Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium (Kaiserslautern)

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State Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium
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type of school high school
founding 1947
address

In the dark valley 65

place Kaiserslautern
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 25 '37 "  N , 7 ° 45' 44"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 25 '37 "  N , 7 ° 45' 44"  E
carrier State (country)
student 900
Teachers 90
management Ulrich Becker
Website www.hhg-kl.de

The Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium in Kaiserslautern , sponsored by the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, is characterized by its numerous specializations. The school is an elite school for sports and an elite school for football , a school for the promotion of gifted students / international school , an advanced high school and a grammar school with sports classes and boarding school .

history

The school was opened on November 28, 1947, in 1956 it was designated as a state advanced grammar school, and in 1976 the school became the state Heinrich Heine grammar school. Since then, the focus has also been on promoting sports classes. In the 2003/04 school year, the highly talented branch was also opened, and in 2008 the German Football Association (DFB) certified the HHG as an elite football school. The Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium offers almost 200 boarding places in four modern boarding school buildings, and due to the excellent conditions it also serves as the official boarding school of 1. FC Kaiserslautern .

The school comprises a total of four types of school:

  • a normal grammar school with entry into class 5
  • an advanced high school (one of four advanced high schools in Rhineland-Palatinate).
  • a sports high school that has had international success. In October 1998 the high school was named an elite sports school. The school is supported by the German Sports Association , the State Sports Association, Sporthilfe Rheinland-Pfalz and the individual associations, above all the DFB.
  • a highly gifted branch that is run as an all-day school and works closely with the neighboring technical university and other research institutions such as the Fraunhofer Institute.

The HHG is currently attended by around 900 students. 90 teachers and over 80 other employees teach there. The school authority is the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . Lessons take place between Monday and Friday. Students who attend grammar school as non-residents can find accommodation in the boarding school attached to the school (four houses, 18 educators). A cafeteria was set up in the school for catering, which was renovated in 2013. Pupils in the catchment area attend the school as a part of the boarding school, which includes catering and the homework assistance offered for everyone in the afternoon. To support the school, a sponsorship association was founded in 1969, which promotes the grammar school in school and sporting matters.

Sports branch

The branch of sport currently includes around 344 students (as of 2008). Since 1978, young competitive athletes have been promoted at Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium. Through intensive training up to twice a day in the sports of badminton , judo , cycling , tennis and football , the students are introduced to high-performance sport and supervised at the grammar school. Meanwhile, athletes from other sports also visit the HHG and enjoy “basic funding”. Supervision is provided by so-called teacher and educator trainers. These are teachers who focus their teaching time on school and sport training. They are supplemented by fee coaches from the sports associations. As part of the youth training for the Olympics initiative , student teams from the grammar school have received awards from the Ministry of Education several times. In 2006 the team “Badminton Mixed Teams Competition III” achieved the national victory, the teams “Tennis Girls Competition III” and “Tennis Boys Competition III” achieved second place. In 2004, the girls team of the school reached a third place in badminton at the in Luxembourg ISF - University World Championships .

Judo

Judo is one of the promotional sports at the HHG. A successful team is trained with four trainers at the top and around 40 athletes. The trainers are Stephan Hahn (former student of the HHG, representative in the Palatinate Judo Association), Uli Scherbaum (teacher trainer at the HHG, state trainer U20 Judo Association Palatinate e.V. ), Hannah Ertel (honorary trainer, successful fighter), Sergio Oliveira (head trainer from Brazil, more successful Judoka). In addition, the school's judo group celebrated its best year since it was founded in 2009, with several medals at the German championships (3 x gold, 1 x silver, 2 x bronze). The team was also able to successfully take part in many other international competitions. The highlight was Natalia Kubin's World Cup bronze medal . The judo group was able to record further successes in 2010 as well: two German championship titles from Jasmin Külbs and Alexander Wieczerzak , DM silver for women from Jasmin Külbs and several IJF and EJU tournament successes, as well as the silver medal at the 1st Olympic The 2010 youth games in Singapore by Natalia Kubin were the success of the hard training. Another highlight was the nomination for the World Cup by Alexander Wieczerzak and Jasmin Külbs. At the U20 World Cup 2010 in Sgadir, the best performance of the training group was achieved. While Jasmin Külbs was eliminated after a victory and a defeat, Alexander Wieczerzak won the world title in the purely German final.

Advanced high school

The Aufbaugymnasium is aimed at grades 10 to 13 inclusive. This gives graduates from secondary schools and secondary schools the opportunity to acquire the general higher education entrance qualification. Pupils can enter entry class 10 after completing the 9th grade of a secondary school with a recommendation from the class conference. It is possible for junior high school students to join entry class 11 of the advanced high school.

Promotion of the gifted

At the beginning of the 2003/04 school year, the "School for the Promotion of Gifted Students / International School" was introduced at the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium as a single branch with a maximum of 23 students per year. A joint test weekend must be completed for admission to the 5th grade. A prerequisite for the approx. 65 applicants per year is an IQ greater than 130. The goal is the general university entrance qualification through the German Abitur .

Some of the pupils live together with pupils from the regular school, the sports branch and the advanced high school in the boarding school.

The general requirements for achieving the goals at the "School for the Promotion of Gifted Students / International School" are:

  • The all-day school model as a continuous teaching principle from grades 5 to 10: classes take place on four school days from 8:00 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Classes end on Fridays at 12:55 p.m. During the lunch break, the students can eat together in the school's own canteen. The support takes place through enrichment (enlarged offer with compulsory selection from this offer) as an all-day school. The additum extends over two school hours. You can choose from various offers.
  • A language offer based on the principle of bilingual grammar schools from grade 5 and subject teaching in English from grade 6. (Subject subjects are social and natural science subjects.) French as a second compulsory foreign language from grade 6.
  • Scientific and linguistic talents are promoted together in one class, but there are differentiations in the area of ​​the compulsory elective subject (Japanese or MINT) from the seventh grade and within the framework of the additum.
  • The shortening of school time in the middle school by one school year through the BEGYS model (promotion of talented students at the grammar school with shorter school time). Thus, the intermediate level is summarized from four years to three years, arithmetically the 9th grade is skipped and the Abitur is completed in March with the 13th grade (as is usual in Rhineland-Palatinate).

Outsiders often object that there is too little time for extracurricular activities because school does not end until 4:15 p.m. after the 10th hour. Here, however, it should be taken into account that the afternoon courses are usually not offered as additional lessons for the normal school subjects, but are offered there for intellectual enrichment and mostly in the areas of interest of the students. There are, for example, theater, musicals, comic drawings (mangas), projects in the STEM, Latin or Spanish, astronomy, chess, orchestra, choir, etc.

Participation is therefore often perceived as practicing a hobby in a club or in your free time. In addition, most of the homework is done during the Silentium, ie in one working time after the lunch break. Therefore, a majority of the students in the highly gifted branch have other, regular appointments for hobbies (sports, music, etc.) after the official end of school at 4:15 p.m. in the vicinity of the boarding school or at their home towns.

Former students

Among the graduates of the Heinrich-Heine-Gymnasium there are some well-known students and athletes, including:

Web links

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  1. ^ Ministry for Education, Science, Youth and Culture Rhineland-Palatinate
  2. ↑ IFS: World Schools Championship Badminton Luxembourg / Luxembourg 26th – 31th March 2004. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on July 20, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isfsports.org