Our former student becomes German Champion
Louise Wieland, 23, grew up in Icking and attended Gymnasium Eggenberg. In February 2023, the young Athletics won the German championship over 200 metres. In addition to her competitive sport, she is studying psychology in Hamburg.
In an interview with the SZ she says: “In athletics, it is common to start with all-around competition. I started the sport at the age of seven and trained in Baierbrunn at the beginning. When I was at school, the Bundesjugendspiele were always a highlight that I looked forward to. I can still remember running with the boys more often, especially in sprinting, and winning there.”
The lemon notebook – turning sour into funny!
Write something regularly for just ten minutes every afternoon? Voluntarily? And that’s supposed to be fun? The 5th grade pupils can confirm that it is. Their ally is their little lemon notebook.
The only rules: in the nicest possible writing, complete sentences and as correctly as I can. The rule for teachers, parents and all other adults is: the lemon notebook is the realm of every child. Others may read it, but corrections are taboo. The only thing allowed is to enjoy reading it.
One experiments with his most beautiful writing, the other collects the smartest jokes and riddles or designs plans. What everyone can write and likes to is allowed. Without thinking much.
By the way: The children invented the name “Lemon Notebook” themselves. According to the motto: Sour becomes funny. Because writing can actually be a lot of fun, even if some of them were initially sour-faced at the thought of a notebook that they could write in – when it was still empty!
German-French Friendship Day
The Abitur class at Gymnasium Eggenberg presented the commemoration day “60 Years of the Élysée Treaty – 60 Years of Franco-German Friendship” to all students, including those from Eggenberg Elementary School, before lunch. “Why is the flag of France flying on the roof of the villa today?” was the opening question.
Then they explained that a reconciliation between Germany and France after two world wars was quite unlikely and amazing. Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle concluded the Élysée Treaty out of their Christian responsibility. Adenauer said at the time,” The future of Europe depends on a real and lasting understanding between Germany and France.”
After the presentation, all students were invited to a French lunch with blue-white-red decorations.
Kapla master builders at Eggenberg primary school
Kapla building in our free times is all about reaching for the sky! With several thousand pieces of Kapla wood, there are no limits to the creative possibilities: building is done in height, in width, angular or round and even around the children. With a lot of imagination and perseverance, new constructions and works of art are created, which the children themselves marvel at.
Doing and understanding
From Year 5 onwards, experimentation is an essential part of science and technology lessons at the Gymnasium Eggenberg: we ask questions of nature and explore the answers through experimentation!
Experiment means: touching, trying out, microscoping, dissecting, collecting, measuring or also looking at: in the Deutsches Museum, in the zoo, in the Isar wetlands, in the meadow, forest and school garden – also building a pinhole camera, a hand-held spectroscope or rockets, letting balloons rise, melting iron …
Conclusions are then drawn from the experiences and observations. Thus force and movement, electricity and magnetism, light and sound, air and water, matter and life begin to become understandable.
The experiments are more differentiated and abstract with increasing age; if they fail, we learn from the mistakes.
But the following always applies: Whoever sees and hears something remembers it – whoever does something understands it!
Joint start into school life
Joyfully and full of expectation, the new students of the Eggenberg Elementary School have started their first school year.
For the past year, the elementary school has been located together with the high school on the Villa Eggenberg campus. The close proximity has proven its worth: The togetherness, the well-kept rooms and the many play and recreational opportunities in the shared park promote calm, concentrated learning for young and old alike. The little ones also enjoy playing with the big ones – and experience from them how to approach the Abitur without fear and successfully.
From class to band
Lunchtime concert in May
For the second time this school year, the entire 7th grade became a band. Encouraged by their success with “Traffic Lights” before Christmas, this time they performed “Open Up” by Matt Simons. They rehearsed and practised together until the vocals, rhythm and sound were perfect.
All the students contributed to a polished performance with their disciplined rehearsals. A special feature this time: Mr. Schäfer, a student teacher and intern, joined in with his electric violin and supported the class band in their performance. The audience of teachers and students from grades 3 to 6 thanked the 7th grade with roaring applause for this refreshing lunchtime concert.
Everyone wins when playing
In the park of Villa Eggenberg, games are played on all levels of the grounds and at all ages: on the terraces, jumping rope in groups and Round the World ping pong, in front of the fountain, chess with knee-high pieces, in the large clearings of the park, soccer and basketball, and again and again with great pleasure throw-off games such as gagaball.
The older students at the secondary school think they know where the secondary school students’ joy in playing games comes from: the elementary school students brought it with them.
This is actually due to the fact that the educators enjoy discovering new games. They are always offering new games of tactics or games of skills such as stilt walking, diabolo, juggling balls, badminton, volleyball, Viking chess or spikeball, to find out with the classes what is fun.
Playing has an impact on the entire school day with its passions, lightness, ambition in a good sense and, above all, its contagious cheerfulness.
Advent Season in Villa Eggenberg
We are pleased to share a few impressions of our pre-Christmas decorations at Grundschule Eggenberg and Gymnasium Eggenberg and wish you a happy Advent Season.
A new school year and a new school
Both our primary and secondary school students have made a good start to the new school year. For our primary school, this is the first school year on the Villa Eggenberg campus in Icking after the move from Solln, and the students are already very much at home.
The connection between the two schools is expressed in our new, related names: “Grundschule Eggenberg”(our primary school) and “Gymnasium Eggenberg” (our secondary school). The names reflect the unified learning path from the first grade to the Abitur (the German university entrance exam).
The two schools, as of 2021 geographically consolidated on one campus, and pursuing the single aim of excellence in education, will together be known as St Anna Colleg.
