Liebfrauenschule Vechta

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Liebfrauenschule Vechta
Liebfrauenschule Vechta Logo.svg
type of school high school
founding 1859
address

Marienstrasse 4th

place Vechta
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 43 '32 "  N , 8 ° 17' 7"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 43 '32 "  N , 8 ° 17' 7"  E
carrier Liebfrauenschule Vechta gGmbH
student approx. 650
Teachers approx. 60 (including trainee lawyers)
management Hans Sparks
Website www.liebfrauenschulevechta.de

The Liebfrauenschule Vechta gGmbH (ULF) is a state-recognized girls' high school in Vechta ( Lower Saxony ), which was sponsored by the Sisters of Our Lady (Coesfeld) in Vechta until 2013 . The Liebfrauenschule Vechta gGmbH has been the sponsor of the school since August 1, 2013 .

School history

The school was founded on September 29, 1859 with the same name as it is today at the suggestion of the Episcopal Official Engelbert Reismann in Vechta. School operations began on October 15, 1859, initially with 26 children. At that time, the school was located in a town house in Vechta opposite today's hospital.

In the course of history, the facility gradually developed from an originally high school for girls into a general high school. In 1976 the Liebfrauenschule Vechta introduced the reformed upper school . On July 20, 1994, the boarding school attached to the school was closed for personal and financial reasons.

In line with the steadily increasing number of female pupils, the school buildings have been expanded considerably over the years: the natural science wing was built in the 1970s (again extended in 1995), and in 1993 the connecting wing between the chapel wing and the old women's high school building with art and music rooms was built , In 1994 the art studio and the photo laboratory were inaugurated in the new attic of the women's college building. The conclusion was the construction of a new gymnasium on the old sports field on the Contrescarpe in 1999/2000.

On August 1, 2013, a new era began in the history of the school. The Sisters of Notre Dame gave up school, ending the 154 year tradition. The reason: The German province of the globally active order no longer had any offspring and was forced to dissolve the community of sisters in the Liebfrauenhaus in Vechta. The sisters handed over the sponsorship of the school to the newly founded Liebfrauenschule Vechta GmbH, whose sole shareholder is the Bischöflich Münster official office in Vechta. Since the change of sponsor, the Liebfrauenschule Vechta has been run as a three-class high school for girls. In 2015, extensive renovation and refurbishment work began in the school building, which has not yet been completed. Since the school year 2016/17, the classes from grade 6 in ascending order have been run as iPad classes. The Liebfrauenschule is the first school in the district to use digital media in the classroom across all subjects.

School partnerships

The Liebfrauenschule Vechta has been supporting the establishment of the St. Julie School in Buseesa, Uganda for several years. With the Collège Ste. Ursule and the Lycée du Kreisker in the Breton city of Saint-Pol-de-Léon , the Liebfrauenschule has had a school partnership for more than 30 years. During this time, more than 1,700 schoolchildren have taken part in the various exchange projects. There are also connections to grammar school No. 2, to grammar school No. 4 in Starachowice, Poland and to the Jaroslava Heyrovskova school in Prague . Another school partnership has existed since 2014 with Somerville House, a girls' school in Brisbane / Australia. In addition, female pupils regularly take part in school exchanges as part of the German-French programs Voltaire and Brigitte Sauzay . In grade 10, there is a student exchange (duration 4 months) with the schools in the USA, namely with the

  1. Notre Dame Academy Los Angeles
  2. La Reina High School Thousand Oaks, California
  3. Notre Dame Academy Toledo (Ohio)
  4. Regina High School Cleveland, Ohio
  5. Notre Dame Academy Covington, Kentucky.

particularities

Lessons offered

  • in addition to English, French and Latin, Spanish as foreign languages
  • Compulsory IT lessons in grades 5 and 6
  • iPad classes from grade 6
  • a two-hour compulsory elective in grades 8 to 10 for the pupils who take their Abitur after 9 school years
  • Differentiated sports offer in the upper level (canoe course, "on rollers and wheels", fighting)

Outside of class

  • wide range of working groups with a special focus on theater / music
  • internal school competitions, e.g. B. Certanum Latinum Vechtense

For girls

  • Language exam preparation (DELF and CAE)
  • Rhetoric courses in the intermediate level
  • Self-defense training (integrated in middle school physical education)
  • comprehensive professional preparation
    • Internal organization of the future days (formerly Girls Day) with company tours, discussion events, etc.
    • 14-day internship in grade 10
    • Career orientation days in grade 10
    • Visit to the "Abi Entry" trade fair

Catholic offers

  • Days of religious orientation in middle and high school
  • Project "Encounter" in grade 8
  • regular class and school services

Well-known former students

Former / current teachers (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Liebfrauenschule Vechta. In: Liebfrauenschule Vechta. Retrieved February 13, 2007 .
  2. ↑ Yearbook of the Liebfrauenschule Vechta