Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen

Philipp- Schneider -Straße

23 trainees (10 January 2014)

The gymnasium of the city of Kerpen is a high school and a European School in the form of a half-day and full-day school in the North Rhine -Westphalian Kerpen founded in 1968. Since 2001, the school has been officially suffix European School. 175 teachers teach students in 2332.

Equipment

The school has an auditorium, cafeteria, canteen, two triple gymnasiums, a library with over 33,000 books and CD -ROMs, rehearsal rooms in the basement, various pause yards and, most recently, a swimming pool.

Bilingual Education

A special feature at the high school of the city of Kerpen is bilingual education. It has been offered since the academic year 1995/1996, the bilingual German - English train. In grades five and six students who opt for the bilingual train have seven instead of five lessons in English. The subject taught geography is taught from seventh grade, politics and history from the eighth from the ninth grade in English. Since the introduction G8 ( the Abitur after twelve years instead of 13 ), the history lesson is taught in English as early as the eighth grade.

Advanced level

The subjects in high school (G8: 10 to 12) are divided into the categories of social sciences, mathematics and natural sciences, languages ​​and more subjects. One of the special subjects offered in high school, including education, social sciences, nutrition science, foreign language correspondence in English or Business English, Italian and literature. Another peculiarity is that some subjects are offered as intensive courses that can be done at very few schools in North Rhine -Westphalia to focus only: the accelerated courses nutrition science and social sciences. In addition to teaching English in high school, students can further training for foreign language correspondent complete (see further foreign language correspondence).

Training foreign language correspondence

In the differentiated school ( G9: grades 11 to 13; G8: 10 to 12), students have the opportunity to the training exam -certified foreign language correspondent of Industry and Commerce ( IHK) prepare in Cologne. Students who pass this examination training are acquiring next to the High School already a additional professional qualification. To obtain the test conditions include the course Business English, English as a special subject, a (ground or power ) course in Social Sciences ( focus on economics ) and a recognized course typewriting, is what passed through the community college Bergheim.

Working Communities

At high school, many work groups (AG ) are offered, which take place over two days ( Monday and Thursday ) a week. The working groups to the Mondays place from 14:35 bis 16:05 clock instead and on Thursdays von 13:50 bis 15:20 clock. In the first half of the school year 2007/2008 the number of working groups was on Monday 16 and Thursday 25 am the Notable of these 41 study groups are for example the sports helper training, gliding and the carnival.

Student exchanges

The pupils of the grammar school of the town of Kerpen have the opportunity to attend school exchanges. The partner schools are located in Argentina, Bolivia, China, France, Iceland, Great Britain, Italy, Nicaragua, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Spain (Gran Canaria and Tenerife ) and the United States (Pennsylvania and Texas).