High School Oedeme

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High School Oedeme
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type of school high school
founding 1971
address

Oedemer Weg 77

place Luneburg
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 14 '0 "  N , 10 ° 22' 59"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 14 '0 "  N , 10 ° 22' 59"  E
carrier District of Lüneburg
student 1500 (January 1, 2015)
Teachers 125 (January 1, 2015)
management Stefan Schulz
Website www.gym-oedeme.de
Main building after the renovation

The Gymnasium Oedeme takes its name from the district in the south-west of the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg in which the school is located. It has been an open all-day school since 2006 ; around 1500 pupils are taught by around 125 teachers. About 60 percent of the students come from the district , about 40 percent from the city of Lüneburg.

When the grammar school was founded in 1971, the community of Oedeme was still independent and belonged to the district of Lüneburg, which was and is also the sponsor of the grammar school Oedeme. With the incorporation in 1974 Oedeme became a district of Lüneburg; thus the high school of the district is today in the area of ​​the Hanseatic city of Lüneburg .

history

The history of the Gymnasium Oedeme reflects the development of educational policy in Germany over the past 45 years. In a letter dated May 7, 1971, the then Lower Saxony minister of education, Peter von Oertzen ( SPD ), approved the construction of a grammar school in Oedeme. The council had two years earlier - made the request because of the increased number of pupils should a fourth high school in the area Lüneburg arise - - April 24, 1969 in the vicinity and in agreement with the city of Lüneburg.

According to the educational policy discussion at the time, which was characterized by terms such as “German educational catastrophe” ( Georg Picht ) and “Education as a general civil right” ( Ralf Dahrendorf ), the Oedeme grammar school was also planned as part of an overall concept “Oedeme School Center”, including one Orientation level (grades 5 and 6), and a lower secondary level should include. Only such a step-by-step concept had the prospect of approval from the Lower Saxony minister of education . In the plans of the Lüneburg land registry office, the entire school area was designated as a comprehensive school .

First of all, the lower secondary level was expanded in the building wing of what was then a secondary school and is now a high school . At the same time, the planning for the creation of a room concept for the " secondary level II " was carried out. These suffered from the fact that at the level of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs the discussion about the redesign of the upper school level had begun and in the planning phase nobody could say what the new upper level would look like. Accordingly, the idea that the construction of the building must allow sufficient variability was incorporated into the spatial planning.

After the spatial concept had been approved in Hanover in February 1974, construction began on the school building that was to accommodate the secondary level II. At the beginning of the school year 1976/77 the building could be occupied.

In the meantime Ernst Albrecht ( CDU ) had become Prime Minister in Hanover , and the new government fundamentally changed the school policy course in Lower Saxony. So she called for the organizational unit of the grammar school and largely rejected the division into school levels.

So the building that had just been completed and planned for a purely multi-level school (for secondary level II) was redesigned so that all classes of the grammar school could be accommodated here - all except for classes 5 and 6.

After a long discussion, at the beginning of the 1980/81 school year the cross-school orientation level was introduced in the city and district of Lüneburg. The Oedeme orientation level found its rooms in the building wing of the secondary and secondary school .

Due to the change in the concept - instead of an upper school center, an (almost) complete grammar school (with grades 7–13) - the space in the building was not sufficient from the start, and the rooms were too small for large middle school classes. Because of the lack of space, from the 1980/81 school year four classes were taught in "emergency rooms" - that is, in containers .

When the transition rate to the grammar school increased further, new building areas in Oedeme and the communities in the south-western district of Lüneburg were designated and the number of pupils rose again slightly, there was a lack of space that could not be overlooked. As the school authority, the district finally made the decision to expand the structure: the "new building" with eight classrooms was approved in 1995 and completed in 1997.

In the summer of 2004, under the CDU government of Prime Minister Christian Wulff, the orientation level was abolished in all of Lower Saxony , and the Oedeme grammar school also received grades 5 and 6 again. However, there were no classrooms for this; so the new classes were accommodated in the former Oedeme orientation stage - at the "location south". In addition, the Gymnasium Oedeme received a branch in the municipality of Embsen, about 10 km away, with two fifth and sixth grades each. The branch was visited by the students from the south-western part of the district - from the combined communities of Ilmenau and Amelinghausen - and lasted until summer 2012 when the school in Embsen was converted into an integrated comprehensive school.

