Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem
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The Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem or the Latin School of Haarlem is an elite secondary school in Haarlem
Haarlem
Haarlem is a municipality and a city in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland, the northern half of Holland, which at one time was the most powerful of the seven provinces of the Dutch Republic...

, The Netherlands. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious and academically rigorous schools in The Netherlands. The school was founded in 1389 and is therefore one of the oldest schools in the world. The school offers Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs
Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs
Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs or pre-university secondary education is the highest variant in the secondary educational system of the Netherlands. After leaving elementary school students are enrolled in different types of secondary schools, according to their academic ability...

 (Preparatory Scientific Education) exclusively and is an independent Gymnasium (school)
Gymnasium (school)
A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

 enrolling 839 students.

Mission statement

The Latin School of Haarlem encourages students to use their capacities and challenges its students on an highly intellectual level.

Admission

The Latin School of Haarlem subscribes to a selective admission policy. A prospective student is required to provide for sufficient material e.g. standardized test scores and a primary school teacher's recommendation, proving that he or she is fully capable of keeping up with the demanding educational programm this school offers. The overall score of the National Standardized Test (cito eindtoets) most Dutch students take at the end of 8th grade has to be 85%>. If the student in question does not meet the requirements he or she is not eligible for admission.

Anthem

Amicitia nostra

Iuvenum en hic moratur

virginumque et delectatur

coetus magnus et fidelis

iunctus amicitia, iunctus amicitia.

Vivat, floreat in aeternum amicitia nostra.

Litterarum studiosi

pace bona bellicosi

et Minervam adoramus

paulum et Terpsichoren, paulum et Terpsichoren.

Vivat, floreat in aeternum amicitia nostra.

Vita cara dum manebit

amor magnus nos habebit

omnium sublimium et

omnium nobilium, omnium nobilium.

Vivat, floreat in aeternum amicitia nostra.

History

In 1389 a Latin school
Latin School
Latin School may refer to:* Latin schools of Medieval Europe* These schools in the United States:** Boston Latin School, Boston, MA** Brooklyn Latin School, New York, NY** Brother Joseph C. Fox Latin School, Long Island, NY...

 was begun north of the St. Bavochurch in the Schoolsteeg. After the Siege of Haarlem
Siege of Haarlem
The siege of Haarlem was an episode of the Eighty Years' War. From December 11, 1572 to July 13, 1573 an army of Philip II of Spain laid bloody siege to the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands, whose loyalties had begun wavering during the previous summer...

 when the city council seized all Catholic possessions, the school moved in 1592 to the quarters of the old Dominican Order
Dominican Order
The Order of Preachers , after the 15th century more commonly known as the Dominican Order or Dominicans, is a Catholic religious order founded by Saint Dominic and approved by Pope Honorius III on 22 December 1216 in France...

 monastery located behind the City Hall
City Hall (Haarlem)
The City Hall in Haarlem is the seat of the city's government.-History:Around 1100 a wooden building was constructed on the location of the current Gravenzaal of the City Hall. Traces of this building were found in 1955....

. The current school is still located there on the Prinsenhof, that can be reached via the Jacobijnestraat. It still offers a classical curriculum, including studies in Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

 and Greek
Greek language
Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

.

The first rector recorded is 'Meester Gheraerde de scoelmeester' in 1301. In 1389 the city was given the privilege of appointing the rector together with the pastor of the Bavo. The rector was paid by the fees paid by students. He also took in students from outside the city and received extra fees for room & board. From his income, he paid the teachers (ondermeesters) himself. The basis for education was the 'artes liberales', whereby parts of the Trivium were given in Latin and the Quadrivium included music, since the choir boys needed to sing in church. For boys studying theology, Hebrew lessons were given in addition to Latin (Greek only became available from 1522). Students wanting to continue their studies, needed to leave the country before the Leiden University
Leiden University
Leiden University , located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden University still have a close...

 was founded in 1579. According to the archives of the Heilige Geest, a religious institution formerly located at what is now the Hofje van Oorschot
Hofje van Oorschot
The Hofje van Oorschot is a hofje on the Kruisstraat 44 in Haarlem, Netherlands.-History:This hofje was founded upon the death of the donor in 1768 , but wasn't built until 1770, because of demands made by the neighbor on the other side of the street, David Van Lennep...

