Friedrich Ebert School (Frankfurt am Main)

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Friedrich Ebert School
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type of school Integrated comprehensive school , all-day school
founding 1930
address

Arolser Strasse 11

place Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 8 '30 "  N , 8 ° 43' 2"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 '30 "  N , 8 ° 43' 2"  E
carrier town Frankfurt am Main
student around 640
management Simone Hofmann (Deputy Headmistress)
Website www.friedrich-ebert-schule.de

The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule in Frankfurt am Main is an integrated comprehensive school (IGS) and all-day school . It has been located in the Seckbach district since 1977 , at Arolser Strasse 11.

profile

First all-day school in Germany , as a school trial for initially 87 pupils from May 25, 1954, established for the entire school from 1965.

activities

Healthy Eating Day of Action

Parents and schoolchildren can get information about healthy preparation and healthy food from a professional cook, take part in a cooking course and prepare a variety of snacks during breaks.

Operating days

For the past five years, grade 9 pupils have been taking part in company days, gaining practical experience in companies in Frankfurt. Around 100 companies from many industries are cooperating.

Fragrance and touch garden

In the competition 1822 - School and Nature of the Frankfurter Sparkasse, the Fragrance and Touch Garden of the FrESch received 3rd prize in 39 participating projects from 34 schools in Frankfurt and the surrounding area. Sixteen students from grades 8 and 9 took part.

Frankfurt secondary school project

Since the 2006/07 school year, FrESch has been taking part in the frankfurt main school project. It is about the applicant qualification of the 9th grade students. A strengths and weaknesses analysis as well as an interest profile are created, insecurities and inhibitions are reduced. The students are looked after by the Society for Youth Employment (gjb) and advised by the Federal Employment Agency. Two cooperation partners from the business world inform and train the students in all phases of an application process.

Art exhibition

The 6th grade students organize an art exhibition, which is designed with self-made objects.

Prevention in the team

PiT is the name of a project in which teachers from the Friedrich Ebert School, police officers and social workers develop strategies to prevent and contain violent situations in and around the school. In a pilot project over four school days, 7th grade students are trained. The program focuses in particular on non-violence and de-escalation strategies.

recycling

A 5th grade project in cooperation with Frankfurter Entsorgungs- und Service GmbH (FES) deals with waste separation in the individual classes, yard service and the diverse products that can be made from waste .

Take away fears of the threshold

Year 8 students take part in a project aimed at relieving fears of the threshold. It is carried out together with youth welfare institutions.

Stone age

In eight different projects, the students in grade 5 deal with the topics of archaeological research, theater scene: Stone Age hunters, cave painting, Stone Age animals, Stone Age cuisine, Stone Age clothing and jewelry, building a Stone Age tent, music and dance in the Stone Age.

Winter hiking week

For around two decades, the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule has been running the so-called Wiwawo, the winter hiking week, for grade 7. Every February / March it goes to Neukirchen am Großvenediger in Austria, on the border with Tyrol. Around 75 participants take part in the mandatory ski courses . Snowboard courses have also been offered for several years .

Working groups

In the 2008/09 school year, the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule offers a large number of working groups:

  • Year 5 : handicrafts, choir, poetry and painting on the PC, experiments, soccer for boys & girls, hockey, cooking, inline skating & climbing, math plus, learning on the PC, table tennis, drumming, reading aloud
  • Grade 6 : Choir, English plus, fan trips, junk, photography, football boys & girls, cooking, musicals, drumming, mediators
  • Grade 7 : choir, photography, football boys & girls, hip-hop, hockey, cooking, math plus, musicals, chess, school newspaper, mediators, table tennis, drumming,
  • Grade 8 : choir, hip hop, math plus, musical, school newspaper, drums
  • Grade 9 : choir, hip hop, musical, school newspaper, drums
  • Grade 10 : choir, musical, school newspaper, drums

Partner school and student exchange

The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule has had a partnership with the Ninestiles Technology College, a comprehensive school in Birmingham, Great Britain, since 1992. Meetings between groups of pupils are organized almost every year.

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom : Ninestiles Technology College , Acocks Green , Birmingham , United Kingdom

history

The origins of today's Friedrich-Ebert-Schule lie in the Weimar Republic , in the 1920s. In 1921 the Röderberg reform elementary school was founded. It is a public elementary school, but at the same time part of an ambitious reform pedagogical model experiment by the city of Frankfurt. Your visit is free of charge. In contrast to regular schools, the school is not assigned to any school district.

In the first few years, the Röderberg Reform Elementary School did not have its own school building, so its classes were housed in the Dahlmann School and in neighboring school buildings in Frankfurt's Ostend . The pupils learn the discussion through a school parliament. From 1926 a Montessori class was created within the Röderberg Reform School.

