Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School
| Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School | |
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| type of school | comprehensive school |
| School number | 191401 |
| founding | 1991 |
| address |
Hindenburgallee 50 |
| place | Bonn |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 41 '44 " N , 7 ° 8' 52" E |
| carrier | City of Bonn |
| student | 1120 (as of: school year 2010/2011) |
| management | Dorothee Seifert |
| Website | www.igs-bonn.de |
The Elisabeth-Selbert-Gesamtschule ( comprehensive school Bonn-Bad Godesberg until September 2011 ) is a school of the city of Bonn . 1120 students attended school in the 2010/2011 school year. At the school, all degrees of secondary level I ( secondary school leaving certificate and technical college entrance qualification ) and upper secondary level II ( high school diploma ) can be obtained.
School profile
Learn together
The Elisabeth-Selbert-Gesamtschule was founded in 1991 and, after a two-year stay in an empty school building in Bonn-Röttgen in Bad Godesberg, moved into the school building in Hindenburgallee, where the Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium had previously been located.
After primary school , every student can attend comprehensive school. It is one of the schools in Germany that enables children and young people to learn together up to the 10th grade. She has been in four classes since the school was founded. According to a decision of the Bonn City Council in December 2005, the school has had six classes since the 2006/2007 school year.
The Godesberg School is an all-day school . On Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays (and on Fridays the upper secondary level) the students have lessons until the afternoon. Students can have lunch in the school's own cafeteria . The canteen serves as a cafeteria during the breaks between classes.
Integration school
The Elisabeth-Selbert-Gesamtschule is one of the German integration schools in secondary level I. Every year in the fifth year of school children with a handicap are admitted to classes in which they can receive special support. In addition to the "classic" subject teacher, a special education teacher also teaches in this class .
In autumn 2005, an elevator was inaugurated that enables wheelchair students to reach classrooms and subject rooms on the first and second floors of the school building without barriers . A citizens' motion was required, initiated by parents, to get the council to use the financial means for building the elevator in the city budget .
Foreign language teaching
In addition to the compulsory English lessons from year 5 onwards, students have the opportunity to learn French , Latin and Spanish . You can choose French as a foreign language in the 6th and again in the 8th school year, Latin in the 8th and Spanish in the 11th school year.
School lessons every 60 minutes
Since the 2001/2002 school year, lessons at the Godesberg School have been held every 60 minutes. Through this rhythmization , we “hope”, according to the school in its self-portrayal, “more calm in everyday school life, better rhythmization of the whole day, fewer planning units, more opportunity for independent learning, more time for exercise offers in the subjects as well as innovative, more efficient, action-oriented use of methods. "
Teacher room principle instead of class room principle
According to a decision by the teachers' conference, the classroom principle is to be replaced by the teacher room principle at the Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School from the 2013/2014 school year. With this change, the staff hopes for a more pleasant situation in the classrooms and a promotion of the teachers' health. The school conference is to vote on this change in the school program after a trial year.
Three-year advanced level
At the Elisabeth-Selbert-Gesamtschule, a career in the upper secondary school usually lasts three years and ends with the general university entrance qualification . The school decided against the Abitur after twelve years .
Furnishing
Spaces
The school has a number of rooms that are available for special teaching purposes or for the leisure activities of the students. This includes computer and technical rooms, the music department, a school library and an auditorium that can accommodate around 800 people. Music and theater performances and meetings of the school community take place here. The auditorium is also used by neighboring schools and the city as a venue for theater and concerts.
sports ground
The school grounds include a sports field that had a contaminated surface when the school moved into the Godesberg building in 1994. After nothing was done by the city to remove the pollutants , several hundred schoolchildren demonstrated in October 1999 for the redevelopment of the square. They achieved partial success. Half of the area was repaired and has since been used as a sports field again. The other half could still not be used by the students because of the toxic surface. In November 2007, construction work began in this area to build a new gymnasium, which was completed in autumn 2009. There are three basketball courts and handball goals in front of the gym.
school activities
Participation in competitions
Pupils from the Godesberg School take part in the following regular competitions:
- Reading competition of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - 6th grade students
- Kangaroo of Mathematics - students of all grades from 5th to 10th grade
- Youth debates - pupils in grades 8-10 and 11-13.
