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Hermeskeil Comprehensive School. Hermeskeil Comprehensive School. The comprehensive school was founded in summer 2010. “Erich Kästner Realschule” and “Rector Bach Hauptschule” were combined. Since then our school is a whole day school.
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Hermeskeil Comprehensive School • The comprehensive school was founded in summer 2010. “Erich Kästner Realschule” and “Rector Bach Hauptschule” were combined. Since then our school is a whole day school. • It has forms 5 to 10 now– but soon there will be forms 11 to 13 as well.
The former “Rector Bach Hauptschule” • The former “Rector Bach Hauptschule” was introduced in 1969.
The former Erich Kästner Realschule • The main school building was built in 1969. Only two years later the rooms for the special subjects in the school centre with technology rooms, a language lab, a photo lab, rooms for text processing, music rooms, kitchens and the natural science rooms were added.
Teachers, students and buildings • Our school has 944 students, coming from Hermeskeil and the surrounding area.The students are between 10 and 16 years old. • Our school has 66 teachers. Additionally there are 4 advisers for the whole day school programme and 1 social education worker. The teachers all teach 2-3 different subjects. • The school complex is 11.985m², it is organized into different category groups: A B C D E
In our corridors we have lockers where the pupils can keep their books, their sports kits etc. We also have an aquarium with many fish.
Lessons and Vacation time • Lessons are from 7:50 am to 1 pm. Whole day school is till 3.45 pm. • Our autumn holidays, winter holidays and Easter holidays are two weeks. The summer holidays are six weeks.
Rooms for Special Subjects • Our school offers the following rooms for special subjects: • 5 Computer rooms • 7 labs for Biology, Chemistry and Physics • 3 Music rooms • 3 Technology rooms • 4 Gyms for sports
Extracurricular activities Our school has lots of activities after school. e.g.: • band, orchestra, school radio, school newspaper, dancing lessons and soccer for girls and boys.
School Radio • ”Radio Woodstock” was founded in 1990. • During breaks important information is announced by loudspeaker. • But students can also send personal greetings, birthday wishes or ask for their favourite song. • At the moment we don´t have a radio, because of the renovation.
Important Events • Egg - race: Grade 5 and 6 students build vehicles powered by rubber bands or balloons. • School prom : Since 2001 there has been a prom at our school every year. The students from grade 10 have dancing lessons for a whole year.
Participation in educational programmes • Our school takes part in many competitions. So we have already got a lot of awards in language competitions and in technical competitions. • We have a school partnership with a French school and we take part in a Comenius project with 7 partners. • Our school is involved in the education of young teachers and in the education of students from other schools in ICT (ECDL).
Our playground • We have a smile shed. There are lots of games for the breaks for example: balls, unicycles, skipping ropes, table tennis, etc.
When you are hungry, you can buy something to eat and to drink at a little kiosk on the playground.
On the playground you can do a lot of activities for example: Soccer
Basketball Climbing