Galilei High School Hamm
| Galilei High School Hamm | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 169559 |
| founding | 1968 as a branch of the Hammonense High School , 1971 as a separate school. |
| address |
Dr.-Voßhage-Strasse 1 |
| place | Hamm , district of Hamm-Bockum-Hövel ( Hamm-Norden ) |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 41 '24 " N , 7 ° 46' 59" E |
| carrier | City of Hamm |
| student | 667 (as of: 2018) |
| Teachers | 76 (as of 2017) |
| management | Karsten wood |
| Website | galilei-gymnasium.de |
| Wiki | www.hammwiki.de |
The science-oriented Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm was founded in 1968 as a branch of the Gymnasium Hammonense . On January 1, 1971, the previous “Staatliche Gymnasium II” became independent under the name “Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm” and was the first school in Germany to be named by Galileo Galilei . With the director of studies Hans-Dieter Voßhage, the youngest grammar school in Hamm received its first principal. In the first few years, school operations took place in pavilions on the school premises at Sorauer Straße 20 (since 2008: Dr.-Voßhage-Straße 1) in the north of Hamm . It was not until 1973 that the construction of a separate building could begin, which was occupied in 1975.
A decade later, the school came twice into the focus of Hammer local politics. In the course of the nationwide ideological dispute about the expansion of comprehensive schools at the expense of the traditional tripartite school system, the then SPD-led council of the city of Hamm initially planned to "phase out" the Galilei grammar school in favor of a comprehensive school to be founded. After citizen protests successfully prevented this approach, an attempt was made in 1987 to move the Galilei grammar school to the Rautenstrauchstrasse school center in Bockum-Hövel and to make the school building available to the comprehensive school. Renewed protests prevented this too, so that the comprehensive school was built in the school center instead.
As the only state high school in the city of Hamm north of the Lippe - the Landschulheim Schloss Heessen school is a private institution - the school is now the central youth education facility for the districts of Hamm-Bockum-Hövel and Hamm-Heessen including the former Nordenfeldmark, today's Hamm- North . Since the school year 2010/2011, the secondary school has been offering “ bound all-day operation ”.
history
Foundation (1968)
At the beginning of the 1960s it became clear that the Hammonense grammar school would soon no longer be able to cope with the steadily increasing number of students. The number of students in the Hamm area increased in percentage at all high schools. Sun visited in 1964 a total of 1,832 boys and girls at that time four high schools of the city, on 15 January 1967 were already in 2227, on September 1, 2697. In 1968, the administration of the city Hamm therefore turned in 1964 to the Minister of Culture of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and asked him to agree to the establishment of a second state high school.
Although the minister of education was open to the city's concerns and finally agreed to it in 1968, a lack of financial means initially prevented the establishment of another independent grammar school. A press conference took place on March 29, 1968, during which the then head of the Hammonense grammar school, senior director Kusian, announced the establishment of a branch office of his grammar school at the beginning of the school year 1968/69.
The location soon began to emerge on an urban area of over 10,000 m² on Sorauer Strasse, very close to the Catholic parish church Maria Königin . In contrast to the other Hammer grammar schools, all of which were south of the Lippe , this opened up Hammer Norden for the first time, and after the second stage of the communal territorial reform of 1975, the new municipal districts of Hamm-Bockum-Hövel and Hamm-Heessen were also opened up . Since there was already a secondary school in the immediate vicinity, there was the possibility of developing a school center from the start.
Registrations were accepted from April 1968. The parents had to live with the risk of enrolling their children in a school that did not yet have any premises, let alone its own building. Nonetheless, about 60 children were registered directly, with the State Gymnasium II benefiting from the trust that the population placed in the Hammonense Gymnasium when they first registered. Around 50 more children were assigned to the new school due to the overcrowding of the other high schools.