- Bonn Marathon - mixed relays (6 runners including 2 runners), the total age of which must not exceed 89 years
- Mathematics A-Lympiad - students in grades 11–13
School orchestra
The Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School has its own in-house music school with a focus on wind instruments , strings and big band , which has given well over 800 children thorough instrumental experience since 1998. About a dozen instrument teachers currently teach in the orchestra house. In order to make it easier for the parents of the orchestra's children to finance their musical education, the orchestra sponsors have purchased well over 500 instruments and amplifiers, which can be borrowed for a small monthly fee.
Currently there are the 5th and 6th year training groups (approx. 35 wind instruments and strings each), the lower level orchestra, the intermediate level big band, the upper level big band "Brassrock", a saxophone group and the jazz group "Brassjazz" . In addition, colleagues take care of the lower and upper school choirs and there is a teachers 'band and a teachers' choir. The instrumental teachers include professional musicians with regional and international experience. A further expansion of the music department is aimed at.
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Around 50 performances by all school ensembles take place every year: at Christmas markets, city festivals, concerts or school festivals inside and outside the school and the city. There are close networks or sponsorships with other orchestras, music schools , institutions such as the Beethovenfest , independent organizations, other schools and church communities. From the fees of the annual performances, considerable amounts flow into the purchase of instruments and thus into the continuation of the orchestra work. Since the school was expanded, the orchestra department has had a large rehearsal room (the old library), additional practice and classrooms for instrumental lessons and rehearsals in the orchestra house and an office that has an additional full-time position - since 2008, a full-time employee has been employed every year ( Federal volunteer) their FSJ culture in the orchestra.
The head of the department is the Bonn music teacher Martin Schlu. (Jan. 2018)
Projects with theater and opera
Since October 23, 2006 around 110 pupils from four Bonn schools, including pupils from the Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School, have been rehearsing Carl Orff's “ Carmina Burana ” as a dance theater. As part of regular school lessons and under the guidance of professional choreographers and dance teachers, age-appropriate choreographies were developed and extensively rehearsed for young dancers from grades 6 and 8. In May 2007 the ensembles were brought together and worked together towards the crowning glory: a performance on the stage of the Bonn Opera House on June 20, 2007, musically accompanied by the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn , the Philharmonic Choir of the City of Bonn, and the children's choir of the Lukas Church in Bonn as well as by Sigrún Pálmadóttir from the Bonn opera ensemble. The Carmina Burana project was inspired by the work of the education projects that the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir Simon Rattle has been carrying out with students in Berlin schools since 2003.
After the project "100 Bonn Schoolchildren Dancing the Carmina Burana" followed - this time for schoolchildren in class 6d - the study of Ludwig van Beethoven . Together with three classes from other Bonn schools, they have been working on a dramatic choreography for his music since 2008 . The basis was a shortened and edited version of the "Liberation Opera" Leonore / Fidelio, which was premiered in 1805 . After four months of movement training and dance rehearsals in regular school lessons, after studying Beethoven's work and music, after visiting choir and orchestra rehearsals, the students showed the results of their work in a public performance with professional musical support on May 30, 2009 and on June 17, 2009 in the opera.
School newspaper
The printed school newspaper “Die Else” has been on sale since March 4, 2013. Previously, articles were only published online on the website. Since then, the newspaper has appeared every six months.
Exchange programs
The Bad Godesberg Comprehensive School has been conducting student exchanges with French schools for several years. Since 2010 there has been an exchange with the “Collège Roland Dorgelès” in Paris .
In December 2006, the teachers' conference decided on further exchange programs: with a private high school in Kiev ( Ukraine ) and a high school in Schio, Italy . A first exchange with Schio took place in spring 2006.
Awards
"School without Racism"
Since November 5, 2001, the Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School has had the title “ School without Racism - School with Courage ”. The school sponsor is the cabaret artist Volker Pispers .
Agenda 21 in school
Since 2005, the Bad Godesberg comprehensive school has received several awards for “ Agenda 21 in Schools” and “School of the Future”.
"Seal of Approval Individual Support"
On February 3rd, 2007, 22 schools from North Rhine-Westphalia were awarded the “Individual Support Seal of Approval” by Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers and School Minister Barbara Sommer at the first educational symposium in Essen. The Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School is one of them. The laudation says that it shows impressively “in what way the framework conditions of teaching can be changed for sustainable individual support. Aspects of this change that should be emphasized are an improved rhythm of teaching, more space for individual learning pace and for forms of independent learning. Furthermore, a successful transition management in cooperation with the elementary school as well as a comprehensive concept for career preparation and career choice orientation are practiced. The promotion of basic learning and language skills in the orientation level, continuous and effective promotion of students with learning and performance difficulties, support programs to improve learning motivation as well as strengthening of teacher competences in diagnostics and support for students are further focal points of the support practice " .
Special “Life and Environment” prize from the German Federal Environment Foundation
With the project "KOFAR - The exhaust gas cleaning project" ("Pizza oven"), class 10b won two prizes: the bronze medal at the international inventors' fair in Nuremberg in 2006 and the special "Life and Environment" prize from the German Federal Environment Foundation (DBU ) in the 2007 school competition “Schule macht Zukunft” organized by Focus magazine .
School names
Since the school was founded, there have been several attempts to give it a name. In 2005, when the school was called Gesamtschule Bonn-Bad Godesberg, students in an upper school project initiated a discussion about the school name. They named the names of three people who could be named: Marie Kahle , Lothar von Faber and Salo Cahn, son of Jewish parents from Bad Godesberg, who disappeared at the age of four after being deported by the Nazis . After the school received a new director in 2010, there was a new initiative. Names suggested by teachers included Johanna Kinkel , Elisabeth Selbert, and Petra Kelly ; students suggested Joseph Fassbender .
On July 7, 2011, the school conference decided to name the school after Elisabeth Selbert.
Building history
"Most modern school in North Rhine-Westphalia"
When the foundation stone was laid in 1951, the building into which the newly founded Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium (NCG) moved was praised as the “most modern school in North Rhine-Westphalia”. It was built in four construction phases according to a design by the architects Kron and Hitz, Kleefisch and Leyersweck.
When the foundation stone was laid, a certificate was walled into the building. It says in the introduction: “On June 18, 1951 - during the term of office of the Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany Professor Dr. Theodor Heuss , the Federal Chancellor Dr. Konrad Adenauer - in the presence of the Minister of Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia Ms. Christine Teusch , in the presence of the Lord Mayor of Bonn Dr. Peter Stockhausen, […] this foundation stone was laid by the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Karl Arnold . ” Prominent visitors at the laying of the foundation stone indicate the great importance of the new building. In addition to the German sponsors of the school building, it was the USA, represented by the High Commissioner , who made a significant financial contribution. A board in the entrance area to the large schoolyard still bears witness to this today.
By the end of 1952, the class wing on Hindenburgallee and the administration wing had been completed. In 1953/54 the scientific rooms, the art rooms and the "old" gymnasium were handed over to their intended purpose. The sports field was inaugurated in 1955. From the summer of 1956 to the autumn of 1958, the auditorium and the rooms for music lessons were built, so that the entire facility was finally available in 1958. "The building is," says the former head of the NCG, Helmut Breier, "in accordance with the founders' educational ideas, deliberately spacious, with wide corridors and large atriums, with open stairwells, large windows and with a remarkable artistic design."
