Sportschule Potsdam Friedrich Ludwig Jahn (55)

Headmaster: Mrs Dr. Gerloff
Deputy Headmaster: Mrs Schlesewsky
Head of Sixth Form: Mrs Evelyn Vollbrecht

Education offers

A High Performing Specialist School for Sports
plus boarding house, with 400 beds in double rooms and school canteen, full board

Vocational training in ten different competitive sports - compulsory optional subjects:
1. track and field athletics
2. swimming
3. rowing
4. canoeing
5. football (female)
6. handball (male)
7. volleyball (female)
8. modern pentathlon
9. judo
10. triathlon (from year 9 on)

Wider Curriculum:

• further educational offers beside the normal curriculum at German schools:
• Foreign languages:
• 1st: English (from year 7 on)
• 2nd: French, Russian (according to demand from year 9 on)
• 3rd: French, Russian, Spanish (according to demand from year 11 on)

Extra curricular activities, clubs and mentoring

• science, choir, music band, music lessons, art, creative design, drama, information technology, school magazine, film
• homework mentoring, individual support for top athletes according to their educational needs

Educational trips:

• year 7: school trip (different destinations with the aim: “getting to know each other”)
• year 9-10: Poland (Zielona Gora), Great Britain (London)
• year 11: Germany (Weimar )
• year 11-12: Finland (Helsinki)
• year 12-13: Mozambique (Maputo/Matola)
• year 12-13: France (Paris) and skiing trip to Italy

Special courses and offers in sixth form:

• advanced course in sports (“Leistungskurs”)
• course to acquire a personal trainer certification (C - coaching license)
• course in information technology (focus on new media, communication)
• educational psychology
• drama
• possibility for competitive athletes to prolong their studies in the sixth form up to 4 years

Admission:

• a reference of the regional association about the student’s athletic aptitude in one of the ten compulsory optional subjects
• academic and physical entry exam

SPECIAL OFFERS:
Sports specialties:

• close cooperation between school and the Olympic Training Centre, local sports clubs as well as regional and federal sports associations
• all school and sports facilities in close vicinity
• use of all sports facilities within the sport school area “Luftschiffhafen”
• training camps in Germany and abroad
• medical mentoring
• career advice

special sports curriculum in the 10 compulsory optional subjects: Physical education / compulsory optional subjects / elective courses (not graded