Georg Müller School Bielefeld
| Georg Müller School | |
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| type of school |
Gymnasium (G8),
Comprehensive school (G9 - with the possibility of transition to the upper level of the grammar school) or elementary school |
| founding | 1990 |
| address |
Detmolder Straße 284, 33605 Bielefeld (comprehensive school, grammar school and elementary school Bielefeld) Lipper Hellweg 230, 33605 Bielefeld (Bielefeld primary school) Unterer Steinweg 14, 33803 Steinhagen (Steinhagen Elementary School) Buschkampstraße 273, 33659 Bielefeld (Senne primary school) |
| place | Bielefeld and Steinhagen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 0 '7 " N , 8 ° 34' 4" E |
| carrier | Supporting Association of Evangelical Confession Schools - Georg Müller Schools eV |
| student | around 760 in comprehensive schools around 480 in elementary schools |
| Website | www.gms-net.de |
The Georg-Müller-Schule Bielefeld is a state-recognized, private evangelical denominational school with three primary schools ( Bielefeld , Steinhagen , Senne ) as well as a comprehensive school and a grammar school. It is supported by the association of the evangelical confessional schools in Bielefeld. It is also a member of the Association of Protestant Confession Schools (VEBS). It is named after the German-English orphanage founder Georg Müller (1805–1898).
history
The Georg Müller School was founded in 1990 from a parents' initiative as a state-recognized substitute school with an evangelical creed. The planning for the construction of the first elementary school began as early as 1988, but government permission was not obtained until the 1990/91 school year. The intention was to set up a school that would be based on the Bible and educate young people according to the biblical image of man.
1990–1994 (Paulusstrasse)
In the school year 1990/91, about 45 first graders in Bielefeld-Mitte started school work. In the following four years the school was expanded to around 180 students in two-pronged stages. The question of a secondary school soon arose, since the founding year would switch to the 5th year in the 1994/95 school year. In the Ummeln district of Bielefeld, for example, a building was rented to be used as a temporary teaching building. The Ministry of Education ordered that by the 1996/97 school year a building be presented in which lessons up to grade 10 could take place.
1994–1996 (Ummeln)
One week before the start of the 1994/95 school year, the final permit to run a comprehensive school was obtained. 49 students were taught by 4 teachers in two fifth grades. Two schools in the Georg Müller Schools were now running in parallel: the primary school in Bielefeld-Mitte and the comprehensive school in Bielefeld-Ummeln.
For the 1995/96 school year, a further 83 pupils were added, who were now taught in 4 classes by 11 teachers. But as time went on, the pressure to find a new building also increased. At first it was considered to acquire the property of the technical college at the Wilhelm-Bertelsmann-Schule. However, this option quickly turned out to be ineffective. Therefore, on the advice of the city of Bielefeld, in March 1995 a 37,500 m² plot of land in Bielefeld-Senne on Buschkampstrasse was purchased.
This is where the Georg Müller School should find its final location. The school management and the development association expected a further large number of students, which is why a large school area would be necessary. The planning envisaged that the elementary school from Paulusstrasse would also join in the foreseeable future and that there would also be the possibility of completing the Abitur at the school. So you needed permission from the Senne district and the building and urban development committee to start construction.
Due to the denominational character of the Georg Müller School, the discussion harbored great potential for conflict, also on a political level. Serious allegations were made especially by the Greens . The school appears to be a foreign body in the Bielefeld school landscape and pursues a policy of isolation. Evangelical Christians from the former Soviet Union , for whom the Georg Müller School cannot offer sufficient integration conditions, are to be expected as potential students at the Georg Müller School .
On September 4, 1995, the Georg Müller School invited to an information event in which the school concept was to be presented. In front of more than 600 citizens, those responsible at the Georg Müller School explained that they were a school based on biblical foundations. But this does not mean that you want to isolate yourself and blind the children ideologically. Rather, the children will be brought up to be mature personalities with social responsibility and a healthy critical faculty.
