Ursuline High School Werl
| Private Ursuline High School Werl | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| School number | 170422 |
| founding | 1888 |
| address |
Schlossstrasse 3–5 |
| place | Werl |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 33 '1 " N , 7 ° 54' 33" E |
| carrier | St. Ursula Abbey Werl |
| student | 710 |
| Teachers | 55 |
| Website | www.ursulinenschulen-werl.de |
history
On October 18, 1888 , the nuns of the Sankt-Ursula-Stift in Werl founded the Ursuline School as a "higher private school for girls".
The initially three-class school was founded on the takeover of the already existing "higher daughter school" of Miss Josephine Sluyterman . It was assured that the Werler Protestants could also send their daughters to the Ursuline School.
From the beginning, the sisters planned to set up a boarding school for girls, because at that time there was only one in Paderborn and one in Dorsten . In 1889 a new building was built, which the first 15 pensioners and 40 external people could move into on November 4, 1889. The continuously increasing number of boarding school students in particular, as well as the expansion of the school into an upper lyceum, repeatedly required building extensions in the following years. After the state decreed dismantling of the school during the Nazi era , it reopened on January 4, 1946. In 1950 the decision was made to set up the Werler Ursuline School as a modern language grammar school. Accordingly, from 1951 onwards, the school was officially designated as a Private New Language Girls' High School with women's upper school classes UIII - UII .
While the grammar school had 284 students in the 1964/65 school year (after the establishment of the Ursuline Realschule and the dismantling of the women 's high school ), the number rose to 666 by the 1978/79 school year. In 1966/67 seven Ursulines and eleven other teachers, five of them men, taught the students. But already in the 1976/77 school year there were eight religious women and thirty "secular" ones.
The monastic "family business" of yore had become a medium-sized company for which the sisters were responsible and risky, but in which they no longer formed the majority. During this time (1976/77) the new high school was built at Schlossstrasse 5, which, with the ambience of the old castle ruins, shapes the appearance of the school to this day.
The cooperation with the Städtischen Marien-Gymnasium , which began in 1971 and ensures a wide range of subjects and courses, represents a major turning point in the development of the school .
In 1986 the ursuline school with a 98-year tradition broke: co-education was introduced.
With the resignation of the senior director of studies, Sister Brigitte Werr, in 1994, an era ended after 106 years of school management by nuns in Werler. Werner Grote took over the function of the school management at the Ursulinengymnasium in Werl until 2013. When Sr. Benedicta Große-Boes (born May 3, 1929 - May 13, 2007) retired in 1996, the last nun left the college. Since then, this has consisted exclusively of secular teachers, but the respective superior of the convent represents the school authorities on site. Since January 1, 2014, the Ursulinengymnasium and the Ursulinenrealschule have been combined as the Ursuline Schools Werl into one administrative unit. So there is only one headmaster and two department heads - one for the grammar school and one for the secondary school. Both types of school remain with their qualifications and characteristics. The increased cooperation between the two schools under one roof is intended to guarantee the provision of lessons and enable education from a single source: the permeability between the two types of school is to be increased.
Extra-curricular groups
Through the Brazil Working Group, the school is involved in relief efforts, especially in the area of Brazil . There is also an Amnesty AG that campaigns for human rights through the organization Amnesty International and draws attention to them through various activities in everyday school life.
The girls' soccer team is also successful, reaching the state finals in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2006 and 2008 and the national finals in Berlin in 2008. In addition to these groups, there are also various other working groups and working groups, for example the chemistry media working group, the robotics working group and an aquarium working group run by schoolchildren.
Awards and Achievements
In 2003 the Ursulinengymnasium won second place in the Microsoft Road Ahead competition endowed with 10,000 euros, which was presented personally by Bill Gates in Munich .
The Ursulinengymnasium did pioneering work together with the cooperating school in the area of promoting repatriates according to the so-called “Werler model”. The grammar school had been officially recognized as a sponsoring institution since 1986. The Ursuline boarding school with its accompanying support measures was a cornerstone of the support, but it no longer exists today.
The Ursulinengymnasium Werl is the first Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Paderborn to be awarded the seal of approval for individual funding from the Ministry of Education and Training of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia. The grammar school, which is run by the St. Ursula-Stift Werl, received the seal of approval from School Minister Barbara Sommer on February 26, 2009 in the German Mining Museum in Bochum , with which good examples of individual support are awarded. The Ursulinengymnasium Werl received an award for its wide range of individual talent promotion in lessons and projects.
In April 2014, Dr. Kienast was awarded the Friedrich Wöhler Prize at the MNU conference in Kassel for his special services to science education. This once again underlines the special scientific offers of the MINT-friendly school. Official recognition as a MINT-friendly school was last confirmed for the Ursuline High School in September 2016.
management
- Around 1900 Hedwig Dransfeld
- until 1994 Sr. Brigitte Werr
- 1994–2013 Werner Grote
- 2014–2015 Heinrich Kröger
- since 2015 Anne-Kristin Brunn