Parents want an all-day offer

Created: 05/10/2022 07:02

By: Andrea Graepel

Beautiful views of the Ammersee, which the students of the future high school in Mühlfeld can look forward to from 2024.

In a survey, the parents were allowed to express their wishes regarding the content of the school education.

But first, the foundation stone will be laid on Friday.

More than 600 parents answered the questionnaire - that exceeds the number of students who will start high school in 2024.

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Sonja Sulzmaier, Deputy Chairwoman of the Herrsching Gymnasium Promotion Association © Andrea Jaksch

When the foundation stone for the Herrsching high school is laid on Friday, a time capsule will also contain the wishes of parents from all first to fourth grades of the surrounding elementary schools.

The Herrsching Gymnasium Friends' Association asked her online in July.

608 parents took part.

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– At the laying of the foundation stone for the new grammar school in Mühlfeld next Friday, the Herrsching grammar school friends’ association has the results of a parent survey with it, which it launched online in July among parents of the first to fourth grades of the surrounding elementary schools.

608 responses came from Herrsching, Seefeld, Wörthsee, Inning, Weßling and Andechs - with this high number, the management duo of the association, Jens Waltermann and Dr.

Sonja Sulzmaier, not counting.

"It's overwhelming," says Sonja Sulzmaier happily in an interview with Starnberger Merkur.

The Gymnasium Herrsching is implementing a further development of the successful Munich learning house model.

The school is divided into several smaller, self-functioning units (so-called clusters) and thus offers the basis for a deeper educational relationship between teachers and students.

In Herrsching, grades 5 to 7 are to be organized as classic learning houses.

For grades 8 to 13, there is a clustering according to subject areas (languages, society, STEM).

The rooms are grouped around a central marketplace, which is intended to offer additional opportunities for a contemporary learning culture – including breaks and relaxation.

In addition, rooms for differentiation, inclusion, open forms of learning and teaching and all-day offers will be available.

As a result of the survey, almost half of the parents would like an all-day school offer - with homework supervision, lunch at school and 90 percent of the parents are also promoting social commitment.

"It should be important for the mood that more than four out of five respondents stated that both parents were working," explains Sonja Sulzmaier.

"The most important thing for the parents was the individual care of the students and the division of the teaching day into school lessons and exercise or relaxation phases, a so-called rhythm." The desired offer was also asked - musically and sportingly, also in cooperation with extracurricular organizations such as unite.

Athletics used to be at the top of the schedule,

Do the parents now want more water sports – rowing or sailing – as well as ball sports?

Dance, gymnastics and gymnastics are at the bottom.

Parents want more music lessons.

Sonja Sulzmaier explains that the fact that the topic of inclusion was mostly left out is that it “maybe wasn’t a criterion” for those who were not affected.

However, an inclusive orientation is stipulated.

Sonja Sulzmaier, who was in charge of the survey with secretary Matthias Feil, is enthusiastic: “We are very happy about the large number of parents who took part in the survey.

More than 600 parents answered the questionnaire - this exceeds the number of students who will start in 2024 in grades 5 to 8 in high school.

The parents now want a school management and a team of teachers who wholeheartedly live and develop this school and the learning house concept with its diverse forms of cooperation and open all-day activities.”

It was only in the summer of this year that the sponsoring association for a secondary school in Herrsching gave up its original and unwieldy name, “sponsoring association for a second grammar school in the western district” (we reported).

Since 2009, parents have been fighting for another high school, led by its chairman Jens Waltermann and his deputy Sonja Sulzmaier.

Apart from them, only cash auditor Karl-Wilhelm Schmidt was there from the beginning.

It took a long time, so long that the oldest children, for whom the parents wanted a facility close by, are now studying.

"It was important that we carried this through over the years," says Sonja Sulzmaier in retrospect.

It is important to her that the association is managed by parents who are also familiar with the history.

And after 13 years are not tired of filling the club with life.