Ostalb-Gymnasium Bopfingen
| Ostalb-Gymnasium Bopfingen | |
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| West view of the main building with main entrance | |
| type of school | Linguistic and scientific high school with a sports profile |
| founding | 1342 as a Latin school, grammar school since 1976 |
| address |
Alte Neresheimer Strasse 39 |
| place | Bopfingen |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 51 '13 " N , 10 ° 20' 47" E |
| carrier | City of Bopfingen |
| student | about 500 |
| Teachers | about 50 |
| management | Pascal Bizard |
| Website | www.ostalb-gymnasium.de |
The Ostalb-Gymnasium ( OAG for short ) is a general high school in Bopfingen with a linguistic , scientific and athletic profile. The grammar school is attended by around 500 students who are taught by 50 teachers. Since the 2007/2008 school year, the school center has had a cafeteria operated by the Samaritan Monastery in Neresheim .
School history
Latin school (14th-19th centuries)
A school report from 1342 is the earliest reliable source of Bopfinger school history. The names of schoolmasters can also be found in records from the 15th century . The Latin school received a German train in the 1550s and moved into the old school building in 1557. In 1772 the current Preceptor Ludwig Adam Weiler first mentioned the traditional rod festival, the festival of the Bopfinger schools. French was taught for the first time in 1830 , one of the languages taught to this day at the Ostalb-Gymnasium. A new school building, into which the secondary school moved, was built in 1847.
Lower secondary school or high school (1847–1948)
Around 1840, against some resistance, physical education was given for the first time in Bopfingen. Since girls have been allowed to attend secondary school since 1909, an assistant teacher had to be employed, whose position was converted into a second secondary teaching position in 1918. With the National Socialist coordination in 1938, the lower secondary school became a high school for boys and a high school for girls.
Albert Pfister Progymnasium (1948–1976)
The Albert-Pfister-Progymnasium used the new school building as the school building until 1961, into which the new Bopfingen secondary school moved in 1964. The Progymnasium moved into the current old building of the education center and had a building with an auditorium , specialist rooms and large classrooms that was modern for the time. On May 1, 1978, the mayor of Bopfingen wrote a 14-page memorandum to the Stuttgart Oberschulamt in which he described the expansion of the Progymnasium into a full grammar school as an "urgent necessity".
Ostalb-Gymnasium (since 1976)
In 1976 the Albert-Pfister-Progymnasium was expanded into a full high school. Jürgen Schick became the first headmaster. When he retired in 1999, Dieter Kiem became director of the Ostalb-Gymnasium. He headed the grammar school from 1999 to 2016. After the position had remained vacant since then and the school was run by a team of department heads led by the deputy headmaster Gerhard Ott, Pascal Bizard has been the new headmaster since May 1st, 2018.
With the expansion to a full high school, today's old building with the auditorium was expanded to include a new building, which now functions as the main building. Around 1995 another new building with eleven classrooms and a computer room was built. Four of these eleven rooms are used by the secondary school. In the years 2005 to 2007 a cafeteria was built on the school premises, which is operated by the Samariterstift Neresheim.
East view of the main building
West view of new building with old building (right)
Interior view of the auditorium (old building) before extensive renovation
canteen
Furnishing
The Ostalb-Gymnasium has around 30 rooms for general teaching. There are also around ten specialist rooms for the natural sciences and specially equipped internship rooms in the basement. There are also two fully equipped music rooms and two drawing rooms. Each of these specialist rooms has a permanently installed projector , document camera and laptop.
