Hans Momsen School
| Hans Momsen School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | primary school |
| founding | 1963 |
| closure | 2009 |
| place | Drive often |
| country | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 42 '18 " N , 8 ° 47' 46" E |
| carrier | Dagebüll municipality |
| student | 38 (2009) |
| Teachers | 3 (2009) |
| management | Christoph Jörgensen |
The Hans Momsen School in Fahretoft was a primary school in the municipality of Dagebüll in the district of North Friesland from 1963 to 2009 . The school was named after the Fahretoft mathematician and astronomer Hans Momsen . With 3 teachers, 17 female and 21 pupils, it was one of the smallest primary schools on the mainland in Schleswig-Holstein . It had to be dissolved on August 1, 2009 due to new regulations in the Schools Act. Since then, the pupils have attended the elementary school in Risum .
Frisian
Frisian lessons at the school played a special role . It was introduced as a voluntary offer for the 1981/82 school year, in which all students participated. The classes were led by Greta Johannsen until her retirement in 2007. In 1988 she introduced a sponsorship model for teaching. Each student was provided with an adult Frisian speaker as a mentor. Every two weeks the sponsors took part in classes and there were regular trips and events attended together. One example is an afternoon of handicrafts at Christmas time, when traditional Frisian Christmas trees were built and decorated together. In 2003 the school received the Christian Feddersen Prize for this .
Furnishing
In addition to the usual facilities such as classrooms and a playground, the school also had a gym, an adjoining sports field, a teaching pool and a surrounding school forest. The teaching pool could only be put into operation in 1968 after construction defects had been repaired ; before that, Schlüttsiel had been used as a bathing area. Swimming lessons were also offered in the afternoons. In summer, the community's pool serves as an outdoor pool and the sports facilities are used by the local sports club. In 1995 a new kindergarten was added. It was possible to use computer systems as part of teaching from 2001 onwards.
School forest
On the initiative of the then headmaster Hans Otto Maier, the establishment of a school forest was planned and started in 1971. The project initially met with skepticism in the village, so it was said by some, "Loot em man moken, in de Masch dor wass keen Bööm" (German: "Let them do it, no tree grows in the march ") . Despite this, the school forest was inaugurated in August 1975. Over the years, 7500 trees and shrubs in 40 species have been planted. Traditionally, school leavers take one of the young trees they have planted with them and transplant it. In 1977 and 1989, the school took first place in the national school forest competition. The school forest is freely accessible to the public and since 1989 has also contained a botanical nature trail, a marten castle and many nesting boxes.
“In the Fahretoft elementary school, the school forest concept was taken up and further developed with considerable intensity a few years ago. The result is an exemplary facility for our schools. [...] The students' work was particularly convincing, the results of the school forest work in class. "
museum
Together with the inauguration of the school forest, a museum was set up in the school in 1975 to support local and general education. This should make it possible to make technical developments clear for the children. For example, the development of the iron , from the whole iron to the modern electrical device, was one of the first collections; “Rural customs” is another. In the early years, the preparation, cleaning and impregnation of the exhibits were part of the lessons, which enabled the students to deal directly with the former use and meaning of the objects. From 1979 on, the museum was also open to the public. The accompanying texts for the exhibits are bilingual, in Standard German and Frisian. In later years, parts of the collection were moved to other locations.
literature
- Hans Otto Maier: Hans Momsen School Fahretoft . 1963-2009. In: Heimatverein Dagebüll eV (Ed.): Municipality of Dagebüll . tape 1 . Self-published by the editor, 2009.
- Thomas Steensen : Frisian in Fahretoft . An empirical study of Frisian primary school lessons using the example of the Hans Momsen School. Nordfriisk Instituut, Bredstedt 2003, ISBN 3-88007-302-3 .
- 100 years of Frisian lessons . In: Nordfriisk Instituut (Ed.): Nordfriesland . No. 167 . Nordfriisk Instituut, September 2009, ISSN 0029-1196 , p. 3 ( PDF ).
Web links
- Pictures of some museum pieces at the Heimatverein Dagebüll eV ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information provided by the state government on the number of pupils ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information from the state government on the number of employees ( memento of the original from April 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ State ordinance on the determination of the minimum size of public general education schools and support centers (Minimum Size Ordinance - MindGrVO) of June 11, 2007
- ↑ Third Regional Local Transport Plan, District of Nordfriesland 2009-2013, page 31 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Feddersen Prize 2003 . In: Nordfriisk Instituut (Ed.): Nordfriesland . No. 143/144 . Nordfriisk Instituut, December 2003, ISSN 0029-1196 , p. 3 ( PDF ).