Coincidentia oppositorum
The lead-glazed window in the stairwell by Gerhard Neumann and the wall designed by Joseph Fassbender in the foyer testify to the artistic design . The Cologne artist called this work “ Coincidentia oppositorum ” - “ Coincidence of opposites”. Fassbender gave shape to this philosophical idea of Nicolaus Cusanus and this idea was to express the concept of the school. The new school was the first coeducational high school in Bonn. Boys and girls were supposed to learn together here, “refugee children” from the former GDR and the lost eastern territories sat next to the children of politicians and diplomats, German children next to children from (temporarily) forty nations. The wall designed by Joseph Fassbender extends over two floors. Today only the part in the school foyer can be visited. The part of the wall that is on the first floor of the building has been obscured by renovations for several years.
Expansion of the school
The first expansion of the building took place in 1973 with the construction of an additional gym. At the end of the 1970s, a new three-story building wing was built on Gotenstrasse, which is connected to the old building by a two-story " Bridge of Sighs ". The increased number of students was an important reason for this. Originally planned as a two-class high school, space should now be created for three trains.
After the comprehensive school moved into the building in 1993 and the building was also adapted to the requirements of an all-day school with the construction of a cafeteria, the city council decided in December 2005 that the school would be in the lower secondary level from the 2006/2007 school year (classes 5–10) should be 6-speed. The background to this decision is the fact that for several years several hundred children have not been given a place at one of the three municipal comprehensive schools in Bonn and have to be turned away. The decision does not include an extension of the upper secondary level.
The Council decision was taken despite numerous unanswered questions. At the time of the decision, the city only had ideas for the further expansion of the building, but no planning. Among other things, it was unclear where new buildings for classrooms and specialist rooms should be installed.
In August 2006, the Bonn architect Karl-Heinz Schommer presented a plan for the expansion. In doing so, he refrained from adding and building on existing parts of the building. Instead, the previous art / technology wing and the old gymnasium were torn down and a new three-story oval building with 18 classrooms, two differentiation rooms, art rooms, a self-study center including a library and student workstations and a cafeteria was built in its place. A new gymnasium with three units was built on the non-renovated part of the sports field.
The cafeteria was not expanded, although after the expansion it was used by many more students than originally planned. Instead, the rooms above the cafeteria were connected to the cafeteria area via a newly built staircase and used.
The teachers' conference and the full student assembly opposed the plan to expand the Bad Godesberg school with an overwhelming majority. Only a small majority of the parenting staff was able to gain positive feedback from the decision. The school conference approved the expansion on September 11, 2006. At its meeting on December 14, 2006, the City Council of Bonn decided on the construction work in connection with the expansion of the school. At the same meeting, the council also gave the green light to the modernization of the natural science department in 2009 for 2,500,000 euros. Overall, the expansion, which should be completed in 2009, is estimated by the city at 9.6 million euros.
Demolition and construction began in April 2007. In October 2008, the first rooms in the new building were completed and have been in use ever since. The inauguration of the new gym took place in November 2009.
Known students
- Johannes B. Kerner , TV presenter and sports journalist (at the time of the NCG)
- Gerd J. Pohl , puppeteer, actor, theater manager (at the time of the NCG)
- Dominik Bahiense de Mello , basketball player
- Sarah Bauerett , actress
literature
- Arnold Maurer (among others): "20 years of comprehensive school Bonn-Bad Godesberg", Bonn 2011
Web links
- Website of the Elisabeth Selbert Comprehensive School
- Orchestra of the comprehensive school Bonn-Bad Godesberg
- Orchestra's YouTube channel
- Big band brass rock
- Friends of the Elisabeth-Selbert-Gesamtschule eV
- Laying of the foundation stone for Bonn's currently largest new school building project
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- ↑ http://igs-bonn.de/wordpress/?tag=schulerzeitung
- ↑ Homepage of the "Collège Roland Dorgelès" ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ KOFAR - The exhaust gas cleaning project
- ↑ Bonner Rundschau, June 19, 1951
- ↑ Helmut Breier: Nicolaus-Cusanus-Gymnasium - high school in a special form
- ↑ Oldenburgisches Staatstheater: Sarah Bauerett ( Memento from March 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
