Free Christian School East Friesland
| Free Christian School East Friesland (FCSO) | |
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| type of school | Integrated comprehensive school with primary level and upper secondary level |
| founding | 1987 |
| place | Moormerland |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 17 '21 " N , 7 ° 29' 36" E |
| carrier | Association for Protestant School Education in Ostfriesland eV (VES) |
| student | 1266 (July 4, 2015) |
| Teachers | 106 (July 4, 2015) |
| management | Christian Hunsmann |
| Website | www.fcso.de |
The Free Christian School Ostfriesland (FCSO) is the largest independent general education school in Lower Saxony with 1290 students, along with the Leoninum grammar school . As an integrated comprehensive school with primary and secondary levels, it is one of the few general education schools that enable its students to attend from school to high school. The FCSO offers all-day care for primary school students and a voluntary additional afternoon program for secondary school students. Any school leaving certificate can be obtained. Students from all over East Frisia belong to the student body; The majority, however, comes from the district of Leer .
The school started operations on August 6, 1987 with two teachers and 26 elementary students. The Free Christian School Ostfriesland was at this time the nationwide eighth founded Protestant denominational school . Since August 2013 the school has been fully developed with a five-course lower secondary level as well as a three-course primary level and upper secondary level II. The school authority is a non-profit association, the Association for Protestant School Education in East Friesland (VES) .
The school moved to its current location in August 1990, a former hardware store in the village of Veenhusen in the municipality of Moormerland in the district of Leer. Since 2001, the primary level classes (285 students) have been housed in a branch about 800 meters away from the main site. The primary level of the FCSO is one of the largest primary schools in the district of Leer.
The school is a member of the Primary School Association and of the Lower Saxony Free Schools Working Group . In addition, since 2009 she has been conducting regular youth exchanges with students from the Israeli ORT High School Binyamina in cooperation with the German-Israeli Society . She also maintains a diaconal partnership with the English Medium Mission School Raxaul on the Indian-Nepalese border.
history
The relatively young history of the VES and the FCSO can be reconstructed from the complete inventory of files that has been created and continued since the school was founded.
Founding history
On January 16, 1985, 18 men and women from various Protestant parishes and communities in East Frisia came together to decide to found the Association for Protestant School Education in East Frisia (VES). At this meeting in the chimney room of the Evangelical Education Center Ostfriesland-Potshausen , Werner Trauernicht from Wiesmoor was elected provisional 1st chairman of the association. He held this office until the summer of 2010. On October 23, 1985, in the presence of the notary from Leer, Manfred Radtke, the association's statutes were signed in Spetzerfehn . The VES set itself the goal of setting up the Free Christian School Ostfriesland soon : “The educational goal of the school is to promote the whole person's abilities and skills. In our school, the child should be grasped as a whole, that is, as a creature of God that was created for his Creator. "
On July 21, 1987, the association received official approval to operate a primary school. Lessons began on August 6, 1987 with Joachim Heffter as headmaster and Edzard Günther as second teacher in the rooms of the Evangelical Free Congregation Emmanuel on the connecting path in Leer . A first and a second class were accommodated here in the church service hall, which was repeatedly rearranged during the week for school operations. A year later, the mission organization " Hope for All" provided classrooms for the third and fourth grade in the vicinity of the location on the connecting path. Until 2008, public sports halls in the area had to be used for physical education.
In 1990 the young school initiative ran into serious difficulties. First, the school association bought a former hardware store on Birkhahnweg in Moormerland and converted it into a school building. Around DM 1.7 million were spent on this. The then Weser-Ems district government also officially awarded the FCSO the “status of a recognized substitute school”. Then, however, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education rejected the application for approval of an orientation level on the last day of the summer vacation . 35 registered future fifth graders had to find accommodation in other public schools within one day. Soon afterwards, the school association received notification that the state financial aid that was actually due after the three-year foundation phase would also not be paid. The ministry was unable to identify any particular pedagogical character in the then FCSO elementary school.
After direct discussions with the then Minister of Education, Rolf Wernstedt, and the SPD chairman Johann Bruns , the VES changed the form of the FCSO. The FCSO has now become an integrated comprehensive school with primary level. Now, in 1991, the ministry was able to retrospectively approve both the grant and the establishment of lower secondary education . This started at the FCSO in August 1991 with the 5th grade. In 1996 it was recognized as a world view school, in 1997 the approval of the upper secondary level and in 2000 the first acceptance of the Abitur with 10 candidates. In 2004, the school submitted an application for approval as an all-day school , which was approved in December 2005.
