Mont Cenis Comprehensive School

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Mont Cenis Comprehensive School
Signet Mont-Cenis-Gesamtschule Lerncampus Herne 3-zeilig.jpg
type of school Comprehensive school with upper secondary level
School number 188748
founding 1984
address

Mont-Cenis-Str. 180
44627 Herne, Germany

place Herne
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
carrier City of Herne
student 994 (as of 2017/18)
Teachers around 85 (as of 2017/18)
management Sylke Reimann-Pérez
Website www.mcg-herne.de

The Mont-Cenis Comprehensive School is a municipal comprehensive school in Herne-Sodingen .

concept

The Mont-Cenis Comprehensive School, founded in 1984, is an integrated all-day school with increased music and sports lessons, at which all school-leaving certificates ( secondary school leaving certificate , middle school leaving certificate and high school diploma ) can be obtained. At the end of grade 12, the school-based part of the advanced technical college entrance qualification can be acquired. Around 1000 students attend the school and they are taught by around 85 teachers. A class teacher team of two teachers each looks after the classes, which are housed in separate building areas according to the year. The years are six-part. In addition, the learners have access to career advice and their own social pedagogues . With the start of the 2012/2013 school year, schoolchildren with integration needs will also receive integrative instruction. Since the 2015/2016 school year, refugees have been prepared for participation in regular classes in special international classes. The core idea of ​​the comprehensive school concept is learning together and equal opportunities for all students regardless of the social status of their parents' home.

Upper secondary school

The Mont-Cenis Comprehensive School has an upper level , from 11th to 13th grade. The introductory phase usually begins with two to three classes. Many learners switch to their own upper level with a technical college entrance qualification (FORQ). But it also compete every year student of real and secondary schools and the high school that can boast a FORQ's degree. The comprehensive schools in North Rhine-Westphalia offer the Abitur after 13 school years.

School profile

Music classes

With music and sport classes, the school offers two special profiles. In cooperation with the music school in Herne, the students of the music classes first learn the recorder , then the instruments guitar , flute , keyboard , saxophone , trumpet , drums , tuba , etc. They make music in big band formation under the guidance of their music teacher. They appear in public, take part in competitions and accompany festive occasions with their repertoire of specially arranged well-known songs from rock , pop and jazz . One of the greatest successes was the performance with the State Police Orchestra of North Rhine-Westphalia in the Mont-Cenis Academy on December 4, 2014.

Sports classes

In the sports classes, the pupils have intensified sports lessons from the 5th year onwards. Since 2016 the school has been participating in the “Football meets culture” project. In sports Leistungskurs the Gymnasiale school students earn a Teaching Assistant certificate . Since 1990, the 8th and 11th year olds have been taking part in the sports week every January, during which they choose the winter sports of alpine skiing , cross-country skiing or snowboarding and travel to an alpine ski area together with trained ski and sports instructors. Schoolchildren who do not want to take part in winter sports can take advantage of a range of sports, for example a riding week, in the region. Games and sports facilities are also provided by the all-day area. Whether it's a “moving break” with the separate game edition for grades 5 to 7 and for grades 8 to 10 or table football during the lunch break - the students choose from a wide range.

Projects

Mont-Cenis comprehensive school Herne, April 2018

The school carries out numerous projects, including “German Checker”, “Football Meets Culture”, Chances Work , Sports Helper Training , Arbitrators , ChangeWriters , Buddies, Reading Club , Peers and the European Foreign Language Day .

medical corps

The school medical service consists of around 10–15 students. All students who are in the school medical service have taken part in first aid training and have a first aid license. The school's medical room is used for this.

Working groups

In the afternoon, the students choose from a variety of offers, e.g. B. garden work group for the maintenance of the school garden , online work group with school newspaper blog, moped work group, dance work group, juggling , upcycling , music, youth club and others.

Partner schools

Founding school director Wolfgang Viehweger (school management 1984 to 1995) initiated a school partnership with Hernes' twin town of Hénin-Beaumont in the north of France in 1990 . At the beginning of the partnership, the total school students were able to complete their three-week internship in France . In return, French exchange students gained practical experience at the Heitkamp construction company in Herne, the then partner company of the comprehensive school. The teachers also made numerous Franco-German friendships and so the school partnership lasted for 20 years until 2010. The exchange with the Collège Anne Frank in Dourges , a suburb of Hénin-Beaumont, proved to be the most sustainable . In addition to an exchange with England after German reunification in 1990, there was also a temporary contact with the Geschwister-Scholl-Oberschule from Lutherstadt Eisleben . The school has repeatedly participated in Comenius projects and e-twinning partnerships.

School history

Development of the Mont Cenis Comprehensive School

In 1979 the first comprehensive school was founded in what is now the Herner and Wanne-Eickeler urban area as the “Herne Comprehensive School” in Wanne-Eickel on Stöckstraße. After the final decision to set up a second comprehensive school on Mont-Cenis- Strasse was passed in a council meeting in December 1983, 104 children were accepted into four new fifth grades (grades 5.6 to 5.10) in Wanne-Eickel in the 1984/85 school year. most of which came from Herne. The fifth graders had to drive from Herne to Wanne-Eickel every morning, practically from station to station. Finally, on August 5, 1985, the Herne children - with their 17 teachers - moved to Mont-Cenis-Straße 180, the current school location. From now on the new school was called Gesamtschule Herne, while the school on Wanne-Eickeler Stöckstraße was called Gesamtschule Wanne-Eickel to distinguish it. In 2001 the comprehensive school in Herne was renamed the Mont-Cenis-Gesamtschule.

The new comprehensive school in Herne was popular with Herne's parents and children as the only all-day school in the city that was also equipped with a modern triple sports hall. Of the 192 registered children, only 120 children could initially be accepted in the lottery . Two years later, after the secondary school, which was previously housed in the school buildings, ran out in 1986 and the secondary school moved to Castroper Strasse in 1987, it became six. In the afternoon, there were 22 working groups in the first few years that were offered by parents: typewriting, handicrafts, sewing, etc. In 1990, the first graduate class was dismissed after the 10th grade. Three years later, on June 9, 1993, the first high school graduates received their school- leaving certificate from the hands of the headmaster Wolfgang Viehweger - NRW Minister of Education, Hans Schwier was a guest of honor and insisted on the 28 students, who were the first class in 1984 to attend the Comprehensive school in Wanne-Eickel had started to congratulate personally. They already wrote their final exams in the new building for the upper level , which was inaugurated on October 30, 1992 after only one year of construction.

In 2001 the school was renamed the Mont Cenis Comprehensive School. The name goes back to a technical marvel - the Mont-Cenis tunnel in the French Alps , which gave its name to the Mont-Cenis colliery, founded in Herne-Sodingen in 1872 . After almost 100 years - and an eventful history - the mine was closed in 1978 and 25 hectares of fallow land were created in the middle of Sodingen, on which the advanced training academy of the Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia and a district town hall were built. For headmaster Udo Müller (head of school 1995 to 2017), the decisive factor for renaming the school was that the population connected the name Mont-Cenis with the history and present of mining in Herne on the one hand and that it stood for the departure into the future, the Herne, on the other through the pioneering architecture and technology of the advanced training academy in Sodingen. At the naming ceremony, Lord Mayor Wolfgang Becker also referred to the great importance associated with the name of the Mont Cenis colliery: "It stands like no other for tradition and change, for history and future."

The new canteen was inaugurated on March 16, 2014, using a light-flooded low-rise building as an extension to the existing canteen. Finally, in 2015, the new school garden with an amphitheater made of natural stone was laid out for outdoor lessons. In September 2017 (WAZ of August 26, 2017) the city of Herne decided to partially demolish the school building and to build an extension for the Mont-Cenis comprehensive school; the costs are estimated at 33.7 million euros. In the spring of 2017, schoolchildren, the teaching staff and representatives from the district were involved in three idea workshops. In the next step, an architecture competition is to be announced. School operations will not be affected by the new building, as it will be built on the existing open spaces on the school grounds.

