Our School

Educational Guidelines

VS Jägergrund has been a certified "Human Rights School" since the 2021/2022 school year. Children's and human rights form the foundation of all school activities, with respect and reverence for life at the forefront.

Our professional team of teachers, specialists and parents enables successful, meaningful, enjoyable and character-building learning for all pupils in line with our principles. An inclusive attitude is very important to us. We live and experience cultural diversity and treat everyone working at the school with appreciation and respect.

We use our diversity and the school's autonomous scope for learners, for example through joint excursions, cross-class sports lessons or choir and theatre education, to teach children tolerance and empathy. Furthermore, we create a learning-friendly environment with freely available learning materials and inspiring classroom decoration with self-painted pictures and photos from joint projects.

Teaching methods such as open learning, group and project work, inviting experts and gifted education are used to achieve the best possible learning outcomes. All learners receive individual support, and their parents are also involved in and advised on learning processes. For language education, we rely on additional programmes and a variety of materials in our school library. Digital learning is integrated into lessons, with new media being used to deepen learning content.

We promote the independence, personal responsibility and social skills of our pupils by focusing on learning groups and projects that raise awareness of why learning is important. Through individual conversations, targeted observations and standardised tests, we can assess children's learning prerequisites and processes, allowing us to better adapt our teaching and individual support. This aims to increase willingness to learn and confidence in one's own abilities.

Performance assessment at our school is transparent; the curriculum and learning objectives are taught and assessed in accordance with § 17 SchUG. The level of achievement is continuously exchanged between teaching staff and parents. Performance expectations and assessment criteria are communicated through individual daily and weekly plans and are jointly evaluated, particularly during KEL meetings (child-parent-teacher conferences).

In general, we maintain open communication and actively work on our school partnerships and collaborations.

We continuously develop our teaching. In our well-functioning teaching team, there is regular exchange on pedagogy, didactics and methodology. Team meetings and teacher collaboration are important means of ensuring the quality of teaching at our school. We also draw on the expertise of advisory and support systems, such as counselling teachers, speech therapists, special education teachers and school psychologists.

It is also important to us that our teaching staff hold additional qualifications through diverse further training, including in the areas of special education, German as a second language and mother-tongue instruction.

VS Jägergrund aims to be a place of encounter, security and the development of talents for everyone — a place where it is taken for granted that human rights are upheld and lived.