German higher private school Windhoek
| German higher private school Windhoek | |
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| type of school |
Kindergarten Preschool Primary level (1-6) Secondary level I (7-9) Secondary level II (9-12) or grammar school (9-12) |
| founding | 1909 |
| address |
Church St 11-15 |
| place | Windhoek |
| region | Khomas |
| Country | Namibia |
| Coordinates | 22 ° 34 '30 " S , 17 ° 4' 59" E |
| carrier | German School Association Windhoek |
| student | around 1150 (2009) |
| Teachers | about 100 (2009) |
| management | Kristin Eichholz |
| Website | www.dhps-windhoek.de |
The German Higher Private School (DHPS) is a German school abroad in the Namibian capital Windhoek . It is located in the Windhoek-Central district . The main language of instruction is German . The school is attended by almost 1200 students and is currently (as of March 2020) headed by director Kristin Eichholz.
The school offers three German-speaking classes and one English-speaking class (with German as a foreign language) in all grades.
history
The DHPS was founded in 1909 under the name "Imperial Realschule" with twelve students as a school for the German-speaking population of German South West Africa . During the occupation of England and South Africa after World War I , all public schools had to introduce English or Afrikaans as the language of instruction. The "German Realschule Windhoek" was converted into a private school in order to keep German as the language of instruction. In 1962 the school was given its current name.
Facilities
Today the DHPS includes a kindergarten , pre-school and all grades up to 12th grade (up to 13th grade up to 2009). It offers the German Abitur (according to the German International Abitur examination ) and the highest Namibian school leaving certificate ( Namibia Senior Secondary Certificate ). In the ninth grade, the children have to choose one of the two graduation paths.
The DHPS employs teachers from Namibia and various German-speaking countries in Europe , primarily from Germany.
The school has a boarding school with 101 children in the home (as of 2013) and runs a sponsorship program for gifted children with non-German mother tongue from poorer parts of the country. That is also the reason why more and more black children have been able to attend school, especially in recent decades, largely with the help of scholarships and scholarships from the state and the school.
Trivia
In 2005 the school was featured in the ZDF documentary Namibia Generation X as part of the small television game . This accompanied five high school students from different backgrounds. The school building was also the setting in the German television film Um Himmels Willen - Mission Impossible (there as the “Nigerian Ministry of the Interior”).
See also
literature
- VDLIA (Ed.): German teachers abroad - focus on DHPS. No. 1, volume 60, February 2013, online version (PDF; 4.8 MB).
Web links
- official website of DHPS Windhoek
- Foreign Office Namibia - Relations with Germany
- 100 years DHPS - special of the Allgemeine Zeitung
Individual evidence
- ↑ Greetings to the school management: "Welcome to the German Higher Private School in Windhoek". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 2, 2015 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 .
- ↑ School leaving qualifications at DHPS - DIAP and NSSC. DHPS. ( Memento of August 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved August 14, 2016.
- ↑ DHPS home party a success. Allgemeine Zeitung, April 19, 2013.