Evangelical School Köpenick

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Evangelical School Köpenick - grammar school
School building seen from the street
type of school high school
founding 2005
address

Green Trift 169
12557 Berlin

place Berlin-Köpenick ,
location Wendenschloss
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 25 '24 "  N , 13 ° 35' 33"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 25 '24 "  N , 13 ° 35' 33"  E
carrier School foundation of the EKBO
student 593 (2017/2018)
Teachers 061 (2018/2019)
management Michael Tiedje (since 2017)
Website www.ev-schule-koepenick.de

The Evangelical School Koepenick (Gymnasium) (ESK) is a non-denominational supported school in Berlin Wendenschloss in the district of Koepenick in the southeast of Berlin . The school is run by the School Foundation of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Schlesische Oberlausitz (EKBO). The musical and artistic school was founded in 2005 as a result of a parents' initiative.

history

The first year after it was founded, the school used a part of the building in the Köpenzeile in Wendenschloss next to the local Montessori school . In 2006 the school moved to the building in the Grünen Trift, which had previously been used by the Linus Pauling Oberschule . This merged with the Nelly-Sachs-Oberschule to the Emmy-Noether-Oberschule (now Emmy-Noether-Gymnasium ) and moved to their location (Pablo-Neruda-Straße 6/7). So the Protestant school was able to move into the now vacant building.

In 2011 the school joined the network School without Racism - School with Courage . In 2013, 2015 and 2017 the educational institution was awarded the title Fair School by the Berlin Association for Development Education and Information Center . In 2017 it also became the Berlin Climate School.

After a teacher was fired on probation at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in autumn 2016 because he was supposed to have supported Bärgida demonstrations and was close to the identities , there was a similar case at the Evangelical School in Köpenick in the 2017/18 school year:
a trainee lawyer was up Clearly recognizable photos at events of the identities . However, he was able to continue his classes here after assuring the faculty at a hearing that he “had nothing to do with the right-wing scene”. In the school year 2018/2019, an initiative of parents, teachers and students was founded at the school to deal with right-wing extremism in society and to organize measures to contain it.

building

The building complex on the green pasture corresponds according to the DDR - type school building of the earliest Baukategorie Schulverbundbau and was accordingly between 1953 and 1963. The main building consists of three floors and a basement. The gymnasium is accessed through the single-storey northern side wing, in which the art rooms are located. The canteen and a cafeteria are located below the gym, but in contrast to the gym, they can only be reached via the courtyard. The southern single-storey wing contains a small library and a computer cabinet . It connects the main building with a two-storey extension that houses a large computer room and the specialist rooms for music and performing games. The classrooms are mainly located on the ground floor of the main building. On the first floor, half of the building is equipped with teachers' rooms and offices, the other half has additional classrooms and a prayer room. The second floor is reserved exclusively for the natural science subject rooms. Until 2016 there was also a language laboratory and a lecture hall .

The use of the building and the school premises is regulated by a heritable building right contract. So far there has not yet been an agreement with the Treptow-Köpenick district on possible structural extensions to the existing building. For the 2012/2013 school year, containers containing four classrooms were set up in the northern part of the schoolyard . In 2014, more containers with six additional rooms followed in front of the school building.

School grounds

The school's playground is located behind the school building and is divided into Courtyard I and Courtyard II (sometimes also called the north courtyard , mostly called the backyard by students ). In the first few years courtyard II was closed because the school did not have enough supervisory staff and there was enough space in courtyard I for the still growing number of students. Courtyard II was accordingly rather overgrown and was only opened in 2010 with the plan to build a sports courtyard , i.e. the use of the north courtyard for sports and other purposes. a. with tartan track , prepared. However, the sports farm project has only been partially implemented by 2018: a beach volleyball and a soccer field were financed with the help of a charity run, but the track still consists of bark mulch only temporarily . Various projects and project weeks that dealt with the redesign of the school yard also led to creative results, but due to the lack of funding, these were only implemented in small steps; For example, a pond and a school garden with beds for small-scale planting were created, especially for teaching purposes.

In front of the school building there is a large bicycle parking space and a driveway, which is framed by a large meadow and trees. This part of the courtyard was also given a more handsome appearance during the court actions.

A curiosity on the school premises was a decommissioned BVG double-decker bus of the type MAN ND 202 , which was parked in courtyard I between 2010 and 2014 and was intended to offer upper-level students the opportunity to have a retreat from younger students. After four years and the interim opening to 10th grade students, however, the inside of the bus was increasingly demolished and the outside was also damaged with graffiti , fireworks and stone throwing during the Christmas holidays 2013/2014, probably over New Year's Eve . In the course of 2014, the bus was classified as a total write-off and subsequently removed from the school premises.

organization

From the 5th grade onwards, interested students can apply to the Evangelische Schule Köpenick with the help of their parents, up to 60 students per year are accepted. A maximum of 30 students are added to the 7th grade and the classes are reshuffled. French and Spanish are offered as foreign languages. In addition, Latin can be chosen from year 8 onwards. In the 9th grade, one-week student exchanges with partner schools in Cannes , Pamplona and Equador take place to deepen language skills and to get to know other cultures . A relatively large number of new students come to the ESK every year for the upper secondary school . Parents have to pay school fees for their children at the school according to their income . The school is one of only two non-state high schools in the Treptow-Köpenick district .

Sports

basketball

The ESK basketball team, the ESK Baskets, has existed since the 2017/2018 school year. In its first season it took part in the ALBA high school league and won the 3rd Masters tournament.

Personalities

  • Ingrid Haack-Seelemann, built the school since it was founded in 2005 and ran it until 2017
  • Hans-Georg Müller , German and history teacher since 2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New headmaster at the Evangelisches Gymnasium Köpenick , announcement from the Evangelical School Foundation in the EKBO dated September 11, 2017.
  2. ^ School without Racism - School with Courage on the website of the Evangelical School Köpenick.
  3. ↑ Alke Wierth: Simply a fair school . In: taz from June 14, 2013.
  4. ↑ Faire school - what is it , accessed on October 15, 2018.
  5. ↑ Evangelical School Köpenick . In: Fair School . ( faire-schule.eu [accessed on October 19, 2018]).
  6. ↑ A Berlin elite school is cleaning up . In: taz of November 7, 2016.
  7. ↑ Martin Niewendick: Right teachers: How a school loses . on salonkommunisten.com from February 14, 2018.
  8. ↑ Michael Tiedje: Democracy Education at the ESK , communication from the school of August 22, 2018.
  9. ^ Evangelical School Koepenick. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .
  10. ^ Evangelical School Koepenick. Retrieved October 12, 2018 . .
  11. ↑ Student exchange with the Stanislas Institute , for student exchange with the partner school in Cannes , accessed on October 19, 2018.
  12. ↑ Off to Spain . For student exchange with the partner school in Pamplona ; accessed on October 19, 2018.
  13. ^ Farewell to Ms. Haack-Seelemann , message from the Evangelical School Foundation in the EKBO of July 16, 2017