Pestalozzi-Gymnasium Biberach
Wroclaw street 8
The Pestalozzi -Gymnasium is a secondary school in Biberach an der Riss. The grammar school was founded in 1860 and named after the pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi since 1959 has about 1,250 students, who are taught by approximately 100 teachers. It was until 1970 a pure high school for girls.
Educational offer
The general education Pestalozzi -Gymnasium with trains with different profiles. So it is a train with reinforced music lessons. From the fifth grade to the students of this train are then amplified music lessons from grade eight as a music major. Students in the natural sciences profile have increased instruction in the subjects of biology, physics and chemistry. In addition, the students have the school subjects natural phenomena and Science internship, which is taught in Interdisciplinary Biology, Physics and Chemistry. From grade nine physics is a core subject in this train. In the linguistic train, it is possible to learn Spanish as a third language from grade eight. Spanish is then also a main compartment.
There are also numerous working groups. There are working groups for film and singing, for the school newspaper and a one for computer science and bio - technology -AG for the gifted. For the yearbook, a working group for chess, There are also several voice - work communities. In the Latin -AG, it is possible to make the Latinum.
The Pestalozzi -Gymnasium has a student council, the annual donations for Piela, a small village in Burkina Faso, collects and on a two-day course discusses the plans for the coming school year.
School Chronicle
The school was founded in 1860 by Pestalozzi student Fortunée Niederer as Joint private girls' school. In 1901 the state recognition as a private girls' high school in 1907, a new building in the Wielandstra ( " plow School" ) was obtained. Seven years later, the school was renamed in secondary school for girls. From 1937, they called themselves high school for girls, from 1953 " Progymnasium for girls " and from 1960 " Pestalozzi Progymnasium for girls ". In 1969 the expansion of the full gymnasium. 1970, coeducation was introduced, that is, boys were included for the first time. 1971 the school moved to a new building at the Wroclaw street 8. With the first matriculation examination in 1972, the school received its current name then Pestalozzi -Gymnasium. Between 2001 and 2006 the school building 15 classrooms, a biochemistry room was expanded with an elevator and new gyms. There is a new playground part of the lower level with a climbing wall was also grown. There will be built a hut for smaller parties. In 2008, the school opened a new cafeteria and a media center, which is run in conjunction with the Wieland -Gymnasium. For summer festival visited German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrueck, the school, the most visited among other things, as part of the IZBB ( investment program Future Education and Care ) created new buildings.