Municipal Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium

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Municipal Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium
Werner-von-Siemens-Gym-Muenchen.jpg
type of school Scientific , technological and linguistic high school
founding 1970 (since 1975 own school building)
address

Quiddestrasse 4

place Munich
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 6 '34 "  N , 11 ° 38' 55"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 6 '34 "  N , 11 ° 38' 55"  E
carrier City of Munich
student 981 (as of school year 2016/17)
Teachers 93
management Dieter Zindler
Website www.wsg.musin.de

The municipal Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium (short: WSG ) is a grammar school in Munich - Neuperlach with a scientific, technical and linguistic branch that was founded in 1970 as one of nine municipal grammar schools established between 1967 and 1973. After several guest accommodations, the school has had its own school building since 1975, which is part of the school center on Quiddestrasse . Like the neighboring Werner-von-Siemens-Realschule, the grammar school is named after the inventor and company founder Werner von Siemens .

location

The high school is located in the school center on Quiddestrasse in the immediate vicinity of the Ostpark in the Neuperlach district and is delimited by Quidde, Albert-Schweitzer and Heinrich-Wieland-Strasse. The school can be reached with the underground line 5 (Quiddestrasse) and the bus lines 139, 192, 197 and 199.

building

When the WSG started operating in September 1970, it did not yet have its own school building. Initially, teaching was in the primary school on Strehleranger , then from the 1971/72 school year in the primary school on Klabundstrasse . In 1975 it moved into its own premises in the newly built Perlach-Nord school center, which was renamed the school center on Quiddestrasse after the renovation was completed in 2010 . The school center was built according to plans by Bernhard von Busse and Eberhard Schunck . With its suspended concrete facade parts and its flat roof, it is a building in the style of moderate brutalism .

The school center was renovated between 2007 and 2009. During this time, the secondary school and the orientation level were in a different school building and the grammar school was on the side of the building that was not being converted. Since the school year 2009/10, all schools have been back in the renovated school building.

The multi-purpose building with a polygonal floor plan, in which the cafeteria is located, was added to the list of architectural monuments in Perlach at the turn of the year 2018/19 . According to the monument authority, the complex architectural form and the open floor plans are an example of “pedagogically motivated architecture”; In addition, the building has a "sculptural appearance" with its moving roof landscape made up of straight and differently inclined roof surfaces. For this reason, existing plans for an expansion of the school center in 2019 had to be canceled and a new preliminary planning started.

classes

Language sequence

  • Linguistic high school (SG)
  • Science and technology grammar school (NTG)
    • English (from grade 5)
    • Latin or French (2nd foreign language)

Elective classes (afternoons)

Photography, school play (theater pedagogy), Spanish, Turkish, Italian, works, orchestra, choir, instrumental lessons (violin, saxophone, trumpet, piano), school band or big band

Elective classes in sports: inline skating, sport climbing, table tennis, volleyball, basketball, soccer, badminton and swimming.

Others

  • In the 5th and 6th grade, German lessons are held in small groups. This has established an intensive promotion of competence in German. Support in German is considered to be particularly important, as good command of the language is one of the essential foundations for long-term success at grammar school. This concept was also adopted for grade 10.
  • In the fifth and seventh grades, there is a skills training program to learn the work techniques required at high school. From the ninth grade onwards, geography or history lessons are offered in either German or English (→ bilingual lessons ).

particularities

Infrastructure

The entire school building is networked and therefore internet access as well as computers and laptops are available in all classrooms . New whiteboards have also been available in almost every classroom since the 2015/2016 school year. The computer is mainly used in the four computer rooms. A high ropes course has been built on part of the north meadow in recent years , which can be used both internally and by external people.

Care offers

The school has its own cafeteria and its own lending library . In the fifth and seventh grade, one class each is run all day. For the other classes there is an optional all-day offer (lunch offer, homework supervision, remedial lessons).

Furthermore, the after- school care center in the secondary school on Albert-Schweitzer-Straße is available for grades 5–9.

Support association

In 2003 the Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium e. V. founded with the aim of improving the training conditions for students at the municipal Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium.

Location

The Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium was the location of the film Echt tu matsch , published in 1984 , in which control is given to the students in an experiment. In addition, the entire building was redesigned at the beginning of 2017 into a film set for the film Fack ju Göhte 3 , which was partly shot there both during the Easter holidays and the Whitsun holidays.

Social aspects

As with other schools in the Neuperlach district, the proportion of pupils with a migration background is considerable, the proportion of migrants is around 60 percent. In order to enable all students to successfully attend grammar school up to the Abitur, there is intensive support in the subject of German in compulsory classes in the fifth, sixth and seventh grade through the establishment of small groups. Integration and prevention programs (compulsory as part of compulsory lessons) promote the intercultural competence of all students. The state capital Munich supports these measures ideally and financially. The participating pupils benefit from the support modules, and in the Abitur classes the proportion of pupils with a migration background is around 40 percent. Due to its commitment to the integration of all pupils into a joint productive life and learning, the school was awarded the special prize "Münchner Lichtblicke 2010". This prize is awarded annually by the City of Munich, the Foreigners Advisory Board and the Lichterkette Association. It was awarded to the school on January 17, 2011 at a ceremony in the hall of the Old Town Hall. "... the committed commitment ... for a peaceful coexistence of people from different cultures in Munich" was expressly recognized. The number of pupils in the individual classes is above average with up to 33 pupils per class, although this number also falls in the higher grades. Missed lessons usually amount to 85-105 school hours per year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b WSG: Chronicle of the city. Werner-von-Siemens-Gymnasium (as of 2012)
  3. ↑ Addendum to DABregional 5 2015 . In: DABregional of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects . tape 47 , no. 6 , June 1, 2015, p. 15 .
  4. ↑ Home: From Perlach to Neuperlach - from baroque to concrete . In: DABregional of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects . tape 47 , no. 5 , May 2, 2015, p. 12 .
  5. ↑ Carmen Ick-Dietl: Because of the cafeteria! Monument conservationists slow down school construction in Perlach-Nord. In: www.merkur.de. August 16, 2019, accessed August 27, 2019 .