Erich Kästner School (Bochum)
| Erich Kästner School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | comprehensive school |
| School number | 164239 |
| founding | 1971 |
| address |
Markstrasse 189 |
| place | Bochum |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '57 " N , 7 ° 14' 35" E |
| carrier | City of Bochum |
| student | about 1300 (as of 2014/15) |
| Teachers | about 120 (as of 2014/15) |
| management | Ludger Jonischeit |
| Website | www.eks-bochum.org |
The Erich Kästner School is a comprehensive school in Bochum .
concept
It was the tenth of 30 public comprehensive schools in North Rhine-Westphalia that were used to test this school concept, which was still controversial in public at the time. At this point in time, the concept of a full-day school and five-day week with daily catering was also innovative in order to be able to better look after students whose parents were both working. Since the 1980s, the school has had a school social service called “Pedagogical-Psychological Service”. In addition to the social pedagogues working here, there was also a school psychologist until 2008. The school's catering is one of the business areas of the Bochum Academic Promotion Agency . Each year (except for the upper level) is housed on its own floor with the intention of strengthening the feeling of togetherness. Two class teachers from each class form a class team. At the beginning of the 2011/2012 school year, the Erich Kästner School set up an integrative working class.
history
It was opened in 1971 as the “comprehensive school in Bochum”. In 1982 it became a regular comprehensive school. The south of Bochum was part of their catchment area, including the districts of Querenburg , Wiemelhausen , Stiepel and Weitmar . At times the school had 2000 students. The number went back to 1200 in 2006. In the summer of 2010, the Erich Kästner School moved into a new school campus consisting of a total of eight individual buildings. The double years 5/6, 7/8, 9/10 and the upper level each have their own buildings after the new building. A new art building was later inaugurated on campus.
Partner schools
Her partner schools are the Tapton School in Sheffield , a twin city of Bochum, and the Collège Marcel Pagnol in Le Havre . Since 2008, the Erich Kästner School has been a Comenius School of the EU with partner schools in Lecco (Italy), Mazamet (France), Rybnik (Poland), Slavkov u Brna (Czech Republic) and Adana (Turkey) as well as the Tapton School in Sheffield (GB ).
Awards
The Erich Kästner School has won the “Good Healthy School” school development award three times since 2008 and has been part of the School without Racism - School with Courage network since 2009 . In 2012 the school was awarded the German School Prize .
PCB pollution
The old school building is contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB). In December 2006 the city of Bochum decided on a new building for a planned cost of 21 million euros based on a design by the Rheinpark architects from Cologne. The new school opened at the beginning of the 2010/2011 school year. The new Bochum grammar school was (temporarily) housed in the old school building.
Well-known former students
- Sarah Knappik , (Abitur 2005) reality TV actress and model
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German School Prize: Prize Winners 2012 , accessed on January 23, 2016