In July 1998, the VES hired Kurt Plagge, a banking economist, as its first full-time administrative manager. Joachim Heffter remained the headmaster of the FCSO until he retired in June 2010. At the end of his service life , 1185 students were already attending the school.
On March 16, 2002, after a long period of guest membership, the FCSO was accepted as a full member of the Association of Protestant Confession Schools (AEBS). However, the AEBS disbanded in 2006 to give space to the newly founded Association of Evangelical Confession Schools (VEBS). However, the FCSO no longer joined this successor organization for practical and content-related reasons.
Debate about founding a school
Especially in the first half of 1987, the year the school was founded, there was an intense and controversial debate about the planned establishment of the FCSO in the East Frisian newspaper. Bernhard Fokken started on December 30, 1986 with a critical comment in the Ostfriesen-Zeitung (OZ). This was followed by a flood of letters to the editor, especially in the Ostfriesenzeitung, from both supporters and critics of the school project.
The regional churches soon also kept their distance from the school. The arguments were weighed in the Evangelical newspaper for the churches in Lower Saxony . The district assembly of the ev.-luth. The Aurich church district passed a resolution in April 1987 against the planned establishment of a school.
Critics of the school initiative were particularly against the view of the school founders that Christian values and Christian ideas were neglected in normal school lessons and that the curricula for general education schools at that time were largely shaped by the Frankfurt School . Religious educators saw the danger of a narrowing of the Christian faith. Other contemporaries expressed concern that anti-science and sectarian pedagogy and methodology would be the order of the day at the FCSO.
The VES stayed out of the newspaper discussion. After the start of classes in the summer, the public discussion about the alleged spiritual orientation subsided and finally came to an end when the council of the Moormerland community created the legal requirements for the school to move from Leer to Veenhusen in 1989. Even then, the future mayor of Moormerland Anton Lücht campaigned as councilor for the Free Christian School in East Frisia.
Building history
The rapidly growing number of pupils forced the VES, as the school authority, to carry out ongoing construction work and extensions from the very beginning. The financing must normally be provided without additional support from the public sector . The architect Georg Tjards designed all of the new FCSO buildings that were built between 1990 and 2011.
After moving into the converted hardware store building on Birkhahnweg in Moormerland-Veenhusen, an auxiliary building was constructed in September 1993, in which five more classrooms were set up. Later this outbuilding was to be prepared as a small gymnastics hall for physical education classes, according to the plans at the time. But that never happened. Construction costs : around 0.4 million DM. In the 2014/2015 school year, this building was converted into a “House of Music”. In this there are two classrooms, each with a piano. There is also a large orchestra room with a grand piano and various other instruments. There are also small adjoining rooms in which individual lessons can be given for a group of instruments.
In 1995 a first extensive extension to the main building was completed, the so-called "Sek-I-Trakt". To the south of the main building, 13 classrooms and two specialist rooms were created. Construction costs: around 3.7 million DM.
In 1998 the VES built another large extension parallel to the Sek-I wing, which gave the main building its characteristic narrow U-shape. In this so-called "Sek-II-Trakt" there was space for a further eleven classrooms as well as five scientific subject and collection rooms. Construction costs: around DM 3.0 million.
In 2001, the pupils and teachers at the primary level moved into a newly built branch on the main street in Moormerland-Veenhusen. The building is around 800 meters from the main site and was designed from the start as a three-class elementary school. The craftsmen and cleaning staff worked in the new building until the evening before the first day of school on August 9, 2001 . The spacious foyer of this new “primary school” remained the largest assembly room of the FCSO until 2008, and it was also used for many secondary school activities. Construction costs: around DM 3.5 million.
In December 2005, the VES received a commitment for 3.127 million euros in public funds from the investment program Future Education and Care . With this money , the VES built a break hall and a cafeteria on the Sek-II wing in the following years . A computer room, a new lounge for secondary school students, a spacious library and a meeting room were built above the cafeteria . In addition, the school authorities built a triple gymnasium with an attached stage wing and a music hall on the southern edge of the school premises. To do this, a neighboring pasture had to be bought. On June 15, 2008, the three new buildings were inaugurated. The built-up area had now almost doubled. Construction costs: around 3.5 million euros.
