Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium Rathenow

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The state-run Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium Rathenow is a listed school building in Rathenow and has been home to the highest general secondary school in that city since 1991. It is located in the eastern part of the city center of the district town of Havelland district . The building has been a school location since 1930 and was originally founded as a boys' elementary school.

Building, history

The building looks back on an eventful history. On January 11, 1930, the building was inaugurated as a boys' primary school with a speech by Mayor Lindner. The decision of the magistrate , the city council and the debtors' council to build a new teaching institution was four years ago and was inevitable due to the growing number of students, because local educational institutions - Neustadtische Schule, Altstädtische Schule and Hagenschule - were bursting at the seams. With spacious and well-equipped specialist rooms, a natural history training room, a spacious gym and a swimming pool in the basement, the new school building was architecturally special in the school landscape at that time. Over 1200 students were taught by 31 teachers in 31 classes.

In 1931, the global economic crisis resulted in less lessons and lower salaries for teachers. An emergency ordinance was passed. Because of “political unreliability”, Rector Sommerfeld was removed from office in 1933, caretaker Behrend and teacher Kipper und Weihs were arrested and the parents' councils were abolished. Two rooms were converted into air raid shelters . Since 1935 the school has been run as a middle school with "upper classes" (Rector Prell) and as a Jahnschule (Rector Gratzig).

With the beginning of the Second World War , the number of mandatory lessons for teachers was increased in 1939, instead of history lessons, contemporary studies were taught and the collection of medicinal herbs and waste materials was part of the lessons. Flak units used the rooms for military purposes for almost four weeks. In 1943 the school was converted into a military hospital. The west wing was almost completely destroyed by Anglo-American bombers. On October 1, 1945, teaching was resumed in the three-shift system. In December 1945 the school had 1,463 pupils, 12 teachers, 9 female teachers, 1 school applicant and 15 school assistants. The city council gave the Jahnschule with headmaster Zierenberg, who was replaced by Mrositzki in 1950, the name "Friedrich Engels". In the 1960/61 school year, 41 teachers in 33 classes, including sports classes, taught over 1000 students from the Engelsschule and Bürgelschule in the Jahnstrasse building. The integrated school with Rector Weiler was named "Karl Marx" and was divided into elementary school (grades 1 to 8) and high school (grades 9 to 12). The building housed the EOS "Karl Marx" until 1964, and at times it was also home to other educational institutions such as the Bruno H. Bürgel School. Until the fall of the Berlin Wall, there were two schools in the U-shaped building at Jahnstraße 33 - the Friedrich Engels and Ernst Thälmann Oberschule.

After the reunification , on September 1, 1991, the school began its upper-level instruction as the municipal "Gymnasium 1" under the direction of Barbara Kreft and was given the former name "Friedrich Ludwig Jahn" (1778-1852) in February 1992 by a resolution of the city council. .

High school, profile

Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium Rathenow
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type of school high school
founding 1991
address

Jahnstrasse 33, 14712 Rathenow

place Rathenow
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 36 '37 "  N , 12 ° 20' 57"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 36 '37 "  N , 12 ° 20' 57"  E
carrier City of Rathenow
student 560
Teachers 040
management Anke Koch
Website www.jahngymnasium-rathenow.de

The catchment area of ​​the grammar school includes Rathenow, Premnitz , Rhinow and all surrounding communities ; only about 50 percent of the students come from the city of Rathenow.

Bilingual teaching has had a central place in the school profile since 1998. A bilingual class every year with extended English lessons, subject teaching in the foreign language and a method course in upper secondary level, in which English is the working language, form the core of this lesson.

Since the 2007/08 school year, students in the state of Brandenburg can already be admitted to grammar schools or comprehensive schools after four years of primary school to promote special achievements and talents. The Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium Rathenow belongs to 35 Brandenburg educational institutions, which are allowed to set up a performance and talent class (LuBK). The promotion of children is not limited to just one profile, but the conceptual approach provides for special promotion in the natural sciences and linguistic areas. This special funding requirement is realized through coordinated lesson planning. This includes profile lessons in the field of languages ​​and natural sciences, early method and computer science lessons and the best promotion within the framework of the open all-day operation. Additional offers with more in-depth information (enrichment) are implemented in theme weeks or on theme days, through visits to learning locations outside of the classroom and through a wide range of differentiation and project work.

The grammar school is a school with open all-day courses and is based on three sub-concepts:

  1. The other learning primarily includes existing school and cooperation projects in which a high proportion of subject-related and new learning is practiced.
  2. The learning workshop offers the promotion of high-performing and under-performing students in various areas.
  3. The educationally supported or self-organized leisure activities include courses and workgroup offers, e.g. B. in the musical, artistic, linguistic, sporting and scientific fields.

The career and study orientation has grown into an extensive and well-planned part of school life. In the lower secondary level, this task focuses primarily on the WAT lessons . Since 2007/2008, participation in the University of Potsdam's “Studium worth” initiative, the annual study week, the field-related advice test and the university information days have achieved a new level of quality for upper secondary level II. Internships in both secondary levels and regular career and study advice with the support of the Employment Agency , the method course in the upper level and academy lectures are further measures for career and study orientation. In June 2011 the Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium Rathenow was founded by the association “Netzwerk Zukunft. Schule und Wirtschaft für Brandenburg eV ”has been honored for its sustainable anchoring of career and study orientation in the school profile and has since been named“ School with excellent career and study orientation ”.

One focus of cultural education work is an unusual range of international contacts. These international contacts strengthen the communicative competence in the respective target language and make it possible to experience and discover the foreign and the new. The profile includes international projects, including the COMENIUS project. School partnerships with European schools in Finland, Italy, the Czech Republic and France can be experienced annually through student exchanges.

With the media development plan and its step-by-step implementation by the school authorities, the technical equipment of the grammar school has established itself at a high level. Wi-Fi throughout the building, projectors in specialist rooms and three well-equipped computer rooms are part of modern school life.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 80 years of Jahnschule. , accessed on May 13, 2014