St. Christophorus High School
| St. Christophorus High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 168166 |
| founding | 1955 |
| address |
Kardinal-von-Galen-Str. 1 |
| place | Werne |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 40 ′ 18 " N , 7 ° 37 ′ 7" E |
| carrier | Diocese of Münster |
| student | 756 (as of September 2014) |
| Teachers | 63 (as of September 2014) |
| management | Thorsten Schröer |
| Website | www.gsc-werne.de |
The St. Christophorus grammar school is a Christian-Catholic private grammar school of the Münster diocese in Werne (North Rhine-Westphalia). The name of the grammar school goes back to Saint Christopher .
General
In addition to the surrounding cities and communities, Dortmund, around 25 kilometers away, is also part of the catchment area. School projects such as the wind orchestra or the Cantos choir, which regularly give concerts that are well-known nationwide and have already been awarded several cultural prizes, have contributed to its popularity.
The St. Christophorus grammar school cooperates with the neighboring municipal Anne Frank grammar school. So z. B. for years in the three natural science subjects advanced courses. At the beginning of the 2014/15 school year, 756 students attended the grammar school, 414 of them female and 342 male. The teaching staff consisted of 63 teachers (35 female, 28 male, including six trainee teachers ).
In 2011 the school was recognized as a European school in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The school was founded on April 19, 1955 by the Arnstein Fathers as the first grammar school in the city of Werne. At the beginning the school was an all boys school with an attached boarding school . It was first located on Kirchplatz and the boarding school students were housed in the neighboring Homann House (today Karl Pollender City Museum ). After just one year, the company moved to its current location in 1956/57. Girls have been attending grammar school since 1966.
In 1982 the high school was transferred from the Arnstein Fathers to the diocese of Münster. Nevertheless, the fathers continued to work in the school service - among other things as headmasters, teachers and school chaplains .
In 1991 the new building was completed after seven years of construction, in which mainly art, music and computer rooms are set up. Today the school consists of the old building, the new building completed in 1991, a chapel, two gyms (built in 1955 and 1980), sports fields and a science center with chemistry, biology and physics rooms. Furthermore, the convent building of the Arnstein Order and the former boarding school, which is now used as a workshop for art and music projects and where the rehearsal rooms for the school bands are located, are located on the site. In April 2010, a new canteen was inaugurated and opened in the part that was formerly used as accommodation for asylum seekers.
In 2010 it became known that in the course of the abuse scandal of the Catholic Church in the 1950s to 1970s there were allegedly cases of abuse in the boarding school that was then still part of the school.
From May 2012 to June 2013 a new single gym was built to replace the small gym that was built in 1955 and has since been demolished.
Since 2015, refugees, mainly from Syria and Iraq, have been accommodated in the former boarding school building.
Student exchange and international contacts
The high school has student exchange programs with schools in Lytham St. Annes (England), Swords (Ireland), Lyon and Reims (France), Poggibonsi (Italy), Ełk (Poland) and Viña del Mar (Chile). The exchange with the St. Marie day school in Lyon took place for the 40th time in 2010. Since 2009, schoolchildren have been carrying out a four-week China project entitled Welt: Klasse Werne . Since 2012 there has been an annual project in Kenya as part of the Welt: Klasse program . An exchange with a school in Peru was also held in 2012.
Alumni Association
The alumni association Alte Werner Gymnasiasten eV emerged, as can be recognized by the name, at the time when the grammar school was the only one in Werne. It organizes an alumni celebration every year and, in cooperation with the school, the career information event (BIV). The aim of the BIV is for former students to present their studies and their choice of profession in order to offer the current students an orientation aid for choosing a profession in an open presentation. A wide range of occupational fields is covered.
In addition, the association has developed an online portal with the career information and alumni network, or BIENE for short, which enables the exchange of professional information throughout the year.
principal
- Dr. Winfried Happ (1955-1965)
- Father Werner Engel SSCC (1965–1978)
- Father Harald Adler SSCC (1978-2001)
- Dr. Jörgen Vogel (2001-2016)
- Thorsten Schröer (since 2016)
Known students
- Theo Bleckmann , German jazz singer and composer
- Ludger Jonas , Catholic priest and cathedral capitular of the diocese of Münster
- Hubert Hüppe , Commissioner of the German Federal Government for the Issues of People with Disabilities.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gymnasium St. Christophorus (Ed.): Schulbrief 34 (September 2014) (PDF; 468 kB)
- ↑ Article about the European school on the school's website (PDF; 603 kB)
- ↑ Gymnasium St. Christophorus, Werne (ed.): Festschrift for the 40th anniversary , Werne 1995.
- ↑ Gymnasium St. Christophorus, Werne (Ed.): 50 Years Gymnasium St. Christophorus 1955–2005. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary , Werne 2005.
- ^ "Sexual abuse in the boarding school of St. Christophorus high school" . Ruhr Nachrichten (March 31, 2010).
- ^ "More space for school sports" Westfälischer Anzeiger (May 24, 2012)
- ^ WA - New gym for the Christophorus-Gymnasium. Retrieved September 7, 2012 .
- ↑ Student exchange - official website
- ↑ World: Class Werne
- ↑ http://www.wa.de/lokales/werne/christophorus-schueler-bloggen-wade-kenia-2038253.html
- ↑ Alte Werner Gymnasiasten eV - Alumni celebration. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 ; Retrieved June 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Alte Werner Gymnasiasten eV - career information event (BIV). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on July 15, 2015 ; Retrieved June 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Old Werner high school students eV - BEE. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 26, 2015 ; Retrieved June 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SSCC (after sacrorum cordium = the Sacred Heart) is the order abbreviation used by the Arnstein Fathers (cf. Arnstein Fathers: Foundation & History )
- ↑ Theo Bleckmann in an interview. Former Christophorus student nominated for Grammy - Ruhr Nachrichten (January 18, 2010)
