Joliot-Curie week
Joliot-Curie Week has been taking place at our secondary school for many years. It is dedicated to our namesake Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie, who was born in Paris on March 19, 1900 and whom we honor both as a scientist and as a politically committed person. He made great contributions in the field of nuclear physics in particular and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1935. Jean Frédéric Joliot-Curie was also President of the World Peace Council and a corresponding member of the German Academy of Sciences.
In order to make our scientific focus even more interdisciplinary, we hold the Joliot-Curie Week every year. During this week, grades 5-11 experience three project days on various topics with a mostly scientific focus: from a school house rally followed by a film production in grade 5, to making their own model airplanes in grade 7, to a simulation game on economic-geographical interdependencies in grade 10.
In order to provide the pupils with particularly memorable learning experiences and to show them what our region has to offer, another focus of these project days is on extracurricular places of learning. This is why we work together with the German Center for Astrophysics, the Zittau Görlitz University of Applied Sciences and the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Görlitz, among others. We also go on various excursions, such as to our local mountain, the Landeskrone, or to IQ-Landia in Liberec.
And although we have now been able to establish a number of tried-and-tested projects, we are always on the lookout for new ideas, as these special learning opportunities can and should continue to develop and adapt to current circumstances.
