FAWZ – Germany
We are a co-educational day school for pupils aged 11 to 19 & aim to inform & inspire pupils about the vast range of opportunities available within the world of work, but also make them aware of the damage we cause to our surroundings because now, more than ever before, making the right decisions really matters.
We focus on developing the self-awareness & employability skills necessary to make the best-informed decisions into their future. We deliver a comprehensive programme of career-focused lessons, one-to-one guidance sessions, interactive events and careers fairs & work experience.
Further, we pay special attention to foreign language skills and encourage learning in interdisciplinary projects which give our students hands-on-experience. Such projects include the development of enterprise and employability skills including skills for self-employment.
This is our 1st KA220 project. Our school has been active in sustainability for many years with varied projects such as an exchange programme “Tracing green projects in Europe’s sustainability capital Gothenburg”.
We run a green energy project that shows our students how solar panels work & can be integrated into the life of a community, which is registered in the field of sustainable development in a UNESCO program.
(https://www.unesco.de/bildung/bne-akteure/gesamtschule-petershagen) & will apply for the 2024 school prize in the field of green education.
We are one of the winner schools in a Science@School project in the Bayer Foundation programme.
Finally we feel that we have much knowledge & expertise to bring to the exciting eco-star project which fits in so well with our core objectives & the beliefs of our teaching staff. We particularly adhere to the concept of little actions by large numbers of people can produce significant effects on the environment we live in.
Our students are aged 11 to 19 and come from all types of backgrounds. The parents’ social status does not play a role in forming classes and workgroups.
The pupils usually join our school after having left their primary school. They are children in the very sense of the word when we get to know them. We see them become young adults who use the resources we offer them to shape their personalities.
The students attend so-called mixed-ability classes and sit for an examination after grade 10 that would allow them to enter the job market as an apprentice for a certain job. About 50 percent of our students continue after grade 10, for further qualifications.
Our students consider themselves digital natives. From a neutral perspective it can be said that they have semi-professional knowledge in a lot of digital fields but need in-depth training to use digital tools to their full capacity.
