German School Santa Cruz de Tenerife
| German School Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| type of school | German school abroad |
| founding | 1909 |
| address |
Calle Drago, 1 |
| place | Tabaiba Alta ( El Rosario ) |
| Autonomous community | Canary Islands |
| Country | Spain |
| Coordinates | 28 ° 24 '44 " N , 16 ° 20' 2" W |
| student | about 700 |
| management | Lisa Schneider |
| Website | www.dstenerife.eu |
The German School Santa Cruz de Tenerife (DST) is a recognized German school abroad on Tenerife .
The school is mostly attended by Spanish students; the lessons are largely in German. Attending the school's own German-speaking kindergarten is therefore generally required.
structure
The German School Santa Cruz de Tenerife comprises the following areas:
- Crèche (children from 2 years)
- Kindergarten (children aged 3 to 5 years)
- Primary school (primary level, grades 1–4)
- Orientation level ( secondary level I, grades 5-6)
- Gymnasium and comprehensive school ( secondary level I / II, age group 7-12)
In all sub-areas there is the option of voluntary afternoon care (working groups, homework supervision) in the form of an open all-day school following the scheduled lessons.
With the exception of the kindergarten, the school is financially and personally supported by the Central Agency for Schools Abroad (ZfA). As part of the personal promotion, 12 (including the headmaster) are employed at the school as foreign service teachers (ADLK) who are civil servants and who are on leave from within German school work. The other approximately 45 local teachers (OLK) and educators are direct employees of the school.
degrees
University entrance qualification
According to a resolution of the KMK of May 31, 1990, the school is authorized to carry out the school leaving examination ( Abitur ) for German and Spanish pupils at the end of the twelfth grade. The Abitur obtained after successful completion of the school entitles you to study at a university ( university or technical college ) in the Federal Republic of Germany .
On the basis of Real Decreto 806/1993 of the Kingdom of Spain, the Abitur also entitles you to study at a Spanish university. According to the new regulations for Spanish university entrance ( Pruebas de Acceso a Estudios Universitarios , PAU for short ) in 2010, the Abitur corresponds to the compulsory part ( General Obligatoria phase ). In addition, the school also prepares for the voluntary additional PAU examination ( Fase Específica Voluntaria ) and accepts this at the school itself.
Further degrees
By resolutions of the KMK of January 15, 1982 or 1988, the school is also authorized to award the secondary school leaving certificate (after grade 9) and the secondary school leaving certificate (after grade 10) after passing the relevant examination.
Language certificates from the Goethe Institute
Attached to the school is an examination center of the Goethe-Institut with German language courses for adults and students from 16 years of age, which offers the internal or external acquisition of the various certificates of the Goethe-Institut from A1 to C1 and Test-DaF Goethe Institute in Germany and works with institutions and schools that offer German lessons on the Canary Islands. Cultural events in the field of German culture are also part of the institution's area of activity.
School development
With the establishment of a steering group in which teachers, members of the school management and the board of directors, parents and students are represented, the school began to deliberately deal with the quality development and assurance of teaching, staff and organizational structures as early as 2004. With the publication of a quality framework for German schools abroad in November 2006, pedagogical quality management (PQM) was then made mandatory for all German schools abroad .
After the successful completion of the Federal- State Inspection (BLI) of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) in 2010, the German School Santa Cruz de Tenerife was awarded the seal of approval for Excellent German School Abroad .
history
School establishment
In 1909, a group of German and Swiss families joined forces to found a small private school in Puerto de la Cruz . From 1919 regular schooling took place in the garden house of the then German consul Jakob Ahlers in Santa Cruz. In 1924 the teacher Grähn opened a primary school in the garden house of the Groth family. After more children joined them, they were taught in a German club on Consolación Street. Both schools were merged in 1927. Raymond Matthys took over the management of the school at Numancia 33 in autumn 1928. The building is still unchanged today.
German school association
On November 12, 1932, a German School Association was founded to support the schools. The German School in Puerto de la Cruz, founded in 1933, later belongs to these schools. In addition, a German kindergarten was opened in Santa Cruz.
Own school building
Due to the steadily growing number of students, it was necessary to build a separate, larger building. On October 20, 1935, the building of the German School in Santa Cruz at 17 Enrique Wolfson Street was inaugurated. In the school year 1935/36 the German School had 57 German, 63 Spanish and 11 students from other European countries (Switzerland, Austria, England, Norway, Czechoslovakia). Six teachers taught at the school under the direction of Max Johs. Under pressure from the Allies , the German School in Santa Cruz was closed in 1945 and the building was confiscated. It served as a pledge for values that were lost in the German Empire . The Spanish Instituto Nacional de Enseñanza moved into the rooms. In October 1951 the school reopened. Lessons were given in a makeshift garage until the move to the villa at Rambla 58 in 1954. In the same school year there were already 95 pupils and 74 kindergarten children.
Official recognition
In 1963, the Standing Conference (KMK) officially recognized the school. The Spanish education authorities had previously granted the German School the right to take the Bachillerato exam itself. Finally, in 1966, the school building at 17 Calle Enrique Wolfson was returned to the school association. On the basis of Real Decreto 111 of May 12, 1978, the school association decided in 1978 to restructure the school into an encounter school , with a German school leaving certificate abroad. After lengthy negotiations with the Foreign Office , the first school leaving examination took place in May 1988.
New school building
Due to a lack of space and a lack of sports facilities, the school association, with the support of the German consulate, acquired a new piece of land outside the city of Santa Cruz. The foundation stone for the new school building was laid on January 10, 1997 in Tabaiba Alta, a district of El Rosario . In 1999 the school moved to the current building and was officially inaugurated on March 12, 1999. The former building was sold to the city and has since been home to its Escuela Oficial de Idiomas language school .
See also
Web links
- Website of the German School Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
- Central Office for Schools Abroad (ZfA)
- Examination center of the Goethe Institute Tenerife
Individual evidence
- ↑ school management. In: www.dstenerife.eu. Retrieved April 4, 2020 .
- ^ School chronicle . Website of the German School Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Retrieved August 16, 2012.