Pond garden school
| Pond garden school | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Elementary , secondary and secondary school |
| founding | 1964 |
| address |
Akazienweg 1 |
| place | Hanau |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 8 ′ 16 ″ N , 8 ° 56 ′ 16 ″ E |
| carrier | City of Hanau |
| student | 700 |
| Teachers | 55 |
| Website | http://www.tuempelgarten-schule.de/ |
The Tümpelgartenschule is a combined elementary , secondary and secondary school in the Lamboy district of the city of Hanau in Hesse. In the school, which was founded in 1964, around 700 students are taught by 55 teachers.
history
development
In 1962 the city of Hanau decided to set up a second elementary school in the Lamboy district in addition to the existing Gebeschus school. The choice of location fell on the Tümpelgarten development area in the south of the Lamboy, which was then being planned . Construction work began in 1963 and cost 4 million DM. Due to the increasing number of pupils, the first classes for the new school were set up at the Gebeschusschule, which had to work in shifts for so long because of the limited space. In the following year the pool garden school was inaugurated and the classes were able to move to the new school.
The number of pupils rose steadily, especially when the Gebeschusschule gave up middle school in 1969 and became a pure elementary school . In 1965 there were 651 students who attended the Tümpelgartenschule, in 1971 there were already 850, which led to a lack of space. In the meantime, the Otto Hahn School was built in the Hanau-Kesselstadt district on the other side of the city . As a result, the main school branch of the Tümpelgartenschule was closed, with the result that the number of pupils fell by half by 1986. In 1988 the decision was made to set up a main branch next to the secondary school at the Tümpelgartenschule.
When the nearby Francois barracks were cleared with the withdrawal of American troops from Hanau , the primary school branch moved into a branch in one of the vacant buildings.
In 2008 the school applied to be converted into an integrated comprehensive school . The city council of Hanau accepted the application the following year and planned to convert it to the school year 2010/2011. Since the introduction of the G8 in Hesse , the demand for integrated comprehensive schools has risen sharply, as the Abitur can still be completed in nine years. The only integrated comprehensive school in Hanau is the Lindenau School . In 2010, however, the Hessian Ministry of Education rejected the application because it considered the need for integrated comprehensive schools to be adequately covered by the schools in the surrounding area.
In 2013, the city of Hanau, which was meanwhile under the municipal protective umbrella due to high debt, decided to discontinue the secondary and secondary school branches of the Tümpelgartenschule by 2019. Due to the declining number of pupils and the need for renovation of the school buildings, the secondary and secondary school students should be referred to surrounding schools, especially the recently built Hessen-Homburg school center . This triggered a great protest from those affected. Due to the numerous new development areas in Hanau and the influx of young families, increasing numbers of students are not to be expected, so that there is a long-term need for a second secondary school in Lamboy. Many families registered their children in protest at the pool garden school in order to save the school.
Events
Just one month after the opening, on November 11, 1964, an explosion occurred at the Tümpelgarten School. In early October, two students at the school stole a box of high-explosive ammunition from a US Army ammunition depot . They lost some of the projectiles in the process. On the day of the accident, an eleven-year-old student found the explosive device on the way to school and dropped it at the end of the long break. 55 students were injured, some seriously, by the explosion. On the following days there were several school closings due to anonymous bomb threats in the Hanau area, further bomb threats went to schools in Wiesbaden , Frankfurt am Main and Münster .
particularities
An above-average proportion of socially disadvantaged students attend school, many of them immigrants . The school therefore tries to keep the classes as small as possible in order to reduce the potential for conflict. Especially in the secondary school, the class size with an average of 17 students is below the national average. Outside of class, the students are looked after by a teacher together with a social worker in order to identify and resolve family and personal problems.
In the 5th and 6th grades, the middle school pupils are grouped together to form a single support stage , only then is the division into the main and secondary school branches. It is compulsory for every student to choose a study group in which they participate in the afternoons after school. In the 7th grade of the secondary school, there are compulsory theater lessons to promote the self-confidence and language skills of the students. From the 8th grade onwards, there is close cooperation with the employment office to help students choose a career. Schoolchildren whose secondary school leaving certificate is at risk are transferred to a "SchuB class" (school and work), in which the pupils get to know various occupations in a vocational school.
Individual references and sources
- ^ "During the break the war came" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 12, 2014
- ^ "Explosion of an explosive device in Hanauer Schule, November 11, 1964". Contemporary history in Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ^ "Another anonymous explosion threat at a school in the Hanau area, December 2, 1964". Contemporary history in Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).