Catholic School Sankt Paulus (Berlin)

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Catholic School of Saint Paul
School building on Waldenserstrasse
type of school primary school
School number 01P05
founding 1964
address

Waldenserstraße 27
10551 Berlin

place Berlin-Moabit
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 31 '42 "  N , 13 ° 20' 5"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '42 "  N , 13 ° 20' 5"  E
carrier Archdiocese of Berlin
student 366 (as of April 2011)
Teachers 24 + 10 teachers (as of April 2011)
management Agnes examiner
Website www.st-paulus-schule.de

The Katholische Schule Sankt Paulus (short: St. Paulus ) is a state-recognized private primary school in the Berlin district of Moabit ( Mitte district ). Since it was founded on April 10, 1964, the Diocese of Berlin has been the school sponsor of the St. Paulus School.

The primary school is located on the site of an orphanage that was important in 1869 in the Moabit monastery tower and that the school has shared with the Catholic Kindergarten Teachers' Seminar for years since 1965 . The college developed an open all-day school concept that was variable for the conditions in the district .

concept

The college of St. Paulus School sees it as its task to create an environment in all areas of everyday school life in which "the spirit of freedom and love of the Gospel is alive." In addition to helping to develop one's personality, to support the pupils "in their responsibility before God to make life and togetherness happy and conscious".

The lessons are based on the framework curricula for primary schools in Berlin. Catholic religious education is a regular subject. English is taught as a foreign language from the third grade onwards . The students can choose the subject Latin for one of the compulsory courses in the 6th grade. For several years now, “the core elements of the Marchtaler Plan have been increasingly taken into account in teaching : morning circle, networked teaching and free work. The subjects German , mathematics and English experience in grades five and six an external differentiation in smaller and homogeneous groups. "

The content of the lessons is expanded by the possibility of participating in working groups. These include, for example: choir, instrumental music, football, handball (for girls and boys), chess, school newspaper, pottery, dance, theater. Homework supervision takes place in the early afternoon in the additional leisure area. The rhythm that has been introduced into everyday school life as a change from specialist lessons and supervision to relaxation or social learning is an essential feature of the open all-day school of St. Paulus, which has been newly designed since 2005 . The training of schoolchildren to become conflict pilots brings about a peaceful solution to disputes. The counseling teachers are available for mediating discussions with the children.

Profile focus on literature

In 2001 the St. Paulus School committed itself to literature and reading promotion as a profile focus. In order to get the children excited about the world of literature, “browsing lessons” take place in which the pupils read children's books they have brought with them, but also children's and non-fiction books in the school library opened by Klaus Kordon or on the shelves of the exhibition “Berlin - it grows together “can borrow. There are three series of events to support this focus:

School in numbers

  • Schoolchildren: 366, 62% of them with a migration background
  • Teachers: 19, teachers: 5
  • Educators: 8, Educators: 2
  • Social worker: 1
  • Technical staff (secretary, clerk, kitchen staff, caretaker): 5

history

Pedagogical engagement in Moabit

Information about the organized educational work of the Catholic Church in Berlin-Moabit is already known from the second half of the 19th century. Crossing regional borders, there was talk of the Moabit monastery tower. It was about the attack by a group of around 3,000 people from Berlin on a recently inaugurated Catholic chapel in Berlin's working-class district of Moabit in August 1869. This was preceded by the establishment of an orphanage by Franciscans , initiated by the Dominican Order , who shortly afterwards two Dominicans connected. The orphanage with a chapel of the Dominican Order was located in the square of today's St. Paulus primary school.

Decades later, the impetus for founding a Catholic primary school came from the parents of the St. Paulus community and the Dominican monastery of St. Paulus in Moabit. Shortly after 1945, one of the fathers of the St. Paulus parish vigorously advocated the establishment of this Catholic school in Moabit. In anticipation of school lessons, work began in 1948 to convert rooms in the parish hall into classrooms. The orphanage, which later belonged to the school organization, housed almost only young GDR refugees in the period up to 1961.

The founding of the school was prepared on the express initiative of Alfred Bengsch , Archbishop of Berlin, with the commitment of Cathedral Chapter Greve and the support of the parish pastor of St. Paulus at the time, P. Burkard Runne, whose concern was the cooperation between the parish, school and family . Ultimately, the opportunity arose to accommodate the school operations through the dissolution of the St. Martin Home, which has been run by the Aachen Franciscans since 1869, right next to the parish church property and the renovation of the previous orphanage on the site in 1962. The first Students experience lessons until a school house can be rebuilt.

Foundation of the school

At the beginning of the school year 1964/1965, the first school enrollment took place in April. The Archbishop's Ordinariate took over the sponsorship of the Catholic School St. Paulus. The Order of the Poor School Sisters of Notre Dame provided the first teacher for the beginners. Until December 1964, the first graders were alone in this building. After the renovation, in January 1965, the students of the then Catholic kindergarten teachers' seminar Edith Stein also moved in , which was led by Sister M. Agnes Pietsch, poor school sister of Our Lady. This became necessary because the German Caritas Association Freiburg had handed over the sponsorship of this seminar to the Archdiocese of Berlin from 1965. Both educational institutions - seminar and elementary school - worked well together with mutual benefit. The Dominicans of the neighboring St. Paulus congregation soon also contributed to the religious education of the students and the further education of the parents. Sr. M. Thoma Galuschka was replaced at the beginning of the school year 1965/1966 by Sr. Ambrosiana Lux, who was also one of the poor school sisters of Our Lady, at the order of her order. On July 6, 1965, the cornerstone of the new elementary school, designed by architect Hermann Jünemann, was laid.

