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Welcome to the Anne Frank Realschule in Ahaus
You`ll soon find out that Ahaus is in the north of Germany about 150km north of Cologne and very close to the Dutch border and that Ahaus belongs to North-Rhine Westphalia. It is a lovely town with about 30.000 inhabitants. It`s a minor centre of a rural area where cattle are bred and pigs are fattened.
There are also some industries in Ahaus, where various things are produced. The original branches of traditional industries have mostly disappeared. Ahaus used to be a centre of textile industries.
The School System
Ahaus itself is a city with many schools, there are schools for handicapped children, children with special needs, primary schools, 2 grammar schools, 2 basic schools, 2 Realschools, technical schools and vocational schools.
In North-Rhine Westphalia pupils start primary school at the age of 6, they stay at this school for 4 years. Then the parents decide which school their child is going to attend then. In this decision the parents are advised by the teachers who know the child well and who have taught him or her during these first 4 years.
Of course there are Comprehensive Schools in NRW, but more often you`ll find a school system consisting of three different types of school. A kind of basic school for averagely talented pupils, perhaps the English secondary modern school represents this type of school best. There is a Grammar school for those who are quite clever and wish to go to university after having finished school and the Realschule which is chosen by those pupils who are somewhere in between.
These pupils mostly want to find jobs as bank-clerks or insurance-clerks, they want to become an administrative assistant or they want to become an office worker for a firm. Because of the serious job situation there is a strong tendency to attend one of ten various schools which offer an a-lavel exam or comparable degree.
School management
| Headmaster |
Schulleiter:
Realschulrektor Rudolf Homann
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Electronic mail address: r.homann@afr-ahaus.de
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| 1st Deputy Headmaster |
1. Stellvertreterin:
Realschulkonrektorin Edith Nünning
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| 2nd Deputy Headmaster |
2. Stellvertreter:
Realschulkonrektor Ansgar Voß |
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Advisory teachers: Anne Schwanekamp and Werner Fischer
Responsible for students` exchange
with France: Burkhard Helling, Christel Ruwe and Christel Schmid
Responsible for Sokrates - Comenius Action 1 and further (European) contacts: Maria Kuhn and Thomas Langkowsky
Responsible for the school magazine: Thomas Langkowsky
Responsible for the Amnesty International Youth Group: Wilhelm Markötter
Teaching Staff
The teaching staff consists of 57 teachers, 37 female and 19 male teachers.
The cooperation and teamwork among the staff are supported by a number of voluntary activities. There is a group of teachers playing volleyball, other teachers meet at a workshop, where pedagogical problems are discussed. There are outings, which are organized once a year, and several other activities like singing and playing music together, having tea or coffee.
Pupils
The Anne Frank Realschule, which is financed by the city of Ahaus, is a state school for boys and girls. It was founded in 1977.
The pupils come from the city itself and from the surrounding villages such as Schšppingen, Legden and Heek.
This term 1.000 pupils attend the school.
Anne Frank
The school follows Christian occidental traditions as these are the background to the western culture, but it also includes multi-cultural aspects especially because it is also attended by Islamic and other non-Christian children.
The pedagogical work and the spirit of the school want to remind us of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl that was persecuted by the German Nazis and had to leave Germany in 1933 for Amsterdam. Anne Frank and her family had to find a hiding-place in Amsterdam when Nazi Germany occupied the Netherlands. There the Franks were found by the German secret police, arrested and taken to different concentration camps in Germany. In March 1945 she died in Bergen-Belsen because of malnutrition and typhoid.
Her diary is read in German classes, from time to time parts of it are acted on stage and presented to the pupils and as Ahaus is not too far from Amsterdam classes make trips to her hiding place in Amsterdam.
The school wants its pupils to learn from the terrible fate of Anne Frank that tolerance and understanding towards minorities are essentials of every community. Pupils should also learn to show understanding for other pupils and other people.
It is a part of the school`s curriculum to teach the pupils the terror of Nazi Germany , the persecution of the Jews and other minorities, the Holocaust and the dangers of any totalitarian ideas.
Because of this spirit there is a group of students working for Amnesty International. Pupils meet regularly, write letters and collect information about political prisoners. There are also exhibitions with pictures, drawn by pupils, which remind us of the situation of victims of political persecution.
Subjects taught at the Anne Frank Realschule
School starts at 7.45am and finishes at 1.00pm. Each lesson lasts 45 minutes and there are two breaks of 15-20 minutes.
The following subjects are taught in form 5 to 7: Siehe Vorlage!
In year 6 pupils can take French or Dutch and do 3 lessons a week.
Students of year 8 - 10 must learn the following subjects:
R.E. (2), German (4), History (1-2), Geography (1-2), Politics (1-2), Mathematics (4), English (4), Physics (1-2), Chemistry (1-2), Biology (1-2), Art, Music, Needle work (2), P.E. (2-3), and they can choose between French, Biology, Social Studies, Dutch and Technics. Each of these chosen subjects has to be done 4 lessons a week.
There are another two lessons a week that can be chosen by students. Here they can decide if they want to play games, learn something about theatre, cookery, computers, music or if they want to do some extra English or Maths lessons or learn Italian, Latin or Dutch. In these workshops pupils can also learn to make video films, they prepare radio programmes for the local radio station, and girls can take courses in self-defence, others write articles for the school magazine.
Pupils as young European citizens
Understanding Europe and the European Union is a very important aspect of the work at the Anne Frank Realschule. The pupils should learn that they are a part of the European Union and that European nations are growing closer together.
They should learn to appreciate the great cultural variety which can be experienced within Europe. Political decisions must be seen on a European level because we think that developing a common European standard of living and economy will be the pupils` future. They should be European citizens some day.
So the pupils of the Anne Frank Realschule should learn a lot about the different European nations, about each nation`s own unique geography, natural environment, cultureal life, economy, politics and society.
This is why teachers and pupils of the Anne Frank Realschule are interested in developing contacts and perhaps students` exchanges with other European nations.
Because of the different languages spoken in Europe it is easiest for the pupils of the Anne Frank Realschule to communicate with English speaking pupils. Any school which is interested in setting up a students` exchange or working for a «Sokrates` project is welcome to contact the school.
Pupils` magazine
The pupils` school magazine is called `Real Life`. Here pupils can write about their problems, they can publish their ideas about school and talk about other interesting subjects.
The articles in this magazine cannot be censored by the teachers although the work is accompanied and organized by a teacher.
Sports
The Anne Frank School takes part in various school competitions. There are school teams in football (boys and girls), handball, tennis, table tennis and badminton.
Address
Anne Frank Realschule
Fuistingstrasse 10
D - 48683 Ahaus
Germany
Phone number: 0049 2561 95120
Fax number: 0049 2561 951215
E-mail: post@afr-ahaus.de
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