The fact that, after the orientation stage was abolished, the primary school teachers now give recommendations for attending secondary school, led to a sharp increase in the transition rate to grammar school; it is now around 50 percent in the Lüneburg area. The number of pupils at the grammar schools increased accordingly - the grammar school Oedeme now has six to seven classes without creating new room capacities.

The first decade of the 21st century also brought numerous changes for the Oedeme High School - not only in response to the “PISA shock” at the end of 2001. In 2003, Spanish was introduced as a third foreign language and as a new language from year 11 onwards. An experiment began with notebook classes in which each student had their own notebook. This attempt was declared to have failed in 2006 because there was no personal support from the state and the school authorities and the notebooks from a German manufacturer were not able to cope with the harsh conditions of everyday school life and fell out in a row.

In 2004 the wind class was introduced and the Oedeme Gymnasium became an environmental school in Europe . A year later, the “ all-day school ” concept was recognized, the upper level profile was introduced, and a “cooperation association for the promotion of gifted students ” was set up around the Oedeme grammar school . In 2007 the school became “independent” ; in the same year it was given a cafeteria .

The economic stimulus package II as a reaction to the financial crisis also brought building measures to the Oedeme secondary school (from autumn 2009): the long-demanded extension of four classrooms, the renovation of the natural sciences wing, the music and other rooms. During the construction phase, around 500 pupils were and are being taught in makeshift rooms in the “Containerdorf Süd”, which has been there since the secondary school was renovated in 2008/09.

Buildings and school grounds

Main building, from the Teichwiesenweg

The main building was planned in the mid-1970s by the architect Heinrich Hagemann, Lüneburg, as an upper school center in reinforced concrete skeleton construction. Expression of this is z. B. the openness of the large forum and the design of the 1st floor with originally large open spaces in the middle. He fulfilled the requirement of great variability by building flexible walls, which, however, were soon fixed - also because of the necessary technical equipment (e.g. electrical lines).

In 1997, the annex came (the "New") as a solid construction with eight classrooms added that with its brick walls to the architectural style of the Hanseatic should remember. In 2010 the building was lengthened by half to gain four more classrooms. The Gymnasium Oedeme also has rooms at the "South location", in the special needs school at the Schaperdrift and container rooms.

The Gymnasium Oedeme has an observatory and, since the renovation measures in 2010, it has had modern scientific and music-artistic specialist rooms, and since 2012 two large computer rooms and a smaller one.

The main and ancillary buildings are set back from the street “Oedemer Weg” in the countryside, the “Location South” is part of the joint building complex of the secondary school and a branch of the vocational schools III.

The school center includes a triple and a single-field sports hall and three gymnastics halls as well as an outdoor facility. The Oedeme high school has set up a beach volleyball field; a tennis facility that existed in the beginning has fallen into disrepair and can no longer be used. There was a pond on the school premises, which was drained in 2014.

Educational work, equipment and offers

languages

The first foreign language at Gymnasium Oedeme is English, the second French, Latin or (since 2011) Spanish. The latter language can also be chosen as a new beginning foreign language in grade 10.

Students can acquire language certificates for English ( Cambridge Certificate ), French ( DELF-DALF program ) and Spanish ( DELE certificate ).

Special classes

From grades 7 to 9 there is bilingual instruction in one class : geography, history and chemistry in English. Another special class in this grade level is the MINT class : in it the students have increased instruction in the natural sciences and, unlike the others, they also have instruction in the subjects of computer science and astronomy .

Main building from the sports field

Special school subjects

In addition to astronomy (in the MINT class) and the usual subjects, Gymnasium Oedeme also offers performing games, economics and philosophy (all three in the upper level, philosophy also as an examination subject).

Equipped with PCs

Currently (2016) the Gymnasium Oedeme has two large computer rooms and a small media trolley or suitcase (with notebook, DVD-Video combination device, projector and sound system) in all corridors. Furthermore, there is a computer integrated into the teacher's desk and a projector connected to it in many of the specialist rooms (biology, physics).

Special educational concepts and projects

The Gymnasium Oedeme is an independent school [independent school] and participates in the project "Improvement of the teaching quality" of the Lower Saxony state school authority .

Together with schools from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain and Switzerland, the school takes part in the Comenius program to promote the idea of ​​Europe.

