Upper Alster High School

Upper Alster High School
type of school	high school
founding	1945
address	Alsterredder 26
place	Hamburg
country	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Coordinates	53 ° 39 '33 " N , 10 ° 6' 4" E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '33 " N , 10 ° 6' 4" E
student	about 870
Teachers	about 70
management	Martin Widmann
Website	Upper Alster High School

The Oberalster grammar school (often abbreviated as GOA ) in the Hamburg district of Sasel has existed since 1945. Around 870 students attend the grammar school, who are currently taught by around 70 teachers.

View of the main building, 2016

New gym, 2016

Educational offers

In addition to working groups in the field of sports ( badminton , table tennis , football and golf ), musical working groups ( big band , chamber ensemble , pop choir , folklore ) are also offered.

Other working groups are the Homepage and Philosophy AG, as well as the Table Top, Chess, Photo, Paramedic, Dance, Garden and Bees AG. There is also an opening act, a big band and an orchestra. The school newsletter Goa News appears monthly . The yearbook of the Oberalster grammar school also appears annually , which is also created by an AG. In addition, the GOANER, written by the schoolchildren, is published at regular intervals and won the Spiegel school newspaper competition in the magazine content category in 2010 .

The Oberalster grammar school became known nationwide through the Goapuccino . The Goapuccino is part of the business course of the upper profile level , in which the students run their own café as a company according to the TheoPrax principle . On October 24th, the Goapuccino celebrated its 10th anniversary.

There is a school medical service in cooperation with the Malteser emergency service .

Since December 2015 the GOA has an international preparatory class (IVK)

building

Between 2004 and 2007 the high school was extensively renovated. A new three-field sports hall was also completed in 2016 . In June 2017 the library was enlarged from 120 square meters to 180 square meters. 10,000 media are available there. Internet is available on the entire site.

International contacts

The Melrose High School has been linked to the Oberalster Grammar School through the German-American Partnership Program since 1976. Every two years around twenty German students travel to Melrose near Boston for around four weeks and are then visited by their exchange partners in Germany.

French partner schools are the Collège de la Vallée in Avon (Seine-et-Marne) and the "Collège Font d'Aurumy" in Fuveau , France. Every year the Oberalster high school offers an exchange week for the 7th and 8th grade in Avon.

We have been in contact with a partner school in the heart of Madrid since 2015. The exchange included about twenty 10th grade students. For the GOA va a Nicaragua project , a school group worked in Nicaragua in 2004 and 2006 . In Léon , she helped to install a drinking water treatment system in 2004 and to build a school building in 2006.

An exchange with a school in Georgia is planned for 2020.

Memorial stone

In 1982, a memorial stone was erected on the former camp site of the Hamburg-Sasel subcamp on the initiative of class 10c pupils at the Oberalster grammar school and their teacher Gerd Liszkowski . The class had researched the history of the camp in 1981 and 1982 and published a brochure about it and designed the design of the memorial stone.

Participation in competitions and initiatives

Federal finance competition
Federal foreign language competition
European Youth Parliament
Youth debates
Youth research
Young people make music
Youth trains for the Olympics
Kangaroo of math
Mathematics Olympiad
Natex
We develop a product
Right bank of the Alster against the left bank of the Alster (chess)
Spiegel school newspaper competition
Hamburger Abendblatt school newspaper competition
mint: pink

Well-known former students

Henning Voscherau , former First Mayor of Hamburg
Alexander Röder , Hamburg's main pastor of the main church Sankt Michaelis
Susanne Rubbert , administrative judge, deputy judge at the Hamburg Constitutional Court
Willi Lemke , German politician (SPD) and sports functionary (Werder Bremen)
Knut Fleckenstein , Member of the European Parliament
Kim-Eva Wempe , entrepreneur
Marion Elskis , actress
Torsten Sprick , TV producer
Janne Müller-Wieland , member of the German women's national hockey team
Hans von Storch , meteorologist
Hendrik von Bültzingslöwen , actor

Well-known former teachers

Hartmut Engels , CDU member of parliament
Jürgen Werner , German national soccer player
Dieter Staacken , art teacher and freelance artist

Publications

Gerd Liszkowski (editor): KZ Sasel - history of a subcamp, school management of the Oberalster grammar school (publisher), Hamburg 1982 (several editions)