Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School Dormagen
| Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School Dormagen | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Comprehensive school |
| School number | 189480 |
| founding | 1986 |
| address |
Marie-Schlei-Strasse 6 |
| place | Nievenheim |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 7 '9 " N , 6 ° 46' 48" E |
| carrier | City of Dormagen |
| student | 1370 (Aug 18, 2020) |
| Teachers | 113 (Aug 18, 2020) |
| management | * Headmistress: Dr. Andrea Hurtz
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| Website | www.bvsdormagen.de |
The Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School Dormagen is an integrated comprehensive school in Nievenheim , North Rhine-Westphalia.
present
In the 2020/21 school year, the school employs 113 teachers who taught around 1370 students. It consists of six classes up to grade 10 and maintains an upper level of the gymnasium , which leads to general higher education entrance qualification ( Abitur ) in four trains from level 11 after a total of thirteen school years (G9) . The Bertha von Suttner comprehensive school is the only comprehensive school in Dormagen and the largest of the currently seven secondary schools in the city. In November 2014, the North Rhine-Westphalia Sports Ministry recognized the school in association with the privately run Norbert Gymnasium with the status of a North Rhine-Westphalia sports school . The school received the "MINT-friendly" seal in autumn 2019. The school also participates in the Erasmus + program for intercultural and lifelong learning. The partners for the Water for life project from 2013–2015 came from schools in Finland, France, Italy, Poland, Romania and Spain. For the 2014/2015 school year, the school recorded 300 registrations for 180 places to be allocated in the new 5th year for the first time. The school has been run by Andrea Hurtz since May 13, 2019.
location
The school is located in the village on the edge of a middle-class residential area and borders on agricultural areas in the south. There are five spatially separated buildings on the site, in which classes are given separately according to grade levels. House 1 and 2 house the years 5/6, house 3 years 7/8, house 4 the years 9/10 and 11–13 and house 5 only rooms for the upper school level. Two grades at a time are combined into one department; In Department IV, the upper secondary school level, these are levels 11–13. The school has a single and a triple gymnasium, various outdoor sports facilities and schoolyards as well as an all-day facility with a cafeteria . In August 2017, the school authorities built four additional classrooms in the newly built house 5 in post-and-beam construction.
School history
The school was founded in the school year 1986/1987 against considerable opposition from the CDU council opposition in Dormagen. The conflict over the establishment of a comprehensive school in Dormagen was politically and legally resolved and, after a negative decision by the Düsseldorf Administrative Court, was pending at the Münster Higher Administrative Court. A final decision was expected on September 16, 1986. A few days earlier, however, the Center Party , which was represented in the Dormagener council, gave way and supported the SPD council decision after initial resistance. The school began operations on September 15 in the Erich Kästner primary school. During the transition period, the parents organized extracurricular lessons, for example on the Matthias Päffgens farm in Butzheim. The disputes found nationwide media coverage, because the conflict over the fundamental question of a successful education system divided not only the political camps in Dormagen.
It was not until 1988 that the site of the former Nievenheim secondary school, Marie-Schlei-Str. 6. Another eight years later, in the course of the 10th anniversary celebrations, the school conference named the school Bertha von Suttner , the Austrian peace activist and Nobel Prize winner. The founding school director (1986–2005) was Hans-Jürgen Belke. He was succeeded in office by Volker Hansen, who retired in summer 2014. He was followed by Dirk Rimpler, who moved to the Düsseldorf district government in October 2017.
Pedagogical focus
With its school program adopted in June 2012, the Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School sets seven main areas of pedagogical work, which at the same time form the framework for internal school development.
languages
According to the timetable for comprehensive schools in North Rhine-Westphalia, English is the first foreign language from grade 5. In the compulsory elective area, children can choose French from level 6 and Latin from grade 8 . Another foreign language can be taken with Spanish from level 11 . From class 5 (beginning of the 2nd semester), language- gifted students qualify for bilingual lessons . From year 7 onwards, the subject of social studies is taught in English. Bilingual lessons are given in additional school hours. Students have the opportunity to acquire the internationally renowned Cambridge Certificate . In years 5 to 10, reading hours are firmly anchored in the timetable.
Aesthetic education
The area of theater and music is firmly anchored in the school program. There are regular, widely acclaimed performances.
Natural sciences
Apart from the regular teaching in the so-called MINT subjects , the focus in this area is shown in the participation in competitions by surrounding universities and research institutions such as the BayLab ( Bayer Science & Education Foundation ) or the German Aerospace Center in Cologne-Porz.
