Leonardo-da-Vinci Comprehensive School (32)

School with upper secondary level

Esplanade 3
14469 Potsdam
Email: mail@davinci-gesamtschule.de
Headmistress: Kirsten Schmollack

Education offers:
Foreign languages: English, French, Spanish,
Profile: Media and Communication
Special features:
Founded in 2011, we are a state comprehensive school. Currently, 200 pupils are learning in the 7th and 8th vintage. Together with teachers, pupils and parents, we are preparing a 13th grade in the next few years to develop our educational concept. We invite you to be one of us and contribute your ideas!

Our lessons

• Encouraging initiative, creativity and independence by explorative, networked learning
• Concept of interdisciplinary learning projects
• In addition to special teaching: free labor in projects
• Public presentations of project work
• Interdisciplinary media concept
• Integrative learning methods
• Individual learning as performance analysis and documentation in “learning logbooks”
• Individual education offers in the main subjects
• In addition to marks: written assessments in all grades
• Vocational training and study assistance in internships
• Thematically oriented field trips in all grades

Our daily rhythm

• School with all day lessons
• Open beginning from 07:45 to 8.15 (classes begin)
• block classes until (max) 15.45 clock
• Supervised lunch
• Learning cabinets to support individual learning and self-directed learning
• Workshops for individual mind differentiation
• Weekly reflection of learning progress, discussion of proposals and problems in the class council

Our Facilities

• Prepared learning environment in specialized class rooms
• Modern equipped specialist cabinet of natural sciences
• “Trunk space” principle for all classes
• Use of interactive whiteboards
• Use of laptop in all classrooms
• Modern gymnasium
• Large open area with a soccer field
• Shared dining room with the primary school
• Further expansion of the school building in the 2nd phase with a multi-purpose building for use as a cafeteria and for events until August 2013

Our partners in all-day learning

• Medienwerkstatt Potsdam e.V.
• Alba Berlin
• Potsdamer Schachverein Mitte e.V.
• Humanistischer Verband
• Diakonie
• Paragraf 13
• BUNDjugend Potsdam
• AOK
• Handwerkskammer Potsdam
• Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse