Status: 01/28/2021 6:16 a.m.
Starting today, there are half-year reports for Hamburg’s pupils. Because of Corona, this presents schools with special challenges.
The Hamburg schools will pass the certificates on in several ways this year. Many post them or send them in a preliminary form by email. The official document will then be handed over or sent later.
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School authority spokesman Peter Albrecht (archive photo) recommends that this time, if possible, not handing over the certificates personally.
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The Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium in Wandsbek, for example, provides the half-year results – secured under data protection law – for downloading on the digital school platform “IServ”.
Peter Albrecht, the spokesman for the Hamburg school authorities, said to NDR 90.3: “We deliberately did without a central arrangement.” The schools should – where this is possible or useful – refrain from personal handovers. In order to make this possible, some schools give individual appointments or they have come up with something: For example, at the Wielandstraße primary school in Eilbek, certificates are handed out of the window – according to the appointment. The school authorities have again set up a telephone counseling service for all learners who are worried about certificates.
Who gets certificates and who doesn’t?
In grades one to three there are no interim certificates. However, elementary schools often provide parents with a report on their child’s skills. In this pandemic year, some elementary schools are replacing writing with an extended learning development interview.
For grades 5, 7, 8 and 9 of the grammar school and grades 5 to 8 of the district schools, the teachers’ conference decides whether there are interim certificates. Interim certificates are only compulsory in the fourth grade of elementary schools and in grades 6 and 10 to 12 at grammar schools and 9 to 13 at district schools. The schools themselves regulate how the pupils take care of their certificate.
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