Our comprehensive school is a performance-oriented school that supports children and young people with different talents. We offer all children and young people a varied and motivating learning programme in which self-directed learning times and phases of movement and relaxation alternate sensibly with teacher-led lesson phases during the school day. Independent learning takes place just as much as learning together. Both traditional and modern teaching methods are used.
\n \nThe pupils learn with the support and guidance of teachers, who take on different roles: that of learning facilitator, of coach and of the classic teacher.
\n \nThe special features of the Johannes-Brenz-Gemeinschaftsschule at the West School Centre
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All-day school
\n \nAt our comprehensive school, lessons take place on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7:40 am to 3:25 pm. On Wednesday afternoons, after-school clubs (AGs) are offered until 3:25 pm. On Friday, lessons end at 12:50 pm.
Learning times
\n \nLearning times are phases built into the timetable in which the pupils learn and practise independently and on their own responsibility, under the supervision of their core subject teachers.
\n \nIndividual feedback
\n \n1. Learning diary
\n \nThe learning diary documents the pupil’s learning goals and learning successes. It is an important tool for the teacher to optimise the child’s learning processes. For parents, it is a source of information about their child’s learning development. In addition, it is a medium for sending a message to the school quickly and easily.
\n \n2. Learning development report
\n \nThis is a written assessment at the end of each half-year and at the end of the school year of the pupil’s learning and achievement level. Grades are only compulsory in the final school year.
\n \nIndividual support
\n \nEvery pupil is looked after by a teacher. This learning coach regularly advises on questions of individual learning development. This also includes developing personal and social skills. In the following videos, two pupils from our school explain learning coaching in their own words:
\n \nhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/JzH7AM0RoTg?wmode=transparent&vq=hd1080
\n \nhttps://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/QskUgjjxUD8?wmode=transparent&vq=hd1080
\n \nTeaching in levels
\n \nIndependent learning takes place at 3 levels: the basic level, which leads to the Hauptschulabschluss (lower secondary leaving certificate), and the intermediate level, which leads to the Realschulabschluss (intermediate secondary leaving certificate). The same final examinations are taken as at the other general secondary schools.
\n \nAn extended level is also offered to ensure the transition to upper secondary education (Sekundarstufe 2).
\n \nWorking together with parents
\n \nThe shared goal is the development and learning success of the pupil. Regular discussions between teachers and parents are necessary for this.
\n \nInclusion
\n \nThe inclusion of pupils with disabilities is an integral part of the Gemeinschaftsschule. Teachers and teaching assistants share responsibility for all children together.
\n \nElective lessons
\n \nOn Wednesday afternoons, our pupils can take part in an after-school club. There are also activities and places to spend time during every lunch break in the canteen, in the sports hall, in the pupils’ house and in the two railway carriages.
\n \nProjects
\n \nProjects are offered in every year group. These include, for example, the study skills training, our career orientation concept, the “Social Commitment” project as well as joint projects with external cooperation partners.
\n \nFigures
\n \nIn the 2022/23 school year, around 890 pupils attend our school every day. They are taught by approx. 80 teachers.
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