Lippstadt comprehensive school

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Lippstadt comprehensive school
School yard and main road
Main entrance to the comprehensive school
type of school Comprehensive school
founding 2010
address

Ulmenstrasse 31

place Lippstadt
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 39 '52 "  N , 8 ° 19' 56"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '52 "  N , 8 ° 19' 56"  E
carrier City of Lippstadt
student 901 (2018/19)
management Ludger Monday
Website Gesamtschulelippstadt.de

The Lippstadt comprehensive school is a municipal secondary school with an integrated upper secondary school in Lippstadt . It is run as an all-day school and was founded in 2010.

history

For a longer period of time, increasingly after the introduction of the Abitur after the twelfth grade (" G8 "), the establishment of a comprehensive school in Lippstadt was discussed in the population, as the comprehensive schools in the area offered hardly any capacity for Lippstadt students. On the part of the Lippstädter INI (Initiative for Youth Welfare, Education and Work e.V.) , on the occasion of its 25th anniversary on March 7, 2008, chairman Andreas Knapp announced that a comprehensive school privately sponsored by the INI will start in the 2009 school year / 10 to build. The city administration of Lippstadt feared that additional school closings, beyond the consequence of falling student numbers, would result from emigration, which they wanted to avoid. By September 2008, the INI had presented the city with a list of signatures from 1100 parents for the establishment of the comprehensive school. Even so, the INI's application for a building and an operating grant was rejected by the city's school committee. The council decided to conduct a formal parent survey, which was sent to almost 2000 parents of first, second and third graders at Lippstadt elementary schools in October 2008 . With a response rate of 77%, 32.6% voted for a comprehensive school, which was taken as a positive vote by both the city and the INI. The cooperation between the INI and the city, favored by the council groups of the SPD , the citizens 'community and Bündnis90 / Die Grünen , was rejected by the administration: the parents' vote obliged the city of Lippstadt to set up a comprehensive school. At its meeting on November 24, 2008, the council therefore decided to set up a municipal comprehensive school for the 2010/11 school year. The plans initially envisaged converting the secondary school complex on Dusternweg, consisting of the Drost-Rose and Edith-Stein secondary school with an investment volume of a planned 10 million euros, to a comprehensive school. The council decision was made in September 2009 Handed over the relevant decree of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia for the construction of the school via the Arnsberg district government . The registrations for the school year 2010/11 exceeded the required quorum of at least 112 registrations with 120. Although the desired mix of thirds of students with recommendations for secondary school , secondary school and grammar school was not achieved (there were only 12 children with high school recommendation), the district government approved the start of school operations, initially as a half-day school . School started at the end of August 2010 at the beginning of the school year with four classes and a staff of seven teachers. In January 2011, the planned all-day operation was also approved.

In order to guarantee the planned start in summer 2010, the school was to be accommodated temporarily for 3 years at the "Stadtwaldschule", initially in parallel with the final years of the secondary school, which was to be discontinued there. There was a time limit for the use of the Stadtwaldschule, as, due to the planned closure of the Hauptschule, its premises were already promised in February 2008 by a resolution of the council to a neighboring industrial company as the desired expansion area to secure the location. Due to the unfavorable spatial situation of the two secondary schools initially planned for conversion and the difficult question of which buildings the two secondary schools should be housed in instead, the city ​​administration was commissioned in November 2011 to develop alternative locations for the comprehensive school. In March 2012, the "Schulzentrum Pappelallee" location in the south of the city was proposed as an alternative, and the council decided on this in June 2012. This initially envisaged expanding the existing buildings of the Pestalozzi School ( special needs school with a focus on "learning"), as a dwindling number of pupils was expected as a result of the inclusion and therefore the special needs school was to be relocated to the building of another, closed secondary school (Wilhelmschule) in the city center. Ultimately, however, it was decided to build a new building on the site of the special needs school, because the existing buildings required extensive renovation work, and they did not meet the requirements of a modern school. The design by Swiatkowski and Suerkemper from Ostfildern emerged as the winner of the architecture competition, in which 21 architectural offices took part . The design of the outside areas is carried out by the office schreiber plan from Stuttgart. The demolition of the special needs school began at the end of 2014, the foundation stone for the new building was laid on October 29, 2015, the topping-out ceremony was on June 17, 2016. In the meantime, with the third school year 2012 with around 360 students, the spatial situation at the transition location Stadtwaldschule was such that additional School class containers had to be set up and later, when the container was set up again, rooms from the neighboring primary school "Am Weinberg" were taken over.

In the summer of 2016, the first year of the comprehensive school graduated at the end of the 10th grade. With the appropriate qualifications, 45 pupils decided to attend the upper school level together with 35 new junior high school students. Since the new building was not yet finished, the upper secondary level was first taught in the rooms of the municipal Ostendorf grammar school. In July 2017, a few days before the summer holidays, this year group moved into the new building on Ulmenstrasse as the first group of schoolchildren; all other years followed at the start of the new school year at the end of August 2017.

At the end of the 2018/19 school year, the first graduate class will leave school.