Restructuring and remodeling

From 1967, with the completion of the last classrooms in the new school building, the space in the so-called "Edith Stein House" was over. After the kindergarten teachers' seminar was later moved to a new vocational training location, it was used by the school from 2003 as part of a reliable half-day school to run an after-school care center, which was maintained by a local cooperation partner. As part of a state investment program, the school building was expanded in 2007 with an extension. In addition, the kitchen has been modernized, in which lunch with dessert and drink is prepared. After the school was expanded to become an open all-day school , the after -school care facility called Arche was fully integrated into the school institution as a complementary free time care offer .

In December 2015, a regular welcome class was set up in which refugee children receive schooling.

Support associations

Parents of the St. Paulus School founded support associations in three stages:

  1. Friends of the Catholic School Sankt Paulus in Berlin Tiergarten eV
  2. SoLe eV - Association for social and cultural learning at school
  3. Paulus Kinder eV

On the one hand, they helped with the financing of special purchases from the beginning, on the other hand, in the time of weak budget funds in the state of Berlin and the reduced financial support of the independent schools by the Berlin Senate, they partially supplemented the financial resources.

principal

  • 1964-1965: Sr. M. Thoma Galuschka
  • 1965-1992: Sr. M. Ambrosiana Lux
  • 1992-2001: Sr. Daniela Meyer
  • 2001: Ingeburg Haesner (acting)
  • 2001–2020: Christian Sprenger
  • since 2020: Agnes Prüfer

swell

  • Working Group on Independent Schools (Ed.): Brochure ... of Independent Schools. 9th edition. Berlin 2011.
  • Schoolchildren and Parents, Collegium (ViSdP) (Ed.): Festschrift for the 25th anniversary of the St. Paul Catholic School, 1964–1989.
  • School management (Ed.): 50 Years of the Catholic School Sankt Paulus , Berlin 2014.
  • School management (Ed.): School program of the Catholic School St. Paulus. 2005 (with updates to 2011).
  • Katholisches Schulzentrum Edith Stein (Edith.): 50 years of the Catholic School Edith Stein. 1998.
  • Helmut Engel , St. Jersch-Wenzel , W. Treue (Ed.): Tiergarten. Part 2. Moabit. Nicolai, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-87584-221-9 ( Berlin History Landscape - Places and Events. Volume 3).
  • Vier Türme Verlag (ed.): More than lessons. Convent schools and Catholic schools in Germany. Volume 1: Elementary School. Münsterschwarzach 2006, ISBN 3-87868-331-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d About us. Catholic School Sankt Paulus, accessed October 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ [1] , staff page for the school in the web area of ​​the Archbishop's Ordinary Berlin, accessed on July 9, 2020
  3. ↑ Primary schools in the social hotspot - 14 essential points. Press release of the initiative “Primary Schools in the Social Focal Point” on the occasion of the press conference on 03.03.2009 Education and Science Union - Landesverband Berlin, March 4, 2009, accessed on October 23, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Concept for school social work. on theophanu.org, point 3 definition “Brennpunkt-Schule” ( PDF file ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ), Retrieved February 22, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.theophanu.org
  5. ↑ School program of the Catholic School St. Paulus. 2005, with updates from 2007 and 2009 to 2011
  6. ↑ School program of the Catholic School St. Paulus , 2007
  7. ↑ www.berlin.de/sen/bildung/unterricht/lehrplaene curriculum on the website of the Senate Department for Education, Science and Research Berlin, accessed on February 22, 2011
  8. ↑ a b Christian Sprenger: Catholic School St. Paulus… diverse… literary… Christian. Info flyer, August 2008.
  9. ↑ cf. More Than Lessons ... , Volume 1, Page 17
  10. ↑ School homepage
  11. ↑ Employee of Theophanu , cooperation partner
  12. ^ School program of the St. Paulus Catholic School, 2011
  13. ↑ a b History of the Dominican Monastery of St. Paul. dated February 10, 2011
  14. ^ Moabit monastery tower
  15. ↑ see Tiergarten, part 2. Moabit , pages 273 and 280
  16. ↑ according to P. Burkard Runne OP, in: Festschrift 50 Years ... 2014, p. 19
  17. ↑ a b Festschrift for the 25th school anniversary ... 1989
  18. ^ School chronicle of the St. Paulus elementary school. Catholic School Sankt Paulus, accessed October 23, 2016 .
  19. ↑ Edith Stein Catholic School. Vocational school for social affairs and technical school for educators, Berlin.
  20. ↑ see brochure ... of independent schools , Berlin 2011, p. 52
  21. ↑ cf. Student newspaper of the Catholic School Sankt Paulus Pauli Times No. 7, December 2015, page 4; see website of the Federal Government [2] , accessed on March 21, 2017; after changing the mentioned website message, reference to the internet site http://www.st-paulus-schule.de , category welcome class
  22. ↑ Friends of our school. Catholic School Sankt Paulus, accessed October 23, 2016 .
  23. ↑ see Festschrift 50 Years ... 2014, p. 18