Michael Ende School
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| type of school | School with a special focus on learning |
| founding | 1968 |
| address |
Erlenweg 2a |
| place | Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) |
| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 39 '7 " N , 7 ° 57' 8" E |
| carrier | Westerwaldkreis |
| student | 98 (as of August 1, 2014) |
| Teachers | 18 (as of August 1, 2014) |
| management | Frank R. Schneider |
| Website | mesbm.de |
The Michael-Ende-School in Bad Marienberg (Westerwald) is a school with a special focus on learning sponsored by the Westerwaldkreis . It is attended all-day by schoolchildren from the immediate vicinity of the Bad Marienberg Association and the northern local communities of the neighboring Rennerod Association . The school was founded in 1968 as an auxiliary school located in the Langenbach district and relocated to a former elementary school building in Bad Marienberg city center in the 1970s. Since the end of 1996 the school has been located in a specially built new building in the school center of the city and was renamed the Michael-Ende-School with the official opening in 1997 . It is named after the children's and youth book author Michael Ende (1929–1995). It has been an all-day school since the 2005/06 school year .
Current
The school type of the Michael-Ende-Schule is a school with a special focus on learning (special needs school). It is located in the school center on the northern outskirts of Bad Marienberg in the immediate vicinity of the youth hostel and elementary school (Wolfstein School). The school is run by the Westerwaldkreis; since the school year 2005/06 the school has been run as an open all-day school .
Currently [as of the 2013/14 school year] the school is attended by 105 pupils (around 10% of them with a migrant background ), who are taught and supervised by 16 special school teachers, a social pedagogue and other pedagogical specialists and freelance workers on a full-time basis. The students are led to the special school graduation.
Currently, the school is in the program of career entry support of the Employment Agency Montabaur . The project sponsor is the IB - Internationaler Bund . The aim of the project is to improve the training opportunities of young people in need of support; this will u. a. Applicant training , company visits and the planning of a student company carried out. Since 2013, “Jimmie's Bistro” has been offered once a month by class 8.
history
The school was founded as a so-called “ auxiliary school ” in 1968 and was located in a former elementary school building in the suburb of Langenbach. Since the structure proved to be too small in the 1970s, a former elementary school building from 1907 on the edge of the Bad Marienberger Kurpark, which had five classrooms, was moved into; The name and type of school at that time was the school for the learning disabled . Since the structural condition no longer met the requirements in the 1990s, the school and the school authorities began planning a new building in the city's school center after moving into the vacant school building in Nisterau -Pfuhl was rejected because of its peripheral location. The increasing number of pupils also meant that in 1995/96 two classes had to be moved to rooms in the special school in Höhn .
This new building was built in 1994 and was initially available to the two outsourced classes in the 1996/97 school year and to all students at the turn of the year. At the same time as the building was changed, the school was named. The proposal to name the school - as the first special school in Germany - Michael-Ende-Schule met with resistance from the heirs of Michael Ende, who had died in 1995. So far, these have only allowed high schools to bear the name of the writer. After several daily newspapers, including the Frankfurter Rundschau, reported on the attempt by the lawyers of the community of heirs to prevent the granting of a name to a special school, the end heirs finally gave in and allowed its use. When the school was inaugurated in 1997, the district administrator of the Westerwaldkreis gave the school the name Michael-Ende-School .
After an extension with two classrooms had already been built in 2001 with increasing space requirements, the school received a separate two-story extension in 2006 to carry out the all-day offer with a library , creative room and an exercise room. With the overall number of pupils in the special school sector declining, the Michael-Ende-Schule managed to keep the number of pupils more or less constant with around a hundred pupils with the all-day offer, especially since this is also attended by pupils from the catchment area of the neighboring municipalities of Hachenburg and Westerburg .
Architecture and buildings
The single-storey functional building is grouped in a U-shape around an inner courtyard, which is oriented towards the adjacent primary school. The art in the construction of the building refers to figures from the work of Michael Ende, so in the entrance area and in the hall there are motifs from Jim Button and Lukas the Engine Driver , Momo and the Neverending Story. In addition to eight classrooms, the school has a school kitchen with a dining room , a work room with machine room and a conveyor room. There is also a football field on the site . The cafeteria and gym of the nearby Protestant high school are also used.
Educational work, equipment and offers
In addition to the regular subjects (such as work apprenticeship ), the offers within the framework of the working groups and the all-day school u. a. a swimming and soccer school team, Taekwondo , radio and various creative offers. The school promotes the “active break” by giving the pupils the opportunity to borrow movement toys (pedalos, children's draisines, unicycles, etc.) during the breaks . From the 2012/13 school year, a student company initially operated the “Jimmy's Bistro”, and from 2015/16 a kiosk .
In addition to ongoing program of quality assurance in language behavior and violence prevention are under the school social work u. a. Programs Konfrontationspädagoik and the "moving school" performed. In addition, the school has four active boards and two sets of notebooks that are used in ongoing lessons, especially in work teaching.
public relation
- The school has had a support association made up of parents and other school members since the 1990s. This supports special school events, such as an infant care course or activities as part of the Norderney stay.
- The school newspaper , which appears irregularly, is always the product of an appropriate working group that is formed by the students for this purpose.
Web links
- School homepage
- Michael-Ende-School at Ganztagsschule.rlp.de
- Education server RLP
- MES at stayfriends.de