To support students with learning deficits in individual subjects, the school has been running a project for several years in which older students re-teach younger students for a fee (“LeGO” - Learning Club Gymnasium Oedeme).

Promotion of the gifted

The Gymnasium Oedeme is in charge of the "Cooperation Association for the Promotion of Highly Gifted" Oedeme. The school has set up courses that are aimed at particularly “bright minds” (this is also the name of these offers).

All day offers

The all-day program includes a good 60 courses, working groups and projects. Regular homework supervision is offered for grades 5 and 6 and support courses in German, mathematics and English are offered for grade 10 as well as a course "German as a second language", but also courses for gifted students in the areas of writing, art, philosophy and science. There is a "social work group", various sports work groups, a "forum technology work group" and work groups in the cultural field: orchestras, big bands, rock-pop groups, choirs and theater groups.

Honourings and prices

Environmental school in Europe, school prize in the “Jugend forscht” competition, 1st prize in “Young people draw and design”, 1st prize in the history competition of the Lower Saxony Minister of Education, Special prize for “Young writers” and school prize for “Jugend und Wirtschaft”, each with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 1st prize in the competition "60 Years of Lower Saxony".

public relation

Support association

The association, founded in 2003, has 750 members (as of 2014) and is the largest school association in the region.

Yearbook

The yearbook “School Messages”, published by the school principal and designed by a teacher's editorial team, is published once a year and has 164 pages (DIN A4). There is currently no school newspaper.

Partner schools

St. Maixent ( France ), Geneva ( Switzerland ), Valencia ( Spain ) and German School in San Salvador ( El Salvador ).

Well-known alumni

literature

  • Ulf-Rainer Kügler, Heinrich Raumschüssel, Gerhard Scharf: Ten years of Oedeme high school. 1971-1981. Lüneburg 1981, without ISBN.
  • Gerhard Scharf et al .: 25 years Oedeme High School. 1971-1996. Lüneburg 1996, without ISBN.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (The Oedeme Gymnasium in short). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  2. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG for the Lüneburg Heath v. January 18, 1974, p. 3
  3. ^ Letter from the senior district director to the Lower Saxony minister of education in Hanover, quoted in based on: Ulf-Rainer Kügler, Heinrich Raumschüssel, Gerhard Scharf, Ten Years of Oedeme High School. 1971-1981 , Lüneburg 1981, without ISBN, p. 7
  4. ↑ cf. Gerhard Scharf et al., Oedeme High School for 25 years . 1971–1996, Lüneburg 1996, without ISBN, p. 4
  5. ↑ cf. the 4th draft of a space program for the Oedeme v. June 14, 1971, cit. based on: Ulf-Rainer Kügler, Heinrich Raumschüssel, Gerhard Scharf, Ten Years of Oedeme High School. 1971-1981 , Lüneburg 1981, without ISBN, p. 12
  6. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. February 5, 1975, p. 3
  7. ↑ Ulf-Rainer Kügler, Heinrich Raumschüssel, Gerhard Scharf, Ten Years of Oedeme High School. 1971-1981 , Lüneburg 1981, without ISBN, p. 29
  8. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. April 30, 1996, p. 9
  9. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. February 23, 2004, p. 3
  10. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. 28/29. January 2012, p. 12
  11. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. March 20, 2010, p. 3
  12. ↑ Program 1000 times 1000 of the Lower Saxony association n-21
  13. ↑ cf. Article, including about the Oedeme high school: “The electronic classroom” by Ina Freiwald in the FAZ v. October 24, 2006, p. 42
  14. ↑ (Chronicle of the Oedeme High School). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  15. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. June 25, 2009, p. 8
  16. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. February 2, 1968, p. 6
  17. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. 4th / 5th October 2003, p. 5
  18. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. October 5, 2014, p. 5
  19. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. October 18, 2014, p. 4
  20. ↑ (Bili class). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  21. ↑ (MINT class). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  22. ↑ (concept to improve the quality of teaching). Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  23. ↑ (Comenius project). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  24. ↑ (LeGO). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  25. ↑ (promotion of talented students). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  26. ↑ (all-day offers). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  27. ↑ (Chronicle of the Oedeme High School). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .
  28. ↑ LANDESZEITUNG v. February 11, 2008, p. 4
  29. ↑ (student exchange). Gymnasium Oedeme Lüneburg, accessed on January 30, 2015 .