On August 9, 1968, school operations began on the "green meadow". The school still did not have its own premises, rather pavilions had been built on the school premises . Initially there were only two of them, but the increasing space requirement, which was already due to the annual expansion of the school by a new class, led to the erection of additional pavilions between 1968 and 1974. The result was a raised facility, consisting of a music pavilion, science pavilion, teachers' and class pavilions, which were arranged around a rectangular inner courtyard. The system appeared to be sufficient for school operation, but remained a compromise in many respects. So the physical education could only be held due to the willingness of the neighboring and friendly schools and the Bergbau-AG Westfalen to cooperate. Initially, the TuWa hall was used, and finally physical education took place in six different gyms: Radbod colliery, Bockum-Hövel secondary school, Kardinal van Galen school, Karl school, Ludger school and Martin Luther school. This involved time-consuming trips on the school bus to the various halls. The teachers also had to commute, sometimes at the Hammonense and sometimes at the State Gymnasium II. There was a lack of specialist rooms everywhere, and “hiking classes” sometimes had to be set up in the pavilion. Neither the science nor the music lessons were able to develop their full effectiveness, and the administration rooms, the conference room and the library also proved to be crushingly cramped.
The construction of a school building of their own was considered. It could finally be realized from 1973 onwards.
School became independent (1971)
On January 1, 1971, the previous State Gymnasium II became independent under the name Galilei Gymnasium . The first director became the director of studies, Hans-Dieter Voßhage.
Construction of the school building (1973–1975)
On May 2, 1973, construction of today's school building began. The shell with around 50,000 m³ of enclosed space including the necessary installations could be completed almost exactly eleven months later; the topping-out ceremony was held on April 4, 1974. The move from the pavilions to the new building took place between February 4 and 8, 1975 using all available forces. On Saturday, February 8, 1975, the students were able to officially enter the new house for the first time.
The completion of the school building coincided roughly with the implementation of the second stage of the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia, during which the previously independent cities of Bockum-Hövel and Heessen were incorporated into the city of Hamm, which became a major city. The Hammer Norden , the former Nordenfeldmark since the times of the city founder Adolf I. Graf von der Mark , was divided roughly in the middle and added in equal parts to the two new city districts north of the Lippe. Since then, the Galilei-Gymnasium has been located in the Bockum-Höveler area and opens up the area north of the Lippe in the youth education sector.
During the summer vacation of 1977, the sculptor Jürgen Suberg from Bigge-Olsberg erected the fountain in the school yard as the “last construction measure” . The inauguration of the fountain took place on September 16, 1977.
Further development until 1985
The first graduation ceremony for 57 high school graduates took place on June 18, 1977. Computer science was offered for the first time in the 1979/1980 school year. In the summer of 1980 the 9th joint sports festival of the Gymnasien Westfalen-Lippe, so-called banner fights, was organized and carried out, with around 4000 young people and 600 supervisors participating in the event.
On Good Friday in 1981, the WDR broadcast a service that was recorded in the auditorium of the Galilei grammar school and designed by students and dedicated to the subject of "resurrection".
In January 1984 the association of friends and sponsors of the Galilei-Gymnasium eV was founded.
A first project week was carried out in the summer of 1985. For a week, the pupils were able to pursue key interests that were not part of the regular curriculum. In the 1985/86 school year, the grammar school contacted the Halpatota Junior School in Baddegama / Sri Lanka and sponsored them.
Struggle for survival (1985-1987)
In the ideological struggle for the expansion of the comprehensive school principle , a ten-year experimental stage was brought to a close in 1982, which was intended to result in the decision whether the comprehensive school was the better concept. In the positive case, it should be introduced as the only type of school. However, the evaluation remained controversial. In 1982 the comprehensive school trial ended. Depending on the party-political orientation of the government of the respective federal state, the attempts were either regarded as successful or declared to have failed. In particular, the SPD advocated the nationwide introduction of comprehensive schools while abandoning the previous three-tier school system.
With Lord Mayor Werner Figgen , Hamm had already been led by the SPD for a long time. In 1984, Sabine Zech , a female mayor from the ranks of the SPD, was elected to head the city. On August 16, 1985, the city council's plan was announced to "phase out" the Galilei grammar school in favor of a comprehensive school to be founded. Students, parents and teachers then came together to organize and coordinate protests that lasted for weeks. More than 13,500 signatures in favor of keeping the school were handed over to the responsible politicians on September 22, 1985. On December 11, 1985, the council held a fighting vote, which, taking into account the severity and scope of the protests, abandoned the original plan.