Happy circumstances ensure that a new housing estate is being built nearby , on the Bornheimer slope . On September 23, 1930, after joint conceptual work as part of the New Frankfurt project with the city architect Ernst May, a school building on the Bornheimer Hang can be planned and realized. May wanted to plan a groundbreaking new school building that would take the new pedagogical insights into account. Taking advantage of the hillside location, the new school building offers building complexes designed like terraces with plenty of open space in the countryside and a children's pool. As the first German pavilion and open-air school, it was given the character of a model.

As luck would have it, the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule is again in the immediate vicinity of a building designed by Ernst May, a shelter pavilion with showers for school classes in Huthpark , built in the same year as the former school building on Bornheimer Hang.

The renowned painter Max Beckmann produced an exclusive expressionist painting especially for the school in 1930, which, however, was removed by the Nazis and not found again despite a search that began in 1968. The move also gives the school a new name: Friedrich-Ebert-Reform (volks) school named after the Reich President Friedrich Ebert . The developed comprehensive school concept and the positive results are neither officially recognized nor transferred to the general school system of the city.

The Röderberg School is pioneering in its pedagogical concept, as it provides for the model overcoming of the tripartite school system, differentiation according to core and course, gender equality and the consideration of the latest socio-educational findings. Breakfast as well as exercise and gymnastics lessons are planned during the daily school lessons. The teacher-centered lessons, which have hitherto been strictly divided into subjects, are giving way to so-called comprehensive lessons, the generous amount of space allows action-oriented working methods, and there are practical gardening and workshop lessons.

The benchmark is a democratic school for all children. The emancipatory message of the new school was: "Equality, participation and individuality". The self-regulation of children in expressions of political democracy provides, for example, a school parliament, learning how to obtain information and how to debate. By individualizing the learning opportunities, the students are involved in shaping their own educational path, as are their parents, who can visit and participate in the school at any time. Solidarity and the readiness for public engagement are very important.

The seizure of power of the Nazis in January 1933 does not finish the school experiment. However, they know how to completely destroy the basic humanistic-democratic idea, to remove its protagonists from service with the help of informers and to destroy all documents of the democratic comprehensive school. A reform school influenced by the National Socialists is the new goal, which is initially announced by renaming the school to Dietrich-Eckart reform school. Dietrich Eckart was the editor of the National Socialist "Völkischer Beobachter" and responsible for the slander and denigration of Friedrich Ebert. Pupils and parents are threatened, parents' councils dissolved, Jewish pupils expelled, freely selectable courses and foreign language lessons are banned. A Nazi concept was worked out until 1937 before a ministerial decree initiated its cancellation. In 1939 the building had to be vacated, and pupils and teachers were affiliated with the Bornheim Kirchnerschule. The school building was used for a variety of purposes, after the Second World War it served as a US high school until the city was given back in 1954 and the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule, now known as this , could move into it again.

After the war, the tradition of reforms from the Weimar period can only be linked up selectively; the entirety of its main focus is not noticed. The extraordinarily innovative history of the school's development from 1921 to 1933 and its pedagogical-political basis has been systematically destroyed. Ten educators from the surrounding schools were quickly found who wanted to gradually revive the old concept. Sixteen classes from the Brentano and Kirchner schools are transferred from the overburdened Bornheim schools to the Friedrich Ebert School.

A new field of activity arises from the situation of the post-war period and the onset of the economic miracle. Parents now often both work full time. Your children therefore often become so-called key children. The key is hung around their necks on a cord so that they can come to the apartment when their parents are absent. However, this does not necessarily solve the problem of lunch and homework assistance. The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule is the first German school to take on the new challenge of day-care school, which the then city councilor and head of school, Prof. Dr. Gläß brings them to you. Its location on the Bornheimer slope, its open spaces and the interior design are ideally suited for this purpose. A school trial with afternoon care begins on May 25, 1954, initially for 87 children from the district. After the class by the teaching staff, educators take care of lunch and homework, Monday to Friday until 6 p.m., Saturday until 2 p.m.

Within just a decade, the number of full-time pupils to be cared for increased so much that half-day pupils had to vacate the school entirely in 1965. The older ones are distributed to the Dahlmann School, the younger ones to the Zentgrafenschule in Seckbach, which is given an all-day branch from 1970. The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule operates as a day home school for secondary school students. However, there is demand from all parts of the city and from all social classes. It is the first school in Frankfurt to switch from six to five-day classes and at the same time leave the day care home concept in favor of an all-day school. Lessons now also take place in the afternoons, lunch and homework supervision are integrated into the new concept.