In 2010, with the help of public grants from the economic stimulus package II , the school association acquired the neighboring property to the west at Königsmoorstrasse 11 with the “Spatzennest” kindergarten from the social welfare organization of the Evangelical Free Church in Veenhusen . On the other hand, the house , printing works and premises of the newspaper Moormerland Anzeiger passed into the hands of the VES. Until then, the Moormerland Anzeiger had been printed in the immediate vicinity of the school, at Königsmoorstrasse 3. While the FCSO was able to set up a central "teacher center" in the former kindergarten in 2011, the print shop is currently used as a school warehouse and the associated residential building is rented out.
In July 2012, the VES acquired the maize field (1.3 ha) south of the primary school building on the main road. Here are parking spaces and a playground expansion arise.
On September 11, 2014 around 145 fifth graders were able to move into a newly built “south wing”. In the low-rise building, six classrooms and two differentiation rooms are grouped around the entrance foyer. If necessary, two of the classrooms and a group room can be connected to form a large examination room, which the school mainly uses for large high school exams. The VES invested around 1.1 million euros in the new classrooms.
On May 4, 2015, the school authority opened the so-called "Musikhaus". The music house was the result of a complete renovation and an extension of the old "replacement building". Modern sound insulation was installed at great expense. Since then, a high, spacious orchestra room as well as several practice cells, a keyboard room and another music hall have been available for school music in the music house.
financing
Around 75% of the school is financed from state financial aid , which is paid directly by the Ministry of Education in Hanover . With this state financial aid, the state of Lower Saxony spends significantly less per FCSO pupil than it does for pupils in public schools. The remaining costs are covered by a staggered school fee (120 euros per month for the first child in each family) and by donations. Friends and sponsors sometimes support larger construction projects with interest-free loans . In 2008, the VES founded the FCSO Foundation Moormerland with the purpose of "promoting the work of the Free Christian School Ostfriesland (FCSO) and providing financial support to those in need in meeting the costs of attending school". There are no officials at the school ; all teachers and other employees are employees of the school association. They are paid in accordance with the collective agreement for the civil service of the federal states (TV-L).
Current development
In August 2010 Christian Hunsmann took over the management of the school. In addition to him, the school management also includes the head of the upper secondary level, the head of the lower secondary level, the head of the primary level and the coordinator. Little by little, additional functions typical of the whole school were created so that the FCSO, as an integrated comprehensive school, can further expand and develop its work and offerings. The FCSO meanwhile has a permanent place in the East Frisian school landscape.
As a privately owned school, the FCSO does not have a school district. “It is basically open to all pupils whose legal guardians agree to the goals and the educational concept. This applies regardless of the religious, ideological or political beliefs of the legal guardians or their children. ”For parents who cannot pay the school fees, a reduction is possible on request.
In recent years the FCSO has successfully participated in a number of regional competitions. The school has always been the first or second winner with selected teams at school football tournaments (district championships, multi-cup). In addition, six short films by FCSO students were awarded prizes in the regional selection of the school short film competition Lower Saxony film clapper. In 2012, the school won this competition with the film This is how school is fun! also in the Lower Saxony-wide elimination. In 2019, the student film "outside" was awarded a Golden Clip at the international short film competition "Rec for Kids" in Berlin. School teams have also regularly won various running competitions ( Ossiloop , Vull Wat Manns Loop , City Run, etc.).
The FCSO also had to deal with the new IGS decree from 2010, which also provided for the Abitur exams at the end of the 12th grade for the comprehensive schools in Lower Saxony. The problem arose for the comprehensive schools that on the one hand they had to offer at least 13 additional hours per week for their future high school graduates by the end of the tenth grade. On the other hand, the system should remain permeable: strong students and weak students should continue to study together and commit to graduation as late as possible.
In the spring of 2013, the newly elected Lower Saxony state government under Prime Minister Stephan Weil and Minister of Education Frauke Heiligenstadt ordered the immediate and binding return of all comprehensive schools in the state to an Abitur at the end of the 13th grade. For the FCSO, too, many school organizational problems were eliminated in one fell swoop.
A differentiation on three subject levels (G, E, Z) in the subjects math and English (school years 7 to 10) as well as in the subjects natural sciences and German (school years 8 to 10) is also one of the special features of the FCSO. Most of the other Integrated Comprehensive Schools are limited to two specialist levels and sometimes only differentiate in higher grades.
