Don-Bosco-Schule

Friederikastraße 21, 44789 Bochum

Wiemelhausen/Brenschede

School number: 128843

Website: www.don-bosco-bochum.de/

School management: Dr. Elisabeth Hennecke

Deputy Head of School: Veronika Meurisch

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Factsheet

General information

Number of pupils
215
Parallel classes
two-track
VRR lines
354, U35, 339, 345, 349, 356, 350, 353, 354, 308/318
Knepperstraße (113 m), Waldring (227 m), Querenburger Straße (352 m), Farnstraße (392 m), Romanusplatz (454 m), Schauspielhaus (750 m)
Lesson times
Flexible start of lessons: from 7:45 a.m.; lesson time: 8:00 a.m. to 1.20 p.m.
Accessibility
No (not barrier-free)

School infrastructure and services

Pedagogical concept
  • Team teaching / cross-grade teaching
  • Individualized support
  • Inclusion / joint learning (in eingeschränkter Form )
  • Open all-day program (sponsored by the school's own support association)
  • Denominational orientation
  • Focus: Social learning
Childcare and all-day offers
  • Early care
  • Afternoon care
  • Vacation care
  • Socio-educational support (Sozialpädagogische Fachkraft in der Schuleingangsphase )
  • Integration staff (in individual support)
School equipment
  • Support rooms
  • Gymnasium (gemeinsam genutzt mit der Friederikaschule )
  • Movement room (gemeinsam genutzte Gymnastikhalle )
  • School library
  • Canteen / dining rooms (für die OGS-Kinder )
  • Soccer field (im Bereich hinter der Turnhalle )
  • A multifunctional room (stage)
  • A temporarily used school container in the schoolyard
  • OGS building with "garden house"
  • one outdoor class
  • a schoolyard in two sections

Educational offers

Focus on compulsory electives
  • Sport
  • Music
  • Religious education
School trip program
  • A school trip during primary school

Language offers

Language offers
  • Heritage language lessons (HSU)
  • German language support (DaZ - German as a second language)
  • Portuguese as consular lessons in the afternoon
Foreign language courses
  • English (from class 3)

Promotional offers

Individual support
  • School support / multi-professional team
  • Individual lessons in small groups
  • Math+ courses (support for gifted students)
  • Group lessons (lessons in small groups)
  • Participation in competitions (Kangaroo and math competition)
  • German project lesson

AGs and leisure activities

AGs
  • School newspaper / Media-AG (schulisches und zeitweiliges Angebot der OGS)
  • Art club / Textile club (regelmäßiges Angebot der OGS)
  • Sports clubs (Basketball und Fußball-AG )
  • Theater-AG (zeitweiliges Angebot der OGS)
  • Music or band club (Schulchor)
  • Home economics / cooking club (regelmäßiges Angebot der OGS)
  • two Jekits ensembles
  • Regular participation in competitions and tournaments (table tennis, soccer, basketball, running miracles, ...)

Awards and seals of quality

Awards and seals of quality
  • Fistless School
  • Children's rights school (in the implementation phase)
  • Sporty elementary school
  • Fair Trade School (in the trial phase)

Projects

Projects
  • Drum magic
  • Jeki (An instrument for every child)
  • My body belongs to me
  • Reading mentors
  • Violence prevention "Faustlos"
  • Skate@school
  • Trixitt
  • Regular visits to the theater
  • Visits to museums and concerts
  • Promotion of democracy
  • Catholic elementary school projects
  • Support for the "Reading educates" campaign in Nigeria
  • Sponsorship of a rainforest plot in Amazonia
  • Climate miles campaign (incl. transport project)
  • Participation in Bochum city cleaning

Partner

Partner
  • Friends of the Don Bosco School
  • VfL Astro Stars
  • Bochum Music School
  • Surrounding parishes
  • Daycare centers in the catchment area
  • Portuguese Consulate
  • Unicef (children's rights school)
  • Bochum Playhouse

Links

Homepage of the Don Bosco School

Contact information

  • Secretariat

    Opening hours: Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 7:30 - 11:30 a.m.

    Kerstin Fehser

    E-Mail: Don-Bosco-Schule@bochum.de

    Phone: 0234 332103

    Fax: 0234 3250527

  • OGS and reliable elementary school

    Förderverein der Don-Bosco Grundschule Bochum e.V.

    Opening hours: Mon - Thu in the time from 9 to 11.30 a.m.

    Ulrike Leistner und Nadine Redelings

    E-Mail: don-bosco-betreuung@hotmail.de

    Phone: 0234 33385678