Halepaghen School Buxtehude
| Halepaghen School | |
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| Entrance to the Halepaghen School | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1390 |
| address |
Konopkastr. 5, 21614 Buxtehude
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| place | Buxtehude |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 28 '35 " N , 9 ° 41' 35" E |
| carrier | state |
| student | 1209 (as of April 2016) |
| management | Bettina Fees-McCue |
| Website | www.halepaghen-schule.de |
The Halepaghen School ( HPS for short ) is a grammar school with bilingual courses for acquiring the CertiLingua label of excellence in the Lower Saxony city of Buxtehude .
history
In 1390 a rector scholarium was first mentioned as the head of the local monastery school . The document was discovered in 1990 by the then city archivist Margarete Schindler, who had done her doctorate on the history of Buxtehude under Hermann Aubin . Until then, the “School Regulations for the Buxtehude Latin School” from 1552, written by the Hamburg superintendent Johannes Aepinus, were the oldest evidence of a school in Buxtehude.
The school was originally located in the immediate vicinity of the Buxtehude St. Petri Church and until the secularization of the monasteries after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, in contrast to the Latin boys' schools, it also trained novices of the old and new monasteries. As early as 1641, in addition to reading and writing, arithmetic lessons were also given by well-known arithmetic masters such as Nicolaus Rohlfs and his son Matthias. Coeducation has existed at the HPS since 1927 .
The school has been named after Gerhard Halepaghe , vicar at St. Petri in Buxtehude, master of the Latin school and founder, since 1952 .
His hand stamp ( seal ) was the model for today's school coat of arms - an angel who holds his hand protectively over the Lower Saxony horse.
The new building on Konopkastraße was completed in 1963 and has been expanded several times since then. The HPS had been on Harburger Strasse since 1871, and since 1899 in the building of today's Albert Schweitzer School.
organization
Buxtehude model
In 1966, the school director at the time, Johannes Güthling , introduced the Buxtehude model for grades 12 and 13 in fundamental changes in the form of teaching and the school constitution. The class associations were dissolved and replaced by courses freely chosen by the students. The so-called Joint Committee (GA for short), which was incorporated into the Lower Saxony School Act of 1982 as the main committee , voted on internal school matters instead of the general conference of teachers and was on equal terms with elected representatives of the students, parents and teaching staff, chaired by the Headmaster occupied. For pupils and parents, but also for teachers, this was an extraordinary and unusual body that was largely unknown at other general education schools in Germany at the time.
Independent school
With effect from August 1, 2007, the Lower Saxony State Parliament passed the “Independent School” in the Lower Saxony School Act. Since then, teachers, parents and students have been working together on the school board to shape the school's work with the aim of improving quality. In addition to the general conference, which is primarily responsible for pedagogical matters such as performance evaluation, the HPS continues to have a joint committee with equal representation.
Other bodies
In addition to the student council and the school parents council, the HPS has been supported in school matters by the school association of the Halepaghen-Schule Buxtehude eV since 1962.
The alumni group also holds an open day on December 27th each year.
Quality development
From 2002 to 2005 the HPS was a member of the Lower Saxony Quality Network. The "Schul-TÜV" in the name of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education confirmed that the school had an excellent educational climate.
The mission statement of the HPS is still shaped today by the democratic structures that have grown and developed there.
International orientation
The Halepaghen School maintains various school partnerships with Lithuania ( Šilutė ), France ( Blagnac ) and the United States ( Pittsburgh ). Since 2005 there has also been an exchange with Sweden ( Örebro ) and Turkey ( Istanbul ). Since 2009 there has been another partnership with a school in Pamplona , Spain . An English exchange is currently being set up.
After the Second World War , the Halepaghen School began to establish links with schools in England and France . This was followed by years of regular exchanges. This was partly realized in cooperation with the Buxtehuder Turn- und Sportverein (BSV). The first international exchange took place in April 1963 with the French Millau . The involvement of foreign teachers at the HPS was also included in the exchange.
However, the language courses offered for foreign students from the mid-1960s onwards did not lead to a permanent exchange.
At the beginning of the 1980s, the younger teachers at the Halepaghen School tried again to establish contacts with schools in France, the USA and England. The most important exchange is probably the one with the Collège Henri Guillaumet in Blagnac in the south of France (near Toulouse ), with which the first concrete agreements were made in 1984. The French exchange students usually learn German as their first foreign language over a period of three years before they visit Buxtehude, usually at Easter. The return visit of the German students takes place in autumn.