On April 22, 1987, plans became known to move the Galilei-Gymnasium to the school center Rautenstrauchstrasse in Bockum-Hövel and to make the school building available to a second comprehensive school to be installed. It was foreseeable that this approach would have meant falling enrollments and ultimately the closure of the school due to a lack of students. For this reason, protests took place again, which in turn led to success when Mayor Sabine Zech surprisingly voted in the council vote on June 10, 1987 for the maintenance of the Galilei grammar school at the old location and the establishment of the comprehensive school in the school center on Rautenstrauchstrasse, and thus gave the wafer-thin voting result a majority of exactly one vote.
Against the background of the joint debt debate, the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gymnasium was moved to its current location near Maximilian Park. However, this high school received better premises than before due to the change of location.
The SPD did not make any further advances in this direction. Issa-Verena Wieland, the daughter of the future mayor Jürgen Wieland , successor to Sabine Zech and also a member of the SPD, graduated from the Galilei-Gymnasium in 1994.
Dismissal of the founding director Hans-Dieter Voßhage (1987)
The dispute over the Galilei grammar school meant that the headmaster Hans-Dieter Voßhage, who would actually have retired at an earlier point in time, did not retire until the end of the 1986/87 school year.
Voßhage made a name for himself as chairman of the Hamm District Directors 'Conference, as secretary of the Westphalian Directors' Association and as state chairman of the Association of German School Geographers. He died on June 21, 2002.
In 2008, a 200 m long section of Sorauer Strasse, on which the Galilei High School is located, was renamed Dr.-Voßhage-Strasse in his honor . Since then, the grammar school is no longer at Sorauer Strasse 20, but at Dr.-Voßhage-Strasse 1.
For the school year 1987/88 the deputy headmaster Wolfgang Heitger took over the provisional management of the grammar school.
Headmaster Peter Drever (1988–1994)
On September 22, 1987, Peter Drever from Ahaus was elected by the school authority as the new headmaster and on February 1, 1988 initially entrusted with the management of the Galilei-Gymnasium. On July 2nd, he was introduced to his office as part of a festive event on the occasion of the school's 20th anniversary.
From 1989 onwards, more and more students from the GDR registered at the Galilei Gymnasium , due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the mass exodus from the eastern German regions. This created a certain amount of tension on both sides. The pupils from East Germany had to get used to the change of school and system equally, the locals were confronted with the often Saxon dialect and the eager participation of newcomers in class. The WDR took this as an opportunity to shoot a film report about the changeover problems. For this purpose, a student from the Galilei High School was observed during class and interviewed on this subject together with some classmates. In mid-November 1990, the broadcasters Eins Plus and West Drei broadcast this report several times on school television in the series Schauplatz Schule under the program title “More than a change of school - GDR young people in the Federal Republic”.
During these years, students from the Galilei grammar school began to participate in programs on Radio Lippewelle Hamm . At that time, the Hamm Open Canal was also fed into the city's cable network. It was a local television station, whose community radio was also regularly enriched by contributions from teachers and students of the school.
The cooperation of the school with the SLC Bockum-Hövel and the commitment of the sports faculty led several times to top successes in volleyball for boys and girls' teams, and in other sports to excellent results at city and state level. After the victory in 1986 and a third place in 1987, the volleyball team under the supervision of the sports teacher Rüter and the SLC trainer Peter Wolle, trained in youth for the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1990, achieved second place.
At the 9th Federal Computer Science Competition , advertised by the Federal Minister for Education and Science, Mischa Kuchinke received a special prize that benefited the school's computer science classes. Together with 30 other students from Germany, Kuchinke was selected from 3071 candidates to take part in the final round.
Also during the term of office of the headmaster Drever the upgrading of the Aulabühne, where theater productions like Erich Kästner's Pünktchen and Anton and Ionesco's Die Rhinos took place, as well as the already traditional summer concerts under names like “Galileos Tierleben”. Since the stage had proven to be too narrow and invariable for the increased demands, after negotiations with the city, the city funds made available, along with a donation from the friends' association, were invested in a podium front stage and an improved sound system. A new lighting system could then be added for the 25th school anniversary.
