Maria Montessori School (Klausheide)
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| type of school | Elementary school with a Montessori profile |
| founding | 1927 |
| place | Klausheide |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 27 '37 " N , 7 ° 9' 23" E |
| carrier | City of Nordhorn |
| student | 127 (August 17, 2011) |
| Teachers | 15 (August 17, 2011) |
| management | Dörte ten Brink |
| Website | www.grundschule-klausheide.de |
The Maria Montessori School in Klausheide , founded in 1927 as a primary school for students of all confessions, is a state open all-day school . It is the only school with a Montessori profile in the Grafschaft Bentheim district . The former Astrid Lindgren School in Nordhorn has been a branch of the Maria Montessori School since the 2010/2011 school year . In 2011 the primary school in Klausheide was renamed the Maria Montessori School.
history
Founded in 1927
The founding of the school is closely linked to the founding of the Klausheide estate in 1914 by the Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach family . In 1919, houses were built for the workers near the estate, the nucleus of the village of Klausheide. The schoolchildren were initially driven to Altendorf, Bakelde and Nordhorn in a horse-drawn “school car” belonging to the estate. In 1926, however, the estate management wanted to stop this service - a school strike broke out. When the axle of the school car broke in 1927 and the children were unable to attend school for two weeks, the parents wrote a letter of protest and the decision was made to found a school in Klausheide. This went into operation in the same year - all 32 students were taught in a room in the apartment of the teacher Fritz Strotmann. In 1929 parts of the municipality of Bakelde, on whose territory the estate and the Clausheide settlement were located, were incorporated into Nordhorn. The manor district with the manor settlement became a political municipality , initially still under the name Bakelde. In 1931 the name was changed to Klausheide. In 1933 Fritz Kreft succeeded Strotmann. The number of students, which has now grown to 50, had to be taught in two shifts.
The school in the engine shed in 1936
In order to remedy the lack of space, the estate administration provided a disused locomotive shed east of the estate. It was on the former small railway line to Elbergen . In 1936 this locomotive shed was used as a school. At the end of the Second World War , almost all teaching materials were destroyed by soldiers passing through. As the number of students grew steadily, a second teaching position was set up in 1950. However, there was still only one classroom and so an additional room on the estate was used as an emergency solution.
The school moves to the village in 1956
The community of Klausheide continued to grow, especially due to the influx of war refugees and displaced persons. In 1950 Klausheide had around 250 inhabitants, by 1960 there were already more than 700. The construction of a new school became inevitable. On May 3, 1956, the new school, now equipped with two classrooms, was ready to move into. Since 1962, elementary school has not lasted eight years but new years; the 9th grade pupils from Klausheide had to leave for the Altendorfer school.
New building after eight years in 1964
After just a few years, the new school was too small. The number of pupils rose to 111 in 1963. The community therefore built a new school building with four classrooms in 1964, which is connected to the “old” building by a covered corridor. The teaching positions were increased to three in 1963 and to four in 1965. The school chronicle records the number of pupils in 1970 as 202. Since 1967 pupils who started school have had to attend a secondary school after the fourth grade - mostly in Nordhorn - so that in 1973 the last eighth graders were schooled; the eight-year elementary school became a four-year elementary school. Due to demographic change, the number of schoolchildren has decreased since the mid-1970s to 67 at present (2011/2012).
Realignment of pedagogy
Since 2000, the school profile has been geared towards the pedagogy of Maria Montessori. The Maria Montessori School took part in various projects and pilot projects, for example it is in cooperation with the St. Ludgerus Kindergarten Klausheide model project school "Bridge Year" or was the pilot school of the State of Lower Saxony "School program development and evaluation ". In the 2011/2012 school year there were 15 teachers at the school: nine permanent posts, two secondments, one substitute teacher, one catechist and two remedial teachers.
Establishment of the Nordhorn branch in 2010
In 2003, the City Council of Nordhorn decided to establish a Montessori school branch parallel to the regular school at the Pestalozzi primary school. Since a school is only allowed to offer one school profile, the Montessori branch could only be accommodated there temporarily, unless the school had changed its school profile to the Montessori concept. However, the general conference of the Pestalozzi School decided to keep the mainstream school profile. Due to the relatively small number of students in the Montessori branch, consideration was given to abandoning this school profile. However, the council and administration then decided to set up a subsidiary of the Maria Montessori School in the former Astrid Lindgren School for a period of four years. This extension will expire if there is a combined 1st and 2nd class in the four years of the time limit. At the moment (2011/2012) 80 children in four classes are being taught in the branch.
Educational concepts
Since the school year 2000/2001, the Maria Montessori School has based its pedagogy on the principles of Maria Montessori. It now meets all Montessori quality criteria of the Montessori umbrella organization in Germany. The school has been an open all-day school since 2006. The flexible entrance level has existed since 2008, which means that all children go to school, including those with special needs. The transition from kindergarten to school is made easier for children and parents through the cooperation with the St. Ludgerus Kindergarten (bridge year). The school is also included in the regional integration concept. The aim of this is to teach children with disabilities of all kinds in primary schools close to their homes.
literature
- Fritz Kreft: School chronicle of the elementary school Klausheide, 1962
- Willy Friedrich: Klausheide - in the mirror of time; The Grafschafter, 1970, 714
- Grafschafter school history online
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dörte ten Brink is the new headmistress of the Montessori School , gn-online.de from June 17, 2018
- ↑ State Archives Osnabrück, Rep 450 Bentheim I, No. 110a
- ↑ Grafschafter school history: outpost Gildkamp
- ^ Grafschafter school history: Klausheide. Retrieved April 30, 2019 .