Extensive range of leisure activities
The central mission statement of our Schloss-Schule Kirchberg boarding school is "Live, Learn, Work". To ensure that "learning" and "living" are balanced for optimal development, our boarding school offers a wide range of leisure activities, which are of course also open to our local pupils.
Every pupil at our boarding school in Years 5 to 10 must commit to two AGs from a wide range of around 25 leisure activities - one of which is a sports AG. Course level students must take part in one AG. The aim of our varied offer is to promote the individual development of our pupils.
Discover new things and broaden your horizons through boarding school and school
With these activities, we enhance the existing school curriculum and offer our pupils at the Gymnasium Internat the opportunity to pursue their special, perhaps newly discovered interests in their free time. This allows them to broaden their horizons, try out new things and develop new skills - especially in areas that are not part of the general curriculum.
We adults then often get to know the children from a completely different perspective, experiencing a teenager who is considered hyperactive as a leader at soccer or highly concentrated at chess and seeing reserved children come to life at the theater .
The feedback that the children and young people receive in the boarding school's AGs strengthens them and allows them to experience that effort is worthwhile. These are experiences that often benefit their commitment and success in class. With the variety of additional activities that the boarding school offers its pupils, the requirement to take two AGs is not perceived as pressure. On the contrary: the boarding school pupils tend to have difficulty finding time to accommodate their diverse interests.
Of course, there are also some pupils who have spent most of their free time with their smartphones and who first need to be "activated" with gentle pressure. At the end of the day, however, when they have worked off their energy in a team game, they often experience themselves in a completely new way.
Time for yourself despite boarding school?
School is important - but so is free time! If the school day lasts perhaps eight hours and homework has to be done during the working hours, a balance must be found. For spontaneous activities, there are various places on the school and boarding school grounds:
- Climbing park and climbing wall
- Artificial turf pitch
- Basketball hoop
- fitness room
- sauna.
But maybe you also feel like baking cakes and talking or simply listening to music or reading.
Every pupil at the boarding school has their own free time.
Why so much emphasis is placed on exercise at our boarding school
Today, children and young people spend most of their time at their desks! Studies estimate that they spend 40 hours a week in some cases. And this is despite the fact that numerous experts have sufficiently proven and known that cognitive performance can be increased by one thing in particular: Exercise and sport!
A key role is played by (compulsory) school sport and the wide range of physical activities on offer at our boarding school. In PE lessons, pupils can let off steam, switch off - and work on their socialization in games and sports together. Above all, however, physical activity supports academic performance. Pupils can get back to other work feeling fresher and more focused.
Our focus is primarily on combining school and sport so that the children can combine the two in the best possible way. For years, extensive leisure activities - in harmony with homework or work hours - have been part of the program at our boarding school in Baden-Württemberg, whether climbing, soccer, judo or horse riding. The talents of particularly sporty children and young people can be professionally promoted in the areas of equestrian sports and basketball at the Schloss-Schule Kirchberg boarding school.