In the 1989/1990 school year, a school partnership with Moscow School No. 1212 was established. This is located in a north-western part of the Russian capital. Founded in 1954, it comprises eleven grades and offers extended German lessons, in which German is taught from the second grade and has also been offered as an Abitur subject since 1965. In November 1990, students from the partner school in Hamm visited, the return visit followed in the summer of 1991. Since then, a student exchange has taken place every two years. Such a cooperation was also established with School No. 30 in Vitebsk ; the first visit took place in May 1991. In 1993 the student exchange had to be stopped again. It was replaced by an exchange with Moscow School No. 1272. The exchange with Russia is important because many of the high school students have an Eastern European migration background. In 1992 a new contact could be made with Hopkins High School in the US state Minnesota , also connected with student exchange. In February 1994 there was also a student exchange with a school in Malta . Student exchange as an opportunity to get to know foreign cultures established itself during this time in addition to the regular study trips, for example to Sorrento in Italy.
To mark the 25th anniversary of the school, a so-called Kommers was held for the first time on July 3, 1993 , a meeting at the school to which all former high school graduates were invited. Since then, the school has held such a meeting every five years. Also for the 25th anniversary, the performance of the play The Life of Galilei by Bertolt Brecht one day earlier commemorated the namesake of the grammar school. As part of the festival week, a ceremony took place in the auditorium on July 7, 1993. Representatives of the school, other schools, social and political groups, the city of Hamm, representatives of the district government and representatives of the partner schools from Vitebsk, Moscow and Sri Lanka were invited.
A cooperation with the Hammonense grammar school was established under Peter Drever . In order to be able to offer poorly attended courses in the upper level, these are attended by students from both grammar schools and have since taken place alternately in the building of the Hammonense and that of the Galilei grammar school.
Drever was appointed to the school inspectorate of the district president in Arnsberg on February 1, 1995 . After his departure, Wolfgang Heitger took over the acting school management again.
Headmaster Paul Brocker (1996 to 2010)
In 1996 Paul Brocker took over the school management.
On August 1, 1999, the training regulations for secondary level 1 (AO S 1) came into force, after which the school was restructured. Grades 5 and 6 now formed the test level, grades 7 to 9 the intermediate level; Together they count as secondary level I. If the first foreign language (English) is taught from class 5, a second language (French or Latin) is added in class 6. From grade 8 on there is the option of choosing a teaching focus outside of the existing class in an elective area. In addition to focusing on mathematical, scientific and technical, social science, artistic or interdisciplinary areas, a third foreign language can also be chosen, either French (as long as Latin has been chosen) or Italian. In the second half of grade 10, there is extensive advice on the requirements of the upper grade, which then includes grades 11 and 12.
In 2003 the student exchange program was expanded to include Hamm's Polish twin town, Kalisz . After Italian was introduced as a new foreign language in 2005/2006, there was a student exchange with the liceo linguistico C. Varano in the Italian university town of Camerino in Marche . Already in 2004 there was a student exchange with the southern Italian San Marco in Lamis .
The “basic pedagogical consensus” and the “house rules” of the Galilei grammar school were created under Brocker. Teachers, students and parents came together and worked out binding rules for the learning environment and human interaction at the school. The result was presented in February 2005. In December 2006, the school's working methods were set out in detail with the school program.
On February 19, 2008, the high school took part in the 1Live school duel. On March 4th the new cafeteria was inaugurated (“McGalli”). The 50,000 euro conversion to 120 square meters, designed by architect Thorsten Sperling, was due, among other things, to the new all-day operation of the school. On the three long days of lessons, there is a long lunch break between the fifth and sixth lesson, during which a hot lunch is available in the cafeteria.
On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the school, project days took place from August 27th to 29th, 2008 with the main theme Galileo Galilei. Also due to the anniversary, a school sculpture of the differentiation course of classes 9 German / Art of the school year 2007/08 was set up with his teacher Reinhard Droste on November 11, 2008:
“ The raw steel sculpture depicts four human figures on an almost square base, which are placed in a simplified silhouette and connected to one another in such a way that they form an ensemble of figures:
two standing figures hold each other and a third figure, half sunk in the ground on the hands and enclose a fourth kneeling figure. Everyone looks in the direction in which the first figure points with outstretched arm, namely towards the sky. "
On November 12, 2008, on the occasion of the centenary of this event, the victims of the mine accident at the Radbod colliery in 1908 were commemorated in a commemorative event in the school auditorium . On January 29, 2009, the online school newspaper GalliLive was launched. It stands in the tradition and successor of several other school newspapers that appeared in print form in earlier years, for example under the title Der Gauls . Third place in the state mathematics competition in Bad Oeynhausen in April 2009 went to the Galilei students Nils Jung and Jan Pinter.
