Meiendorf high school

Meiendorf high school
type of school	high school
founding	1966
address	Julian 60
place	Hamburg
country	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Coordinates	53 ° 37 '31 "  N , 10 ° 9' 5"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 37 '31 "  N , 10 ° 9' 5"  E
student	1006 (school year 2017/18)
Teachers	91
management	Christian Thobaben
Website	www.gymei.de

The Gymnasium Meiendorf (abbreviated Gymei ) is a state high school in the Hamburg district of Rahlstedt . The grammar school was founded in 1966 and is named after the Meiendorf district of Rahlstedt , where it has been based since 1967. The school has a musical focus and a bilingual branch.

history

The Meiendorf grammar school was founded on April 1, 1966 as an "offshoot" of the Walddörfer grammar school in order to have a grammar school offer on site in Meiendorf, which is characterized by young families. After starting with 95 students in the first year, the numbers quickly grew to 920 students in 1974. With the low-birth cohorts, the number of pupils initially fell significantly and then leveled off at around 550 by the end of the 1990s.

In 1974 the Gymnasium Meiendorf started offering the third foreign language in the middle school and not as usual until then in the upper school.

Since the turn of the millennium, the numbers have increased significantly again. In the 2008/09 school year, 51 teachers taught the 725 pupils at the school, 242 of them in the 5th and 6th grades alone. Right from the start, the Meiendorf high school had a musical profile that included special music classes in grades 5 and 6, a school orchestra, three choirs and a concert band. Diverse theater and art activities emphasize the aesthetic focus.

Since 2006 there has been a second profile with the bilingual branch at the Gymnasium Meiendorf: English lessons are being intensified and - starting with sports in the 5th grade - several subjects are taught in English, such as geography, history, biology or chemistry. Since 2007, the Meiendorf high school has not been offering Latin, but Spanish as a second foreign language.

An International Preparatory Class (IVK) has existed since the 2015/16 school year.

architecture

entrance

main building

Class houses of type 65, renovated from 2003

Façade details of the renovated cross building

The school grounds of the grammar school at Schierenberg 60 border on the west of the grounds of the Schierenberg elementary school at Schierenberg 50, which was closed in 2006. Further to the west, the Schierenberg crosses the Berner Strasse. To the east and south, the Bargkoppelweg industrial area (including Hamburgische Münze ) connects to the school grounds of the grammar school.

The foundation stone for the high school building took place in 1966, and the new building was inaugurated in 1967. The specialist wing was completed in 1968. More new buildings followed in 1974, followed by the gymnasium in 1975. In addition to a main building with administration, teachers' rooms and classrooms, a total of seven houses with four shoemaker-type classrooms and five buildings with specialist rooms (chemistry, physics, biology, art) were built.

Since 2003 the classroom buildings of the grammar school have been renovated and the school yard redesigned. In 2012 the renovation of the break hall was completed.

From 2013 to 2014 some buildings and outdoor facilities of the neighboring elementary school were completely renovated in order to transfer them to the use of the high school. The cross building including the break hall of the former elementary school with a gross floor area of ​​around 21,000 m² was energetically revised at a cost of almost 5 million euros. The cross structure was dismantled down to the supporting structure, the technical building equipment was completely renewed. The parapets with the green and white glass mosaics and the anthracite clinkered gables are allusions to the architecture of the 1960s, but not a reconstruction . Since 2014, the renovated Kreuzbau has been used as the eighth classroom building and the separate school yard there for the observation level (grades 5-6) of the grammar school. The renovated break hall serves as a theater room.

School profile

The Meiendorf high school had a good 1,000 students in the 2017/18 school year. The catchment area is essentially Rahlstedt , Farmsen-Berne and Volksdorf . When the social index for Hamburg schools was surveyed in 2011, a social index of 5 was calculated for the Meiendorf high school on a scale from 1 (disadvantageous requirements of the student body, highest need for support) to 6 (best conditions, no need for support). In the 2016/17 school year, almost 32% of the Gymei students had a migrant background , slightly less than the average of all Hamburg high schools.

The school offers the normal range of subjects at a Hamburg grammar school. Spanish or French (from grade 6) and also Latin (as a third foreign language) can be learned. The offerings in IT and media, for example film editing, are less common. More English is taught in the bilingual classes. In addition, the musical subjects play a major role. At the grammar school, music classes are formed in the 5th and 6th grades, in which each student learns an instrument in order to then play music together in a class orchestra. Sports lessons take place in a three-field sports hall and on a large sports field with a beach volleyball field.

Extracurricular offers

The international simulation Model United Nations (MUNOH), in which the work of the United Nations is simulated, has been held annually at the Meiendorf grammar school since 2009 .

Schoolchildren regularly represent the Gymnasium Meiendorf at the Erasmian European Youth Parliament (EEYP).

The Meiendorf high school is regularly represented successfully at film competitions:

• Nomination for the German Young Talent Award 2007 at the international film festival Up-and-Coming in Hanover .
• Special prize of the Hamburg transport association for the film "Bad Day" in the category "A clip on mobility" at the youth media "shot off"

Parents have been cooking for the students in the school's own kitchen since 1974.

Web links

Commons : Gymnasium Meiendorf  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Meiendorf high school
• Model United Nations of Hamburg (MUNOH)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Authority for Schools and Vocational Education and Training, Institute for Education Monitoring and Quality Development : Regional Education Atlas Hamburg , information on the Meiendorf high school in the 2017/18 school year, accessed in June 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Kollegium on the website of the Meiendorf grammar school, accessed in June 2020.
3. ↑ Ordinance on measures within the framework of school organization at the beginning of the 2006/2007 school year and at the end of 2006/2007 from June 27, 2006 . In: Hamburgisches Gesetz- und Verordnungsblatt (HmbGVBl), 2006, p. 363ff. ( Online )
4. ^ ^{A b c} Boris Meyn : The history of the development of the Hamburg school building . Kovač, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-86064-707-5 , p. 509. (inventory number 352)
5. ↑ Schulhof Gymnasium Schierenberg , project ID 5-50807, result of the advertisement on competitiononline, May 3, 2013. Outside! Landscape architecture Gottfried Rzeźnik-Neder, Hamburg
6. ↑ SBH Hamburg (ed.): Good rooms for good education . Cubus, Hamburg 2016, p. 174. ( Online ) Architects: DR-Architekten (Reumschüssel), Hamburg - Hanover
7. ^ Olaf Bartels: Kreuzbau am Schierenberg . In: Bauwelt , No. 47/2015 .
8. ↑ Small written question from MP Robert Heinemann (CDU) of February 28, 2013 and answer from the Senate. Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - 20th electoral period, printed matter 20/7094 , Annex 4b: Old and new social indices of the state secondary schools, p. 27.
9. ↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer: That's how high the proportion of migrants in Hamburg schools is . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 19, 2018 (at the Hamburg grammar schools, the average was 37.3%)
10. ↑ Gymnasium Meiendorf - a school with a history , chronicle (PDF), accessed in June 2020.