Humboldt Gymnasium Weimar
| State Humboldt High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 2006 |
| address |
Prager Strasse 42 |
| place | Weimar |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '22 " N , 11 ° 18' 32" E |
| carrier | City of Weimar |
| student | about 600 |
| Teachers | approx. 70 teachers and trainees |
| Website | http://www.humboldt-weimar.de |
The Humboldt-Gymnasium is the youngest of three grammar schools in the city of Weimar and is located in the Weimar-West district . It was created in 2006 from the merger of the Sophien-Gymnasium and the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Gymnasium. The students come from all over the city of Weimar, but also from the Weimarer Land district. The school with grades 5–12 is z. Sometimes two, in the younger grades three to four classes.
School profile
The Humboldt-Gymnasium is best known for the special role that French plays as the first foreign language for around half of its students. But it is by no means a language high school, as the school profile shows.
Bilingual train
The bilingual train had existed at the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Gymnasium since 1994 and was continued at the Humboldt-Gymnasium after the merger. The students who choose French as their first foreign language from grade 5 onwards attend the bilingual train from grade 7 onwards . From grade 7, these students can choose to study history bilingually. This means that the subject is increasingly being taught in French. Typically around half of the students choose French as their first foreign language. Of these, the overwhelming majority also choose the bilingual course, although this decision can be revised at the end of the half-year or the end of the school year. All students in the bilingual train received bilingual social studies lessons in grades 9 and 10, in addition to history. Pupils with French as their first foreign language who do not take part in bilingual history lessons are taught in German in the specialist subjects together with students whose first foreign language is English. At the end of grade 10, the students who have been taught bilingually receive a certificate of their bilingual education.
Pupils who are learning French as their first foreign language take part in an exchange with the Collèges de Bresles, both in Picardy , in grades 7 or 8 . Before that, between 1997 and 2010 there was an exchange partnership with the Collège Jean Moulin in Forbach / Lorraine . The possibility of participating in an exchange may in individual cases depend on whether there are enough exchange partners available on the French side. As far as possible, the Humboldt-Gymnasium also supports students who want to conduct an individual exchange with a French partner. Since 2005, the number of these exchanges within the framework of the Brigitte Sazauy program and the Voltaire program of the Franco-German Youth Office has increased significantly.
In the CDI (Center de Documentation et d'Information) of the Humboldt-Gymnasium there are not only teaching materials for the subjects of the bilingual train, but also computer workstations with internet access.
The Humboldt-Gymnasium has a language laboratory.
For all students with French as their first foreign language, English as a second foreign language is compulsory from grade 5, as in Thuringia either the first or second foreign language must be English.
Abibac
At the Humboldt-Gymnasium Weimar in 2011 for the first time in the new federal states a class could be led to the Abibac . This offer to aim for the acquisition of the German Abitur at the same time as the French Baccalauréat exists for grades 10 to 12.
In addition, the subjects French and history are taken bilingually as subjects with a higher level of difficulty (eA), social studies bilingually as a subject with a basic level of requirement (gA). There are also lessons in French literature. In French and history, the respective Abitur examinations are also assessed for the Baccalauréat, in French there is an additional oral examination in French literature for the Baccalauréat. In the second bilingual subject (social studies), the last four semester grades are included.
As part of the establishment of the Abibac train, a partnership agreement was signed on June 8, 2009 with the Lycée Felix Faure in Beauvais in Picardy. Since then, there have been regular exchanges in class 11 / première.
In July 2011, all 10 students of the first Abibac year passed the exams for both the Abitur and the Baccalauréat. The “Abibacheliers” were presented with the Baccalauréat certificates in the Humboldt Gymnasium by the French ambassador to Germany, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne , in the presence of the State Secretary Prof. Dr. Roland Merten from the Thuringian Ministry of Education, Science and Culture.
The Humboldt Gymnasium was the first Gymnasium in Thuringia to offer this course. The first AbiBac exam in the eastern German states took place here in 2011.
Other special features
The Humboldt-Gymnasium is not a special language school. In grades 9 and 10, all students enjoy elective mathematical and natural science lessons . The subjects mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology are offered with an increased number of hours. Likewise, the students in grade 10 are taught basic knowledge of astronomy. The scientific cabinets have been completely renewed and modernized in recent years. There are also two computer cabinets.
