Halepaghen Grammar School
Buxtehude
The gymnasium Halepaghen School (short HPS ) is a high school in Buxtehude in Lower Saxony.
The school was first mentioned in records in 1390 and was still a middle-class grammar school. It is named after Gerhard Halepaghe (* 1430 in Buxtehude, † April 1484 in Buxtehude ), a major Buxtehude Magister, named.
General
Before the high schools of the Federal Republic of Germany from its upper level class system ( Upper Second, Lower Sixth, Oberprima ) on target systems ( as in 2006 ) surrounded the Halepaghen School was the first to give it practically tested. The developed system thereby the greatest possible freedom of choice for high school students was known nationwide as the " Buxtehude " model. In addition to these reforms was developed at the HPS a committee, called the Joint Committee (in short " GA "), which was developed under the headmaster Uffrecht of an informal round of talks on a binding body ( recognition as a school experiment in 1976 ), which has since been as exemplary of the ideal of a democratic school can be viewed. The GA is made up equally of elected representatives of the student body, parents and the teaching staff, chaired by the Headmaster together, but instead of voting only has veto power, if decisions of the GA have legal reasons not stand. The General Conference has all the competences delegated to the GA, which may be vested in a Committee on the basis of the Lower Saxony law school. The GA is responsible for important decisions that affect the school day, problems discussed and worked out ideally solutions, which can be agreed by all three parties. For parents and students, this is an extraordinary and unusually high decision-making power, which is largely unknown in normal schools of general education in Germany. After the Lower Saxony state parliament had passed a law to " self- responsible school," the future of GA seemed questioned. Since the overall conference was forced to cede many powers to the school management or the country's newly established " school board " and could not delegate to the GA of this, the GA had to be reorganized. Currently (GA and school board ) is working on the Halepaghen - school with two bodies that cooperate as closely as possible and be occupied in the ideal case with the same representatives. In the school board sent the eight teachers, students and parents each have four representatives. These elected officials have simultaneously a mandate for the GA, where join the Centre for the parents and student groups each have 4 more members with simple GA mandates. The equal representation of GA, which was endowed by the General Conference with responsibilities, so had to under the Act to " self- responsible school " can not be canceled. At the HPS teach about 120 teachers (as of January 2008).
Quality Development
From 2002 to 2005, the HPS member of the Quality Network Lower Saxony. The " school -TÜV " in the name of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Culture of the school confirmed " a considerable positive overall level of quality ."
School partnerships
The Halepaghen School is active in partnerships with schools in Lithuania ( Šilutė ), France ( Blagnac) and the United States ( Pittsburgh) in exchange. Since 2005 there have also each an exchange with Sweden ( Örebro ) and Turkey ( Istanbul). Since the beginning of 2009, there is a partnership with a school in Pamplona, Spain. A England exchange is currently under construction.
After the Second World War, the Halepaghen School began to develop contacts with schools in England and France and it was followed by many years of regular exchange, the sometimes in cooperation with the Buxtehude Gymnastics and Sports Association ( BSV ) was realized. The first international exchange took place with the French Millau in April 1963.
From the mid- sixties, it was believed, however, the objectives of European integration to be able to serve with the organization of language courses for foreign students better where the contacts were not permanent, as the inclusion of a guest seldom led to the return visit abroad.
With the beginning of the eighties, therefore, especially the younger teachers Halepaghen school tried again to contact with schools in France, the USA and England. The most important is probably the exchange with the Collège Henri Guillaumet in the south of France, Blagnac ( near Toulouse ) call, with the first concrete agreements were concluded in 1984. The French exchange student usually have German as their first foreign language and learn it for about three years, when it comes to sharing. Normally, the French come at Easter time by Buxtehude, the return visit of the Germans followed in the fall.
In 1989, another partnership at the Halepaghen School was a school in Šilutė, Lithuania, founded, which was used in the following spring for the first time in the form of an exchange.
In 2005 there was the first time an exchange with a Jewish school in Istanbul and the Swedish Örebro for the 8th grade as part of the Comenius project, now a regular partnership with Örebro is sought.
School without Racism - School with Courage
The student of Halepaghen School has organized numerous events to draw attention to right-wing extremism, anti-Semitism and discrimination in any form at school. The aim is a "School without Racism - School with Courage" to be. The project is supported by the same club AktionCourage. In a school-wide survey, 89.83 percent of all people have that are directly involved in school life, in favor of the principles of the project. Godfather of Halepaghen School is Wolf Rosenzweig. " - School with Courage School without Racism " awarded by Marianne Winkler of the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior as part of an open-air concert under the motto " rattling against racism " On 18 July, the Halepaghen School of title officially. This was preceded by a number of events to win the student body for the project and to raise awareness of issues such as right-wing extremism and racism. Among other things, the Lower Saxony State Protection gave a lecture in the HPS, Professor Fritz Kath by the Board of the Jewish community in Hamburg and the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation spoke about Judaism and anti-Semitism, two Islamic scholars from the Oriental Institute of the University of Hamburg spoke before the students and students of HPS and right rock expert Christian Dornbusch gave a presentation on this topic. In addition guested a traveling exhibition of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation on anti-Semitism in the HPS.
" - School with Courage School without Racism " by Buxtehude and gave a lecture on the subject on 10 October 2006, the General Secretary of the Central Council of Jews, Stephan Kramer, within the project "We need patriotism ".
Pupils
The student of Halepaghen School has turned in recent years, active in the design of educational policy. At the end of school inspection in January 2005, who attended the Lower Saxony Minister of Culture Bernd Busemann, the student council to successfully fought 20 minutes discussion time with the Minister of Culture and handed him a protest note, in the abolition of free learning material, high class sizes, poor teacher supply, which is now enforced high school reform and the deletion of the money for classes and study tours have been criticized. The upper Regulation and the Act on the Introduction of self- responsible school in Lower Saxony, accompanied the pupils' critical. In October 2006, the student council decided a protest letter to the interior minister of Lower Saxony, Uwe Schünemann. This had the Stade police support in their action against young people who wanted to do with anti-Nazi posters against right ideas strong and justified its legal prosecution.
Student newspaper
There have been some student newspapers at the HPS, such as the Kacktus. This former school newspaper was discontinued because of an article. The " paghe " is the latest student newspaper at the HPS and the first edition was sold from 16 December 2013.
Logo of the first " Kacktus " (2006)
Title page of the first edition of " paghe " (2013 )
Known rectors
Known graduates
- Elton, German television presenter and entertainer
- Dieter Perlowski, German writer and playwright (1969 )
- Stefan Studer, football player and official
Pictures
The farm with the wings B and D in the background
The C- tract
Receipt of HPS with flagging for Labor Day 2006