Summer, sun, holidays: After yesterday’s award of certificates, around 190,000 pupils, their teachers and principals in Upper Austria went on their summer holidays. Sylvia Bäck, the headmistress of the Fadingergymnasium, is also very happy about this. The past school year was sometimes very demanding, the fall of the corona restrictions (keyword mask requirement) marked a turning point. The “really good and positive” time at school that followed made Bäck “almost” forget how hard and stressful the phase before that was.
However, Bäck’s “holidays” are not nine weeks long, whether it’s summer school and the like. In the remaining four “school-free” weeks, however, there is enough time for a trip to Grado (“That’s my place of strength”) and to Lake Attersee, she says. Apart from that, meeting friends, relaxing and reading, reading, reading are on the agenda.
“Now it’s time to just let go and enjoy life,” says the school director, meaning students, parents and everyone who works at the school. It is currently not possible to estimate how things will continue in autumn, but she is not afraid of the start of school due to the uncertain developments in the number of corona cases. “We have to take a close look, listen and then act in a timely manner,” said Bäck, who does not hide the fact that the short-term nature of the corona measures came into force in the past was definitely a challenge.
“I’m looking forward to the fact that we can all relax undamaged by Corona and have a quality of life that is not only determined by negative headlines,” says Andrea Obermayr-Rauter, director of the Europagymnasium Auhof. She is particularly happy for and with the graduates.
A special feature is the LISA (Linz International School Auhof), which was founded 30 years ago to emphasize internationalization at the Auhof location. Austria was about to join the EU and the school did not want to ignore this trend.
It is interesting that in the beginning practically no international students attended the Gymnasium. This has changed massively over the past three decades and was evident this Wednesday at the presentation of the IB (International Baccalaureate) diplomas, which the LISA students acquired in addition to the “normal” Matura.
Obermayr-Rauter was impressed by the results. “This year oral examinations were possible again for the first time, and I was very enthusiastic about the performance and the quality of the pre-scientific work.”
Source: Nachrichten