With the integration of blind and visually impaired students , a tradition of the former Sophiengymnasium is continued. The Humboldt-Gymnasium works closely with the state supraregional support center See (Diesterwegschule Weimar) and other support institutions. For the blind and visually impaired pupils, the necessary teaching material is prepared in the supraregional media center located in the school.
The Athletics plus program combines talented athletes from the 5th grade in two additional performance-oriented sports lessons. In close coordination with numerous sports clubs and the Weimar City Sports Association, the athletic performance of the students is to be comprehensively increased.
Reform pedagogical approaches are playing an increasing role in lessons at the Humboldt Gymnasium, specifically to support independent learning and research. Project and epoch lessons are conceptually integrated into the lessons, open learning is an integral part of the lessons in grades 5 to 8.
In addition to the exchange with the Lycée Félix-Faure in Beauvais in the 11th grade, an exchange with the Collège Condorcet in Bresles has been taking place in the 7th grade for many years.
For many years, the Humboldt-Gymnasium held a two-week exchange with a partner school in Saratow / Russia.
The school library can be used twice a week and regularly purchases new titles.
history
The Humboldt-Gymnasium was created in 2006 from the merger of the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Gymnasium in Weimar-West with the Weimar Sophiengymnasium.
In the planning for the new Weimar-West district, a polytechnic high school was also provided. Construction began on May 1, 1979. A casket was built into the foundation containing the brochure “30 Years of the GDR - A Balance Sheet of the City of Weimar”, the daily editions of the four Weimar daily newspapers at the time, the company newspaper of the housing combine, and all of the GDR coins in circulation from five to to the twenty mark piece, school books and change as well as the commemorative coin "1000 years Weimar" were included. It was an experimental building that differed from the other standardized type school buildings in the GDR. The building consists of a three-storey and a four-storey component with classrooms and specialist rooms, which are connected by a single-storey multi-purpose building. In the last one, an entrance and break hall (“foyer”) with stage and a multi-purpose room are separated by a wall made of removable elements. Inside fall u. a. the comparatively wide corridors. On September 1, 1980, the "W. I. Lenin High School" opened its doors to 458 students, 29 teachers, 9 educators and a pioneer leader. It was the tenth school to be built in Weimar after 1945.
With the political change in the GDR, the school system was also fundamentally changed. In 1991 the Lenin High School became the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Gymnasium. In 1994 training began in the French-bilingual train. Fortunately, on the last day of school before the 2001 Christmas break, a fire caused by arson remained without victims during class time. Since then, intensive investments have been made in technical fire protection and a special sensitivity for emergency planning and exercises has been developed. In 2006 the Hoffmann-von-Fallersleben-Gymnasium merged with the Sophiengymnasium to form the Humboldt-Gymnasium, located in Weimar-West.
The Sophiengymnasium was founded in 1888 as a second citizen school. The building at Rathenauplatz 1 had two separate entrances for boys and girls. Since 1902 the school was called Sophienschule after the Grand Duchess of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach of the same name. This name persisted during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich . After the Second World War, the Sophia School became a polytechnic high school with the name "Karl Marx Oberschule". In 1991 it became the Sophiengymnasium. The integration of blind and visually impaired pupils became a special feature of the school profile.
Current
Between the retirement of the last headmistress in 2009, apart from a brief interruption in 2011/12, the position of headmaster at the Humboldt-Gymnasium could not be filled until 2018. The reasons for this were administrative and personnel policy in nature. Ms. Mohr has been heading the grammar school since March 2018.
In March 2019, a school ball organized by students took place for the first time.
Extensive renovation and extension work on the school buildings is planned for the period from spring 2020 to probably 2023.
Support association
In the Friends of the Humboldt Gymnasium, parents, teachers and former students in particular have come together to support school life materially and ideally. From the school cones for the respective new fifth graders to awards for particularly good high school graduates, the range of what the sponsoring association takes on financially extends. The association also gives grants if students would otherwise have to forego taking part in class trips. The association also carries out school youth work on behalf of the city of Weimar. In addition, he finally tries to give or promote impulses.
See also
Web links
- Homepage of the Humboldt-Gymnasium Weimar
- the Humboldt-Gymnasium in the school portal Thuringia
- Friends of the Humboldt-Gymnasium Weimar
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.dfjw.org/programme-aus-und-fortbildung/brigitte-sauzay-programm.html , April 3, 2019
- ↑ http://www.dfjw.org/voltaire-programm , April 3, 2019