Since 2010, the college has dealt intensively with internal differentiation and internal differentiation . Especially the theses of the pedagogue Heinz Klippert , the brain researcher Manfred Spitzer , the former Lower Saxony Minister of Justice Christian Pfeiffer and the school advisor Michael Wildt were the subject of school discussions and trials. In the 2012/2013 school year, twenty teachers from lower secondary level tried to put Michael Wildt's basic idea, indirect control of teaching , into practice in a “trial group” .
In the 2013/2014 school year, the school authority installed "professional learning communities" (Martin Bonsen) within the college with the aim of further developing and implementing a differentiation within the subjects of German and mathematics with the help of work plans. These professional learning communities met once a week in the school mornings for a discussion and also for mutual class observation.
In 2018 the FCSO hit the headlines as it took the whole school on a trip to Rome . A similar undertaking is planned for 2023 with a trip to Tuscany .
Educational work
music
Music lessons at the FCSO are practice-oriented. The fifth graders have the opportunity to register for a special wind class .
In the music lessons of the wind classes, the students learn a wind instrument. Together they form a symphonic wind orchestra with flutes , clarinets , saxophones , trumpets , trombones and euphonies . Prior knowledge is not required and the instruments are provided by the school. The students also receive one hour of instrumental lessons per week from a special instrumental teacher. The wind class students play music together for three years.
In the other fifth grades, the children learn to play the recorder in music lessons . Here not only the soprano flute is used, but also the alto, tenor and bass flutes. The flute class concept runs for at least two years.
In addition, some classes have a special focus on singing. The students work on all essential musical fields of study by singing suitable choral literature. In order to support the children individually, they receive voice training lessons at regular intervals. Due to the change in voice among the boys, the choir class concept is only intended for two years. Afterwards the students can join the school choir, the Schola Cantorum Frisiensis .
For students who have learned an instrument in the wind class or who already play an instrument, there is the possibility of participating in a big band. In the big band, the students learn not only the practical parts but also theoretical basics, so that they can be temporarily exempted from regular music lessons.
For some years now, through a cooperation with the Leer Music School, it has been possible to take professional instrumental lessons in the FCSO's rooms. This offer is not only aimed at the students of the FCSO, but also at all music enthusiasts in Moormerland and the surrounding area.
Theater and play
In the first half of the fourth year, all fourth graders practice a major Biblical musical together , which is then performed in winter. For this purpose, a so-called music project hour (MuP) is anchored in the timetable by the school . In the music project , students assign themselves to different teams and take on stage decoration, acting, technology or choir singing.
- 2003: Josef, a really cool dreamer from Ruthild Wilson and Helmut Jost
- 2003: A strange night from Hella Heizmann and Gertrud Schmalenbach
- 2005: The murder of King Eglon and 5 more scenes by Konrad Straub
- 2006: Exodus by Markus Hottiger
- 2006: A strange night by Hella Heizmann and Gertrud Schmalenbach
- 2008: Deported to Babylon by Markus Heusser
- 2009: Josef, a really cool dreamer from Ruthild Wilson and Helmut Joost
- 2010: Traces of Hope by Elke Maar and Christel Schröder
- 2011: Hallo Himmel from the Musical Team Aidlingen
- 2012: Deported to Babylon by Markus Heusser
- 2013: Joshua by Markus Hottiger
- 2014: David, a really cool hero from Ruthild Wilson and Heinz-Helmut Jost-Naujoks
- 2015: Bartimäus - A wonderful moment from Frank Kampmann
- 2016: Anna makes friends with Birgit Minichmayr
- 2017: Samuel - a boy becomes a prophet by Markus Heusser
- 2017: Father Martin from Gabriele Wächter
- 2019: Paulus - On a dangerous mission by Frank Kampmann
- 2020: Jonah. His mission, his escape, the big fish and the city of Nineveh by Markus Heusser
The theater group is open to secondary school students. Since 2004 the theater group has regularly performed classical and modern literature . In addition to the Theater-AG, the FCSO can also attend the elective “ Performing Game ” course. The following pieces have so far been played by secondary school students:
- 2004: Murder without a corpse - (not) a case for Sherlock Holmes by Margret Völke and Rudolf Guder,
- 2005: Emil and the detectives from Erich Kästner ,
- 2005: Always on the little ones by Jürgen Baumgarten,
- 2006: The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol ,
- 2007: Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren ,
- 2007: The toupee and the cat fight by Heinz Tautkus,
- 2008: The House in Montevideo by Curt Goetz ,
- 2009: A week full of Saturdays by Paul Maar ,
- 2010: Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ,
- 2010: Arsenic and lace cap by Joseph Kesselring ,
- 2011: Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson ,
- 2011: Charley's aunt of Brandon Thomas ,
- 2012: Napoleon lives from Martina Worms,
- 2012: Play me the song about the mop by Christine Steinwasser
- 2013: The pub in the Spessart by Wilhelm Hauff
- 2013: Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew
- 2014: Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie
- 2014: The fan of Carlo Goldoni
- 2015: Pink Elephants by Rudolf Kowalleck
- 2015: Lord of Thieves by Wolfgang Adenberg
- 2016: Cinderella and the Frog Prince by Kurt Egreder
- 2016: The Red Zora by Kurt Held
- 2017: Midsummer Night's Dream by Stefan Schröder
- 2018: Pension Schöller by Wilhelm Jacoby and Carl Laufs
Christian faith in everyday school life
The school's teachers meet for a short prayer every morning before school starts . School mornings also begin with such prayer in the study groups . In a large break each week and in the afternoon, students have the opportunity to meet for the so-called “Student Bible Group (SBK)”, which is led by a group of students.
