Kepler High School Weiden

Kepler High School
type of school	high school
School number	0321
founding	1869
address	Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 21
place	Weiden id OPf.
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	49 ° 40 '36 " N , 12 ° 10' 25" E Coordinates: 49 ° 40 '36 " N , 12 ° 10' 25" E
carrier	Willows in the Upper Palatinate
student	915 (as of Feb. 2018)
Teachers	85 (as of Feb. 2018)
management	Sigrid Bloch
Website	www.kepler-weiden.de

The Kepler grammar school Weiden is one of three grammar schools in Weiden in the Upper Palatinate with the branches natural science-technological, linguistic as well as economic and social science grammar school.

history

The establishment of the school as a royal trade school dates back to 1869. In 1877, like all Bavarian commercial schools, it was converted into a secondary school and in 1927 expanded to a nine-level upper secondary school . In 1945 classes were discontinued due to the war. In 1946 it reopened as a high school for boys , shortly afterwards the school was renamed Oberrealschule back. In 1965 the institute was restructured into a mathematical and natural science grammar school, now known as the Kepler grammar school .

At the beginning of the 2009/10 school year, gifted classes were set up. Possible foreign language consequences are:

1. Foreign language (FS): English
2nd FS: French or Latin
3rd FS: Spanish or French
FS starting late: Spanish or Italian
FS as an elective: Russian

Study seminar

The Kepler-Gymnasium is a seminar school for the subjects German, English, French, history and Spanish.

Competence center for gifted students

In October 2016 the Kepler-Gymnasium was named as one of eight high schools in Bavaria as a “Competence Center for the Promotion of the Gifted”. The main task is to make the promotion of talented and high-performing pupils at the high schools in the region a topic of school development and to identify suitable concepts for this. The school participates in the following projects:

Cooperation between the federal states of Bavaria, Saxony and Hesse

Since December 2015 there has been close contact with the Albert Schweitzer School Kassel and the Humboldt Gymnasium Radeberg. In addition, the "Student Research Workshop" with the OTH Amberg-Weiden and partners from the economy has been in place since 2018.

Federal-state initiative "We can do more!"

Project, accompanied by 30 scientists from 16 universities. 300 schools take part, including only 13 high schools

Individual support within the class

Pilot project that takes into account the different learning speeds of the students

Model classes

The school is one of the eight high schools in Bavaria where particularly talented pupils are encouraged in their own "gifted classes" (grades 5–10).

School life

2016: School without Racism - School with Courage
2016: Cooperation school of the OTH Amberg-Weiden

Competitions and Awards

The school regularly takes part in competitions in German, English, French, Latin, Italian, history, computer science, mathematics, physics and sports.

Natural sciences: Experiments answer, 2015, 2016 and 2017 super prize
Natural sciences: "Jugend forscht", 2016 a 2nd place in the field of technology, 2017 a 2nd place in the field of computer science
German: Jugend debattiert 2018

Italian: eTwinning Quality Label annually since 2012, German eTwinning Prize 2014 and 2018
History competition of the Federal President: 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2017 (best school in the country)
History competition tokens of remembrance : State winner 2015, State Prize 2016
Sport: repeated qualification for a federal final of youth trained for the Olympics , most recently in 2016 (beach volleyball), 2nd place at the state final football boys III