Free high school Zurich
| Free high school Zurich | |
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| View from Seefeldstrasse | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1888 |
| address |
Arbenzstrasse 19 |
| place | Zurich |
| Canton | Zurich |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 684 332 / 246006 |
| carrier | School association for the Free Gymnasium in Zurich |
| student | about 500 |
| Teachers | about 80 |
| management | Thomas Bernet |
| Website | www.fgz.ch |
The Freie Gymnasium Zürich (FGZ) is a state-approved private grammar school in Zürich in the Mühlebach district 8 .
profile
The Freie Gymnasium Zürich was founded in 1888, making it one of the oldest grammar schools in the city. The school was named according to the aspired spirit of being a liberal and cosmopolitan school. Until 1892, the school was called "Privatgymnasium" (private grammar school), then it was renamed "Freie Gymnasium" (Free Gymnasium), as Christian-based educational institutes were established in various parts of Switzerland that were detached from the state.
The Freie Gymnasium Zürich still represents a liberal and cosmopolitan spirit today. Its tradition is based on the Christian - humanistic human education .
The school is run according to private , but not profit-oriented principles. The sponsor is a school association, its highest management body the board. A cooperative management style ensures solid support for school policy among teachers, parents, students and other employees.
Around 470 students are taught by 80 teachers in 36 different subjects. The proportion of girls is 50 percent.
The Freie Gymnasium Zürich is regarded as a pioneer of bilingual education in the canton of Zürich, immersive instruction with native-speaking teachers. In 2000, it was the first school in the canton of Zurich to open a bilingual train in the short grammar school and the lower level progymnasium .
Training courses
After the 5th or 6th primary grade, the Freie Gymnasium Zürich offers various training courses. Monolingual and bilingual are available:
- the Progymnasium lower level
- the lower school level
- the short grammar school
Four different training profiles - monolingual or bilingual - can be selected. The in-house Matura at the Freie Gymnasium Zürich is federally recognized in all profiles.
history
The establishment of the Freie Gymnasium Zürich goes back to the total revision of the Swiss Federal Constitution of 1874, which required a denominational and ideologically neutral public school system. The initially six students were taught by a single teacher, Christian Wagner, a graduate of the Unterstrass seminar.
In 1889 the government council granted the school license.
As the first grammar school in Zurich, girls were also admitted to the Freie Gymnasium in 1904.
In 1910, the new school building on St. Annagasse (now owned by UBS) was completed. On the occasion of the opening on June 3, the Freie Gymnasium received federal recognition for its own Matura.
On October 5, 1945, the "Association of Former Students of the Free Gymnasium in Zurich" was founded.
Because the student body had meanwhile grown to over 500, the school had to move. In 1958 it was possible to acquire a suitable piece of land on the Bodmerwiese in the Seefeld district. In 1972 the new building was occupied.
In the spring of 1998, the theater workshop at the Free Gymnasium in Zurich was launched. Its aim is to present a theater production with several performances to a broad public every autumn, developed with in-house students.
In 2000 the Freie Gymnasium Zürich founded the Bilingual Middleschool Zurich together with the Lakeside School in Küsnacht , which was integrated into the Freie Gymnasium Zürich in 2009.
building
The building at Arbenzstrasse 19 is part of an area development created by the Zurich architect Felix Rebmann, in which the Reformed parish of Neumünster with the parish hall, the city with the Riesbach leisure center and the canton with the education center for adults participate. This area development is now in the inventory of buildings worthy of protection as an example of architecture representative of the 1970s.
Culture
The theater workshop of the Free Gymnasium in Zurich is well known. It was founded in 1998 and since then has been studying a theater production with students every year, which is presented to the public. This happens every two years together with the choir of the Freie Gymnasium Zürich.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Free Gymnasium Zurich. A look back at 1888–1936. P. 6
- ↑ Gerhard Frick: A school is looking for its way. 75 years of the Freie Gymnasium Zürich.
- ^ Free grammar school in Zurich. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary in 1988. p. 19
- ^ Free grammar school in Zurich. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary in 1988. p. 23
- ↑ Gerhard Frick: A school is looking for its way. 75 years of free high school in Zurich. P. 45
- ^ Free grammar school in Zurich. Festschrift for the 100th anniversary in 1988. p. 41
- ↑ Theater workshop | theater workshop. Retrieved April 1, 2019 .