupils also grew and, with 783 pupils in the 2007/08 school year, it reached a preliminary high that had not previously been achieved at the AFG.
The fact that in 2009 the Ministry for Schools and Continuing Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia awarded the seal of approval for individual support shows that the end of the development branch is by no means the end of the associated educational ideas. This award shows that the AFG is “on the way to meeting the needs of every single student in the sense of an individualized, error-friendly and encouraging lesson.” In doing so, “starting point of learning, learning status and potential of [the] students Schoolchildren [...] systematically examined. "
literature
- R. Helfenbein, K.-H. Radtke (Hrsg.): 25 years Anne-Frank-Gymnasium Halver. Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the Anne Frank Gymnasium Halver from 21 to 25 August 1990.
- Zeus reporter (pseudonym = C. Cesarano & F. Kißing, 8a of the AFG Halver): High school in transition . In: Westfälische Rundschau from October 26, 2009. In the internet archive: https://www.wr.de/daten-archiv/gymnasium-im-wandel-id52522.html .