The headmistress Sylke Reimann-Pérez, appointed in February 2017 , initiated a training pact in which the school cooperates with the city of Herne and local companies in order to counter the shortage of skilled workers and to prepare the young people as best as possible for their professional lives.

History of the school location

The part of the building facing Sodinger Strasse was built in 1956 as the Evangelical Primary School Sodinger Strasse. It served as a replacement for the aging Viktoriaschule on Grüner Weg, which later became the Erich Kästner School. The elementary school was attended by around 400 girls and boys from Sodingen and was directed by Rector Hegemann. It was considered a modern school building and had classrooms with built-in cupboards, modern teaching kitchens, a sports hall with a caretaker's apartment and a teaching pool. In the immediate vicinity of the school, the Gysenberg Revierpark, the first amusement park in the Ruhr area, was opened in 1970 , including numerous orange-colored climbing cubes for children, garden loungers for adults, a large petting zoo and a wave pool , which is now Lake .

Due to the emerging demographic change, the city of Herne initiated the planning for a new school center in Ostbachtal in 1970 , in which a second type of school, Realschule II, was to be accommodated in addition to the secondary school: "School center Ostbachtal is geared towards the future," was the headline Westfälische Rundschau on June 3, 1970 and reported that a dining room and a relaxation room as well as a language laboratory for individualized learning of foreign languages ​​were planned in the new building . The projected building was designed for more than twice as many students: a total of 1,000 students were to attend the school in two future school types in 15 secondary school and 12 secondary school classes. The school directors Finger (Realschule) and Strauss (Hauptschule) have shared the newly completed main building since 1972, which now houses the 5th and 6th year, the class tower in the high-rise (building sections A and B), the new sports hall and the auditorium . The only 15-year-old teaching pool and gym had to make way and the former passage from the school building on Sodinger Strasse to the now demolished sports and swimming pool was converted into an administrative wing, which still exists today. At the same time, the course of Sodinger Strasse was changed and extended to Börnig in 1979 and the Ostbach was built over. On March 31, 1978, the Mont-Cenis colliery was shut down after 106 years of operation: “'Mont-Cenis, Mont-Cenis, I'll never forget this Pütt', wrote an unknown author in a miner's song. Saying goodbye to the colliery was a turning point in the history of Sodden and in the lives of many people. ”On August 5, 1981 at 12 noon, the last winding tower on Mont Cenis was torn down. In 1985 the comprehensive school moved into the school building.

Monument to "The Unknown Football Spectator"

Sculpture by Elisabeth Hoffmann "The Unknown Football Spectator"

Also known as "The Torschrei" sculpture "The unknown football spectators" of Börniger sculptor Elisabeth Hoffmann in 1958 recorded in conjunction with the school building. It is considered the only sculpture in the world for football spectators and pays homage to the football culture of SV Sodingen , the football club of the miners of the Mont-Cenis colliery . Their origins had been forgotten until 2014 when a project group at the school researched their origins. In March 2018 it was finally included in the Herner monument list. Only a stone's throw away from the school, on the opposite side of the main entrance on Sodinger Straße, was the "Aschekippe", one of the venues of SV Sodingen , which played in the highest German league at the time. “Sodingen - that was football in the shadow of the winding tower, surrounded by the typical miners' colonies with their exposed, soot-blackened brick buildings: and that was the Mont-Cenis colliery, which dominated the development of the district for decades and with which the fans, the players and Board members were inseparable. "

Other special features

In the 1986/87 school year, the Mont-Cenis Comprehensive School was one of the first schools in North Rhine-Westphalia to introduce native-speaking Turkish lessons as a foreign language in compulsory elective area I (until around 2008). For this innovation, the headmaster Wolfgang Viehweger was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit in 1992 . The partner company of the comprehensive school, the construction company Heitkamp , exhibited twelve works of art by students in the canteen of their main office in Wanne-Eickeler Langekampstrasse in November 1990 .

