Projects at Hohenfels

The increased learning standards for the eight-year Gymnasium (grammar school) are not only implemented by our teachers in the traditional classes but with a lot of phantasy and engagement also in the lessons outside the class rooms: Latin Theater, French Evening, Stone Age and Middle Age Project - all these big and a lot of small age-appropriate projects foster self dependent and goal orientated working in teaching methods which ask for interdisciplinary thinking and working and train the ability for cooperative ways of learning.

The special quality of the projects certainly also result from the boarding school situation at Hohenfels. Ideal terms concerning time, space and staff make it possible to extend the projects to the afternoon and evening, into workgroups and wings, so that they "take posession" of the school for a certain period of time. These learning conditions are as good as it gets.

At Hohenfels learning in projects has been tradition for over ten years now. By now it is deep-seated in the Salem school curriculum for all age groups. In the last epoch, the sixth grader worked, based on the Biology lessons, several days on a interdisciplinary 'Tree Project' and the fifth graders engaged themselves in a large-scale "Agriculture Project', which found its ending in a presentation on parents' day.

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