Register for admission to a primary school
service description
Primary school is the first common level of the education system. It introduces your child to school learning. Pupils learn to work and act independently and together. Your child is guided to adopt important values, attitudes and behaviors. Primary school supports pupils in their individual development and offers orientation.
The primary school's educational work is geared to the students' respective developmental stage. Your child should learn to increasingly meet the demands placed on them independently, to set their own tasks, to achieve their own results and to take on responsibility within the scope of their own abilities. They should be supported in expressing their opinions freely but respectfully and in contributing to peaceful coexistence.
When your child reaches school age, you must register him or her at the primary school responsible for you.
procedure
The elementary school provides for reliable lesson times with the lessons being distributed as evenly as possible over the school mornings. The daily school time up to and including grade 2 should be at least four hours in the morning, then five hours. The daily school time is divided into lessons, relaxation phases as well as play and movement times.
In the elementary school, pupils from grades 1 to 4 are taught. At the end of the grades, they generally advance to the next grade without being promoted. In grades 1 and 2 no numerical grades are awarded; the parents receive information on their child's development through verbal reports at the end of the school year and a recorded parent-teacher-child conversation in the middle of the second school year. At the end of the semester in grades three and four, the children receive pure grade reports, which are explained in a recorded parent-teacher-child conversation. At the end of the school year in grades three and four, the students receive a certificate that combines numerical grades and verbal explanations. At the decision of the general conference and in agreement with the school parents' council, the assessment can continue to be exclusively verbal in grade 3 for the first half of the year or for the entire school year.
The following learning areas and subjects are taught: religion/ethics, German, mathematics, general studies, music, sports, fine arts/textile design/handicrafts and integrated foreign language work in English or French. No grades are given for the foreign language lessons, but a portfolio is kept.
What documents are required?
When registering, the primary school collects the following data from your child:
- First and Last Name
- Date and place of birth
- Gender,
- Address,
- telecommunication connection
- religious affiliation,
- Nationality,
- Date of arrival of children not born in Germany,
- dominant family language,
- Impairments and illnesses, insofar as they are important for the school,
- Number of siblings,
- Information about attending a kindergarten.
In addition, the surname, first name, address and telecommunications connections of the parents and the educational and care officers are recorded. Furthermore, the data required to establish contact in emergencies and, if applicable, information on parental custody.
What fees apply?
There are no fees.
What deadlines do I need to consider?
Registration for the following school year usually takes place in the third or fourth full school week after the summer holidays of the current school year.
legal basis
What else should I know?
In addition, most elementary schools have childcare options that children can attend before and after class time.