, they had a fund from 1502 to 1577 (the Satisfactie) for sending good students to Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

 to further their studies there. In 1553, when the school had been run by Junius, they even petitioned Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...

 for the right to found a university in Haarlem, but this was never answered. After the Satisfactie van Haarlem
Satisfactie van Haarlem
The Satisfactie van Haarlem was one of many treaties in the city of Veere in 1577 where Willem the Silent ensured the loyalty of the cities under his rule....

 in 1577, the books of all the monasteries and cloisters in Haarlem were given to the Latin school and the rector Cornelis Schonaeus (1540–1611) took two weeks to draw up the inventory list. This same Schonaeus was the one who was in charge of moving the school from the schoolsteeg to the current location in 1583. He almost lost his job when the council decided to start a collegie or university there, but perhaps because Leiden had already been founded, this never happened. He did complete a major reorganization of the school that was then placed in the hands of his successor, Theodorus Schrevelius
Theodorus Schrevelius
Theodorus Schrevelius was a Dutch Golden Age writer and poet.-Biography:He was born in Haarlem, and in 1591 went to study Greek and Latin at the University of Leiden. He became the assistant director of the Latin school in Haarlem in 1597, where he also started work on translating Ovid...

.

During the years 1864-1875 and again from 1925–1933, the school merged with the Hogere Burger School (Haarlem)
Hogere Burger School (Haarlem)
The Hoogere Burger School is a former HBS Hogere burgerschool on the Zijlvest, Haarlem, The Netherlands. It was one of the oldest public schools in Haarlem, moved from the Jacobijnestraat and built as a boys school in 1906. It has been converted into apartments....

, due to a decrease in enrollment.

The Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem was the last school in the Netherlands where lessons were taught on Saturday mornings. This was finally discontinued in the school year 2000-2001. The Prinsenhof itself is a historic Hortus Medicus, that used to contain medicinal herbs tended by the students, but is now a grassy garden tended by the city parks service. A historic statue to Laurens Janszoon Coster
Laurens Janszoon Coster
Laurens Janszoon Coster , or Laurens Jansz Koster, is the name of an inventor of a printing press from Haarlem...

 that was originally located on the city square, was moved here in 1823 to make way for a new one. Also located in the hortus is a small "peace temple" that was originally placed in 1648 to commemorate the Peace of Münster
Peace of Münster
The Peace of Münster was a treaty between the Dutch Republic and Spain signed in 1648. It was a landmark treaty for the Dutch republic and one of the key events in Dutch history; with it, the United Netherlands finally became independent from the Spanish Crown...

.

Approach

The Latin School of Haarlem is a conservative school, with a strong emphasis on Humanities and the Classics. Cultural school-trips to Cambridge, London, Rome, Greece, Berlin and Paris enables the students to connect the theoretical knowledge they received in school to reality.

Campus

The campus is located in the old city center of Haarlem. The Latin School occupies two separate building on opposite sides of the Prinsenhof in Haarlem. This arrangement means that public space is a large part of school life. The complex built in 1865 by J.E. van den Arend is restored recently.

Curriculum

The Latin School of Haarlem offers the following subjects:
  • Ancient Greek
    Ancient Greek
    Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...

  • Art
    Art
    Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

  • Art-History
  • Biology
    Biology
    Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...

  • Chemistry
    Chemistry
    Chemistry is the science of matter, especially its chemical reactions, but also its composition, structure and properties. Chemistry is concerned with atoms and their interactions with other atoms, and particularly with the properties of chemical bonds....

  • Classical Cultural Education
  • Cultural Education
  • Dutch
    Dutch language
    Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

  • Drama
    Drama
    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

  • Economics
    Economics
    Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

  • English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

     - Cambridge ESOL Examinations: First Certificate English,Certificate Advanced English (C1), Certificate Proficiency English (C2)
  • French
    French language
    French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

     - Diplome d´Études en Langue Francaise B1, B2, C1
  • Geography
    Geography
    Geography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...

  • General Science
  • German
    German language
    German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

     - Goethe Institute B2, C1
  • Gymnastics
    Gymnastics
    Gymnastics is a sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, and balance. Internationally, all of the gymnastic sports are governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique with each country having its own national governing body...

  • History
    History
    History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

  • Informatics
    Informatics (academic field)
    Informatics is the science of information, the practice of information processing, and the engineering of information systems. Informatics studies the structure, algorithms, behavior, and interactions of natural and artificial systems that store, process, access and communicate information...

  • Latin
    Latin
    Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

  • Life Science and Technology
  • Math grade 6-9
  • Math grade 10-12 - three levels: Simple, Basic and Advanced.
  • Music
    Music
    Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

  • Philosophy
    Philosophy
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

  • Physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

  • Science and Technology
    Science and technology
    Science and technology is a term of art used to encompass the relationship between science and technology. It frequently appears within titles of academic disciplines and government offices.-See also:...

  • Spanish
    Spanish language
    Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

     - Diplomas de Espanol como Lengua Extrajera B1 B2 C1
  • Drama
    Drama
    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...


Activities

  • Drama
    Drama
    Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

     – performances of plays written in the Roman or Greek antiquity.
  • Model United Nations
    Model United Nations
    Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....

     – attending conferences inside the Netherlands and abroad, such as Berlin or Istanbul
  • Debating Club
  • Music
    Music
    Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

     – evenings in which students can perform their musical tallents.
  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

     – an annual poetry slam
  • Sports tournaments – students competing to other students within the school or from other schools
  • School Trips - e.g the Ardennes, London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

    , Cambridge
    Cambridge
    The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

    , Rome
    Rome
    Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

    , Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

    , Istanbul
    Istanbul
    Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

     (MUN) Paris
    Paris
    Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

     and Berlin
    Berlin
    Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

  • Educational trips for Biology, Art, Geography, History, Classical Cultural Education etc
  • News Paper - Mirabile Lectu, the editorial staff consists of mostly students.
  • Eco-marathon
    Eco-marathon
    The Eco-Marathon is an annual competition sponsored by Shell, in which participants build special vehicles to achieve the highest possible fuel efficiency. The Eco-Marathon is held around the world with events in Finland, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, and the USA...

     - annual competition sponsored by Shell, in which participants build special vehicles to achieve the highest possible fuel efficiency. The Students of the Latin School received first place in fuel efficiency during the test-day in Amsterdam
    Amsterdam
    Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...


Haarlem Model United Nations

The Latin School of Haarlem hosts an annual Model United Nations
Model United Nations
Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....

 conference: the Haarlem Model United Nations
Haarlem Model United Nations
Haarlem Model United Nations is an annual Model United Nations conference hosted by the Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem, the Latin school of Haarlem in the Netherlands. HMUN was founded in 1998 and was an initiative of the students of the Latin School. The MUN is held in the monumental building of...

 (HMUN). HMUN is a non-profit organization run and organized by students of the Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem.

The Haarlem MUN conference is a three day conference during which students from schools in the Netherlands and other countries are assigned delegations consisting of countries or non-governmental organizations that they will represent during the conference. They do so in various councils and assemblies, similar to the ones of the real United Nations.

In accordance with the policy of their assigned country or non-governmental organizations the students are involved in lobbying, debating, writing resolutions, and all things normally done by adult diplomats.

Notable Alumni

  • Amir Sjarifoeddin - Second Prime Minister of the Indonesian Republic
  • Hadrianus Junius
    Hadrianus Junius
    Hadrianus Junius , also known as Adriaen de Jonghe, was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, antiquarian, historiographer, emblematist, school rector, and Latin poet. He is not to be confused with several namesakes...

