Lübeck Willy-Brandt-Schule Lübeck - A comprehensive school
Summary in English
The Willy-Brandt-School is a comprehensive school in the city of Lübeck in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The school consists of two separate buildings. Both of the buildings have a long history serving the community and the suburb of Schlutup
as schools for more than a century. The school was named after the Federal Chancellor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Willy Brandt, who was born in Lübeck.
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| Building "Schlutuper Kirchstraße" | New Pavilion "Beim Meilenstein" |
| for the 5th & 6th Grade | for the 10th Grade |
Currently there are more than 400 students in grades 5 through 10 taught by a staff of around 40 teachers.
Because we are a small school we are able to create a personalized atmosphere which allows us to support students on an individual basis.
The Willy-Brandt-Schule is an all-day school, therefore offering lunch Tuesday through Thursday. Lunch is mandatory for both the grades 5 and 6. We have two counselors who work with the students and are available to the students during school hours and their freetime at school.
Students have the chance to take part in a variety of activities after their core lessons.
At our school students are divided into homeroom classes for both the 5th and 6th grades.
Students are then taught together for all subjects during these first two years and are only then later divided according to their strengths into different levels within a grade.
Two different levels within a subject are available starting with English in grade 7, mathematics in grade 8, German and science in grade 9.
Students who complete their schooling through the 10th grade are able either to continue their studies at the next school or start learning a trade.
Because we just offer grade 5 - 10 we have an agreement with another comprehensive school here that all our students who have successfully completed grade 10, can continue their studies there.
The decision to start learning a trade or to continue with one´s studies is not made until the end of the 10th grade.
This means that students do not have to decide upon a career path until quite late in their education, which is quite different when compared with the traditional German school system.
We can accomodate up to 4 students with disabilities per year.
Our goals are:
- to offer students the opportunity to learn together as a group, without separating students early on according to ability, and thereby prepares them to either continue their education at a high school or a vocational school.
- to create a comfortable and inviting working atmosphere for both the students and teachers
- to promote the social competence of the students so that they can take responsibility for their own actions and can fully participate in all aspects of school life.
- to promote across the curriculum instruction in conjunction with alternative projects, with the goal of developing a more comprehensive view of the world.