On September 14th there was finally a vote in the Senner district. With the help of the votes of the BfB , the CDU prevailed against the Greens and the SPD with 10: 9 votes and thus for the construction of the Georg Müller School. On September 19th, however, the urban development committee decided against the construction with 8: 7 votes. So the decision had to be made by the Main Committee of the City of Bielefeld, which in the last instance turned against the construction of the Georg Müller School on Buschkampstrasse.
In the search for a new building to build the school, it was soon possible to decide on the site of the former British Ripon barracks in the Stieghorst district . Also this time the politicians did not pose any obstacles, so that in a joint meeting of the Stieghorst District Representation, the Environment and Urban Development Committee and the Main Committee, the Stieghorst location was voted unanimously.
Four buildings and an 8000 m² plot of land were to be acquired here, on which the elementary school was later to be located and a gymnasium was to be built. The renovation of the school was mainly ensured by many volunteers from the numerous Christian communities in the Bielefeld area. The school was able to move from Ummeln to Stieghorst in the 1997/98 school year. The primary school remained temporarily on Paulusstraße, but was to follow later. The first day of school at the new location was August 18, 1997.
1997 – today (Bielefeld, Stieghorst)
In the 1997/98 school year, 334 students in 12 classes (5th-8th grade) were taught by 21 teachers in the new rooms of the Georg Müller School. At first only one building was completed. It took nine years until the 2005/06 school year to complete all four buildings. In the 1999/2000 school year, the primary school moved from Paulusstraße to Stieghorst. In 2003 the newly built quadruple gymnasium was inaugurated. In the 1999/2000 school year there was the first graduation class (10th grade), and in 2003 the Georg-Müller-Schule passed an Abitur class for the first time. Since March 15, 2005 there has been a partnership with the Scholengemeenschap Jacobus Fruytier ( Apeldoorn , Netherlands); In spring 2017 the Georg Müller School entered into a partnership with the Hope School ( East London , South Africa).
Since the 2014/15 school year there has been an independent, two-tier grammar school (G8) and a four-tier comprehensive school (G9 - with the option of transitioning to the upper level of the gymnasium). Both are located on the shared school premises in Bielefeld-Sieker .
1997 – today (Steinhagen)
In August 1997, another Georg Müller elementary school was founded in Steinhagen (Gütersloh district). It is located on the outskirts of Steinhagen in a rural area and is open to all children - regardless of their nationality or the ideology of their parents. In a building formerly used as a sewing shop, 211 children are currently being taught in grades 1 to 4. In addition to Steinhagen, the catchment area of the two-class school includes the western and some northern districts of Bielefeld as well as the Halle and Harsewinkel areas .
Since the beginning of the 2015/16 school year, the Georg Müller School has been a private half-day school.
2007 – today (Senne)
In 2007 the former building of the “Grundheider School” was acquired from the real estate portfolio of the city of Bielefeld for a third Georg Müller elementary school. Shortly thereafter, renovation measures took place, so that in 2008 operations could start with a first class. In 2011, the two-movement option was fully expanded. A year later, an additional pavilion building was put into operation.
School concept
The concept assumes that the heterogeneity of the student body (which was expressly wanted by the initiators of the school: “School for everyone”) opens up important didactic possibilities on the one hand and creates problems with regard to appropriate individual support on the other. The attempt, on the one hand, to use the opportunities of this heterogeneity and, on the other hand, to react appropriately to the problems of this heterogeneity, consists in starting from performance-heterogeneous classes in a gradually advancing process to encourage the learners more and more in more homogeneous groups and finally also in classes. In addition, special support programs are offered for underperforming students and support programs for high-performing students in order to be able to offer students assistance in their weaknesses as well as in their strengths.
religion
Since the concept of the Georg Müller School is based on Christian values, the lessons are largely based on Christian beliefs and world views. In biology classes, creationism is taught, as well as partly the theory of evolution . Protestant religious teaching is taught in religious instruction.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Müller School location. gms-net.de, accessed on February 23, 2019 . , Georg-Müller-Schule Our school. gms-net.de, accessed on February 23, 2019 .