Potentials & individual support offers of the Schloss-Schule

Hausaufgaben sind von allen Schüler*innen selbst zu erledigen, aber betreut und begleitet. Bei unseren sogenannten Lernzeiten (1,5 h pro Tag für die Klassenstufen 5 bis 9 – mit individueller 15-Minuten-Pause nach Absprache) übernehmen dies ausgebildete Erzieher*innen und Fachlehrer*innen.

Unsere Erzieher*innen sind erste Ansprechpartner, helfen bei der Selbstorganisation und unterstützen bei strukturellen und lernmethodischen Problemen. Geht es fachlich in die Tiefe, werden unsere Schüler*innen in die sogenannten Lernzimmer „weitergeleitet“, in denen Fachlehrer*innen bei spezifischen Fachfragen weiterhelfen.

All participants (pupils, class teachers, subject teachers, mentors, study room supervisors) are in close exchange of information, so that it can be immediately recognized whether additional support measures are necessary beyond homework supervision.

Also part of our Castle School concept up to grade 10 are the so-called basic courses in the core subjects English, Maths and Latin (each 1.5 hours per week), in which, if determined as expedient, 3 to a maximum of 10 students (on the recommendation of mentor, subject or class teacher) participate. These basic courses serve the targeted processing of gaps.

As the third stage of our castle school support system, the system of individual tutoring/support is also used for more comprehensive learning material gaps – the decisive factor here is: always in close and intensive exchange with the respective subject teachers and the class teachers.

If tutoring is used, we rely on experienced and proven lay forces from the environment for routine help, and exclusively on proven specialists for the mediation of new, not understood content. Those responsible have themselves formed a well-founded professional judgement about these specialists, so that the quality of this support is reliably ensured.

So that our students can start the examination phase of the Abitur as well prepared as possible, we organize a so-called intensive week every year. This week there will be additional lessons in the exam-relevant subjects, which specifically prepare for the Abitur and support the students particularly intensively.

Our students acquire basic methodological skills in the subject of methods, which are useful to them throughout their school career. The subject is taught once hour from grades 5 – 9 and is free of grades. In grade 5, we start with the basic knowledge of digital media work, which includes 10-finger computer writing. From grade 6 onwards, the focus is on different presentation techniques, which in class 8 go hand in hand with the teaching of digital presentation programs. As part of the career orientation, the topics of CURRICULUM vitae and application are taught in class 9.

Many students actually have to learn how to acquire knowledge correctly. As part of the subject Methods, learning at the Schloss-Schule plays an essential role in grade 5. Here, the domestic working conditions are first reflected, according to which the students can create an appropriate working and learning environment for themselves. In addition, they are taught strategies for the effective completion of homework and for independent vocabulary learning. Different learning methods and techniques to prepare for class work are also an essential part of learning learning. In our class 10+ - among other things intended for students who change from the Realschule to the Schloss-Schule - didactically the independent development, as well as the independent and guided reflection are particularly promoted.

Who could bring the English language closer to the students better and on an equal footing, if not young people with English as their mother tongue? Our English language assistants from the USA practice the language with our students in everyday conversation, detached from the teaching situation.

In grades 5 and 6, we test the level of spelling skills of our students after a few weeks with the Hamburg writing and reading sample. If students exceed a certain number of errors, we can determine through this testing that there is a need to catch up. Once a week you can then take part in our LRT course, in which we work specifically on common difficulties in spelling, such as.B difficulties in capitalization as well as in stretching and sharpening. In this way, any gaps in knowledge at the Schloss-Schule are effectively closed right at the beginning of the secondary school career.

Well-known talents are taken into account in our school structures – here we react individually and flexibly and ensure interest- and talent-based offers. In addition, we also open up extracurricular opportunities for the promotion of giftedness with particularly gifted pupils. For example, we can offer students a student course parallel to the lessons.

Competitions in a wide variety of subjects offer our students valuable impulses and offer a completely different approach to the subjects and their contents. Here the challenge idea is in the foreground, there is something to win and you do not have to worry about bad grades. Students often engage here with enthusiasm, which also has an effect on the willingness to learn and perform.