Primary and secondary schools
Elementary school in Bavaria
The elementary school is the first and common school. It comprises grades 1 to 4 and has the task of supporting all pupils in their personal development. The main aim is to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, initiate understanding, develop interests, promote social behavior as well as artistic and practical skills and build up values.
Further information can be found on the website of the State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
The middle school in Bavaria
Secondary schools in Bavaria offer success through practice
Secondary schools guarantee pupils a wide range of educational elements in their educational program, either individually or in school networks.
The secondary school offers a comprehensive educational program for pupils of all ability levels. On the one hand, it is therefore a compulsory school for all pupils who do not wish to attend any other type of secondary school or are unable to do so due to their performance. On the other hand, high-achieving pupils can acquire the intermediate school-leaving certificate in the intermediate school-leaving certificate course (M course) from year 7 onwards.
The broad educational offer of a secondary school has the following characteristics:
- the three career-oriented branches of technology, business and social affairs,
- an all-day offer,
- Courses that lead to the intermediate school leaving certificate at secondary school.
In addition, the middle school offers:
- structured cooperation with a vocational school, the regional economy and the employment agency, as well as
- individual/modular support for pupils in class while maintaining the class teacher principle.
The secondary school thus offers tailor-made qualifications for all pupils:
- Successful completion of secondary school after year 9
- Qualifying secondary school leaving certificate after year 9
- Intermediate school leaving certificate at secondary school after year 10
- Intermediate school leaving certificate at secondary school after year 11
The curriculum, range of subjects and teaching methods cater to the interests, learning styles and talents of secondary school pupils by means of realistic and vocational learning and give the school type its own profile.
Secondary school alliances in the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen
Schools that are unable to provide the main educational offerings of the secondary school on their own have the option of working together as independent schools in autonomous school networks.
In this way, pupils have nationwide access to the main educational offerings of the secondary school. At the same time, as many individual locations as possible in the relatively close-knit network of school locations are maintained for as long as possible, especially in rural areas.
In the district of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, the following secondary school alliances were formed at the start of the 2011/12 school year:
- Secondary school network MS Penzberg / MS Benediktbeuern
(cross-district with Weilheim district, network coordination MS Penzberg) - Isarwinkel secondary school network:
MS Lenggries, MS Gaißach, MS Bad Tölz Süd:
Network coordinator: Bernd Kraft, principal of MS Lenggries - Isar-Loisach secondary school network:
MS Dietramszell, MS Wolfratshausen, MS Königsdorff
MS Wolfratshausen-Waldram, MS Geretsried
Network coordinator: Frank Schwesig, principal of MS Wolfratshausen
Further information can be found on the website of the State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs