Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro

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Address
Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro

Main entrance of the school, also called "Portão D" (Gate D)
Rua Floriano Peixoto Santos, 55 Sudeste Region São Paulo, São Paulo state, 05658-080, BRA
Information
Superintendent	Thomas Polisaitis
Founder	Karl Messenberg, Bernhard Staudigel, Victor Nothmann, Ludwig Bamberg and Emil Preiss
President	Alfried K. Plöger
Principal	Maria Celina da S. Cattini
Dean	Sonia Maria Bittencourt de Oliveira
Enrollment	4.280
Average class size	ca. 81m²
Age	4-5 to 17-18
Age range	3-18
Language	Portuguese, German
Classrooms	ca. 90
Campus	Urban
Campus size	100.591 m²
Hours in school day	12 hours
Athletics	Soccer, volleyball, basketball, handball, ping-pong, badminton, swimming, artistic gymnastics, athletics.
Slogan	"Um colégio 4 unidades" (A 4-unity School)
Song	Hino ao Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro (Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro’s Anthem)
Nickname	Porto (Seguro)
School Colour(s)	White and navy blue
Yearbook	Anuário
Opened	January 7, 1879
Founded	September 22, 1878
Homepage	portoseguro.org.br

Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro (often referred to as "Porto Seguro" or "CVPS", formerly named "Deutsche Schule" (German School)) is a private bilingual school located at the neighborhood of Morumbi, in São Paulo, Brazil. The school was founded in 1878 by German immigrants, who wished a school in which their children could learn about German culture, without losing the connection with Brazil. Nowadays, the school has several other related unities. It was elected by Veja as the best school of São Paulo. ^[1] ^[2]

1 History
2 Academics
- 2.1 Periods
- 2.2 Subjects
3 Curriculums
4 Other unities
5 Notable Alumni
6 References
7 External links

[edit] History

The school was founded in September 22, 1878, as "Deutsche Schule", initially located on a rented building at Florêncio de Abreu Street, in downtown São Paulo. In 1913, the school moved to its own building at the Olinda Street, now Roosevelt Square. In 1943, due to the Secong World War, it changed its name to Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro, after Francisco de Vahrnhagen, German-Brazilian historian. In 1974, it moved to its current location, in Morumbi, having its main entrance in Clementinne Brenne Street, though.

In 1982, the Valinhos unity is founded. Valinhos was, at the time, a major conglomerate of German immigrants, who come to the companies of the region. In 1997, the Painamby unity was founded in order to answer to the high demand for room at the Morumbi unity. Five years later, in 2002, the firts "Portinho" was founded, in front of the Painamby unity. In 2007, the second "Portinho", built inside Morumbi unity, was founded. This portinho was built where once has been one of the parking lots of the school. Nowadays, there's only one underground parking lot, with two floors.

[edit] Academics

[edit] Periods

The school has two periods: morning and afternoon. Until 8th grade, the students attend six classes that go from 7:00 to 12:00 in the morning period, and from 13:15 to 18:15 in the afternoon. Each class lasts for 45 minutes, and there is a 15-minute break after every two classes. 9th grade alumni have occasional seventh classes, and high school alumni have seventh classes every day, which makes the period go up to 12:45 in the morning period and 19:00 in the afternoon period. ^[3] Also, at high school, first and second grade alumni have extra classes from 13:15 to 16:30, once a week. On these days, the seventh classes are cancelled so that the students have more time to lunch (from 12:00 to 13:15). Second and third grade alumini also have classes on saturday once a month.

[edit] Subjects

From 1st to 4th grade, students have Portuguese, mathematics, sciences (mostly basic notions of biology and anatomy), history/geography, german (up to 2006, German was taught only from 3rd grade on), music, visual arts and physical education classes. On the 5th grade, history and geography are taught separately, music is no longer taught, English classes are introduced and plastic arts now teaches basic notions of geometry. On the 8th grade, Spanish classes are introduced. At high school, all subjects determined by the Brazilian Ministry of Education are taught: Portuguese, English, history, geography, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. German and Spanish are kept until 2nd grade, and plastic arts/geometry is taught up to 1st grade. Also, at 3rd grade, Portuguese is divided into Portuguese (grammar and literature) and Composition (because many universities require a composition for admission at their vestibulares), and the "Atualidades", a subject in which main events taking place during the time the class is given are discussed, was introduced in 2008.

[edit] Curriculums

There are two different curriculums (or Zugs, in German): A (Brazilian curriculum) and B (German curriculum). Sometimes the C curriculum (see below) is also considered.

[edit] A curriculum (currículo A; A-Zug)

The Brazilian curriculum follows the same system explained above.

[edit] B curriculum (currículo B; B-Zug)

B curriculum has a more German-oriented system. Therefore, most of its students are German Brazilian. Apart from the normal classes the A curriculum have, they have also the History, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Arts, Music, English, Spanish (facultative), French (facultative and paid), PE (for the 1st to 4th grade plus abitur) and German classes taught in German (Geschichte, Mathematik, Physic, Chemie, Biologie, Kunst, Musik, Englisch, Spanisch, Fräzosisch, Sport and Deutsch respectively). Classes are often smaller (containing around 20 students, in opposition to the normal 35 students of A curriculum classes), and students take the classes in the morning, along with the remaining morning students. B alumni also have the opportunity for taking the Abitur exams in the school.

[edit] C curriculum (currículo C; C-Zug)

The C curriculum offers free classes for students from the Paraisópolis favela, located near the school. Those classes are taken in the afternoon, together with the afternoon students. All books, notebooks, clothes and food are provided freely for alumni. ^[4]

[edit] Other unities

Apart from the Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro Unidade I, which is the first and main unity, there are also other unities, such as:

Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro Unidade II, in Valinhos
Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro Unidade III, at Painamby, a borough of São Paulo (this unity don’t have the B curriculum).

There are also the “Portinhos” (literally Little Portos), which work much like a day care.