Theodor Fontane Secondary School (51)

with primary level – all-day-care
(OF) and FLEX

Headmistress: Petra Siewert
Deputy Head: Birgit Rehbein
Primary Level Head (temporary): Daniel Tietz
e-mail: s113001@schulen-brandenburg.de

Profile
Secondary school with primary level
A school open all-day offerings (including homework)

Education offers

• Contact with the English language for pupils in the first and second Class/foreign language English from grade 3
• Flexible school entry phase (FLEX) since 2002
• All-day care
• „Dwarf“-school for the prospective school beginners
• Adaptation of our school profile to the Finnish school type, there is a seamless
• transition from primary to secondary level education
• Practicing open forms of teaching (Day- and weekly schedule, workshop, learning in stages, project work)
• Teachers reading for pupils
• Reading competition
• Participation in the city, local, and countrywide competitions (art, sports, Mathematics, "best cyclists", etc.)
• Many years of partnership with Polish children in Opole (every year, groups of pupils of our school travel to Opole - Polish pupils come to the Potsdam Kite Festival)
• Orientation days for school, open day
• Close contacts with the Library of “Waldstadt” and the Citizens' Initiative “Waldstadt”
• Cooperation agreements with nurseries, the Library of the “Waldstadt” and with sports clubs
• Support lessons for children with performance deficits (reading, writing)
• Individual support for foreign-language children
• Involvement of mediators in the school life
• A diverse range of working groups
• Sporting, musical and artistic orientation

Working groups in all-day education offers:
Computer, soccer, ball games, music, music lessons, pottery, dance, homework help, drawing and painting, school garden, young paramedic, young firefighters

Framework Conditions

• Nursery care in the immediate neighbourhood
• The furniture of the rooms and the room capacity can be used for different forms of learning such as individual, group and partner work, as well as a generous special room principle.
• Modern playground, spacious and modern child-designed exterior with school garden and playing facilities
• Compute rooms, teaching kitchen, library, new dance room, teaching workshop
• Friendly and welcoming design of the School
• Personnel Conditions
• Highly motivated team of teachers, three special education teachers and one social worker
• Speciality
• About 13 full-time offers for all pupils of the primary level on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday until 15:30
• In the integrated primary level English is taught as a contact language from class 1
• Media cabinet with internet connection for all-day use
• Our school has a completely renovated biology, physics and chemistry cabinet, a new dance room and a new assembly hall, a renovated sports facilities and a newly designed outdoor area
• Reference school for the use of interactive boards (10 SMART-Boards)
• Environmental Sciences School in Europe 2002/2003/2004
• Project "mediator" since 2001
• Support association " Freunde der Fontane-Schule "
• Breakfast and lunch menu, since 2007 our pupils drink milk
• Internet connection
• Future taster days by request Phone 0331 289 81 30
• Detailed information about all the offers on the school homepage

After-school care of children of Secondary School Theodor Fontane
Nursery Name: Kita "Zauberwald" Phone: 0331-870406
Liefelds Grund 27/29, 14478 Potsdam
Nursery carrier: VSB Kinder- und Jugendhilfe gGmbH Phone: 0331-870406
Liefelds Grund 27/29, 14478 Potsdam
kita.zauberwald @ t-online.de
Nursery Name: Kita "Spatzenhaus" Phone: 0331-870232
Sonnentaustr. 2 / 4, 14478 Potsdam
Nursery carrier: AWO Kinder- und Jugendhilfe Potsdam gGmbH Phone: 0331- 581480
Schopenhauerstr. 31/32, 14467 Potsdam
info-kjh@awo-potsdam.de