Melle high school

Melle high school
type of school	General education
founding	1948
address	Grönenberger Str. 41
place	Melle
country	Lower Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	52 ° 12 '10 " N , 8 ° 19' 45" E Coordinates: 52 ° 12 '10 " N , 8 ° 19' 45" E
carrier	District of Osnabrück
student	987 (2018)
Teachers	91
management	William Pollmann
Website	melle-gymnasium.de

The Melle grammar school is a general education grammar school. It is located in the city center of Melle near the Grönenberg Park and was founded in 1948. There was a branch in the Wallgarten School.

In its mission statement, the Meller Gymnasium sees itself as a community of learners, their legal guardians, teachers and employees. Special projects are the student exchange with schools in the UK ( Birmingham , Etwall), the Netherlands ( Gemert ) and France ( Melle (Deux-Sevres) ) for UNICEF as well as cooperation with the Osnabrück Symphony Orchestra, the Osnabrück Youth Symphony Orchestra (OSJSO) and the church music of the St. Matthew Church in Melle.

History and profile

The high school

Due to the strong population increase in Melle after the Second World War , the desire arose to have an own grammar school. Until then, high school students often drove to the Carolinum in Osnabrück, 25 kilometers away , but the mayor and chairman of the council, Johann Uttinger, advocated a re-establishment that took place in 1948. The school was initially housed in the building of the Grönenburg, which later became the youth hostel .

A new school building was built on Grönenberger Strasse in 1954, to which the grammar school moved in 1956. Hermann Meyer-Rabingen (Mayor of Melle from 1952 to 1956) provided the land for this, it was part of the Rabingen estate . After a short time, the premises were no longer sufficient, so that an extension was necessary in 1965. The Rabingen estate also made space available for this. When the new building moved into the new building in 1956, there were 423 students in 15 classes; by the end of the 1960s, the number had already reached around 650, spread over 25 classes taught by 26 full-time teachers and 11 assistants.

In the 1970s, part of the middle school moved to the new building of the Ratsschule Melle (secondary school) due to lack of space . Extensions were also made in 1986 with the addition of the natural sciences, a new music hall in which the school choirs and the school orchestra found sufficient space, and in 2002 additional subject and classrooms.

About 98 percent of students achieve lower secondary education . A large number of interested people from the Melle secondary school attend the upper school level from grade 11. When it comes to leaving school in other types of school, the rate is around 4 percent. What is noticeable is a consistently higher number of people leaving school after the 10th year. The school explains this by switching to upper secondary level from schools in the neighboring state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Melle high school shows a particular profile in the development and implementation of concepts for the educational mandate of the Lower Saxony School Act. Invitations from politicians, organizations and associations to class and visits by groups of students in German parliaments make an educational contribution to civic responsibility. The Gymnasium Melle provides intercultural education through school partnerships, student exchange programs and cooperation with the city's German-Turkish working group. The high school maintains regular communication with a school in Melle's twin town Niğde in Turkey . The Meller Gymnasium has been committed to UNICEF since 1970. The school shows a profile of holistic values education. As a result of the basic structural work of StD Rolf Lieske, the school focuses on musical and cultural education with links to local authorities and the symphony orchestra in Osnabrück.

The Friends of the Melle High School was founded in the early stages . Its purpose is to provide non-material and material support for the promotion of upbringing and education by providing for the procurement and provision of teaching materials, musical instruments and equipment if there are insufficient public funds available.

Today the Melle high school has around 1400 students and 91 teachers. Lessons take place in 47 classrooms and 17 subject rooms.