In two computer rooms, the students can work on a total of around 50 computers with Internet access. The subject room principle prevails. This means that rooms are specially designed for a subject and are therefore equipped with innovative teaching materials that have been specially tailored to a subject. There is also a gymnasium under the natural sciences , which is used for school sports . In addition, the OAG can use the neighboring Bopfinger indoor swimming pool , the gym belonging to the indoor swimming pool, the Bopfinger sports fields, the gymnasium of the Staufer school and the school's own outdoor school sports facility for school sports. In the auditorium of the Ostalb grammar school, which also has a permanently installed screen, there is space for around 330 people at the regular events. In addition to the school, the local clubs also use the auditorium.
deals
Working groups
The Ostalb-Gymnasium can offer the students a wide range of working groups (AG). There is a mini big band for the pupils in grades 5–8, while the older ones can play in the big band of the Ostalb-Gymnasium. A choir, an orchestra group and a theater group can also be visited. Grade 5 students can take a keyboard training course and Grade 7 students can cook. There are working groups for languages for Italian and French . In the sports area, climbing, dancing , apparatus gymnastics, indiaka , soccer , volleyball , handball and badminton are offered. There is also a school medical service of the Johanniter youth, which the students can devote themselves to. Johanniter also offer first aid courses for grades 7 and 8. An event technology group is responsible for the technical management (sound and light) at the numerous events, especially in the auditorium. At many of these events, the catering AG (from grade 10) is used, which takes care of the physical well-being of the guests.
care, support
In addition to eating in the cafeteria, there is also homework supervision, which is carried out by subject teachers and class 10 students. We are also happy to accept the Help-Learn-Promote funding program. Older pupils give their younger classmates specific help with school difficulties.
Games offer
Board and parlor games, table tennis bats and balls, and other exercise games can be borrowed every Monday and Thursday (the days with most afternoon classes). A table football is also available in the external room.
Choices
After the first foreign language from grade 5 ( English ), students in grade 6 can choose between Latin and French . In both cases, Spanish can still be chosen in grade 8 . However, there is also the option of sticking to two foreign languages and thus choosing the scientific profile, in which the new subject of natural science and technology is offered as a four-hour core subject in addition to biology , chemistry and physics . There is also the option of choosing the sports profile from grade 8. In this profile, sport is taught as a core subject with four hours of practice and two hours of theory per week. The students in grade 12 (in the G8 grade 11) are offered business as a four-hour specialty subject.
School partnerships and student exchanges
The Ostalb-Gymnasium maintains partnerships with the Lycée Godefroy-de-Bouillon in Clermont-Ferrand , France , the Collège Molière in Beaumont (Puy-de-Dôme) (partner municipality of Bopfingen) and with the Estonian school Loo Kool . Every year French students in grades 9 and 10 travel to France, while ten students in grade 11 travel to Estonia, who were top of the class in grade 10. The trips to Estonia and France are followed by visits by students from the partner schools every year.
"Culture at the OAG"
Since 2002 there has been a series of events at the Ostalb-Gymnasium called Kultur am OAG . In addition to the performances of top-class musicians and cabaret artists, the annual theater evenings for the upper , middle and lower grades also took place under this title . The highlight of last year was a concert by the SWR Big Band together with the Big Band of the OAG, which had been selected as one of three school bands for a cooperation program with the SWR Big Band.
Richard Schieber Foundation
In his will , the businessman Richard Schieber, who was born in Bopfingen, decreed that after the death of his wife, his estate should be used to establish a foundation for the benefit of the pupils of the Ostalb-Gymnasium. Schieber died in 1994, his wife a year later. In the same year the Richard Schieber Foundation was established with a base of 2 million DM at the time. Since 1996, the foundation has initially distributed around EUR 50,000 annually in grants. Due to the sharp drop in interest rates, this amount was reduced to around EUR 30,000. In future, an annual distribution of only around 15,000 euros must be assumed. The annual funds available from the investment income are used to subsidize foreign and domestic scholarships , study trips and excursions. In addition, every high school graduate with an average grade of 1.0 to 1.9 will receive 250 euros and the best course participants in the four-hour subjects will each receive 150 euros as prize money from the Richard Schieber Foundation. The prize for special services to the school is endowed with 100 euros.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ M. Glatt: Profile compartment (from 8). Retrieved June 13, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Pascal Bizard becomes headmaster at the OAG . In: Swabian . ( schwaebische.de [accessed on May 3, 2018]).
- ↑ M. Glatt: Profile compartment (from 8). Retrieved June 13, 2018 (German).