Our school profile

I am Alina and I am attending the grammar school “Gymnasium auf der Karthause” in Koblenz. Our school is an elite school of sports. We have got 900 to 1000 students and about 80 teachers. Our head teacher is Mr. Müller. Our school was built in 1968.

We have got four classes in each grade from grade 5 to 10. We also have a sports- boarding school. That is because many of our top athletes came from further away. They can live there during the week. Some of our athletes only come to the boarding school in the afternoon to do their homework. Then their parents pick them up in the evening. In every grade, we have got one sports class. This class is labeled with an “s”. Before you can join a “s- class”, you have to do a sports test. If you are good enough, you will be in the “s-class” later on. The teachers of these classes aren`t allowed to write tests on Mondays, because many of these students have competitions during the weekends. These classes have got four sport lessons, one more than the other classes. Many of the people who are in the s-class are top athletes. During the sport lessons, they can train with their personal coach. If they want to do that, a driver of our boarding school picks them up and takes them to their training centre. Some of our athletes have already won a junior world cup, for example Lena Reuß or Teresa Bäuml.

But the “s-classes” aren´t the only special classes at our school. In the lower grades, there are three other classes who have got one lesson per week, which is taught in English. This is a bilingual lesson. This lesson is meant to help them decide if they want to be in the bilingual class from the 7th to the 10th grade. To facilitate the students' decision, there is one information evening where the bilingual profile is presented. Additionally, some of the new bilingual students go into the 6th form and tell about their thoughts and feelings of being a student of the bilingual class. As a difference to the other classes, the bilingual classes have got two subjects in English. Because they have one more lesson in everyCLIL subject, they have two more lessons per week. In the 7th grade you haveMaths and Geography, in the 8th grade Geography and Chemistry, in the 9th grade History and Biology and in the 10th grade Social Studies and Biology are taught bilingually. In English, these classes write one test to compare themselves with the other classes every year. The bilingual classes write this test with another school because they would be better in comparison to the other classes.

Altogether we are 24 classes from the 5th to the 10th grade. In the 10th grade, we have to choose three advanced course subjects, which we want to have in the “Oberstufe” (3 years). The bilingual classes can also choose the bilingual basic course. Since 2010, we can also have our oral exam for the A level in English.

English is our first foreign language. In the middle of the 5th grade, we have to choose a second foreign language. Then we can choose between French and Latin. Later on we can choose a third foreign language. We can choose between Italian, Latin or French. Then the students who had French before can choose Latin (and the other way around), or they can choose Italian.

Our school has got many free time activities. One is the school newspaper, who writes articles, interviews and different other texts. Other activities are the choir for students and the choir for students, parents and teachers. These are the choirs which perform on our annual Christmas concert. Mostly they are accompanied by the orchestra. The students who chose French can also do DELF. There you get prepared for exams. Additionally, you learn more French. Other extra-curricular activities are “youth researches”, “astronomy“ and film.

Currently, there are construction works at our school, so that our school will be nicer perceptively.

 Alina Vaupel (8b)