At Dresden University School, 720 students have started the new school year. As in previous years, the size of the school community not only changes with each new school year, but further building blocks of the school concept are implemented. In the 2023/24 school year, this is particularly the early career orientation with the PRALL project and the continuation of the youth school in the Old Brickworks in Prohlis. The first grades for grade 9 and integration of Ukrainian children and young people into the student body are also on the agenda.
Learning with a connection to life and the world of work is a building block firmly anchored in the school concept and serves early career orientation. In the PRALL project, students in grades 7 and 8 go to a Dresden company every Friday. Here, under the guidance of trainees among others, they gain an insight into various trades and fields of business. They learned about possible internship locations at a company exchange in April at the University School Dresden.
They bring topics and observations from their everyday working lives into the project work and the learning workshops at school. In this way, the young people develop practice-related research questions and help shape their learning path from these questions.
The regular two-week company internship can be individually designed by the university school due to its status as a school experiment of the TU Dresden, so that it does not take place in one piece, but on one day per week. Already in the school year 2022/23, the students of grade 7 completed an internship year with weekly company visits.
