Göttenbach high school (Idar-Oberstein)
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| type of school | Gymnasium with all-day school in the form of offers |
| founding | 1872 |
| address |
Auf der Bein 3, 55743 Idar-Oberstein |
| place | Idar-Oberstein |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 43 '7 " N , 7 ° 23' 25" E |
| student | 676 (Sept. 5, 2015) |
| Teachers | 52 (May 23, 2019) |
| management | Manuela Schmitt, acting school management (since 2019) |
| Website | goettenbach-gymnasium.de |
The Göttenbach grammar school is the older of two grammar schools in the city of Idar-Oberstein in Rhineland-Palatinate .
The school was founded in 1872 as a "Community Realschule " and was then located on the Göttenbach, which flows from the Idar-Oberstein district of Göttschied past the building into the Idarbach . The Göttenbach separates the then still independent towns of Idar and Oberstein . This location was chosen so that the school could be used by the two towns that were combined to form a twin town in 1933 . Today the police are in this building .
In 1933 the school moved to the building of the Schillerschule, which is located on the Idarbach near where it flows into the Nahe . Today the city administration of Idar-Oberstein is located in this building .
In 1968, due to a lack of space, an offshoot of the Göttenbach-Gymnasium was founded with the Gymnasium at Heinzenwies , so that Idar-Oberstein is now home to two Gymnasiums that take students to the Abitur .
In 1983 the Göttenbach-Gymnasium moved from the city center of Idar-Oberstein to its current location in the Weierbach district. Here the grammar school is integrated into a large school center that also includes a primary school and two special needs schools. The grammar school is housed in its own building and has its own cafeteria, a large schoolyard, extensive green areas and a large sports hall complex with three playing fields.
All-day school in the form of an offer
Since 2008 the Göttenbach-Gymnasium has been offering an " all-day school on offer"; H. When registering their children, parents have the choice of registering them in the conventional half-day school or in the all-day school. The main pillars of the concept for the all-day school branch are the following:
- Distribution of the lessons and leisure / relaxation phases over the entire school day
- an additional lesson to practice and deepen the learning content in the main subjects
- a study time for completing weekly tasks in the minor subjects
- additional written homework in the main subjects
- Individual support for students through support from FSJ students and learning coaches from higher grades (SamS project - students work with students)
- extended lunch break.
Observation school
Since the 2015/2016 school year, the Göttenbach-Gymnasium has been one of a total of eight schools from Rhineland-Palatinate that are taking part in the project "Hospitations schools - learning together & learning from each other" of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Education Institute. As the only grammar school in this project, it has chosen the subject areas of 'school management in a team', 'extracurricular partners' and 'career and study orientation' as its focus. The education minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Vera Reiß, described the selection of the school for this project as a great honor.
Göttenbach days
The Göttenbach days are a specialty of the Göttenbach-Gymnasium. These are five days of lessons for special focuses, which are very different in the various levels and appropriate to the age and level of development of the students. In the orientation level, there is a focus on social learning, especially in the context of the primary prevention project (ProPP). The intermediate level is about professional preparation, media education, addiction prevention and personal development. The upper level, with various tests and training modules, focuses on preparing for work and study. The various activities are carried out to a large extent by teachers from the school, but are supported by a large number of extracurricular cooperation partners: the police, universities and technical colleges, banks, the German Trade Union Federation, the city library and bookshops as well as various companies in the region promote the diversity and quality of Special offers.
Diversa
- A spatial specialty is the ' room of silence '. This can be used by everyone involved in school life. Here, quiet exercises, meditations, fantasy journeys and more are made possible. It is also used for devotions during the church year or during the school year as well as in situations where a calm atmosphere is required.
- Due to the location on the outskirts, very nature-related projects can be realized at the Göttenbach-Gymnasium, which lead to a closed educational concept. The school garden , which was created in 2014, enables holistic learning, learning “with head, heart and hand”, meaningful and pragmatic learning with nature. The environment and especially nature are not brought closer to the students as a counterpart to humans, but as their co-environment, from which an environmental education grows, with which the view is directed to the plants and animals living with us and below us. The school bees, which have been settled next to the school garden since 2015, also fit into this context. The school bees enrich everyday school life and guide you to planned action to solve complex problems, create an understanding of life relationships and life processes, provide insight into autecological (interrelationships between animals) and demecological (dependence on other populations) and lead to questions of food production and the healthy diet.
- There are two school dogs with whose support emotional and social skills can be trained, the students' sense of responsibility strengthened, insecure children lured out of their isolation and the class atmosphere can be improved.
- Arbitrators, media scouts and the school medical service offer pupils the opportunity to organize their school life. The parents can enrich the school with their own offers via the so-called parents' treasure chest.
- Before Christmas and before the summer holidays there are two big school concerts in which the school community is involved. In particular, the so-called 'project choir', which regularly rehearses selected choral literature, brings teachers, parents and students together on stage and has an excellent response from the school community.
- An open day is held in November, on which the school opens up to the outside world and introduces itself to all interested parties, especially parents and children who are thinking of changing to this school.
- The Göttenbach-Gymnasium has two partner schools with which regular student exchanges take place: the Collège "Jean d'Allamont" in Montmédy (Northern Lorraine) and the Colégio Suiço-Brasileiro in Curitiba ( Brazil ).
- The Friends of Göttenbach-Gymnasium Idar-Oberstein e. V. was founded on June 22, 1983 and has around 250 members (as of 2015).
- The Göttenbach-Gymnasium has been involved in numerous nationwide projects for years, including youth debates , mathematics without borders and youth training for the Olympics . The school also supports a wide variety of social projects, including tulips for bread , Mary's Meals , the Idar-Obersteiner Tafel, the Children's Rights Day, etc.