Category: School

"A person without education is like a mirror without a polish, as the old saying goes. Of course, there was no talk of such lofty, serious statements on what was probably six-year-old amelie’s most eventful day to date. But like all 61 first-class students who are now attending the lichtenfels dr.-robbach elementary school, she, too, was excited on that tuesday morning.

Curious, some abc scouts peeked into the contents of the school bag that gave each of them this special day. To ease the little ones’ fear of the limelight was also the background to the performances by the older schoolchildren in the gymnasium, where the school enrollment ceremony was officially held. "I’m a schoolchild, no longer small, already going to school on my own", the second graders, for example, gave the newcomers a warm welcome, and boys and girls from the fourth grade recited a poem whose stanzas told of science, math, painting, sports and all the other school subjects. "Today is your big day. Glad you’re here. You have an exciting and great time ahead of you", principal pia loffler buried the first class students.

Almost two out of three ten-year-olds in germany cannot swim, according to a representative forsa survey. At sinnberg elementary school, the situation is even worse: more than 70 percent of the children are unable to swim: "we have so many non-swimmers in the third and fourth grades," she says, reports sports teacher christine steigmeier. The goal should be for every child to be able to swim by the time they leave school. "So we said, we have to do something already in the second grade", she says. The school is supported by the family hotel sonnenhugel in reiterswiesen and by ex-professional swimmer franziska van almsick.

The city’s indoor swimming pool is well utilized in the mornings. According to the city hall, eight schools from the city and the surrounding area use the pool for swimming lessons. Free capacities are only available on three weekdays between 1 and 2 p.M. So the school management looked for other swimming pools, approached clinics and hotels. After a long search with success: "the hotel sonnenhugel has agreed to give us swimming times and a swimming instructor", says steigmeier. Since january, ten children from the all-day class 2c have learned to stay afloat in the hotel pool. "Now it’s up to the parents to move on", she finds.

Christian N. Is very popular with the kids. At ten years, he has the second-longest service record in gerhardinger kindergarten. It comes from the workshops of lebenshilfe. His place of work is one of the 25 outsourced jobs of the lebenshilfe, through which quite a few find their way into the general labor market.
"The city had long hired him directly, but he lacks formal training as a child care worker", gerhard streit, the psychologist at lebenshilfe, explained the special nature of this job.
Dispute presented in front of the forum for people with disabilities "integra the model for the transition from sheltered workshops to the general labor market. Around 300 people with disabilities work in the lebenshilfe workshops. Two are in forchheim and two in weilersbach. Those of you who are interested in and confident about a regular job can gain access to the general workforce through internships. Because even a person with disabilities has the right to earn his own living, streit explained.

Piasten and siemens are hiring

25 people are currently making use of it: three of them will move to a normal employee position this year. One in the city's building yard, another as a warehouse clerk for an online company in the district. Dispute had more such places to grow into. Estimated are activities in the social and domestic sphere, through which professional staff can be relieved.
For example, the companies piasten and siemens also have jobs in the industrial sector. The job at the praline manufacturer is similar to the work in the workshops, where mainly assembly, disassembly and packaging work is carried out. They are gladly accepted.
The job at siemens also fits into this category, said streit. But it requires a very good eyesight. "I couldn't do it anymore", the mid-fifties man. So the number of suitable applicants remains small. Dispute of a young woman who liked this activity well. But she had to give it up again because of a long illness. The "changers are not left alone. You have godfathers in the companies. These are employees who "sometimes help them out", describes dispute it. In addition, the job coaches from lebenshilfe also drop in on them.
If possible, streit motivates young people at lebenshilfe when they have just finished vocational school. "Here, however, one must take into account the developmental delay in mentally handicapped people." And, in the case of the mentally ill, the fluctuations in their performance capacity.
The route via integra has special protective mechanisms for this – beyond work support. So a return to work in the workshops is possible at any time, or even just part-time employment on the open market.

The main target of the site visit of the committee for infrastructure, construction and environment (IBU) on tuesday was the elementary and middle school untersiemau. There is a lot to do there in the near future. Among other things, the primary school playground (upper courtyard) is to be renovated. On site, the commissioned architect dirk lorenzen explained the concept, which is still to be defined, according to the design plan. The preliminary planned costs are expected to be about 50000 euro. The members of the committee subsequently agreed in principle to the design in the town hall. The planning office is commissioned to obtain corresponding offers. The design of the open space should be alternatively in asphalt with optical division in natural stone or in paving construction about the prices of the "small strabenbaumabnahmen" to be carried out.

The designs have already been presented to representatives of the school administration, the parents’ council, the daycare center and the municipal administration, reported mayor rolf rosenbauer. The playground will be used during the morning breaks and after school by the lunchtime supervision team. The overall concept provides for exercise and play areas, rest zones and lounging areas. The civil engineering inspections are to take place during the summer vacations.

"Find your goal is the motto, and already nine arrows are whizzing and buzzing through the hollow gymnasium air, and before the spectator knows it, the arrows have found their target: they bore into it. And right in the middle of it.

Celina bitiqi, daniela bombeschko, jana tomaszek, isabella spatz, jennifer hahnlein and sandy-marie austin are trying their hand at archery for only the third time today – and hitting the targets they've set up in the gymnasium of their school, the hugo von trimberg school, like professionals.

Where the parzefall family's sofa usually stands, a gigantic landscape of moss, stones, houses and figures has been erected. The entire living room is decorated every year from the first advent until maria lichtmess (2. February) converted into a 16 square meter crib. A special eye-catcher is a waterfall.

From year to year, it gets rougher and rougher
It all started more than 25 years ago with a simple plastic crib. Then father karl-heinz discovered his passion for designing and the crib landscape became more and more coarse. "The crib has secretly grown by a few centimeters year after year. My husband probably thought I wouldn't notice", laughs his wife ursula. That's why the space in the winter garden was soon no longer sufficient and the miniature landscape was moved into the living room. For ten years the nursery has now taken on about this ausmab. "It really doesn't get any rougher than this", the passionate crib maker admits with a look at the full living room.

Josef hofbauer despite his close ties to his home country, he has always been full of the urge to discover new things. He wanted to see something of the world. And he has. We are talking about reinhard lowisch, the deputy director of the france switzerland tourism center, who was appointed to the 1. August retires.

After school, he trained as a train driver. The man with the red armband was responsible for the safety and orderly operation of a train, from shunting to coupling the cars and setting the brakes on the train.