German School Bilbao

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German School Bilbao
Colegio Alemán
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type of school German school abroad
Encounter school
founding 1917
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Avenida Jesús Galindez, 3
E-48004 Bilbao
Tel .: +34 944 598 090
Fax: +34 944 731861
E-Mail: dsbilbao@dsbilbao.org

place Bilbao SpainSpainSpain 
Autonomous community Basque Country
Country Spain
Coordinates 43 ° 15 '36 "  N , 2 ° 54' 36"  W Coordinates: 43 ° 15 '36 "  N , 2 ° 54' 36"  W.
carrier Association of the German School Bilbao
Website www.dsbilbao.org
German School Bilbao

The German School Bilbao (DSB), the Colegio Alemán in Bilbao , is a German school abroad in the Spanish Basque Country . As a bicultural encounter school , it is open to children and young people of all nationalities; most of the students are Spanish and German. Those who join the DSB at the age of three can complete its three departments kindergarten (three years), elementary school (four years) and grammar school (eight years) in fifteen years.

history

The German School Bilbao opened on February 11, 1917 on Calle Diputación with 17 students. In 1924, when the number of students had grown to 50 and a new school building could be inaugurated in Deusto, it was recognized as a secondary school . In 1927 - including three students from the German School in San Sebastián - the first final examination was carried out. Bachillerato courses for Spanish teenagers and evening courses for adults were also set up this year .

In June 1937 the Spanish Civil War ended for Bilbao ; the school resumed classes at the beginning of the 1938/39 school year after a one-year break. Germany approved the establishment of an upper level leading to the Abitur . In June 1940 the first Abitur was taken.

May 8, 1945: On the day Germany surrendered, the school was closed by the police around noon. Only a few documents, books and objects from the scientific collection could be removed.

1945–1950: Elementary school classes were held for German children in the private apartments of some German teachers . A group of German parents tried to create a school similar to the one that was first founded in 1917.

In April 1951, the school moved to the Alameda de Recalde, 4. In May it was constituted as the “Colegio San Bonifacio ”. In 1954, the country took over Rheinland-Pfalz the sponsorship for school. In 1956, after a long time, high school graduates left the German School Bilbao. (The exam took place at the German School in Madrid .) The school has now been set up as an encounter school, language courses and cultural evenings enriched its spectrum. The head of the former Goethe Institute Bilbao was in personal union director of the Colegio Alemán. The school association was newly founded as the sponsor of the school. In 1961, the new school building surrounded by greenery was inaugurated on the site acquired in Begoña in 1958.

The New Secondary Level (NSS) was introduced on May 12, 1978 : Apart from the Spanish students who advanced to the German-Spanish secondary level via kindergarten and the German-oriented primary school, Spanish students were now able to complete a one-year preparatory course (Cursillo) in enter the 5th grade of the New Secondary School. At the beginning of the 1979/80 school year, the first class of the NSS (“c” class) was established. A preparatory course for future lateral entrants was held for the first time, so that in 1988 the first NSS matriculation examination could be carried out.

Since the 2007/08 school year, the German School Bilbao has been the coordination school of the international multimedia school newspaper trait d'union, which was launched in 1999 at the German School Toulouse .

The integration model of the German School Bilbao

According to the funding framework of the German Federal Administration Office , from which it receives a substantial financial subsidy every year, the DSB is a two-class integrated encounter school with a kindergarten and a single elementary school, to which a second group of students from the cursillos is added in class 5. The school building is geared towards this dual movement. In the original version, the cursillistas in grades 5 to 10 received separate lessons, partly in Spanish and with additional German lessons, until they were then integrated into all subjects in grades 11 and 12 with the children from the kindergarten classes.

The new integration model was introduced in the 2000/2001 school year by resolution of the general teachers' conference because the noticeable decrease in the number of pupils in the cursillo classes had led to an increased number of children in kindergarten (up to 37 children). In this way, elementary school classes of 34 to 37 pupils were created, which in the elementary school were mostly taught in two internal groups (i.e. in a pedagogically desirable group size of 17 to 19 pupils), but which were too large when continued in the Secundaria were in a single class for meaningful teaching. A full continuation in two separate “A-classes”, de facto thus three-movement with such small groups, is firstly not allowed by the funding framework and secondly not feasible due to the level of school fees and the number of rooms available.

In view of the unequal number of pupils in branches a (kindergarten) and c (cursillos), it was decided in 1999/2000 to put the entire number of pupils of a year in one large pot and to form two equally large classes where the knowledge of German was not necessary play a dominant role and the different language levels would make common lessons too difficult. So the classes z. B. 5 ac1 (one half from kindergarten class 5 a and one half from cursillo class 5 c) and 5 ac2.

The integration of the kindergarten children with the cursillistas is based on the principle: Integration as early as possible, separation only as long as necessary. The integration in class 5 begins with the subjects in which a high proportion of practical activities is in the foreground (art, music, sport) as well as the language subjects Spanish, Area Social and English.

In the second level, there is an individual preparation for the subjects in which there is a second language level consisting of formula and symbol language: mathematics, physics (integrated from grade 8) and chemistry (from grade 9).

In the third level there are subjects in which a high proportion of German is essential for progress in the subject: geography, German history, religion and German itself. These subjects are only taught in an integrated manner from year 11 onwards.

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