Hibernia School
Hibernia School | |
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type of school | Waldorf School |
founding | 1952 |
address |
Holsterhauser Strasse 70 |
place | Herne |
country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '25 " N , 7 ° 11' 19" E |
carrier | School association of the Hiberniaschule e. V. |
Website | www.hiberniaschule.de |
The Hiberniaschule is a state-recognized, privately owned school in Herne with almost 1,000 students who are taught according to the concept of Waldorf education and complete a wide range of basic vocational training in the form of numerous craft courses and internships, after the tenth grade a two-year specialist training. The Herner School was a member of the Association of Free Waldorf Schools . In June 2012, the sponsoring association decided to leave. The school attaches great importance to emphasizing that Rudolf Steiner's pedagogy remains the basis of its educational work.
history
The Hibernia School has developed from an in-house training workshop since 1952 and tries to integrate holistic training. In 1962 the construction of today's school building began. The inauguration was celebrated in 1964. Since then, the Hibernia School has expanded and adapted to the educational requirements. As the last extension, a workshop building, a modern three-field sports hall and a building for science classes were completed. The teaching building was inaugurated on March 10, 2014.
Lower level
The playful learning of two foreign languages begins in the first year of school. The concept of pre-school education is implemented in that children of pre-school age can be admitted to the first grade one year before the traditional school age and teaching assistants support the class teachers in the first two grades. The number of lessons increases up to full-time lessons. In this context, support measures are also offered for children with greater deficits. All theoretical subjects are more artistically and technically oriented than usual and are supplemented by specialist artistic lessons.
Double qualification for a job and a technical college entrance qualification
The basic vocational level begins with the 7th grade, in which the pupils up to and including the 10th grade acquire a wide range of artistic and technical basics in different courses of three weeks each in parallel to general school lessons. The professional level in the 11th and 12th school year is possible in the following directions: bespoke tailoring, carpentry, electronics technician specializing in energy and building technology, precision mechanics, child care training and concludes with an examination equivalent to the journeyman's certificate. For this purpose, the Hibernia School was once again granted its own examination authority for further years. Together with a successful vocational qualification, most students receive the technical college entrance qualification , some the secondary school certificate .
High School
After successfully completing the final vocational examination, there is a differentiation insofar as some graduates enter professional life, a large number of them go to the Hibernia-Kolleg (institute for obtaining the general higher education entrance qualification) in order to aim for the Abitur - or the advanced technical college entrance qualification. Since the 2007/08 school year, the advanced training college has been supplemented by the introductory phase so that people with life and work experience who do not come directly from the Hibernia School can achieve higher school qualifications.
School management structure
The Hibernia School has been practicing collegial self-administration since its inception and tries to continuously develop the social community of students, parents, teachers and non-pedagogical employees in accordance with current requirements. Parents can use the Parents' Council to get involved in school activities beyond the class-specific activities. The school conference represents an essential link between the student body, parents and teachers in terms of the NRW school legislation.
Well-known students and graduates
- Karl-Dieter Bodack (* 1938), designer, anthroposophist, inventor of the InterRegio of the DB
- Gustl Mollath (* 1956), main character in an affair involving forced placement
- Martine Kempf (* 1958), inventor of "Katalavox", which uses the human voice as a control instrument.
- Wotan Wilke Möhring (* 1967), actor
- Gordon Kampe (* 1976), composer and musicologist
- Maja Beckmann (* 1977), actress
- Alexander Vogt (* 1978), politician
- Michelle Müntefering (* 1980), politician
- Lina Beckmann (* 1981), actress
literature
- Georg Rist: The Hibernia School - from the learning workshop to the comprehensive school. Hamburg 1977.