In May 2009, a student and teacher exchange with guests from Malta, Turkey and Italy took place at the Galilei Gymnasium under the motto Walking together through Europe . As part of a Comenius project funded by the European Community, an extensive visit program was prepared under the leadership of Dieter Stichmann.
On January 29, 2010, Director Brocker was released from school service and retired. The last years of Brocker's tenure saw, parallel to the introduction of all-day teaching, the retirement of almost the entire (first) teaching staff, which had been recruited in 1968. It has been replaced by a corresponding number of young teachers.
Headmaster Reinhard Lapornik-Jürgens (since 2010)
Brocker's successor was from February 1, 2010, Chief Studies Director Reinhard Lapornik-Jürgens, born on May 7, 1954 in Wickede / Ruhr. He did his community service in Bethel , where he worked with children who suffered from epilepsy , then studied biology and Catholic religion in Münster and Marburg and completed his legal clerkship in Burgsteinfurt .
The school newspaper GalliLive reported about him as follows:
“ In addition to his work as headmaster, Mr. Lapornik-Jürgens teaches biology and Catholic religious studies. He has been a teacher at the Märkisches Gymnasium since 1983 and is now the fourth headmaster of the Galilei Gymnasium. In addition, he continues an old tradition, because all the headmasters of the Galilei High School used to be the main seminar directors of the study seminar, where they train prospective teachers. The 55-year-old has held this position in the field of biology since 1997. "
Shortly after Lapornik-Jürgen's inauguration, the online school newspaper Galli-Live achieved third place in the nationwide school newspaper competition organized by the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT in early 2010.
The bound all-day operation, which had already been prepared for years, was started in the 2010/2011 school year.
principal
- 1971 to 1987: Hans-Dieter Voßhage (died 2002)
- 1987/1988: Provisional management by Wolfgang Heitger
- 1988 to 1994: Peter Drever (died 2010)
- 1994 to 1996: Provisional management by Wolfgang Heitger
- 1996 to 2010: Paul Brocker
- 2010 to 2018: Reinhard Lapornik-Jürgens
- 2018 to today: Karsten Holz
State of construction and equipment
main building
In 1975, a new building that met modern requirements was created with an effort that was unusual for the time. When choosing the building materials used, emphasis was placed on creating a sound-absorbing effect. As is often the case with contemporary buildings, concrete and glass were used because these building materials allow slim lines and a lot of light in the rooms. Concrete, however, does not have a sound-absorbing effect, but on the contrary conducts sound, which is a considerable disadvantage for up to 1000 students who inevitably generate a certain noise level, both for the residents and for the school lessons of teachers and classmates. This disadvantage has been considerably reduced by acoustic ceilings, external and internal clinker facing and thermal glazing. Electrically operated blinds on the windows on the south side reduce the amount of sunlight. Thanks to an anemometer on the roof, all blinds are automatically raised in the event of a storm.
The roofs are mostly covered with plastic. The weight of gravel ensures that the film is protected from wind and sun. This also slows down the runoff of rainwater. In the event of frost, the inlet sockets are heated electrically to prevent the downpipes from freezing over. The windowless rooms of the natural sciences, the changing rooms of the gymnasium and some rooms on the second floor are illuminated by light domes that can be opened and closed electrically.
The two classhouses are called the east wing and the west wing . They are three stories high, with the west wing having a full basement at ground level. There you will find heating, oil storage and bicycle storage. The other parts of the building only have a crawl space. The corridors in the east wing are therefore each half a story lower than their counterparts in the west wing. Regular classrooms are characterized by a bricked side wall, lightly painted front and rear walls, a large window front and green radiators in green niches. They are equipped with tables and chairs, a projection surface for light pens, a large board and electrical installations for the operation of acoustic and optical devices.
The corridors are around 50 meters long and not as bright as the classrooms, as natural lighting is only possible from a comparatively small window at the end of the corridor. On cloudy days, the windows or doors at the ends and the light corridor in the middle don't provide much light either. In this case the lighting must be switched on. A further darkening is caused by the clinking of the inner walls. However, this is durable and easy to care for, which significantly reduces the number of renovation coatings required.
Administration rooms can be found on the eastern ground floor: the secretariat and the offices of the director, his deputy, the stepladder of the reformed upper school and the caretaker. The control center for the electrical systems can also be found in the caretaker's office. These rooms are supplemented by a small conference room, the teachers' library, a work room for teachers and the school book collection. In addition, there are four consulting rooms and a light corridor designed as a waiting room.
In addition to the IT rooms, there are other computer workstations that have been combined with the school library and “self-study center”.
Specialist rooms are located on the ground floor of the west wing. One of these is the art classroom, which was once called the drawing room. There are also two work rooms, two geography rooms and two religion rooms, each of which is supplemented by collection rooms. A room is also available to the student co-administration (SMV) and the twelve cleaners. The first two upper floors of the east and west wing are predominantly classrooms, plus there are two subject classrooms for mathematics as well as a collection room and the central media room, in which there is a range of acoustic and optical devices. The second floor east contains classrooms and several rooms for subject-related lessons in languages, history, social sciences and pedagogy. There is also a collection room for them. The second floor west mainly houses specialist rooms. This includes the second art classroom with a collection, another classroom for languages and the language laboratory with an adjoining room.
The language laboratory, officially known as the language teaching system, is a technical system designed to get used to hearing and speaking a foreign language. For this purpose, tapes are used that the pupil listens to, on which he then speaks and from which he can then hear his own speaking again for correction purposes. Students and teachers can communicate with each other at any time via the system. Incidentally, the language laboratory is equipped with wood-clad walls, a lamellar ceiling and carpeting. The latter is necessary for acoustic reasons; in this way disturbances at work should be excluded.
At the far west end of the building are the classroom and the music collection room. The comparatively remote position is owed to the noise development in music lessons, which can be traced back to the piano, phonograms or your own singing or making music. There are two more classrooms in the neighborhood. The middle of the floor is occupied by the large group room, which can accommodate up to 160 people. For this, two normal classrooms and the hallway were combined into a single room, which can be divided by a mobile partition. It is used for events for which the regular size of a classroom with a maximum of 40 seats is not sufficient, but the auditorium is oversized. These are z. B. Parents meetings, grade meetings, class and examination papers, high school exams or presentations for other groups, but also celebrations and receptions of the school. The associated light corridor has been designed by the caretaker from a wide variety of materials that were left over from the construction of the building into the so-called Galilei Bar .
The scientific rooms are combined in a one-story extension. The extension is at the same level as the ground floor of the Easter wing and is attached to the north side of the western classhouse. In the past, multi-storey wings were often built for science lessons, so that the individual subjects lay on top of each other on different levels, the location of all rooms on the same level enables the convenient exchange of devices between the departments. This construction method also brought advantages for the installation with gas, water and electricity. The disadvantage, however, is that heavier devices can only be transported with difficulty from one room group to another. In this wing there are two classrooms for physics and one for chemistry. A collection room and a preparation room are available for each of the two subjects. A photo laboratory and two small rooms for plant and animal breeding were added later.
On the occasion of the start of all-day operations, a relaxation room and lounges were created.
Triple gym
The large gable wall of the 28 x 46 meter triple gym with an interior height of 7.5 meters is striking. Two curtains allow the hall to be divided into three parts, each of which can be used as a separate gym. The hall's “swing floor” is made of PVC. This reduces the risk of injury compared to wooden fittings and is also easier to care for. Since a focus of the physical education class is on ball games, fields for basketball, handball, volleyball and tennis are marked on the floor. The necessary sports equipment for other sports is also available. The walls of the hall are padded with foam up to a height of 2.50 meters, which is intended to protect the players. There is carpet material above it, which serves to dampen noise and protect the balls.
Since the window fronts of the hall face east and west, plastic glazing was installed to avoid the reflective effects of the sun's rays. This scatters the light and prevents glare. A circulation system ensures that the hall is heated. By directing the warm air under the floor, the wooden structures are prevented from rotting due to moisture and the floor is heated up at the same time. The air is then fed into the hall below and then extracted again from under the ceiling. In the medical room there is a secondary device for the school telephone and a direct voice and alarm line to the ambulance service. There is also a public telephone in front of the gym.
In addition to the gymnasium, the high school also has a sports field on Dr.-Voßhage-Straße. The Adolf Brühl Stadium north of the school is also occasionally used for physical education.
