Jakob Grimm School Rotenburg on the Fulda
| Jakob Grimm School | |
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| type of school | Comprehensive school with upper secondary school |
| founding | 1912 |
| address |
Braacher Str. 15 |
| place | Rotenburg on the Fulda |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 '6 " N , 9 ° 42' 58" E |
| carrier | District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg |
| student | 1638/498/1140 |
| management | Sabine Amlung |
| Website | www.jgs-rof.de |
The Jakob-Grimm-Schule (short: JGS ) is a comprehensive school named after the linguist and fairy tale collector Jacob Grimm with upper secondary school in Rotenburg an der Fulda on Braacher Straße.
History
On October 14, 1912, the “Royal Teachers' Seminar” on Braacher Strasse was inaugurated with a ceremony in the large auditorium . In 1924 the advanced school and in 1925 the high school for girls were set up in the rooms of the seminar. In 1926 the school was named "Jakob-Grimm-Schule". In 1928 an associated school home was opened. From June 1940, the school and boarding school buildings were called Oflag IX A / Z and served as a warehouse for prisoner-of-war officers of the Allies .
The school today
Years 5–13 are taught at the comprehensive school. The JGS accepts pupils in class 5 of the special needs level or in the grammar school branch after intensive parenting information. High school students attend the shortened grammar school course, which leads to the Abitur after 12 years of schooling. After grade 6, the way out of the support level usually leads to the secondary school branch and the secondary school branch. The school organization provides for transition opportunities between the school branches and special transition funding. The upper secondary school is open to young people from the Obersuhl and Bebra comprehensive schools, or from the Schwalm-Eder district .
There is a wide range of advanced courses that can be taken, such as: Mathematics, Physics, Biology, English, French, German, History and Politics and Economics. Around 1900 students are currently attending grades 5–13. In addition to regular school operations, the Jakob Grimm School also offers all-day activities. These include B. the sports group, a theater group, a solar group, a chess group and many other projects. The school achieved a level of awareness through the construction of a center for environmental education and solar energy ("ZUmBiS").
Center for Environmental Education and Solar Energy
In addition to the usual classrooms and specialist rooms and sports facilities, the JGS has been offering a special feature since 1999 - the "ZUmBiS" as a two-storey extension that stands out from the rest of the school building with its larch wood cladding. Inside there are two large, innovatively furnished classrooms, a learning workshop with media equipment and a collection geared towards scientific environmental studies, and a multi-purpose room with a wooden sliding wall.
The Jakob-Grimm-Schule has been cultivating traditional environmental education for a long time. Extensive planting campaigns and a realistic schoolyard design at the location of the support level testify to these activities. The foundation stone for a center for environmental education and solar energy was therefore laid a long time ago. During the project week at that time (1995/1996), students from an 11th mathematics course decided to deal intensively with the energy sector, in particular with the use of renewable energies. By building smaller models for generating electricity through sunlight, the aim was to get closer to the use of photovoltaics. But no financial support was available for such small projects. The group was advised to start something bigger right away. So plans matured to build a large photovoltaic system that feeds the electricity generated directly into the public grid. Funding was applied for at the Hessian Ministry of the Environment, with success. With a 50% funding from Wiesbaden, sponsors from the region and corresponding own contributions, a photovoltaic system adorned the roof of the 68 wing and the outer facade with a total peak output of approx. 2 kW after the project week.
With the ZUmBiS project, ideas matured for unconventional forms of learning that go far beyond professional ties. A learning workshop and a multifunctional room as central areas of the extension should be made usable for student experiments and teacher training. Learning paths in the area for school and tourist groups are also part of the concept as walking or cycling paths. The most diverse learning locations for the areas of ecology, environmental learning and energy enable a “new learning”, a holistic approach to a learning subject according to the maxim ... gain your own experience by doing your own thing .... The ZUmBiS is to be made available to other schools as well as to extracurricular groups as an educational center. Youth courtyard, youth hostel, adult education center, house of youth and churches are also building blocks in an extensive educational network, as are cooperation with business and science from the region (energy suppliers, craftsmen and architects, Kassel University).
International encounters
There is currently the opportunity to participate in a school exchange
- for secondary school students with schools in Argentan (France), Göteborg-Torslanda (Sweden) and Moscow, Kansas (USA);
- for upper secondary students with schools in Argentan and Gothenburg;
- Since summer 2005 there have been encounters and exchanges between the secondary level II of the JGS and the Lyceum No. 7 in Szczecin (Poland)
- an exchange between two tutor courses from year 13 and students from the Petőfi grammar school in Bonyhád (Hungary).
- An exchange with the International School "El Limonar" in Murcia (Spain) took place for the first time in 2006.
- A working group is in contact with schools in Hyvinkää (Finland) and Colleferro (Italy) as part of a Comenius project; Here too, encounter trips are planned.
- The school tries to initiate an exchange with an English school again.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Angela Pooch, The Jakob Grimm School in Rotenburg an der Fulda, in: Denkmal - newspaper for the "Open Monument Day" in Hesse , State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, Wiesbaden, September 9, 2001 (p. 6) (PDF; 3.1 MB)