Cusanus High School (St. Wendel)

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Cusanus High School
logo
type of school high school
founding 1902
address

Missionshausstrasse 14
66606 St. Wendel

place St. Wendel
country Saarland
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 27 '48 "  N , 7 ° 10' 51"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '48 "  N , 7 ° 10' 51"  E
carrier District of St. Wendel
student 572 (school year 2018/19)
Teachers about 50
management Martin Wagner
Website www.cusanusgymnasium.de

The Cusanus grammar school is a grammar school in St. Wendel sponsored by the district of St. Wendel . It is named after the philosopher Nikolaus von Kues .

history

The forerunners of the grammar school were the Höhere Töchterschule , founded by the city in 1902 , which led to secondary school leaving certificate , and the teachers' college , set up in 1911 by the school department of the Prussian Rhine Province for Catholic boys and young men. In 1922 the secondary school for girls and the teachers' college ran out; the government commission of the Saar region transferred the educational institutions to a state college for Catholic girls, which is regarded as the forerunner of the grammar school. To accommodate external students, the college was expanded in 1927 to include a boarding school, the Hildegardisheim. In the following year, a three-year women's secondary school was added to the state-run state college, which was run by the city of St. Wendel. The location was the castle school building behind the Protestant church. In 1931 the school moved to the previous high school building on Gymnasialstrasse. Starting in 1937, the state college was gradually converted into an eight-year high school for girls, the previous women's high school formed the upper level.

After the end of the Second World War , classes began in October 1945 as a nine-year high school for girls. Another move followed in 1965 to Missionshausstraße, where a new building had been built.

With the admission of boys, co-education was introduced in 1969 . The foreign language lessons have been expanded to include English alongside French as an input foreign language. The school association was also founded that year.

In 1970 the school was named "Realgymnasium St. Wendel". Two years later, a pavilion was set up to increase the space available. From 1973 computer science was taught with an attempt at teaching .

In 1974 the school was named Nikolaus Cusanus. A school theater group was founded in 1981, as well as a school big band. The school newspaper Cusanus-Kurier has been published since 1988 . In 1989, for the first time, the school only accepted students with English as the foreign language as their input. In addition to the Latin branch, the development of a purely modern language and a mathematical and scientific branch gradually began.

In 1992 the sponsorship changed from the state to the district, the school was renamed the Cusanus-Gymnasium of the St. Wendel district. As of 1993, Spanish was offered as the third modern foreign language.

The school celebrated the 600th anniversary of the namesake Nikolaus von Kues (Cusanus) in 2001. The new logo was introduced and the school's internet cafe opened.

activities

Student exchanges and partner schools

The Cusanus-Gymnasium maintains student exchanges with the Collège La Providence (Dieppe, France), the Balbriggan Community College (Ireland) and the German School Istanbul (Turkey).

Competitions

Students of the Cusanus-Gymnasium take part in various competitions every year. Amongst other things:

Working groups

The Cusanus-Gymnasium offers working groups and workshops. These include the school choir and the vocal ensemble, the ExperiMINT group, the biology group and the math group, the history group, Misheni Moyo, the junior theater group, the theater group and the dance group “Always in Motion”, the football group , the talent promotion program DFB and the volleyball club.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School magazine Cusanus-Kurier from 2019.
  2. ^ Website of the Cusanus-Gymnasium , official school website, accessed on December 26, 2019.
  3. ↑ Report from St. Wendeler Land Nachrichten , accessed on December 26, 2019.
  4. ↑ Report from St. Wendeler Land Nachrichten , accessed on December 26, 2019.