Things you have to know about our school
Hello everyone, we are some students from the IGS in Göttingen and we have a blog. Now we had the idea to introduce our school to you in English.
First we will start with our clusters in colours:
In our school, all years have an own room that named cluster. From the clusters you can go into the six classrooms. In our cluster we have even seven classrooms. All of our six clusters have colours. We are purple.
Let’s talk about special subject at our school:
The igs is a special school with special subjects. Some of them are just subjects, that have been composed of several subjects, but some of them are very special subjects, that only our school have. As an example of the former, we have GR and AWT. They have been composed of history, religion and social studies and works, textile and economics.
Some examples for the really special subjects at the igs are „AÜ“, „HWS“, „WPB“ and „PB“. The first is a subject where we can do a kind of homework. The Letters A and Ü in German stands for „Arbeit und Üben.“ Translated it means work and practice. Then we have time to repeat the stuff we learned, and become more confident in the application of what has been learned. As a help for this, there are tasks that, if you do not manage to complete them at school, have to be made up at home. Sometimes we have to lern vocabulary at home, but we have no more homework.
In the subject „HWS“, we learn housekeeping. There we learn to cook, wash dishes, etc.
“WPB“ is one of our electives. We can choose languages like spanish or french, computer science, Art, „performing game“ where we play theatre, and more.
„PB“ is like „WPB“. But I guess with a lot more fun. It isn’t like a real subject. More like a „AG.“ that means working community. You have to make some PB that you can choose, but voluntarily you can make as much as you want. So I am in the School circus (look down) and in the „Glücksprojekt“ (You can read about in another text on our blog)
Now I will explain our politics system:
Every class at our school choose at the student council two class representatives. All representatives of the same year meet for the council. At this council, the representatives of the individual classes, all together, choose two year representatives. At this council, everything about and inside the year will be discussed.
All class representatives are automatically in the „Schüler*innen Parlament“ that means student parliament. This is a great opportunity for everyone in this school, especially for the students to make it a better place.
There is the „FSV“ to. In German it is „Freiwillige Schüler*innen Vertretung.“ Translated it means Volunteer student replacement. All students of the school are allowed to join to the „SV(FSV)“ The student parliament choose a management for the „SV“, and supported by the „SV.“ The management manage the whole student parliament.
Volunteer Projekts:
We have many other volunteer projekts at our school. Many of those are PBs as well. I already told you about the SV and the „Glücksprojekt“. But there are many more, like our school bands, „Jugend forscht“, our medical service, our school circus and many more.
Our school is also known for having many great temporary projects. Like a big theatre our year did perform last year. We also have many events that take place annually. Like the „Kulturtage“ last week. It means something like days of culture. There we all present the stuff me made together in our WPBs, PBs and volunteer projekts. This year, we saw a lot of theatre performances from the WPB, many art shows and a circus performance too. There also are some competitions, like the literatur- or the movie competition.
ipads:
At our school we learn with iPads. From the 8th year onwards, we have our own ones. Before that, we sometimes can use some from our school. At the beginning, it was kind of hard to get used to the ipads. But now we are safe in handling them.
Grades:
Another thing that’s very special at our school is that we get no grades of to the 8th year. But we of course get feedbacks from the teachers. We often get the chance to give our self feedbacks after the examens.
Here, we lern together:
In our school, it is very important how we treat each other. That´s why we are allowed to call our teachers and other adult persons by there first name. Also, we sit in TG´s (Table Groups), so we often make tasks in groups. The more powerful students try to help there classmates.
There are much things that make our school different from others. I personally like it this way.
Thanks for reading