Georg Büchner High School (Seelze)
| Georg Büchner High School | |
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| Logo at the main entrance of the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium | |
| type of school | high school |
| address |
Hirtenweg 22 |
| place | Seelze |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 24 '16 " N , 9 ° 38' 25" E |
| student | around 1400 |
| Teachers | about 90 |
| Website | www.gbgseelze.de |
The Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium is a high school in the city of Seelze , Hanover region in Lower Saxony . The school is named after the Hessian naturalist, writer and revolutionary Georg Büchner (1813–1837).
A total of around 1,400 students are taught by around 90 teachers at the grammar school.
building
Today the school consists of three building parts, an old building which serves as the main building, a south wing (the building of the former Geschwister-Scholl-Schule ) and the new building completed in August 2001. The extension of 1,700 square meters, which began on July 29, 2000, cost a little more than 4.6 million euros. It was handed over to the teachers and students on August 22, 2001 by the then Finance Minister Heinrich Aller , among others . The available sports area consists of various gymnastics and gymnastics halls, a large sports stadium with a synthetic running track, two large adjacent lawns, a plastic-covered handball field, a weight room and a beach volleyball and handball facility. There is a swimming pool in the immediate vicinity. The school also has rowing boats and ski equipment. The GBG has a media library in which there is a studio for video productions. The Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium also has a cafeteria with common areas for students during their free periods. There is also a school library and a forum with seating for up to 350 people.
Educational work
languages
The school offers bilingual lessons in German and English . English, Latin and French are taught as foreign languages as well as Italian and Spanish as optional subjects. In the French language that can DELF , a language certificate be purchased.
Vocational preparation
In addition to the teaching units on the world of work in political classes, there are also company tours as preparation for a career. In the eleventh grade, the students take part in a vocational training seminar. The seminar is continuously accompanied by an employee of the employment office (BIZ) and a representative of the “Central Student Advisory Service” (ZSB) at the University of Hanover and the University of Applied Sciences Hanover. In addition, there will be a two-week internship in year ten.
Awards
- Environmental school in Europe
In October 2003, the school first applied for admission to the international project “ Environmental Schools in Europe ”. 13,000 schools in 31 countries are now taking part in the project. Participating schools have to qualify within two years in two self-selected areas of activity within the framework of environmental education, one project must be selected from the topics of waste, water and energy. As part of this call for tenders, the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium participated with the projects “Creation of a waste avoidance and waste separation system” and “Redesign of the school grounds under the heading: School to feel good”. The jury was so convinced of the activities and measures in this matter that had been completed by June 2005 that they recommended the grammar school for both international and national awards. The Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium has been able to designate itself as the International Agenda 21 School since September 28, 2005 , confirmed by certificates and a flag.
On September 28, 2005, the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium Seelze was named an environmental school in Europe . In 2007 it received this award again.
- uniKIK school
In 2007 the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium Seelze was recognized as a uniKIK school by the Leibniz University of Hanover .
- RoboCup
In the “Rescue” discipline, teams from the Georg Büchner Gymnasium became world champions at the Robocup in 2007 ( Atlanta ), 2009 ( Graz ) and 2012 ( Mexico ). In 2008 in Suzhou , 2010 in Singapore , 2011 in Istanbul and 2013 in Eindhoven third places were achieved. In the “Super Team” discipline, further first placements have been achieved in recent years.
- Unicum Abi
In a survey by Unicum ABI magazine , the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium won the School of the Year 2003 award, including first place in the extracurricular activities category and second place in the vocational preparation category .
Partner schools
The grammar school has partner schools in different countries:
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Bristol , UK -
Verviers , Belgium -
VII. Liceum in Poznań , Poland, since 1990 -
Quilcene , USA -
Collège St. Francoit Xavier in Verviers , France -
College in Grand-Couronne , France
Support association
The Association of Friends of the Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium Seelze, e. V. is an association of students, teachers and parents. It is his job to actively support the work of this school with ideal and material help. The funding should reach as many different subject areas of school work as possible. The association would like the funds to primarily benefit larger groups and working groups.
The association aims in particular
- enable the acquisition of collections, libraries or other materials that make lessons more interesting and up-to-date
- support the working groups of the school
- Subsidize project days and school medical services
- Contribute to the better equipment of the general rooms, such as the forum, Schulstrasse or the south wing
- subsidize school trips in individual cases in financial emergencies.
The association has existed since 1970 and its work is exclusively and directly non-profit.
Internet presence
The school maintains an internet presence. It now has the internal school network IServ , which also replaces the forum.
Prominent students
- Florian Battermann , playwright, director, actor and artistic director
- Alexa Hennig von Lange , writer
- Hauke Jagau , German politician (SPD) and regional president of the Hanover region
- Lina Larissa Strahl , young singer, young actress
literature
- Heinrich Tiefuhr: Letter. History and stories - a chronicle . 1989 (on behalf of the letter local council).
- Norbert Saul et al. a .: School back then . 1999 (reader on the history of the Seelzer school system, 32 pages).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ (uniKIK Schule 2007) ( Memento of the original from January 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the Robocup at www.rohe-web.de, accessed on November 8, 2007