     (1550–1552)
  • Theodorus Schrevelius
    Theodorus Schrevelius
    Theodorus Schrevelius was a Dutch Golden Age writer and poet.-Biography:He was born in Haarlem, and in 1591 went to study Greek and Latin at the University of Leiden. He became the assistant director of the Latin school in Haarlem in 1597, where he also started work on translating Ovid...

     - humanist, writer and poet
  • Job Cohen
    Job Cohen
    Marius Job Cohen is a Dutch social democratic politician and former legal scholar of Jewish background. Since 2010 he has been the leader of the Labour Party and since June 17, 2010 he has been a member of the House of Representatives, where he also is the Parliamentary group leader of the Labour...

     – Former Mayor of Amsterdam and in 2010 leader of the Labour Party (Netherlands)
    Labour Party (Netherlands)
    The Labour Party , is a social-democratic political party in the Netherlands. Since the 2003 Dutch General Election, the PvdA has been the second largest political party in the Netherlands. The PvdA was a coalition member in the fourth Balkenende cabinet following 22 February 2007...

  • Jessica Durlacher
    Jessica Durlacher
    Jessica Durlacher is a Dutch literary criticist, columnist and novelist.Her father is the sociologist and writer Gerhard Durlacher, who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp...

     - writer
  • Hamengkubuwono IX - Ninth Sultan of Yogyakarta (1940–1988)
  • Ed Spanjaard
    Ed Spanjaard
    Eduard Philip Spanjaard is a Dutch conductor and pianist.-Early life:Ed Spanjaard his father was psychiatrist and amateur pianist, and his mother played the flute. Spanjaard studied at the Conservatorium van de Vereniging Muzieklyceum at Amsterdam and afterwards at the Guildhall School of Music...

     - conductor
  • L.H. Wiener
    L.H. Wiener
    Lodewijk Willem Henri Wiener, writing as Lodewijk-Henri Wiener and L.H. Wiener is a Dutch writer. He received the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs in 2003 for Nestor.-Reference:...

     - writer
  • Gregor Salto - DJ
  • Bart Meijer - host of an educational tv-show
  • Jan Kops- baptist preacher and professor agronomy at the University of Utrecht
  • Edward Brongersma
    Edward Brongersma
    Edward Brongersma was a Dutch politician and doctor of law. For a number of years he was a member of the Dutch Senate for the Labour Party, and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...

     - Dutch politician, lawyer, jurist and criminologist
  • Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck
    Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck
    Christianus Cornelius Uhlenbeck was a Dutch linguist and anthropologist with a wide variety of research interests. His published work included books and articles on Germanic and Balto-Slavic languages, Sanskrit, Basque, and the Blackfeet language of North American Indians...

     - Dutch linguist, anthropologist and writer
  • Jan Kruseman - Dutch Jurist and president of the Court of Amsterdam
  • Cornelis Helmbreecker - Dutch organist and composer

See also

  • List of the oldest schools in the world
  • Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs
    Voorbereidend Wetenschappelijk Onderwijs
    Voorbereidend wetenschappelijk onderwijs or pre-university secondary education is the highest variant in the secondary educational system of the Netherlands. After leaving elementary school students are enrolled in different types of secondary schools, according to their academic ability...

  • Gymnasium (school)
    Gymnasium (school)
    A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

  • Haarlem Model United Nations
    Haarlem Model United Nations
    Haarlem Model United Nations is an annual Model United Nations conference hosted by the Stedelijk Gymnasium Haarlem, the Latin school of Haarlem in the Netherlands. HMUN was founded in 1998 and was an initiative of the students of the Latin School. The MUN is held in the monumental building of...

  • Model United Nations
    Model United Nations
    Model United Nations is an academic simulation of the United Nations that aims to educate participants about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda....


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