Computer and internet
The school is technically well equipped. The upper level wing as well as most of the music and science subject rooms have video projectors to which notebooks or tablet computers can be connected. Each of the four classrooms sometimes houses several media and computer rooms. 55 Apple iMacs and a few dozen Windows computers are available to the students. Four rooms are equipped with smartboards for interactive applications. 12 classrooms are currently equipped with ActivePanels for presentation purposes. The Bertha-von-Suttner-Gesamtschule is a leader in North Rhine-Westphalia in the individualization of lessons using the learning platforms Moodle and Mahara . Several teachers conduct Moodle training courses for competence teams and on behalf of the Düsseldorf district government. The schoolchildren receive lessons in "New Technologies" (NT) from grade 5 onwards. Work e-mail addresses are available for all pupils and employees. In order to meet the challenges of distance learning, the school launched Microsoft 365 in June 2020 -Education set up: there are around 60 tablet computers and laptops available for lending students.
Sports
The focus on sport is being updated on the one hand with the connection of a partial boarding school to promote competitive sport. There is a competitive sports center wrestling on the school grounds . On the other hand, the Bertha-von-Suttner-Gesamtschule, as a sports school in North Rhine-Westphalia, offers ways to reconcile performance-oriented squad sports with the requirements of the various training courses.
Job and study
The Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School holds a nationally recognized professional and training fair every year, at which pupils from level 8 onwards can find out about trends in the training market. The student body is prepared using a variety of other measures on the entry into the professional world: Guided Job Center -Visits, Knigge -Trainings, career development arches, internships and more.
Peace education
The school is committed to Bertha von Suttner's pacifist legacy and activates the students to a prosocial, non-violent coexistence. “Social learning” is a subject. The Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School is the owner of the seal “School without Racism” and has sponsored Stolperstein from the artist Gunter Demnig. Autonomous dispute resolution has been practiced at the school for over 20 years. In June 2013, a so-called sponsored walk was carried out for the first time , during which over € 2,500 was generated for charitable purposes. Similar campaigns followed in the following years. In 2016, 15 tablet computers could be purchased from the sponsored walk proceeds. The Bertha von Suttner comprehensive school is one of the first schools to run the so-called bus escort project together with local partners and is supported by the police. Specially trained students ensure safety on school buses. Since 2002 there has been a partnership with a school in Moscow. The exchange program is characterized by intercultural education, international understanding and anti-fascist work. Due to the corona, no visits could be planned in 2020.
whole day
The Bertha von Suttner Comprehensive School is an all-day facility . In the so-called bound full day, there are also mandatory lessons for all students in the afternoon. Tuesdays are free from 1:48 p.m. to free up time for business meetings and conferences. The whole day is designed for the students of the lower secondary level according to pedagogical considerations. After lunch there are leisure activities in computer rooms, on the playground, the reading palace or in the school's sports facilities. The afternoon lessons start at 1:25 p.m. and end after the 5th lesson at 3:48 p.m. Since the 2018/2019 school year, lessons have been given within a 67.5-minute model in order to slow down the whole day and to create more time for differentiated forms of teaching.
The main idea behind the school's all-day concept is rhythmization . The allocation of learning subjects alternates with working hours, musical disciplines, funding opportunities and working groups. Various additional offers such as Latin or bilingual lessons are usually in the afternoon.
Cooperations
The two municipal high schools in the city of Dormagen and the Bertha von Suttner comprehensive school cooperate closely with one another in order to strengthen their upper grades. Every year there are advanced courses that are open to the students of each of the three schools. Together with the Norbert-Gymnasium Knechtsteden in the Delhoven district, the school is a NRW sports school. On October 7, 2013, the school conference voted for cooperation with a municipal secondary school planned for the 2014/2015 school year. The primary aim of the cooperation with this institution is to secure the transition of secondary school pupils to upper secondary level and to agree on technical and pedagogical standards. The Bertha von Suttner comprehensive school has been cooperating with local sports clubs for over 20 years, in particular TSV Bayer Dormagen (swimming, athletics and handball departments) and the Olympic base club AC Ückerath (wrestling). Networking with the regional players in top-class sport is conceptually strengthened with the profile as a NRW sports school. Since 2001 there has been close cooperation with School Association 17 in Moscow. At the center of this cooperation are projects of international understanding such as the maintenance of war graves in Stukenbrock ( main camp VI K (326) ) or joint excursions to former Nazi forced labor camps . The school also maintains contacts with universities and research institutions in order to receive impulses for further development and to evaluate the work done . She is currently working with the Institute for Educational Research at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal in order to record the reading performance of pupils in PISA- analog tests according to standardized criteria and thus to be able to develop targeted school support measures. A school partnership with Covestro AG Leverkusen has existed since October 2018 . A comparable partnership with Aldi Süd was added a short time later. The aim is to systematically introduce young people to training courses offered by the company.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 23, 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.
- ↑ Dormagen gets NRW sports school . In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper . April 17, 2013 ( online [PDF]).
- ↑ Planned establishment of a secondary school after a parent survey ... In: Rheinischer Anzeiger . April 17, 2013 ( online [PDF]).