Auditorium / educational center
The auditorium, now called the Pedagogical Center , is located between the sports hall and the classrooms. It serves as a meeting place for the school community and is also available for special occasions. This includes concerts, church services, dance evenings, lectures and exhibitions. Due to the location of the pedagogical center directly on the playground, the classhouses are not affected in the event of events. The 16 × 28 meter room has a stage and can be set up as required using movable seating. The rows of chairs can accommodate 530 people, which is not enough for the entire student body, but such large gatherings rarely take place anyway. The assembly room is complemented by a large cloakroom. This serves as a lounge for the learner drivers and has also proven to be useful at class parties. The central toilets and the cafeteria are located between the sports hall and the auditorium.
Photovoltaic system
The school also has a photovoltaic system with a total nominal output of 1.1 kW, designed by Horst Rellecke .
canteen
The cafeteria was built with the conversion to all-day operation. Since the school is no longer a sole place of study and work, one would be grateful for the decision of the school authorities to build the cafeteria, said the headmaster Lapornik-Jürgens in his acceptance speech. The construction was completed in 2012. The extension cost a total of 2.2 million euros. The food is produced by the Münster city kitchen. There is a choice between several meals, a salad and a noodle bar.
Educational offer
Tied full day
The Galilei-Gymnasium has been an all-day high school since the 2010/2011 school year. The decision to introduce the “ bound all-day ” was based on various considerations. The Abitur exams are no longer taken after nine years, as they used to be, but after eight years. This significantly increases the number of weekly hours prescribed by the state government, so that afternoon classes must take place from the fifth grade onwards. With the tied full day, individual funding opportunities were also created in order to meet the increased demands of everyday school life. For example, an hour in the morning is used twice a week to deepen individual course content. This is supplemented by the module funding “Students help students”. Homework support was also introduced. Lessons are now primarily organized in double lessons, which means more methodological options (e.g. for experiments in science lessons), more sustainable learning and greater peace and quiet in everyday school life, as fewer subjects need to be prepared and followed up and less teaching materials need to be brought along. Last but not least, the tied full-time operation takes into account changed social framework conditions, for example the fact that both parents are often employed and cannot look after their children in the afternoons.
The courses offered by the Galilei High School are now run in three courses (previously four courses).
foreign languages
Although the Galilei-Gymnasium is primarily oriented towards the natural sciences, it is possible to take up to three foreign languages. English is taught from the fifth grade and Latin or French from the sixth grade. The EPH offers the option of choosing Italian.
subjects
In addition to the usual range of subjects, young musicians have the opportunity to take a practical instrumental course. Participation in one of the school's musical groups is counted as a lesson. There is also a literature course that rehearses plays.
School social work
Since 2009 the school has had a qualified social pedagogue who takes care of the individual problems of individual students. If necessary, she also establishes contact with extracurricular youth welfare institutions and submits offers for students such as anti-violence training and addiction prophylaxis.
This offer is supplemented by pep AG, which, in cooperation with the school pedagogue and an employee of the youth addiction counseling service, addresses problems or questions about consumption, addiction, drugs or other problems. These are committed students from the Galilei grammar school who also call themselves “peers” (from the “ peer education project ” of the youth addiction counseling service, funded by Aktion Mensch).
Working groups
At the Galilei-Gymnasium a thematically diverse supplementary lesson is offered, for example different musical, linguistic, sporting and other creative activities can be chosen. Teachers, pupils or professionals supervise the additional program, which takes place after the regular lessons in the rooms of the school. The work group offer differs slightly each year from that of the previous year. The school's students also cultivate a school garden .
Together with the German Red Cross , a first aid project is organized annually for fifth grade students.
Study trips
Class and study trips are carried out at the beginning of grades 6 and 12.
public relation
Support association
The association of friends and sponsors of the Galilei-Gymnasium eV was founded in January 1984. The sponsoring association includes parents, teachers and former high school students. The association sees itself as a group of members rooted in the school community and belonging to the Galilei grammar school. This is owed to the intention to offer former students the opportunity to stay in contact with their old school and / or to support the grammar school materially and ideally. With the money that the association collected, numerous purchases could be made that could not be financed from the city budget. In addition, the association is dedicated to providing targeted support to socially disadvantaged students. The festival publications and the celebrations for the anniversaries were also sponsored by the Friends' Association.
