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On April 4th 1966 63 pupils started attending their lessons at Realschule in the building of a former elementary school. Five years later the school moved to the present building at Breslauer Platz. Today 498 girls and boys (aged 10-18 years) attend the three-section (in year 9 four-section) secondary school.

A variety of special rooms enable the school to provide a modern education. There are special rooms for chemistry, physics, biology, geography, textiles, home economics, art, music, technology, a media room and last but not least two gyms and two computer rooms.

Some active mothers come to our bio-shop during the breaks. They take care of the pupils' healthy nourishment in the mornings.

House rules [Hausordnung] established by pupils and teachers organize life at school.

Class 5 and 6: [test stage]

The newcomers in class 5 start their learning and training period at our Realschule with a rally through the school building. Many five formers already know our school. During 'Open Days' or 'Working Days' offered to pupils of the primary schools the boys and girls can attend lessons of year 5. The time-table of the test stage is enlarged by the differentiation starting with year 7.

> Subjects:

>> Subjects with written class tests:

Before starting with year 7 pupils of our school choose a main emphasis of inclination and at the beginning of year 9 an additional compulsory optional subject. It also depends on the different election behaviour of the single year which subjects as main emphasis of inclination does take place in the end. The differentiation enables an education according to inclination - as well as with regard to the later choice of occupation. At the moment the following subjects with written class tests besides German, Maths and English are taught at our school from year 7 to 10.

At the beginning of year 9 the following subjects are offered as an additional compulsory optional subject:

Early information for pupils about vocationally orientated suitability, education and demand can help to prevent seriously wrong decisions concerning the later choice of occupation. That is why this topic is paid special attention to at our school.

From year 8 the orientation of the choice of occupation starts with different tours of factories and the 'job-finding-days' during which pupils gain first impressions about the professional world.

From year 9 the refered to topic is considerably broadened. In particular the pupils receive the following offers:

A member of the local job centre is regularly available for the pupils of year 9 and 10 at our school.

>> An example from the science department:

The project 'Water'

Pupils of year 7 worked in groups on self-chosen questions concerning the topic "water" for over 20 lessons. While one group analyzed the chemical water composition of a local brook a second group kept a close eye (in the true sense of the word) on the macro-organisms of the brook. The aim of both groups was the determination of the ecological state (water grade I-II) and the drawing up of a water grade map.

Besides these ecologically orientated groups, physical phenomena connected with water (density anomaly, buoyancy...) were examined by a further group and the last group looked into the chemical properties and the molecular construction of water.

During this project orientated teaching two day trips were carried out and finally the different test results were presented in the form of experimental performances and a documentation.

  Class trips:

Last year's destinations have been besides others the cities of Prague, Paris and also South Tyrol [skiing].

Reports from the study trips can be seen here

Dennis Warschewitz, a former pupil of our Media-Club, has published his impressions from his trip to London on the Web. You can visit his Web-Site here:

Class trip to London

At first our Internet access was mainly used by the freaks of the Media Club but now our new conception is a more intensive integration of this media into everyday school life. With the help of a router the networking of the computers offers the simultaneous research for many pupils in the web, so that the Internet can become a constant component of daily teaching.

Its tasks are financed by donations and regular voluntary contibutions of its 140 members. Up to now the society has improved the facilities (equipment, teaching materials and schoolbooks) of the school by donations and contributions of a total budget of over 35.000 €