In 1989 another partnership was established with a school in Šilutė , Lithuania, which led to a first exchange in the spring of 1990.
In 2005 there was the first exchange with a Jewish school in Istanbul and with the Swedish Örebro for the 8th grade as part of the Comenius program . A regular partnership with Örebro is now being sought.
School without racism - school with courage
The HPS officially takes part in the project School without Racism - School with Courage of the federally funded Action Courage . To this end, the school organizes numerous events to address right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination at the school. The project sponsor of the Halepaghen School is the German local politician Wolf-Egbert Rosenzweig .
A representative of Lower Saxony's protection of the constitution , Fritz Kath, a board member of the Jewish community in Hamburg and the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Hamburg, two Islamic scholars from the GIGA Foundation and the University of Hamburg, and the right-wing rock expert Christian Dornbusch were guests. In addition, the Amadeu Antonio Foundation hosted a traveling exhibition on the subject of anti-Semitism at the HPS.
On October 10, 2006, the then General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany , Stephan Kramer, came to Buxtehude and gave a lecture on the subject of “We need patriotism!”.
student
School newspapers
There have been several school newspapers in the history of the Halepaghen School . One of them was the newspaper Kacktus . The school newspaper der paghe last existed at the HPS . On December 16, 2013, the first edition was successfully sold. Afterwards there were always new issues at irregular intervals. However, after the sixth edition, the paghe was discontinued.
A new school newspaper called TheHaps has been prepared since the beginning of 2020 . The first issue was published on May 11, 2020. An accompanying podcast, the Halepodcast , can be heard on Apple Podcasts , Soundcloud or Spotify .
Logo of the school newspaper Kacktus
Cover of the first issue of Kacktus (2006)
Logo of the school newspaper der paghe
Student council
The student council of the Halepaghen School is also involved in educational policy outside the school, as in 2005 by handing over a protest note to the Lower Saxony Minister of Education, Bernd Busemann, against the abolition of the freedom to learn aids, poor supply of teachers and the cancellation of funds for class and study trips or in 2006 with one Protest letter to the Lower Saxony Minister of the Interior Uwe Schünemann regarding the upper level ordinance .
Well-known rectors
- 1745–1762 Lorenz Joachim Müller
- 1786–1792 Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund
- 1954–1969 Johannes Güthling
- 1971–1993 Ulrich Uffrecht
Well-known graduates
- Elton , German television presenter and entertainer
- Dieter Perlowski , German writer and playwright (1969)
- Simon Sommerfeld , German American football player
- Stefan Studer , former professional player in the Bundesliga and sports official
- Cora Stephan , German publicist, writer and crime author
- Antonia Wesseloh , German model
- Tiemo Wölken , German member of the European Parliament
See also
literature
- 400th anniversary of the municipal secondary school in Buxtehude . Festschrift, Buxtehude 1952
- Halepaghen School (Ed.): 600 years of the Halepaghen School. Festschrift for the 600th anniversary , Buxtehude 1991
- Halepaghen School (ed.): Speeches for the 600th anniversary of the Halepaghen School in Buxtehude . Buxtehude 1991
- Annual Report of the Real Progymnasium to Buxtehude: for the school year ... . Buxtehude, 1883–1893 ( digitized version )
- Annual report of the Realprogymnasium (in conversion to a Realschule terms) on Buxtehude: for the school year ... Buxtehude, 1894–1898 ( digitized version )
- Annual report of the secondary school in Buxtehude: about the school year ... Buxtehude, 1899–1915 ( digitized version )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ voluntigenserver.de: Halepaghen Foundation from 1484 in Buxtehude . Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ↑ Against the grain . Der Spiegel 45/1969 of November 3, 1969. Retrieved on November 23, 2014.
- ^ Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture: Self-reliant school . Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ↑ Founded in 1926 as an association of former students from the secondary school in Buxtehude , re-established in 1950 as a school association for the secondary school in Buxtehude .
- ^ Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture: Quality Networks. Quality development in networks (Lower Saxony) . Retrieved November 23, 2014.
- ↑ Martin Spiewak: When the inspector rings twice. In: The time . June 30, 2005, accessed October 17, 2014 .
- ↑ The school newspaper "der paghe" appears - Halepaghen School. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ^ First edition of the new school newspaper - Halepaghen School. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ TheHaps. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
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