Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Leonberg

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Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium Leonberg
Main entrance, upper school yard
type of school high school
founding 1967
address

Lindenstrasse 4

place Leonberg
country Baden-Württemberg
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 47 '59 "  N , 9 ° 0' 39"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '59 "  N , 9 ° 0' 39"  E
student around 800 (as of October 2007)
Teachers about 60 (as of October 2007)
management Roman Peters
Website www.jkg-leonberg.de

The Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium is one of two general education , state high schools in the city of Leonberg near Stuttgart with around 685 students in 29 classes and 60 teachers (as of October 2005). The school was named after the astronomer Johannes Kepler , who attended the Latin school in Leonberg for a few years .

history

The Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium was founded in 1967 as a Progymnasium because the city's only gymnasium at the time, the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium , was no longer sufficient. Five years later, in June 1972, the first Abitur was passed.

In September 1972 the school was moved to the current building. In the last ten years the school has been kept up to date in terms of both construction and technology.

Partnership with industry, business and universities

The Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium maintains connections to business and industry, for example as the official partner school of Siemens AG , which offers presentation seminars, team training and company tours for the students. In the Girls and Technology for Schoolgirls project, we work together with the industrial partners Trumpf , Götenbodt and Zander.

For high school students is the Student Engineering Academy (SIA), a cooperative institution with colleges , companies and Südwestmetall held in which the students at lectures and exercises at the University of Stuttgart and in companies, for example, the Robert Bosch GmbH and Behr participate, .

"College in Kepler"

Since 1996, well-known scientists have been giving lectures on current scientific developments under the event name Kolleg im Kepler . Among them were the Nobel Prize winners Bert Sakmann and Klaus von Klitzing .

Bilingual elements

The science internship in chemistry and parts of biology in grade 7 are taught in English . Some topics of the subject history in different grade levels are in English and French taught.

Eight year high school (G8)

The city of Leonberg introduced the shortened eight-year course (G8) at its grammar schools in the 2001/2002 school year (this only happened nationwide in 2004/2005). This makes the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium one of the first schools in Baden-Württemberg in which pupils acquire the general university entrance qualification (Abitur) after just twelve years .

Upper school reform

According to the reform of the upper level in Baden-Württemberg, the first students passed their Abitur in 2004 according to new guidelines. As a result of the nationwide changes in curricula and personnel plans, various working groups (AG) were lost. Some students tried - but in vain - to stop the reform. In this way, the grammar school developed into a starting point for many counter-actions (e.g. petitions ), some of which received attention from the Ministry of Culture .

Culture

Sporting successes

  • National winner of the youth competition trained for the Olympics in the golf discipline in 2007 and 2008 as well as reaching the state finals in 2005 and 2006.
  • Reaching the state finals in youth training for the Olympics in the swimming category in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
  • Reaching the national finals in youth training for the Olympics in the athletics category in 2001 and 2003.

theatre

In addition to other working groups, the grammar school has theater groups and a wide range of professional event technology , which is operated and maintained exclusively by students.

Johannes-Kepler- / Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium - Big Band

There is a big band in cooperation with the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium . The big band of the Johannes-Kepler- and Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Leonberg has been under the direction of Rolf Beuchert since it was founded in 1982. It currently consists of around 18 students from grades 6 to 13. In addition, former students play along as required. The repertoire of around 50 tracks includes big band swing classics as well as jazz rock tracks. Since it was founded, the big band has played over 100 concerts in and around Leonberg.

Partner schools

In addition to cooperation with the neighboring school, the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium, there are other partner schools with which an exchange (both students and teachers) takes place:

  • Collège Léonard de Vinci, Belfort , France
  • Lycée Condorcet, Belfort, France
  • Reunion Island , French overseas department
  • Liceo Scientifico Statale T. Taramelli, Pavia , Italy
  • Istituto Tecnico Commerciale Statale
  • Maaslandcollege, Bilingual Department, Oss , Netherlands

There is also a lively cultural exchange with Eastern Europe ( Czech Republic , Chotěboř ).

Personalities

student

  • Norbert Beck , politician (CDU), member of the state parliament (Abitur 1973)
  • Peter Hinz , politician (CDU), former member of the Bundestag (Abitur 1978)
  • Ursula Kreutel , German discus throwing champion 1990, former mayor of Weissach (Abitur 1985)
  • Thomas Schneider , soccer player and coach (up to 11th grade at the JKG)

Teacher

  • Otto Klett (1910–1976), expellee functionary, teacher until 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. College in Kepler. In: Website of the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .