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On 4 November 1976 a cornerstone was placed on a new high-school building in Nooruse Street. Kingissepa Secondary School was founded formally on 21 June 1978. In 1980 the school was named after Aleksander Mui. In June, 1990 the school’s name was changed again into Kuressaare Secondary School. Since March 7 1994 the school was named Kuressaare Gymnasium by Kuressaare City Government.
Kuressaare Gymnasium is an educational institution managed by Kuressaare city, where all three school stages : elementary, basic school and gymnasium function together.
Our aspirations in Kuressaare Gymnasium, our vision and ideals have been summarized in three words: FREEDOM, BEAUTY, TRUTH – we try to do our job so that our alumnae in their future lives would strive towards the ideal expressed in those three words.
Our mission is to work in a way that would make people who are connected to the school say, “Kuressaare Gymnasium – and you do want to go to school”. In other words, they express their contentment and wish to work or study here.
Our aim is to shape an ethical person, who can cope with life, a lifelong learner; offer as many teachers and students as possible the opportunity to move to the highest level of their self-determination in their understandings and aspirations.
Our school’s basic values open-mindedness, innovations, flexibility
conservativeness in basic values tolerance, collaboration and cooperation, participation
Kuressaare Nooruse kool
On 28 February 2020, the Saaremaa Municipal Council adopted a decision to end secondary education at the school, which started its activities in 1978. The school will continue to operate as a general education school and a school of leisure activities, providing education in grades I, II and III of primary school. From 1 September 2021, the school will be called Kuressaare Nooruse Kool.
As of September 2021, Kuressaare Nooruse Kool has 758 pupils and 70 teaching staff. The school’s director is Toomas Takkis.
Vision
The graduates of Kuressaare Nooruse School will be ethical and caring, able to cope in life, eager to learn, healthy in body and mind, and will value their homeland, being digital, enterprising and health-conscious islanders.
Our mission is to commit to achieving our goals, to support each other along the way and to keep the joy of school and the spirit of learning alive.
Core values
Collaboration and respect for each other – we value collaborative learning and teaching, and are a caring and friendly school family;
Creativity and entrepreneurship – we encourage creativity and experimentation, curiosity and enterprise;
Freedom, trust and responsibility – we trust in everyone’s sense of responsibility and freedom to make their own choices;
balance and integrity – we keep active, eat healthily, strive for success, maintain a joy for work and learning, and a lively mind.
The systematic development of generic competences under the National Curriculum for Primary School is pursued through three focus areas: technology, insularity and well-being. In terms of design, the cross-cutting focus areas for the development of generic competences form three meridians:
Technology meridian,
an island meridian,
the well-being meridian.
More information can be found in the Development and Curriculum Plan of Kuressaare Nooruse School.
The Nooruse School story
In terms of design, the cross-cutting focus areas for the development of generic competences are formed by three meridians, which, together with Arensburg’s zero meridian, are connected by the Nooruse Equator, which in turn are supported by energy channels – the learning meridians.
The equator symbolises an important milestone in the student’s development: by moving across the nine parallels, he or she reaches a symbolic boundary line in the acquisition of new skills, the crossing of which is accompanied by appropriate rituals – final exams.
Beyond this, there is still a lot of undiscovered territory and new knowledge to be discovered, but the meridians of technology, prosperity and insularity will remain the signposts along the way – not forgetting the beginning and the starting point at the School of Youth, the zero meridian of Arensburg. The energy and motivation for a sustainable lifelong learning journey are drawn from the learning meridians (learning skills) that support the interest in knowledge and the joy of learning.
