Family and Education
Where families like to live
We admit: We are quite proud of our city. After all, according to a study sponsored by the Federal Ministry for Families, Schwäbisch Hall ranks among those cities "Where families have the best environment to reside and to live!" In a Federal ranking of the 439 cities and counties, we have secured a place among the top.
This confirms that Hall has an excellent, family-oriented infrastructure. For us, family-orientation starts with the smallest of family members: Families can only be happy if these are well cared for and attended to. That is why we have created one of the best offers of child day-care centres in all of Baden-Württemberg.
The attendance to children under three years of age is as understood as are family-friendly hours of operation. A diverse educational offer is available to adolescents on-site, such as elementary schools with complementing supervision as part of the reliable elementary school, secondary schools, vocational schools, full-time vocational schools and the Polytechnic University.
In good hands, from the moment of birth
Children are our future. Therefore, a good, qualified education and attendance are dear to our hearts. Only those who have experienced the feeling of security as a little person and whose strengths and weaknesses are developed early on, can grow up to be an emotionally secured human being. And because the multitude of situations of families and single-parents continue to demand the attendace of children under three years of age, we have created offers for these situations which are unique in all of Baden-Württemberg.
We know who we get actively involved for: 7.4 per cent of our population are children under three years of age; that is significantly more than the state average. That is why even the youngest are receiving loving care and child-oriented promotions in various day-care facilities.
A total of 28 day-care facilities with 1,505 attendance slots are available to children from three years of age in Schwäbisch Hall. Beside 15 municipal day-care facilities (among them five day-care facilities), there are eight confessional kindergartens and a Kinderhaus (Children's House) of the Evangelischen Fachschule für Sozialpädagogik (Protestant Vocational School for Social-Pedagogy). With one kindergarten in the forest, two Waldorf kindergartens, one Montessori Kinderhaus and two company-operated kindergartens, there are institutions with particular pedagogic concepts operating in the city. It is the variety that gives parents true alternatives.
The schools also grow
As a school city, Schwäbisch Hall has a long-standing tradition and impresses through its profiles educational spectrum: Elementary schools close to residential areas, well-equipped secondary schools in the Schulzentrum Ost and West (School Centre East and West) as well as special pedagogic concepts with Waldorf school and Montessori track - under the roof of an elementary school - characterise the school landscape. Further, there are special classes for elementary schools, field classes of a Privaten Schule für Erziehungshilfe (Private School for Educational Assistance), school social work and day-care offers. The educational teaching program is complemented by a wide promotion offer with speech therapy school, Privater Schule für Kranke am Diakoniekrankenhaus (Private School for the Sick at the Deaconry Hospital), Sonnenhofschule für Geistigbehinderte (for the Mentally Handicapped) and a special needs school.
Vocational schools and various full-time vocational schools as well as vocational grammar schools offer adolescents qualified education opportunities.
Hall's education landscape has received a new highlight with the still young Polytechnic University Schwäbisch Hall, University for Design with the BS-program Media and Cultural Design.
Free space: Young life pulsates here
For young people to freely develop from the start requires a certain degree of social togetherness: Children need children.
Adolescents look for free space. And girls and boys have a right for gender-specific development opportunities.
The city offers many free space zones, coordinated with the offers of the Stadtjugendring (Municipal Youth Ring), clerical organisations and associations: children and youth meetings, cafés, active playgrounds and attractive leisure time and vacation programs, which include nightly sports events as well as an art construction site.
The Spiel- und Kulturhaus (Playing and Cultural House) Heimbacher Hof is the centre of many activities:
Apart from a wood-metal-clay workshop, the media workshop with its newest pc technology, digital camera and camcorders offers top of the line equipment for digital image processing, homepage design, composition of videoclips and for music composition on computer and keyboard.
Where adolescents do not visit the offered meetings and Jugendräume (rooms allocated for use by adolescents), the city takes new approaches in its work with youths: Streetworkers approach young people and work very successfully in Hall.
The citizen's foundation "Zukunft für junge Menschen? (Future for the Young Generation) recognised this work by awarding the Bürgerpreises 2005 (Citizen's Award).
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