Ulricianum high school

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Ulricianum high school
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type of school high school
founding 1646
address

Von-Jhering-Str. 15th

place Aurich
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 28 '14 "  N , 7 ° 28' 35"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 28 '14 "  N , 7 ° 28' 35"  E
carrier Aurich district
student approx. 2200
Teachers approx. 165
management Dieter Schröder
Website www.ulricianum-aurich.de

The Ulricianum grammar school is a general educational grammar school in Aurich , East Frisia . With currently (2015) around 2000 students, it is the strongest in Lower Saxony . The school, founded in 1646, is named after Ulrich II (1606–1648), from 1628 Count of East Friesland.

Past / present

The Ulricianum grammar school was founded in 1646 by Count Ulrich II. The 350th anniversary celebration took place in 1996. In 2008 they celebrated u. a. with a large parade through the center of Aurich and a festive garland several hundred meters long around the entire building, the one hundred year anniversary of the old building and the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the most famous Ulrician, Rudolf Eucken. The lecture on Rudolf Eucken was given by the philosopher Hermann Lübbe, himself a former Ulrician. Since the school year 2004/2005, due to a school reform in Lower Saxony, the 5th and 6th year are also taught at the grammar school. In the meantime (2016) it is attended by 1,830 students from grades 5 to 12, who are taught by around 160 teachers (including trainees). The branch office in the Moorhusen school center has been closed since the 2015/2016 school year . At peak times, when there was still a 13th school year (last school year 2010/11), over 2000 students attended the school. The Ulricianum is a training school for the study seminars in Leer and Wilhelmshaven.

School board

While the twelve primary schools and the secondary school in Aurich are in the hands of the city, the Aurich district is the school body for the Ulricianum grammar school . The integrated comprehensive school (IGS) Aurich (up to year 13) and the IGS forest school Egels (up to and including year ten) are also sponsored by the Aurich district.

School profile

Lessons focus

The Ulricianum Gymnasium offers a wide range of subjects, including the course level and advanced courses. In the middle school, a bilingual train is offered from grade 7 (year 7: geography, year 8: history, year 9: politics). Since the 2001/2002 school year there have also been wind classes in which music lessons are increasingly offered both practically and theoretically. The Ulricianum, the largest school in Lower Saxony, was a member of the state-wide pilot project for quality development.

Science days

In autumn every year, the Ulricianum co-organizes the Aurich Science Days . During these weeks, top-class scientists, including more than a dozen Nobel Prize winners, are invited to lectures on the premises of the school or sponsors (Sparkasse). Students in the higher grades can take advantage of scholarships at research institutes in Germany and Europe or take part in research projects around the world, including expeditions to Antarctica and Yakutia. Since 2011, the "Junior Science Days" have been designed to introduce younger schoolchildren to scientific questions and experimentation in cooperation with scientists from several German research institutions.

languages

English is the first foreign language from class 5. Latin, Spanish and French are offered as second foreign languages ​​from class 6. A third (compulsory optional) foreign language is possible from grade 7 (2nd semester): Latin, Greek, French and Spanish. In addition, Spanish is possible from grade 10, and if there is enough demand, Latin and French are also offered. In the working group area, Italian, Japanese and Low German (only at the branch in Moorhusen) L are offered as required. There is a Latin learning games group for grades 6 and 7. In addition, a bilingual course in geography, history and politics is offered from grade 7. Since 2003, the Ulricianum has been responsible twice a year (spring and autumn) for the implementation of the supplementary exams in Latin (large Latinum, Latinum, small Latinum), if required (for the last time in autumn 2011) also for Hebrew (Hebraicum). The responsibility extends to the entire northern Weser-Ems area (including Oldenburg).

Projects

The school participates in the Comenius program , which promotes partnership with several schools.

International Ulricianum

The school has numerous partnerships around the world. Particularly noteworthy are the partnerships that are kept alive with intensive student exchanges, such as B. to the Guajome_Park_Academy Guajome Park Academy in Vista / California as well as to Westhills High School as part of the GAPP program, to the Lycée in Luneville (France) and to the Liceum Ogolnoksztalcaçe in Kepno / Poland. Other partner schools are:

  • Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium Bitterfeld
  • Vollen Ungsdomsskole - Asker / Norway
  • XIII. Liceum - Wrocław / Poland
  • Gimnazium Pribram / Czech Republic
  • Liceo Scientifico Orazio Grassi, Savona / Italy
  • Leeuwarden / Netherlands
  • Torre del Mar / Spain

In addition, contacts are currently (2012) being made with schools in Ibiza and Lithuania.

From 1986 to 1999 there was a student exchange with the small English town of Spilsby .

Ulricianum Times

The Ulricianum Times is an English-language newspaper that is created and published annually by the students of the grammar school and printed by the Ostfriesischer Nachrichten . This was done as part of a competition organized by the London Times , from which the Ulricianum has regularly emerged as the winner in recent years. After the British The Guardian hosted the last competition in 2008, in which students of Ulricianums again for the newspaper and the online edition were excellent, the competition has been suspended for reasons of cost, the Ulricianum Times why 2009 edition as a free supplement in the local newspaper East Frisian news appeared .

The website of the Ulricianum (www.ulricianum-aurich.de), which is characterized by a particularly high level of information, the greatest possible up-to-dateness and an attractive design, is looked after by a working group with several students and a teacher.

The Ulricianum has been networked via IServ since 2010 .

Association of former Ulricians

The Association of Former Ulricians e. V. (VEU) was founded by alumni in the summer of 1946 at the time of the 300th anniversary of the Ulricianum. In the beginning it was mainly the old Ulricians Friedrich van Senden (headmaster and one of the brave men who saved Aurich from destruction towards the end of the war) and Richard Aden who built the association. Under the leadership of its first chairman, Friedrich van Senden, the aim of the association was to support the Ulricianum and its students and to offer a common point of contact for alumni. Under the chairmen of the board, Werner Conring and Heiko Decking, this tradition was continued, cultivated and continuously expanded in the tried and tested manner.

Since 2000, the association has been modernized under the current chairman of the board, Tido Cammenga, with modern structures while maintaining the spirit that has been cultivated up to now. Many innovations were introduced, so that the association is now an integral and well-known part of school life for the more than 2000 active students at the Ulricianum.

The association with well over 1000 active members offers a broad spectrum to support the Ulricianum and to maintain an active association life. In addition to financial support for projects, the Ulricianum Prize, the Prize of the Association of Former Ulricians, job presentations and participation in key points in school life (e.g. awarding of certificates, awarding of high school diplomas), the association provides an institutional public force and a central contact point of all former students of the Ulricianum. The annual meeting of all members takes place regularly on December 27th of each year.

Well-known teachers and students of the Ulricianum grammar school

Teacher

student

literature

  • Program of the Royal High School in Aurich. Tapper, Aurich 1861-1892 ( digitized version )
  • Ulricianum in Aurich 1646 - 1955. Friedrich van Senden, 1967
  • Festschrift 350 years Ulricianum - Gymnasium Ulricianum Aurich 1646-1996. Hans-Jürgen Westermayer, 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://ulricianumtimes.de ( Memento from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Association of former Ulricians eV , accessed on February 21, 2013