Our former student becomes German Champion
Louise Wieland, 23, grew up in Icking and attended Gymnasium Eggenberg. In February 2023, the young Athletics won the German championship over 200 metres. In addition to her competitive sport, she is studying psychology in Hamburg.
In an interview with the SZ she says: “In athletics, it is common to start with all-around competition. I started the sport at the age of seven and trained in Baierbrunn at the beginning. When I was at school, the Bundesjugendspiele were always a highlight that I looked forward to. I can still remember running with the boys more often, especially in sprinting, and winning there.”
The lemon notebook – turning sour into funny!
Write something regularly for just ten minutes every afternoon? Voluntarily? And that’s supposed to be fun? The 5th grade pupils can confirm that it is. Their ally is their little lemon notebook.
The only rules: in the nicest possible writing, complete sentences and as correctly as I can. The rule for teachers, parents and all other adults is: the lemon notebook is the realm of every child. Others may read it, but corrections are taboo. The only thing allowed is to enjoy reading it.
One experiments with his most beautiful writing, the other collects the smartest jokes and riddles or designs plans. What everyone can write and likes to is allowed. Without thinking much.
By the way: The children invented the name “Lemon Notebook” themselves. According to the motto: Sour becomes funny. Because writing can actually be a lot of fun, even if some of them were initially sour-faced at the thought of a notebook that they could write in – when it was still empty!
German-French Friendship Day
The Abitur class at Gymnasium Eggenberg presented the commemoration day “60 Years of the Élysée Treaty – 60 Years of Franco-German Friendship” to all students, including those from Eggenberg Elementary School, before lunch. “Why is the flag of France flying on the roof of the villa today?” was the opening question.
Then they explained that a reconciliation between Germany and France after two world wars was quite unlikely and amazing. Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle concluded the Élysée Treaty out of their Christian responsibility. Adenauer said at the time,” The future of Europe depends on a real and lasting understanding between Germany and France.”
After the presentation, all students were invited to a French lunch with blue-white-red decorations.
Kapla master builders at Eggenberg primary school
Kapla building in our free times is all about reaching for the sky! With several thousand pieces of Kapla wood, there are no limits to the creative possibilities: building is done in height, in width, angular or round and even around the children. With a lot of imagination and perseverance, new constructions and works of art are created, which the children themselves marvel at.
Doing and understanding
From Year 5 onwards, experimentation is an essential part of science and technology lessons at the Gymnasium Eggenberg: we ask questions of nature and explore the answers through experimentation!
Experiment means: touching, trying out, microscoping, dissecting, collecting, measuring or also looking at: in the Deutsches Museum, in the zoo, in the Isar wetlands, in the meadow, forest and school garden – also building a pinhole camera, a hand-held spectroscope or rockets, letting balloons rise, melting iron …
Conclusions are then drawn from the experiences and observations. Thus force and movement, electricity and magnetism, light and sound, air and water, matter and life begin to become understandable.
The experiments are more differentiated and abstract with increasing age; if they fail, we learn from the mistakes.
But the following always applies: Whoever sees and hears something remembers it – whoever does something understands it!
Joint start into school life
Joyfully and full of expectation, the new students of the Eggenberg Elementary School have started their first school year.
For the past year, the elementary school has been located together with the high school on the Villa Eggenberg campus. The close proximity has proven its worth: The togetherness, the well-kept rooms and the many play and recreational opportunities in the shared park promote calm, concentrated learning for young and old alike. The little ones also enjoy playing with the big ones – and experience from them how to approach the Abitur without fear and successfully.
From class to band
Lunchtime concert in May
For the second time this school year, the entire 7th grade became a band. Encouraged by their success with “Traffic Lights” before Christmas, this time they performed “Open Up” by Matt Simons. They rehearsed and practised together until the vocals, rhythm and sound were perfect.
All the students contributed to a polished performance with their disciplined rehearsals. A special feature this time: Mr. Schäfer, a student teacher and intern, joined in with his electric violin and supported the class band in their performance. The audience of teachers and students from grades 3 to 6 thanked the 7th grade with roaring applause for this refreshing lunchtime concert.
Everyone wins when playing
In the park of Villa Eggenberg, games are played on all levels of the grounds and at all ages: on the terraces, jumping rope in groups and Round the World ping pong, in front of the fountain, chess with knee-high pieces, in the large clearings of the park, soccer and basketball, and again and again with great pleasure throw-off games such as gagaball.
The older students at the secondary school think they know where the secondary school students’ joy in playing games comes from: the elementary school students brought it with them.
This is actually due to the fact that the educators enjoy discovering new games. They are always offering new games of tactics or games of skills such as stilt walking, diabolo, juggling balls, badminton, volleyball, Viking chess or spikeball, to find out with the classes what is fun.
Playing has an impact on the entire school day with its passions, lightness, ambition in a good sense and, above all, its contagious cheerfulness.
Advent Season in Villa Eggenberg
We are pleased to share a few impressions of our pre-Christmas decorations at Grundschule Eggenberg and Gymnasium Eggenberg and wish you a happy Advent Season.
A new school year and a new school
Both our primary and secondary school students have made a good start to the new school year. For our primary school, this is the first school year on the Villa Eggenberg campus in Icking after the move from Solln, and the students are already very much at home.
The connection between the two schools is expressed in our new, related names: “Grundschule Eggenberg”(our primary school) and “Gymnasium Eggenberg” (our secondary school). The names reflect the unified learning path from the first grade to the Abitur (the German university entrance exam).
The two schools, as of 2021 geographically consolidated on one campus, and pursuing the single aim of excellence in education, will together be known as St Anna Colleg.