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.