In the primary level and in the lower secondary level, the so-called "Biblical Lessons" (BU) are given instead of Protestant religious teaching, from which the students cannot be exempted. The BU subject is the only subject in which the FCSO as a school of philosophy deviates from the core curricula . Here the school pursues its own syllabus, which is based in a special way on the core elements of the Christian faith, on important texts of the Bible and on the celebrations of the Christian annual cycle ( Easter , Pentecost , Christmas etc.). It is important to the teachers that children discover the joy of the Christian faith with an evangelical character . The school tries, together with the parents, to show the children ways that will help them to develop their own value judgment. However, the school's own curriculum also deals with the main features of other world religions (Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism). The subject “Values and Norms” is taught in the upper level.
Performance evaluation
The performance of the pupils in grades 1 to 4 is assessed without school grades . In January, extensive learning development talks take place with the children and their parents. At the end of a school year, the students receive a learning development report without grades. It describes the individual level of learning and performance of the respective child and emphasizes their competencies , skills and interests. This is where the FCSO primary level differs from most other primary schools.
From the 5th school year, the performance evaluation is carried out in addition to the LEB through school grades and grade certificates. This is where the FCSO differs from most other integrated comprehensive schools.
Trip model
For school trips school there is a coordinated "drive model".
- In the 4th grade, the children go to a school campground near Ahlhorn or another house in the vicinity of the school for five days .
- In the 5th school year, a three-day get-to-know trip is carried out in the vicinity of the school.
- In the 7th grade, there is a five-day class trip to any destination in Germany .
- In the 10th grade, all classes go on a study trip to Berlin for five to six days.
- The high school students can vote. They either take part in a language trip to Paris or London or they complete a ski course together in Tschagguns, Austria . Alternatively, students can take part in youth exchanges with Israel.
foreign languages
The FCSO offers three foreign languages: English is taught from the third school year. From the sixth or eleventh grade onwards, French or Latin can be added.
public relation
Joint further training for kindergarten teachers and primary school teachers
Once a year, the school holds a so-called "Open Day for Educators ". To this end, the primary level staff invites all pedagogues from the region’s kindergartens to attend classes. In the afternoon, there is always a joint advanced training course, in which teachers from other primary schools and students from the vocational schools in Leer also take part. These advanced training courses on topics such as giftedness, resilience , natural science and world knowledge or language promotion were temporarily funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture as part of the “Bridge Year Project”.
- 2006: From kindergarten to elementary school. (Forum with Heike Ahrends from the health department Leer, Sigrid Horch from the youth welfare office Leer and Fritz Steinmeier from the psychological counseling center of the AWO Leer)
- 2007: Quality development in day-care centers. National catalog of criteria. (Lecture with Andrea Titjen and Martina Lambertz from the Ped.QUIS Institute Berlin)
- 2008: Shaping the transition from kindergarten to primary school. (Lecture and discussion with Arnulf Hopf, University of Oldenburg)
- 2009: Instructions for being a researcher. Natural science and world knowledge for children and adults. (Lecture and workshops with Johanna Pareigis, University of Kiel)
- 2010: Dealing with gifted children in kindergarten and primary school (lecture and discussion with Christa Hartmann from the Bega Institute Hamburg)
- 2011: Language training in kindergarten and elementary school (lecture and discussion with Vera Uken-Spiralke, Uplengen)
- 2012: What equips children in adverse life situations. From resilience research. (Lecture by Heiko Mönnich, Berlin)
- 2013: Detect children with behavioral problems / AD (H) D early and treat them safely (lecture and discussion with Götz Gnielka, Emden)
- 2014: Inclusion at the Ottermeer primary school (lecture and discussion with Manuela Stadtlander-Lüschen, Wiesmoor)
- 2015: Moving - Learning - Performing (Lecture and workshops with Peter Pastuch, Kühsen)
- 2016: "Parole Emil - boys in focus" - an introduction to boys 'education (lecture by Alex Sott from the Bremen boys' office)
- 2017: Dealing with traumatized children in kindergarten and elementary school (lecture by Stefan Bendt, specialist in child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy)
- 2018: Psychomotor holistic therapy (lecture by Christel Kannegießer-Leitner, doctor and therapist)
- 2019: SOPESS = social pediatric development screening for the school entrance examination (lecture by Heike Ahrens, head of the health department Leer)
- 2020: Film workshop "Animated film party". The production of cartoons with children of kindergarten and primary school age (directed by Johannes Köster and Susanne Ziegler, FCSO)
School newspaper Dit un Dat
The 92nd edition of Dit un Dat was published in spring 2014 . The Dit un Dat appears three times a year with a circulation of 2300 copies and is distributed free of charge to the students, parents and supporters of the school. It presents itself as a continuation of the Freundeskreisbrief , the first edition of which was to be read in September 1986. In the school newspaper, an editorial team reports on current events in school life and school development and discusses important educational topics. The Dit un Dat has a scope of 24 colored A4 pages. In spring 2017 - in the 30th anniversary year of the FCSO - the 100th edition of "Dit un Dat" was published as an anniversary edition. On these cover pages many issues from the last two decades were shown with front pages, which resulted in a colorful bouquet of color photos.
publication
In 2019 the book Denn ER does Wunder was published , which deals with the history of the FCSO. The author is Werner Trauernicht, who died at the beginning of 2020, and a co-founder of the school.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.fcso.de/ueber-die-fcso/wer-wir-sind/vorstandschultraeger.html
- ↑ a b website of the school - About the FCSO - Who we are ; accessed on November 15, 2015.
- ↑ "Employees" menu ; Publication of the school on their homepage, accessed on November 15, 2015
- ↑ Independent schools ; Page of the Ministry of Culture
- ↑ Free Christian School Ostfriesland: Classes begin today. In: Ostfriesenzeitung of August 6, 1987. p. 6.
- ↑ Now eight evangelical private schools. In: The gardener. Journal for Congregation and Family from August 23, 1987. p. 4 ff.
- ^ School website - Raxaul School ; School homepage
- ^ First founding leaflet of the VES, edition 10,000 ; PDF on the school homepage
- ↑ Christian school inaugurated in Veenhusen. In: Ostfriesenzeitung. of September 4, 1990. p. 9.
- ^ Letter from the Weser-Ems district government ; PDF on the school homepage
- ↑ Free Christian School with orientation level. In: Ostfriesenzeitung. of July 27, 1990. p. 6.
- ↑ Free Christian School has been successful since 1987. In: Rheiderland-Zeitung (RZ) of March 3, 1992.
- ↑ 1997 upper secondary school . In: Generalanzeiger of July 5, 1997.
- ↑ School wants to convey values . In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung (OZ) from June 30, 2000.
- ↑ a b A lot of money for the FCSO. Thiele: 3.127 million for the all-day renovation. In: Abendkurier of December 17, 2005.
- ↑ The helmsman disembark. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung (OZ) from June 17, 2010.
- ↑ Free Christian School passes founding rector ; Ostfriesenzeitung from June 17, 2010
- ↑ a b bar chart - development of student numbers ; PDF on the school homepage
- ↑ tasks of the VEBS ; VEBS homepage
- ↑ Bernhard Fokken: Fasson . Comment on the article Freie Christian Schule Ostfriesland. In: Ostfriesenzeitung of December 30, 1986. p. 3.
- ↑ Ernst Vielhaber: Bible versus Science. In: Evangelical newspaper for the churches in Lower Saxony from March 15, 1997. P. 9 ff.
- ↑ Aurich Church District Assembly also distances itself from initiators of a denominational school. In: Evangelical newspaper for the churches in Lower Saxony from May 10, 1997.