Architecture and buildings

The new school building opens up via the entrance on Ulmenstrasse to a large foyer from which all the school wings can be reached. Straight ahead (to the west) the so-called Magistrale extends over a long hallway over two floors . From there, access to the subject rooms for chemistry and physics classes is on the right-hand side (to the north, to the school yard). At right angles to the south there are three three-storey class wings (so-called clusters ), one each for the lower, middle and upper grades. In the wing for the lower and middle grades there is a separate floor for each grade level (5–7 or 8–10). Since there are fewer students in the upper level, the general school administration and soundproofed music rooms are housed in this cluster on the ground floor, while the second and third floors house classrooms and course rooms, as well as a teaching kitchen for home economics. In each cluster there is a separate teachers' room for the teachers working at this level in order to be able to achieve a direct connection between student and teacher. The greening between the clusters is chosen so that this space can be used as an "open-air classroom". From the foyer to the right you get to the forum , the auditorium with a stage that can be divided several times by mobile partition walls and around two thirds of the area is used as the school cafeteria in everyday life. The canteen kitchen is located between the foyer and the forum. Above the canteen kitchen there is a library and media library (reading lounge ) for all grades. The schoolyard opens up far from the street, delimited by the forum and specialist room wing on the one hand, and the combined gymnasium and the An der Pappelallee elementary school remaining in the immediate vicinity on the other. The two gyms with an additional teaching pool previously used by the schools that already existed on site are now also used by the comprehensive school. The gyms were energetically renovated in autumn 2017, and another new gym is being planned.

The building was awarded the School Construction Prize 2018 , awarded by the NRW Chamber of Architects and the Ministry for Schools and Education of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Pedagogical focus

Timetable and time grid

At the Lippstadt Comprehensive School, lessons take place in school hours in secondary level I of 60 minutes each. The aim is to enable more intensive learning and to reduce the number of subjects taught each day, which reduces the number of school books and teaching materials to be brought along. In the morning, a so-called "conveyor belt" of 30 minutes per day is set up, in which the students can independently deepen, rework or do their homework. In the upper secondary level, the classic 45-minute grid is used because of the cooperation with other schools.

Focus classes

With the school registration for the 5th grade, the attendance of a specialty class can be chosen from four focal points: MINT , sport, artistic design and music. The focus on music takes place in cooperation with the municipal music school. The focus is on from fifth to eighth grade.

Secondary level I.

From the 5th to the 10th grade, the school is run in four classes, each class is accompanied by two class teachers. From the 6th grade onwards, a first differentiation is made by choosing a subject from 4 compulsory elective areas that must be taken continuously up to the 10th grade: natural sciences, work studies (housekeeping, technology, economics), a second foreign language, presentation and design. There is an internal differentiation into basic and advanced courses for the subject English from the 7th grade, for German and mathematics from the 8th grade and for physics / chemistry from the 9th grade. Depending on the courses chosen and the grades achieved, all secondary school qualifications can be obtained: Hauptschule qualification and Mittelschule qualification (technical college entrance qualification). It is possible to continue attending the comprehensive school in the upper secondary level up to the Abitur with the appropriate qualification.

Linguistic offer

The first foreign language starting in the 5th grade is English. From year 6 onwards, Spanish or French can be taken as a second foreign language in the compulsory elective area. Another foreign language (as the second for the students who did not take a language in the elective area in the 6th grade, or as the third for those who already have a second foreign language in the elective area) is Latin, Spanish or French from the 8th grade (depending on the Voting behavior of the students) possible. From the 7th grade, a subject can be taken in English for 1 hour as part of the bilingual offer.

Secondary level II

The first year of the 11th grade (introductory phase - "EF") in the school year 2016/17 could choose the following subjects in addition to compulsory subjects such as German, mathematics, sports:

Basic courses

Foreign languages ​​to be continued from lower secondary level:

  • English
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Latin

such as:

  • Educational science
  • Religious teaching
  • Social sciences
  • philosophy
  • physics
  • chemistry
  • biology
  • Geography
  • history

Advanced courses

(for the first year in the 12th grade (qualification phase 1 - "Q1") in the school year 2017/18, according to the voting behavior of the students)

from the mathematical-scientific-technical field of activity:

  • mathematics

from the social science field of activity:

from the linguistic-literary-artistic field of activity:

  • German
  • English
  • Art (in cooperation with the Marienschule)

without field of activity:

  • Sports

social commitment

School without Racism

Since 2015 the school has been registered with the initiative School without Racism - School with Courage .

In the 8th grade, pupils can voluntarily take so-called "certificate courses" in the areas of sports assistants, bus attendants, mediators and first aiders .

School partnership

There is a school partnership with the Collège Paul Éluard in Saint-Étienne-au-Mont in northern France, with which a student exchange for grades 8-10 is organized every school year. Since 2018, the Gimnàs Municipal of Batea in Catalonia ( Spain ) has been another partner school.

Support association

The friends' association supports the school with help in school matters and in maintaining contact between the school and the citizens: "... we ... step in to make school life ... more interesting, beautiful and colorful". A media library was set up in 2012 with the help of the Friends' Association. Among other things, authors of young books for young people are regularly invited to school readings, and purchases for teaching and outdoor use are supported.

Web links

Commons : Schools in Lippstadt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official school statistics (accessed April 20, 2019)
  2. ↑ Press release of the city of Lippstadt (2008). Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Press release from the city of Lippstadt on the parent survey. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Press release of the city of Lippstadt from February 10, 2010. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Zoning plan No. 288 of the city of Lippstadt (PDF). Retrieved February 22, 2019 .
  6. ↑ School development plan of the City of Lippstadt from April 25, 2012 (PDF 1.1 MB). (PDF) Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Competition result. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Project page of the architectural office. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Information from the city of Lippstadt on the new building with download of planning drafts. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Project page of the office. Retrieved January 8, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Press release of the city of Lippstadt from July 13, 2012 on the installation of school containers. Retrieved October 28, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Overview sketch as PDF
  13. ↑ Newspaper article from October 28, 2017 in Der Patriot
  14. ↑ Newspaper article from July 7, 2018 in Der Patriot
  15. ↑ School Construction Award 2018 - Award for exemplary school buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia (as PDF)
  16. ↑ Info sheet of the friends' association (PDF 440 KB). (PDF) Retrieved January 8, 2019 .