From 1965 to 1974 taught English and history at the Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul school , who later became Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development.

The formation of a comprehensive school is a done deal. In 1972 there is a support level with a year width of three classes and a fully developed secondary school branch. In 1976, with more than 800 students, the school was given the status of a school-type comprehensive school with the establishment of a 7th grammar school class. The school grounds are no longer sufficient, but cannot be expanded. A new school building in Seckbach is planned in the immediate vicinity of Huthpark and implemented in the shortest possible time. As early as February 1977, the school building and the sports hall were inaugurated by Mayor Walter Wallmann and they moved in. During the inauguration, various sporting performances by the Seckbach gymnastics club will be offered in the sports hall .

The planning of the new school may have been under too much pressure because there are not enough classrooms available for the 36 classes (6 per year). Apart from a dining room, there are no other facilities for all-day care. A high level of asbestos exposure raises concerns from the start. The first relief will take place with the new building of the neighboring IGS Nordend, which will absorb some of the expected number of students. From then on, each FrESch class also has a classroom. Rooms that are no longer required, such as the teacher's dining room or the language laboratory, are being converted into a student café and club room. Play corners are created both inside the building and on the spacious school grounds.

After ten years of struggle, parents forced the school building to be closed for one year in 1987 for the purpose of renovation. For this period, the school classes will be distributed to four neighboring schools. In 1993 the conversion from the school type-related comprehensive school into an integrated comprehensive school (IGS) takes place. However, since the asbestos removal is only half-hearted, it has to be restored again after a good decade in 1998, this time except for the concrete skeleton. This results in a completely new expansion, but also a two-year outsourcing of students and teaching staff in around fifty construction site containers on the school premises. The school can participate in the new planning and incorporate its twenty years of experience at this location. On August 7th, 2000 the move into the completely renovated building takes place.

Despite the stresses and strains, the school took part in several model tests by the Hessian Ministry of Culture during this time, for example in the model test of a 10th year of secondary school, which leads to its general introduction to the school - with the chance of achieving the middle school if the performance is appropriate To obtain educational qualifications. By participating in the ethics model experiment, the school is one of the first in Hesse to receive permission to introduce ethics as a mandatory replacement subject for religion. All pupils of the school are thus also involved in the teaching of religious and ethical values ​​and, not least, gain social skills, which is still one of the main concerns of the school concept. As a comprehensive school, the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule leads to the secondary school leaving certificate or the extended secondary school leaving certificate after attending the 10th grade. It issues the secondary school leaving certificate and, if the certificate is appropriate, promotes the transfer to class 11 of the upper school level.

Support association

The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule e.V. association has existed since 1999. V., who also supports advertising for the school. He helps students with the cost of school trips, if necessary. He also finances material for independent work in classes and study groups.

Transport links

The Friedrich-Ebert-Schule in Arolser Straße 11 can be reached by public transport using the RMV bus lines 38 and 43. The nearest stop is called Eschweger Straße.

literature

  • Katz, Hanns Ludwig: 1892-1940 (exhibition catalog), City Administration of Frankfurt am Main, Department for Culture and Leisure, Office for Science and Art (ed.), Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main, Cologne 1992
  • Frieß, Jutta: Displaced and Forgotten, The Frankfurter Reformschulversuch 1921-1937 , Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-86099-342-2
  • Rochelmayer, Folker (ed.): Festschrift 1100 Years Seckbach, 880-1980 , Festival Committee 1100 Years Seckbach e. V. (ed.), 1980, 151 pp.
  • Sauer, Walter: Seckbacher history (s) , Kultur- und Sportring Frankfurt a. M.-Seckbach 1954 e. V. (ed.), Frankfurt am Main, 2000, 164 pp.

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School management team. In: www.friedrich-ebert-schule.de. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
  2. ^ Class of the reform school Röderberg in the green area Luxemburger Allee. In: www.ffmhist.de. Institute for Urban History (Frankfurt am Main) , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  3. ^ Class of the reform school Röderberg winter 1929/30. In: www.ffmhist.de. Institute for Urban History (Frankfurt am Main) , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  4. ^ Class of the reform school Röderberg. In: www.ffmhist.de. Institute for Urban History (Frankfurt am Main) , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  5. ^ The Friedrich-Ebert-Reformschule on Bornheimer Hang. In: www.ffmhist.de. Institute for Urban History (Frankfurt am Main) , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  6. ^ Swimming pool in the yard of the Friedrich-Ebert-Reformschul. In: www.ffmhist.de. Institute for Urban History (Frankfurt am Main) , accessed on April 19, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Friends of the Friedrich-Ebert-Schule e. V. In: www.friedrich-ebert-schule.de. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .