1. Theresianum Vienna Austria

2. Location

3. Schools in location
Kindergarten: family groups, ages 1 ½ - 6 years, 180 children
4-year Elementary School: ages 6 – 10, 8 classes, 120 pupils
8-year Secondary Academic School: ages 10-18, 830 pupils, 135 teachers

4. Private School Status
Kindergarten: private, but subsidized by the City of Vienna
Elementary School: totally private, teachers paid by school foundation
Secondary Academic School: teachers provided and paid by state. School fee in Secondary School: € p. month (Austrian or EU citizens)

5. School in Project Secondary Academic School „Theresianum“
Prescribed Curriculum
Specialization in Foreign Languages:
1st FL: French OR English – year 1 to year 8
2nd FL: English OR French – year 3 to year 8
Latin: year 4 to year 8
Russian: year 6 to year 8
Rest: Austrian „Gymnasium“ Curriculum

6. School Focus Secondary Academic School
4 mandatory Foreign Languages
International relations
Sport (not for achievement but for a balanced education)
Boarding or all day program (students present at school 8 a.m p.m., boarders 24h)
Permanent class groups: class groups stay together in all lessons except Sport for 8 years
Selection of pupils by interview

7. Assets and Offers Ca. 15 additional free time sports
Leisure activities
Park, Indoor Pool, Boarding Facilities
Dining Halls, Meals cooked on location
Cambridge First Exam (year 5)
DELF (French exam, year 5)
EBC*L European business competence licence (year 6)

8. Travel programs Language exchanges / weeks in 4th and 7th
Rome/Italy in 6th
Ski camps in 2nd, 3rd, 5th
Small group exchanges with Washington, Rugby, Stockholm
MEP, MUN
Erasmus project
Cultural and educational trips to Auschwitz, Leipzig/Frankfurt, Strassburg, Prague, etc.

9. Lesson Grid For years 5 – 8, 15 – 18 year olds School level 9 10 11 12
Grade 5 6 7 8
Mandatory Subjects
Lessons per week
German 3
2ndforeign language: English
1st foreign language: French 2
Latin
3rd foreign language: Russian -
History and Social Sciences 1
Geography and Economics
History, Social Sciences and Political Education
Mathematics
Biology and Environmental Sciences
Chemistry
Physics
Psychology und Philosophy IT
Music
Art (in year 7 and 8: choice of either Music or Art)
Physical Education
Mandatory Elective Subjects
Various subjects to choose from, 6 lessons in 3 years
Freigegenstände
Various subjects to choose from, not limited
Unverbindliche Übungen
For years 5 – 8,
15 – 18 year olds

10. Typical teacher schedule
# Full teaching load: 20 lessons
# Afternoon supervision mandatory for at least 2 days/week, counts as half a lesson per hour
# 2 hours/week for substitution for absent teachers (unpaid)
# 1 hour for parents‘ visits
# teachers must have master´s degree in 2 subjects

11. Typical class schedule (year 7)
# afternoon multi-lessons are extra sports or activities – not for all students, they select 1 – 3 such activities
# grey fields are afternoon supervision in the class group for study, homework, etc.

12. European School Partnership History
1998 – 2000 „A Single European Currency in a Multicultural Europe“
„Caleidoscope - Rencontre Européenne de Lyceens“
2003 – 2006 Octopus: „European School Quality in International Dimensions“
2006 – 2009 „European Citizenship“
„European Studies School Network“
„Young European Entrepreneurs of the Future“

13. www.theresianum.ac.at Favoritenstraße 15 1040 Wien
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