MS Pleichach-Kürnachtal

As part of our S. O. S. project, the students visited various organizations to inform them about the project and to identify any needs. Various customers could be won in the first attempt.

1 Principal of MS Pleichach- Kürnachtal

The middle school Pleichach-Kürnachtal was created this school year as a school network from the two schools Unterpleichfeld and Estenfeld. For this reason, the school needs a new logo. The school management asked S. O. S. to organize a call for a new logo and then determine the winner by means of a student online vote. The students involved in the project created an advertising poster for this purpose and prepared an online vote after the suggestions had been received.

3 Flyer S. O. S.

The students created flyers to present the project and make people aware of it. With these flyers the students go to the municipalities and public institutions such as old people's homes and kindergartens. There they present the project and display the flyers. These should also be displayed with an additional poster in public buildings, banks or shops.

In the further course, the flyers will be more specialized with an additional insert.

5 Cooperation: Choir project with music and theater at retirement home

The choir project at the Pleichach-Kürnachtal middle school has been an integral part of music lessons since the school year 2018/19. Thankfully, this project is supported and financed by the International Foundation for Culture and Civilization in Munich. In the last school year, the project was started by year 5 teachers Sandra Anderl-Schott and Kerstin Grebner.

The basics were further expanded in the current school year. The new international Erasmus project “S. O. S. - Social Online Service” of our school has been included by project manager and colleague Eva Knüttel since autumn 2019. That way it was possible to establish a cooperation between our school, the international foundation, the municipal company in the Würzburg district and the three senior institutions in our school district. Funding is provided by the European Union and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

Since October 2019 year 6 pupils have been working on a Christmas musical with choir teacher Olesja Eckert. Every week, there was intensive rehearsal, the vocal training continued and the vocal implementation was refined. The class teachers worked on the scenic implementation and practiced intensively right up to the performance. One highlight for the classes was the final rehearsal of their musical "Eddi and the Christmas ball" in the senior center and in the day care Estenfeld on Tuesday, December 17th, 2019.

Another successful event was the performance in front of the entire primary school and classes 5-8 at the Christmas party. Despite enormous stage fright, the students were able to show what they are capable of.

It was great that some of the students even dared to take on singing roles as solo parts.

The performances were further enriched by preludes by the piano students, who are taught by Mr. Jochen Eckert.

The festival concert on Tuesday, May 26, 2020 will be another highlight of this project, in addition to further visits to the surrounding senior citizen centers.

Here you can find more pictures

9 Apple campaign in the Unterpleichfeld middle school

The Pleichach-Kürnachtal Middle School in Unterpleichfeld has been involved in an Erasmus + project since last year. The topic of this project is social engagement, that means social commitment in school and generally for the fellow citizens of the community. Exactly in the spirit and purpose of this project Mr Mais requested whether the school, due to lack of personal needs, would not harvest the apples from his fruit trees. Together with the class teachers of the 5th and 6th grade, the students set out to clear a number of apple trees with the support of older students who are participating in the project. The young farm workers had a lot of fun doing this very unfamiliar and strenuous work for schoolchildren, and some apples did not make their way into the apple press, but disappeared in a pupil's stomach. Finally, the collected apples were transported to the local juicer and used there. The juice produced in this way will benefit the students of the bound and open full-time this school year. In the end, this “social commitment” even had several winners: emptied apple trees, relieved fruit tree owners and schoolchildren who were allowed to enjoy the sweet apple juice.

10 Afforestation of the Unterpleichfeld community forest

The community of Unterpleichfeld is planning to plant 5,000 young trees in its community forest. These should be a regulating mix of different types of construction, including Douglas fir, yew and cherry. With this project, the community also turned to the Pleichach-Kürnachtal Middle School and asked for support. As part of the Erasmus+ S.O.S. project, the pupils will now help with the reforestation and "plant their own tree", so to speak. It is also planned that the technical groups at the Pleichach-Kürnachtal Middle School will build and set up simple wooden benches.

11 Christmas surprise in the day care centre in Kürnach and Estenfeld

Social engagement in the community, retirement homes, kindergartens and associations are the goals of the pupils of the MS Pleichach-Kürnachtal in the context of their international Erasmus project "Social Online Service - S. O S.". However, Covid-19 brought many things to an abrupt halt. Senior citizens in particular suffer at this time because they are rarely or never allowed to see their relatives and are therefore alone at Christmas. The students did not want to accept this and started a Christmas project. In art lessons they designed their own Christmas cards, in economics and IT they created an Advent calendar with Christmas and Advent poems and in practical lessons they made fairy lights. A particularly nice idea of the organising project team was that the Christmas cards for the senior citizens could be personalised for each resident in cooperation with the care service. Thus, each resident received their own handwritten card with a poem, a personal Christmas greeting and an artistic decoration. Mrs Lamprecht, head of the day care centre in Estenfeld, describes the reaction as follows: "With tears in their eyes, the nursing staff were hugged as representatives for all the dear artists from the Unterpleichfeld school!"

But the "presents" came not only in analogue form, but also digitally, which is especially important in these times. As an additional highlight, the school band recorded four different Christmas songs together with the choir. Other pupils read out Christmas poems and one group even practised a Christmas dance, all of course in strict compliance with the Corona hygiene measures. The homes received these contributions digitally on USB sticks so that they could show it to their residents on the big TV screen more than once.

Unfortunately, the students could not personally see the joy of the seniors over the pre-Christmas presents and greetings, but the pictures say more than words.

And all pupils and colleagues agree: We'll do it again next year, without Corona!

13 Christmas campaign 2021 in the old people's homes in the neighbourhood of MS Pleichach-Kürnachtal

The goal of the S.O.S. project is to reach out to more and more people in the neighborhood, to offer services and to provide them as well. Spurred on by the success of last year's Christmas campaign, it was decided to tackle such an event again this year. This time the action should be extended to several old people's homes in the surrounding area. The students collected ideas and so it was decided not only to make Advent calendars and personalized Christmas cards for the day care centres in Estenfeld and Kürnach and the senior citizen centres in Kürnach and Bergtheim, but also to provide more activities for the seniors in Corona times.

Nearly every student at the school lovingly wrote and painted a personal Christmas message for a specific resident. The school’s economy studies group made an Advent calendar to sing along to, and the technology and crafts groups made indoor bowling games out of tennis ball cans and large ludo games out of wood in class. But not only material gifts were to please the residents. Therefore, a CD was also created, on which Christmas carols were sung and poems were read by students.

All these gifts were given to the facilities at Christmas. Unfortunately, due to Corona, the students were again unable to present their work and delight the residents with their songs and rehearsed poems themselves.