Europapark



Our day started early in the morning at 7 o' clock.

We met in the front of our school to drive to Rust by bus.

In Rust you can visit Euopes biggest fun-action park.

Our drive took three hours.

When we arrived we were in a good mood , we were all happy because of the action.

There are a lot of roller coasters and you can watch a lot of shows.

We were in a 4D cinema, and this was very exited.

Even if we had a lot of fun, it was very hot nad in the waiting court of "Silverstar" it was around 40°.

Silverstar is the higherst rollercoaster in the Europapark, it´s about 72 m high and very fast.

Another adverture is the "Blue Fire". It´s a rollercoaster which goes from zero to 120 km/h in only 2.5 seconds.

The special thing about the Europapark is, that it is splitted into different countries from europe. Silverstar for example is in the area for France.

Because of the high temperature most ouf our students decided to take a trip to a kind of water coaster to get wet.

Many students went to the Eurosat, too. It's a rollercoaster in a kind of ball where you can't see anything in it.

So you drive in the ball and you can only see the light effects and something like that so it's a special experience for everyone.

At the end a few of our students take a little trip to the countrypart of Austria where we drive a kind of toboggan run.

After that we had to go back to our bus and then we drove home again.

It was a funny trip with many different attractions and a lot of fun.

The Sports- and Cultureday

The Sports- amd Cultureday is organised by the Jakob-Friedrich-Schöllkopf school.
Each class has to be divided in different sport teams and a culture group. The students can choose between different activities: volleyball, basketball, soccer and badminton.
Every class has to take part at those competitions.
The teams consist of more than 4 players and have to play against the other teams of the other classes.
The culture groups are doing handicrafts and the team with the most beautiful result is going to win.
The teams can get points and at the end of the day the class with the most points will be the winner, elected by an award ceremony.

Exchanges

At our school you have the chance to get to know other cultures, schools and pupils. We have exchange schools in the south of Europe: Spain, in the east: Israel and in the north: Sweden. In each exchange the pupils live in families of their exchange partners, for about one week. They have an interesting programme with lots of sightseeing. In the evening you usually have spare time where you can meet the other students. As you know the school also offers the Comenius project which is very special for our school in the region. During these days we work together with the other students of six European countries on a topic which connects us. Each exchange is great to make friends and social contacts all over Europe.

"Carpe Diem" - The school newspaper

“Carpe Diem” is the school newspaper of the Jakob-Friedrich-Schöllkopf school. Students from class 11 to class 13 can take part in that group of writers and creative people. The project is for students, who like doing writing, investigating, leading interviews and cooperating in a nice team. Each summer an exclusive expenditure of the newspaper appears which contains reports of the last school year. Every member of our editorial office is involved in the success of “Carpe Diem” because our school newspaper is award winning in Germany. The journalistic work offers new views of certain occupation and was already a spring board for students in their further career.

Jakob Friedrich Schöllkopf

Who was Jakob Friedrich Schöllkopf?

Jakob Friedrich Schöllkopf was born in 1819 as the twelfth of 15 children. His parents were Heinrich Schöllkopf and Christiana-Margaretha Mayer.
At the age of 15 he began to learn the profession of his father. Then he practiced a commercial activity that brought him further practical experience.
When he was 21 he immigrated to the US (1840). There he arranged his first textile industry. Later on he changed to engineering and electricity. His basis was in Buffalo and New York and he also had an electricity station at Niagara Falls. There a bridge is named after him.
On 15th September 1899 Jakob Friedrich Schöllkopf died at the age of 80 years in his new home in Buffalo.
He was a very successful man but in this time he never forgot his original town Kirchheim/Teck and he also gave a lot of money to charities in our region.

Schooltypes

Our school is a trade school.



At our school there are many different school types like:

· commercial high school

· commercial college

· Berufskolleg

· different vocational colleges



Commercial college:

The two-year vocational school for economy offers students the opportunity to obtain with CSE Mean maturity.



Commercial high school:

After this school you can go on every university in Germany or where other of the world. Provides technical college students to gain real within 3 years. You have to choose between two subjects (Global Studies and Business informatics).



Berufskolleg l:

In this school students practice working in a training firm



Berufkolleg ll:

This school is the continuance of the Berufskolleg l. There you can expand your skills and knowledge you gained in Berufskolleg I.





Different vocational colleges:

At this school you can advance your chances for an apprenticeship. You can also expand your german language skills.

"Schnuppertage"

„Schnuppertage“

“Schuppertage” are days during which students of a new class get to know each other better. Usually you go to a remote place in a rental home. We had no cell phone reception so we were able to concentrate only on getting to know our fellow students.
Because it’s a normal house you have to cook and do all the other work on your own. Working together makes the group of students grow together.
We also do some activities like games and also we are allowed to party a little bit.
The games aren’t that much fun but it’s alright and the party during the night makes up for it. We don’t sleep a lot, because, as I said, we have to get up and make breakfast.
After a three-day stay our class grew to a good team and we were able to find friends!
Here you can watch a short film from our “Schnupperatge”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW2dYYqrLXU