Leonardo-da-Vinci Comprehensive School (32)

Grundschulen

School with upper secondary level

Esplanade 3
14469 Potsdam
Email: mail@davinci-gesamtschule.de
Headmistress: Kirsten Schmollack

Education offers:
Foreign languages: English, French, Spanish,
Profile: Media and Communication
Special features:
Founded in 2011, we are a state comprehensive school. Currently, 200 pupils are learning in the 7th and 8th vintage. Together with teachers, pupils and parents, we are preparing a 13th grade in the next few years to develop our educational concept. We invite you to be one of us and contribute your ideas!

Our lessons

  • Encouraging initiative, creativity and independence by explorative, networked learning
  • Concept of interdisciplinary learning projects
  • In addition to special teaching: free labor in projects
  • Public presentations of project work
  • Interdisciplinary media concept
  • Integrative learning methods
  • Individual learning as performance analysis and documentation in “learning logbooks”
  • Individual education offers in the main subjects
  • In addition to marks: written assessments in all grades
  • Vocational training and study assistance in internships
  • Thematically oriented field trips in all grades

Our daily rhythm

  • School with all day lessons
  • Open beginning from 07:45 to 8.15 (classes begin)
  • block classes until (max) 15.45 clock
  • Supervised lunch
  • Learning cabinets to support individual learning and self-directed learning
  • Workshops for individual mind differentiation
  • Weekly reflection of learning progress, discussion of proposals and problems in the class council

Our Facilities

  • Prepared learning environment in specialized class rooms
  • Modern equipped specialist cabinet of natural sciences
  • “Trunk space” principle for all classes
  • Use of interactive whiteboards
  • Use of laptop in all classrooms
  • Modern gymnasium
  • Large open area with a soccer field
  • Shared dining room with the primary school
  • Further expansion of the school building in the 2nd phase with a multi-purpose building for use as a cafeteria and for events until August 2013

Our partners in all-day learning

  • Medienwerkstatt Potsdam e.V.
  • Alba Berlin
  • Potsdamer Schachverein Mitte e.V.
  • Humanistischer Verband
  • Diakonie
  • Paragraf 13
  • BUNDjugend Potsdam
  • AOK
  • Handwerkskammer Potsdam
  • Mittelbrandenburgische Sparkasse