Education in Austria

Education in Austria- BG-Tanzenberg

Children with age of five years have to go to the Kindergarten compulsory. There are also three and four year old children, who attend the Kindergarten. Normal schools called “Volkschule”, which is the same as elementary school, start at the age of six years. After four years “Volkschule” the children can choose between Hauptschule and Gymnasium. There you have to stay for four years and then you can choose between HTL, HAK or another four years at Gymnasium.After nine years you arefinished with school.

In HTL you learn to work with computer and with machines. If you choose HAK you learn business economics. At the end of the school you need a Matura for graduation. The Matura is the same as SAT and ATC. After the Matura you can study in the university.

In Tanzenberg you just learn the basic education. Here you learn more languages and also old languages, for example Latin and Greek. In the ninth class choose Italy or Greek.  The mayor subjects are Maths, German, Latin, English and Greek or Italy. The minor subjects are history, biography, physics, art and design, music etc. There are also extra-curricular activities like Drama, Snowboarding etc.

My favorite subject is “Computer Design, because it´s very cool to work on the computer. My least favorite subject is Geographie, because it is difficult and the teacher is a little boring. As extra-curricular activity I do Snowboarding.