Wigbert School

Wigbert School
type of school	high school
School number	8638
founding	1901
address	Jahnstrasse 9, ; 36088 Hünfeld
place	Hünfeld
country	Hesse
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 39'59 " N , 9 ° 46'6" E Coordinates: 50 ° 39'59 " N , 9 ° 46'6" E
carrier	District of Fulda
student	753 (August 2019)
Teachers	73 (August 2019)
management	Markus Bente
Website	www.wigbertschule.de

Wigbert School

The Wigbertschule in Hünfeld is a grammar school in the district of Fulda , which accepts students at the beginning of grade 5 and leads to the Abitur in nine years . The name of the Wigbertschule is derived from the school patron St. Wigbert , the first abbot of the Fritzlar monastery , who founded the first school in Hesse in the seventh century.

history

On April 15, 1901, the Wigbert School was opened as the "Episcopal Latin School " with 50 students (only boys) in the sixth (grade 5) in the former Huenfeld town hall under the direction of Wigbert Sondergeld. At Easter in 1907 an Obertertia (class 9) was set up, completing the intended expansion of the school to five classes. At Easter 1907 the city of Hünfeld took over the sponsorship of the school, so it was now called the "Municipal Latin School". At Easter 1924, the school was merged with the municipal high school for girls, which at the time was teaching 52 female students, under a single management and with a common teaching staff, but the teaching division remained in two different school buildings. After Easter 1939, the secondary school was destroyed and a new middle school was built with Rector Dr. phil. Berthold Leinweber as headmaster. After the Second World War, the Municipal Latin School was opened on October 22, 1945 on the initiative of the American Military Governor von Hünfeld, Cpt. Liebhafsky, reopened. On July 21, 1945, Dr. Josef Metzger Headmaster. In the autumn of 1946 the school was expanded up to the Untersekunda (grade 10) and was thus a Progymnasium . On April 15, 1951, the school celebrated its 50th anniversary and was named "Wigbertschule - Higher School of the City of Hünfeld" and was named after its founder Wigbert Sondergeld. With the establishment of an Obersekunda (grade 11) at Easter 1954, the expansion of the grammar school began. At Easter 1957, the first 13 senior primans received their Abitur at the Wigbertschule. On January 1, 1965, the district of Hünfeld took over the sponsorship of the school. In autumn 1969 the school moved into a new school building on Jahnstrasse, which is now used by the Jahnschule (secondary and secondary school). In the fall of 1971 the school reached the full three-course with 27 classes. In the autumn of 1972, the Fulda district took over the school administration with the district reform and the associated dissolution of the Hünfeld district . In the summer of 1975 the school moved again. This time in a new school building, which is located right next to the old building, in the "School Center Hünfeld". At this point in time, the grammar school, secondary school and secondary school together have almost 2,500 students. In the period from 2008 to 2019, the Wigbertschule was extensively renovated by the Fulda district.

Former headmasters

Wigbert Sondergeld (founder and first headmaster, from April 15, 1901)
Berthold Leinweber
Josef Metzger (from July 21, 1945 to 1948)
Wilhelm Kratz (1948 to 1966)
Ludwig Vey (1966 to 1970)
Oskar Hohmann (1970 to 1988)
Horst Plappert (1988 to 1998)
Rainer Rudolf (1998 to 2003)
Alfred Helgert (2003 to January 31, 2015)

General information

foreign languages

The following foreign languages are taught under G9:

foreign language	from grade 5	from grade 7	from grade 9
English	Compulsory subject
French	not selectable	selectable ¹	selectable for students who have chosen Latin as a second foreign language
Latin	not selectable	selectable ¹	selectable for students who have chosen French as a second foreign language

¹ A language (French or Latin) must be chosen.

From the introductory phase onwards, there is an opportunity to learn Chinese.

Advanced courses

The Wigbertschule offers advanced courses in the following subjects if there are enough registrations: German, English, Latin, French, history, politics and economics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology.

Sports class

The Wigbertschule has been offering a sports class from grade 5 since the 2015/2016 school year. In the sports classes, the weekly hours up to grade 8 in sports are increased from three to four hours. In grades 5 to 7, at least one sports group must be attended as a compulsory event. From year 9 onwards there is the option of taking part in the compulsory elective course in sports biology. In the upper level there is the opportunity to take part in a three-hour sports course with a sports degree as the fourth or fifth examination subject in the Abitur. The students in the sports classes take part in school competitions and regional sporting events.

Requirements for admission to a sports class are

a sports medical certificate of no objection
Proof of the youth swimming badge in bronze
Grade 2 or better in sports
Passing the sports motor test of the Wigbert School

The sports motor test consists of 6 test items.

20-meter run from the high start
Medicine ball poking (1 kg)
Stand long jump
Versatility course
Bank ball
6-minute run

Catchment area

As the only grammar school in the old district of Hünfeld , the Wigbertschule is the first address for parents who choose a grammar school course for their child. Other high schools in Fulda and Bad Hersfeld (Obersberg) can only be reached by longer journeys.

G8

One year later than all other schools in the Fulda district, the Wigbertschule introduced the eight-year grammar school . As a result, the last G9 year was relatively large (five classes) and pupils from the catchment area of the Fulda schools (e.g. Marbach) also attended the Wigbertschule. After the Hessian Ministry of Culture granted all Hessian high schools the freedom to choose whether they want to continue teaching according to G8 or return to G9 in the 2013/2014 school year, the Wigbertschule was one of the first schools to reintroduce the nine-year high school, so that all new classes since then School year to be taught according to G9 again. The last G8 class will graduate from high school in 2020.

School partnerships

The school has two school partnerships with schools in the twin cities of the city of Hünfeld. The Wigbertschule's partner schools are the Lycée de l'Élorn in Landerneau , France, the Publiczne Gimnazjum Hugo Kwiotka in Proskau , Poland and the Liyang Senior High School in Liyang , China.

Social

In 2007, the students of the Wigbertschule collected 6,000 euros for the Vinzenz-von-Paul-Schule (School for the Practically Imaginable) as part of a charity run . The money was used for therapeutic purposes.

Competitions

Students from the Wigbertschule regularly take part in school competitions.

Sports

In 2002 the team from the Wigbertschule took second place in the Hessian school championships in flag football . In gymnastics , the boys' team took third place in competition class II (born in 1991 and younger) at the Hessian state decision Youth trained for the Olympic Games in gymnastics.

Language competitions

In 2005, a student was chosen as the regional winner in the bilingual competition in the category “Latin as a second language in the competition”. In the same year, students from the Wigbertschule won the second prize for film in Latin as part of the Hesse state decision of the foreign language competition. As early as 2004, pupils were able to achieve third place in the same category.

In 2017, a group of schoolchildren achieved second place with a short film in the group competition of the federal competition for foreign languages in Latin. This year no entry could reach first place, so that of the Wigbertschule was the best, which is why the nationwide award ceremony for the languages Latin and Ancient Greek took place there.

mathematics

In 2003, in the “Day of Mathematics” competition, it was possible to take first and third place in the group competition and second and third place in the individual competition. In 2008 a student from the Wigbert School, together with 25 other participants, took first place out of 1200 students in the same competition. In 2007, one of the students was able to win first prize in grade ten in the “Digital Advent Calendar 2007”.

In 2015, the Wigbertschule achieved first place among the Hessian G8 schools and fourth place among all Hessian high schools in the mathematics competition of the state of Hesse, in which all eighth grades in Hesse take part, with an average score of 34.12 points .

IHK competition

In the 2005 IHK competition, classes from the Wigbert School took first and fourth place with their company documentation.

At the 2008 IHK competition, class 9L from the Wigbertschule took first place among the high schools with a presentation of a design for a mascot for the Wella company.

Youth debates

In the student competition debated youth the Wigbertschule regularly takes part successfully.

Theater workshop

The Wigbert School's theater workshop took part in the Hessian School Theater Days (HSTT for short) in 1988 with the play “ Chinese Wall ” and in 1999 with the Odyssey adaptation “You are very alone”. The piece from 1999 convinced the jury of the Landesverband Schultheater in Hessen eV, so that the ensemble of the Wigbertschule won and competed for the State of Hesse at the school theater festival of the federal states in Mühlhausen / Thuringia .