In October 1990 music teacher Ingo Marmulla recorded the songs "Black and White" and "For You Da" with the support of other music teachers, the school band and the school choir. In the basement of the school they rehearsed with guitar , keyboard , drums and saxophone and just in time for Christmas they released a single with an edition of 1000 on Marmulla's record label "energie".

Single from the comprehensive school Herne 'Black and White', school band with Ingo Marmulla (Label Energie)

Another milestone was reached in 1994 with the “Music Project for Tolerance and the Coexistence of Different Cultures”, a bilingual CD that was again produced under Marmulla's direction in cooperation with the Turkish teacher Cengiz Karaefe at the Mont Cenis Comprehensive School. Children, musicians and poets got together to record the CD entitled “Together-Sounds” / “Birligte Calip Söyleyelim” to record 20 different songs, including the well-known song Üsküdar . They wanted to “make people in our country aware through music that different cultures are an indispensable asset.” The boy group Caught in the Act also performed at the school after class 8.6 had won a competition organized by the Herner Cocktail editorial team.

At the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer , the school was given the honor of participating in the torch relay of the Olympic flame in the Herner ice rink. A team of eleven relay runners took over the flame in the school yard and carried it to the intersection of Mont-Cenis-Straße / Kirchstraße, where it was taken over by a team from the Herner ice sports club and brought to the Gysenberghalle . Around 900 pupils from the Mont-Cenis Comprehensive School had class ended after the second hour in order to take part in the celebrations. Since 1993, sports games have been organized under the name Nikolauscup for the children of the 5th year, with a cup and prizes to be won. The children complete a playful course in which they can prove themselves in class teams.

Memberships

Awards and competitions

Known students

literature

Ralf Piorr: Mont-Cenis. In: Ralf Piorr (Ed.): On site. History and importance of mining in Herne and Wanne-Eickel. Herne 2010, pp. 88-100.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mont Cenis Comprehensive School, Städt. Comprehensive school - lower secondary levels I and II - number of pupils (schulliste.eu, accessed on April 25, 2018)
  2. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/herne-wanne-eickel/sie-haben-in-der-schule-deutsch-gelernt-und-freunde-find-id213763349.html
  3. ↑ http://www.litcam.de/de/fussball-trifft-kultur%20Fußball%20trifft%20Kultur  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.litcam.de  
  4. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/herne-wanne-eickel/deutsch-checker-projekt-macht-herner-schueler-zu-lehrern-id211166175.html
  5. ↑ http://www.litcam.de/de/fussball-trifft-kultur
  6. ↑ https://www.changewriters.de
  7. ^ WAZ Herne and Wanne-Eickel, August 6, 1985 (Herne City Archives)
  8. ^ WAZ Herne and Wanne-Eickel, May 25, 2000
  9. ^ WAZ Herne and Wanne-Eickel, June 9, 1993 (Herne City Archives)
  10. ^ WAZ Herne and Wanne-Eickel, May 25, 2000
  11. ^ Archives of the Mont Cenis Comprehensive School in Herne
  12. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/herne-wanne-eickel/29-millionen-euro-fuer-die-neue-sodinger-habenschule-id213227219.html WAZ Herne and Wanne-Eickel, January 25, 2018
  13. ↑ Westfälische Rundschau, June 3, 1970 (City Archive Herne)
  14. ^ Ralf Piorr: Mont-Cenis. In: Ralf Piorr (Ed.): On site. History and importance of mining in Herne and Wanne-Eickel. Herne 2010, pp. 88-100, p. 95.
  15. ^ Ralf Piorr : The last buddy club - The heyday of SV Sodingen .
  16. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/herne-wanne-eickel/herner-schueler-bei-dr-otto-ruer-preis-erverbindreich-id11725109.html
  17. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/herne-wanne-eickel/schueler-erhalten-preis-fuer-projekt-ueber-juedische-familie-id212668131.html
  18. ↑ Holocaust or Shoah in Hebrew. The fate of the Frank family in Herne during the Nazi regime on YouTube