St. IRMENGARD -GYMNASIUM | Multilingualism

St. IRMENGARD-GYMNASIUM

ST. - IRMENGARD - GYMNASIUM

GARMISCH - PARTENKIRCHEN

St.-Irmengard-Gymnasium is a secondary Catholic school for girls in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the very South of Germany. It was founded in 1930 in order to give girls the opportunity to get further education after primary school, which was quite normal in cities at that time, but not in the countryside.

Our school has got three school programmes, one is based on music and art, one is based on social science and one on languages. All students start in year 5 with English as first foreign language. In year 6, the programmes split up into the music and art one with compulsory Latin language learning, the language programme with compulsory Latin as second and French as third foreign language and the social science programme where the students can choose between Latin and French as second foreign language. Additionally, the students can drop the second foreign language after year 9 and take Spanish.

At St.-Irmengard-Gymnasium, the students have got the opportunity to stay at school in the afternoon and do their homework in groups with the help of teachers and other school staff. They also have the opportunity to get involved in activity planning and in doing projects.

The Erasmus+ project plays an important role in our school development as it spreads the European idea among our students. Language learning at school tends to be a theoretical subject without a connection to the real world. The Erasmus+ project allows our students to cooperate using their language skills, to exchange ideas beyond the context of a classroom and to be an active partner in international activities on topics that really matter in the students’ world. Therefore it is a very valuable part of the school’s educational concept.