Maria Ward School (Bad Homburg)

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Maria Ward School
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type of school Secondary school and vocational high school for girls
founding 1896
address

Weinbergsweg 60
61348 Bad Homburg

place Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 13 '44 "  N , 8 ° 37' 48"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '44 "  N , 8 ° 37' 48"  E
carrier Maria Ward School Foundation (since 1999)
student about 500
Teachers about 50
management Leonie Fuhrmann
Website www.maria-ward-schule-hg.de
Maria Ward School

The Maria Ward School (MWS) is a private secondary school and vocational high school for girls in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . The private school has been sponsored by the Maria Ward School Foundation since 1999 . The school was named after Maria Ward (1585–1645), an English nun and Catholic donor . The Maria Ward School is located near the Kaiserin Friedrich Gymnasium (KFG).

history

Between 1888 and 1890 a guesthouse called Zu den Drei Kaisern was built, which was later named Dreikaiserhof . The Institute of the English Misses in Aschaffenburg acquired the building in 1893. The housekeeping school was approved three years later . In this school 50 internal and 10 external students were taught. A first extension was built as early as 1902. In the years 1914 to 1918 the school functioned as an auxiliary and home hospital . In 1924, a political conference between Chancellor Dr. Marx and the Bavarian Prime Minister Eugen Ritter von Knilling . The housekeeping school was officially recognized in 1926. Five years later a school for nannies and house assistants was established. A housewife class was added to the school in 1935. Between 1940 and 1944 the boarding school and all school types had to be closed because the school building was cleared for a hospital. In the autumn of 1945, school operations were resumed. In 1952 the school was converted into a two-year vocational school. The goal was to achieve social secondary school maturity . Women's technical school classes I were approved in 1968. In 1970 the women's technical school classes I were converted into a one-year vocational school for secondary school students. The specialty of this one-year vocational school was home economics . In 1988 the field of business and administration was added. In 1991 the Maria Ward School was recognized as a school with a special pedagogical character . In the same year a two-tier secondary school was built. A bandstand was opened in 2002.

General

Lessons, subjects and study groups

If possible emphases for example, be treated interdisciplinary, grade 7 in specialist biology the subject 's eye and in physics the subject of optics . Once a year, a project week is offered that deals with non-classroom topics.

Textile design and food preparation are among the special subjects. In addition, the Maria Ward School offers its students a wide range of options, such as continuous music lessons up to the end of grade 7, wind classes (grades 5–6), IT lessons in grades 7 and 8.

The school offers a total of four different working groups (AG's). The special and most actively operated working groups are called Jugend forscht -AG , DLRG and the choir at the Maria Ward School is very popular with the students. The fourth working group is basketball.

Since 2007 there has also been a school medical service in which schoolgirls from grade 7 can participate. (After taking part in a course that takes place every year in collaboration with the Maltese ). The school paramedics take care of the pupils' well-being during the breaks, but also during lessons.

School community

There are various activities for the students that go beyond the classroom. These include the school festival, the Christmas concert for all choir members, class trips , project weeks, lunch together (after registration) and the school library .

Support association

The Maria Ward School has an association that was founded on December 18, 1967.

Partner schools

The Maria Ward School maintains contacts with Loreto College in Brisbane (State of Queensland in Australia ), Gimnazjum nr 1 in Swidnik (John Paul II) and a school in Tanzania.

The partnership with the school in Australia started in December 2001 when a German teacher from the college attended Maria Ward School. Since then, information has often been exchanged between the pupils of both schools via post and the Internet . In August 2003, 18 students from different classes from Maria Ward School and one teacher attended Loreto College. The return visit took place in December of that year. To this day, exchanges take place every two years.

building

The main building was built in 1888–1890 by Johann Molitor, Kirdorf, as the “Drei Kaiserhof” hotel. In 1894 he sold the house to the Aschaffenburg “Englischen Fräulein” from the Order of Maria Ward. The large-volume, late classicist, slightly rural building is a listed building .

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