- ↑ Free Christian School East Friesland. In: Ostfriesenzeitung of December 30, 1986. p. 3.
- ↑ Is the school really that free? . Letter to the editor. In: Rheiderland-Zeitung (RZ) of May 14, 1987.
- ↑ H. Buss: Spent in a spiritual ghetto . Letter to the editor. In: Ostfriesenzeitung of January 10, 1987. p. 6.
- ↑ Bernhard Drath: Unprovable assumption. Letter to the editor. In: Rheiderland-Zeitung (RZ). in March 1987.
- ↑ Soon private lessons in the former hardware store. In: Ostfriesenzeitung. of July 21, 1989. p. 6.
- ↑ 13 rooms for 3.7 million. In: Sunday report from January 30, 1995.
- ↑ Christian school now has high school diploma. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung (OZ) from 2/3 October 1998.
- ^ New elementary school in seven months. The school association invested 3.5 million. In: Ostfriesen-Zeitung (OZ) of August 17, 2001.
- ↑ First lesson in the new rooms (PDF; 276 kB); Report in the Ostfriesen-Zeitung from September 12, 2014
- ↑ FCSO students stormed the new music store (PDF; 276 kB); Report in the Ostfriesen-Zeitung from May 5, 2015
- ^ Statistics - Expenditures for pupils in public schools ; Communication from the Federal Statistical Office
- ↑ Flyer of the FCSO Foundation ; PDF on the school homepage
- ↑ School for All ; Mission statement of the school
- ↑ Primary school pupils fight for cups in Loga ; Ostfriesenzeitung from June 18, 2010
- ↑ Tips for tomorrow's filmmakers ; Ostfriesenzeitung from September 27, 2012
- ^ Winner of the REC for Kids, Berlin ; Festival site
- ↑ competitions ; School homepage
- ↑ The work in grades 5 to 10 of the Integrated Comprehensive School (IGS) (PDF; 99 kB)
- ↑ Amendment decree of June 2013 (PDF; 0.894MB); Mandatory return of the IGS in Lower Saxony to the Abitur after 13 years.
- ↑ Together on the bus for teacher training ; Report on Klippert's lecture on the school homepage
- ↑ Eight colleagues at brain researcher Prof. Dr. Dr. Manfred Spitzer ; Report on Spitzer's lecture on the school homepage
- ↑ Our schools need to be restructured ; Ostfriesenzeitung from October 17, 2012
- ↑ Being able to teach in a differentiated manner - advanced training day on June 27 ; Didactic director in the school newspaper Dit un Dat from July 2012. p. 17.
- ↑ There is still hope (PDF; 482 kB); Report in the Sunday Report of January 27, 2008
- ↑ Sunglasses, mineral water and let's go ; Report on the musical Traces of Hope on the school homepage
- ↑ The fan (PDF; 1720 kB); Report in the Ostfriesen-Zeitung from July 5, 2014
- ↑ SBK trailer ; Presentation of the student Bible group on Youtube
- ↑ a b Our profile ; School homepage
- ↑ School trips (PDF; 75 kB); School homepage
- ↑ Trip model upper level (PDF; 41 kB); School homepage
- ↑ Instructions for being a researcher - natural science and world knowledge for children and adults ; Report on the joint training on March 6, 2010 on the school homepage
- ↑ Gifted - Joy and Sorrow of a Special Intellectual Equipment (PDF; 85 kB); Report on joint advanced training for kindergarten teachers and primary school teachers on March 18, 2010
- ↑ The child is in the middle of our planning (PDF; 276 kB); Report in the Ostfriesen-Zeitung from April 3, 2014
- ↑ Moving - Learning - Performing, lecture and workshops with Peter Pastuch ; Report on the joint training on March 4, 2015 on the school homepage
- ↑ https://www.fcso.de/ueber-die-fcso/news/details/news/detail/News/neuerscheinung-denn-er-tut-wunder.html
Web links
- Official website of the Free Christian School Ostfriesland
- Facebook page of the Free Christian School Ostfriesland
- Radio interview by Horst Marquardt (ERF) with Joachim Heffter mp3 file: “Faith and Education” - That was the working title of a sixty-minute radio broadcast that Evangeliums-Rundfunk ( ERF ) recorded with Joachim Heffter in November 2010 in Wetzlar, Hesse. It was broadcast on August 18 and 21, 2011 as part of the Bilanz series on ERF Plus.