School newspaper
Earlier print newspapers such as Der Gauls were replaced by the current online school newspaper GalliLive .
Partner schools
As explained in more detail in the history section, the grammar school maintains contacts and student exchanges with schools in Moscow (Russia), Kalisz (Poland), Malta and Camerino in the Marches (Italy). Contact with Malta, which had meanwhile fallen asleep, was reactivated by joint participation in the Comenius program .
Development aid project
Parents, teachers and students of the grammar school support the development project in Eritrea, the so-called clubfoot project of the Hammer Forum eV
School writings
School writings were created under the decisive direction of the long-time deputy headmaster Wolfgang Heitger for the 20th and 25th anniversary of the school as well as for the school years 1993/94 and 1994/95. In addition, high school newspapers are published every school year.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ School statistics 2018/2019. (PDF) In: www.hamm.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ^ School development planning city of Hamm. In: www.hamm.de. May 2017, pp. 335–341 , accessed on April 25, 2020 (in the version dated May 19 , 2017 ). The number of teachers is calculated there from the number of students in secondary levels I and II.
- ↑ Imprint. In: galilei-hamm.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Homepage of the Galilei High School on school history. (No longer available online.) In: www.galilei.schulnetz.hamm.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm, school publication. Anniversary edition. 25 years of Galilei High School. School year 1992/93 , Hamm 1993.
- ↑ a b Hamm-Wiki: Article “Galilei-Gymnasium”. In: www.hammwiki.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm, adult - what does that mean? Sane, who is that? The eighteenth 13! , High school newspaper of the year 1994.
- ↑ Westfälischer Anzeiger of February 17, 1994.
- ↑ a b c d Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm, school publication of the Galilei-Gymnasium, school year 1993/94 , Hamm 1994.
- ^ Hamm Wiki, article "Dr.-Voßhage-Straße". In: www.hammwiki.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Older website of the school, information on Russia. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j 2006 school program. (PDF file; 338 kB) (No longer available online.) In: www.galilei.schulnetz.hamm.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm, school publication of the Galilei-Gymnasium. School year 1994/95 , Hamm 1995.
- ↑ On the student exchange with San Marco in Lamis. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Basic pedagogical consensus and house rules. (PDF, 853 kB) (No longer available online.) In: www.galilei.schulnetz.hamm.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Homepage of the school for participation in the 1Live school duel. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Homepage of the school for the opening of the cafeteria. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b c d e Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm, brochure All-day at the Galilei-Gymnasium. Individual support with the best conditions! , Hamm 2010.
- ↑ Homepage on the topic of Project Days 2008. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Homepage for the inauguration of the school sculpture. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Homepage of the Radbod colliery memorial event. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ a b On the farewell to Director Brocker. (No longer available online.) In: www.galli-live.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ^ Reporting by the Westphalian Gazette (April 2009). (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Homepage entry "International Meeting in May 2009. (Not available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on 25 April 2020 . ( Page no longer available , searching web archives )
- ↑ New director at the Galilei Gymnasium. (PDF file; 907 kB) (No longer available online.) In: www.hammer-norden.de. April 15, 2010, archived from the original on December 25, 2013 ; accessed on April 25, 2020 (Nordwind. Zeitschrift für den Hammer Norden).
- ↑ The school newspaper GalliLive about the new headmaster Reinhard Lapornik-Jürgens. In: www.galli-live.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ^ Homepage for the participation of "Galli-Live" in the competition of the magazine DIE ZEIT. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ New cafeteria at the Galilei High School . In: https://www.wa.de . September 14, 2012 ( wa.de [accessed October 24, 2017]).
- ↑ Italian | Galilei High School Hamm. Retrieved October 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Homepage of the literature course. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Homepage of the literature course. (No longer available online.) In: www.galilei.schulnetz.hamm.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ "The Peers of the Galilei High School". In: ggha.de. Retrieved April 25, 2020 .
- ↑ Galilei-Gymnasium Hamm, From us for you. Information, experiences and tips ... for you 5th grade students. Have fun at the new school! . Information brochure, Hamm 2010.
- ↑ School exchange 2008–2010 with Malta. (No longer available online.) In: ggha.de. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 25, 2020 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )