Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba

Swiss School in Brazil

25°26′06.7″S 49°11′23.8″W / 25.435194°S 49.189944°W / -25.435194; -49.189944

Colégio Suíço-brasileiro de Curitiba Schweizerschule Curitiba

Location

Rua Wanda dos Santos Mallmann, 537 Centro Pinhais Pinhais - PR CEP: 83323-400 Brazil
Coordinates	25°26′07″S 49°11′24″W / 25.43515°S 49.18994°W / -25.43515; -49.18994
Information
Type	Private
Motto	with head, heart and hand (Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi)
Established	1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Director	Reto Schafflützel (Swiss director) Denise Spredemann Friesen Pedagogic director
Grades	Play group / Kindergarten / primary and secondary school / high school
Number of pupils	~ 800
Language	Portuguese, German, English
Accreditations	Secretaria de Educação do Estado do Paraná, Brazil Department of Education, Culture and Sport of Aargau, Switzerland
Website	https://www.chpr.aesb.com.br/

The Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba, the Swiss School Curitiba, German: Schweizerschule Curitiba, is a bilingual private school recognized by the Brazilian state of Paraná. It is the only school in Curitiba with German and Portuguese as languages of instruction. The school comprises nursery, kindergarten, primary, secondary and high school. Pupils can obtain German, English and French language diplomas and complete their secondary education with the International Baccalaureate Diploma, which gives them access to many universities and colleges at home and abroad. The school is located in Pinhais, a suburb of Curitiba.

History

The construction of the gigantic Itaipú binational hydroelectric power station, in which ABB (then Brown, Boveri & Cie, abbreviated to BBC) and other European companies were also involved, led to many specialists from Switzerland, Germany and Austria moving to Curitiba. With them began the history of the Colégio Suíço-Brasileira de Curitiba.

In 1979, the “Associação Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba” was founded. The school opened in 1980. Under the patronage of the canton of Aargau, the Swiss government recognized the school in 1983. That same year, the school moved to a rented building in Curitiba's Água Verde neighborhood. The 1993 school year began with the inauguration of the new building in Pinhais. In 1995, the kindergarten section was added and in 1999 the high school building was built with several classrooms, two natural science laboratories and an assembly hall. The school also became a member of the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO).

In 2000, the chalet for the nursery for children aged 3 to 4 was inaugurated. In the same year, the Swiss-Brazilian School of Curitiba merged with the Swiss-Brazilian School of São Paulo. In 2001, the school's first students graduated with the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma. Since 2002, the school has had a bilingual library. In 2007, the school expanded its infrastructure with an additional cottage and new classrooms for afternoon childcare, handicrafts, maintenance and a sports hall. In 2010, the school was awarded the ISO 9001/2008 certificate. In 2018, the school began to expand with a new complex of buildings on a neighboring plot of land. The institution's new building was inaugurated in 2020.

References

"About us". Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba. "Swiss School Channel (Youtube)". YouTube. Retrieved 2019-12-08.

External links

Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba
Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba (in Portuguese)
Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba (in German)
Schweizerschule Curitiba - EAD, Swiss National Library (in German)

International schools in Brazil

São Paulo State

São Paulo City	Lycée Pasteur de São Paulo Colégio Humboldt São Paulo Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro I Scuola Italiana Eugenio Montale Escola Japonesa de São Paulo Colégio Miguel de Cervantes Escola Suíço-Brasileira de São Paulo Graded School Pan American Christian Academy Colégio Polilogos (CLOSED)
Valinhos	Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro - Unidade II

Rio de Janeiro State

Rio de Janeiro	Lycée Molière de Rio de Janeiro Deutsche Schule Rio de Janeiro ACDCEJ do Rio de Janeiro Escola Suíço-Brasileira Rio de Janeiro American School of Rio de Janeiro

Federal District

Brasília	Lycée Français François Mitterrand American School of Brasília

Amazonas

Manaus	Japanese School of Manaus International School of Amazonas

Minas Gerais

Belo Horizonte	Istituto Italo-Brasiliano Biculturale Fondazione Torino

Pará

Belém area	Amazon Valley Academy

Paraná

Curitiba	Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba International School of Curitiba

Pernambuco

Recife	American School of Recife

Rio Grande do Sul

Porto Alegre	Pan American School of Porto Alegre

This list is incomplete.

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Africa	German Swiss International School Accra
The Americas	Escola Suíço-Brasileira de São Paulo Escola Suíço-Brasileira Rio de Janeiro SIS Swiss International School Brasília Colégio Suíço-Brasileiro de Curitiba Colegio Suizo de Santiago Colegio Helvetica de Bogotá Colegio Suizo de México (Mexico City, Cuernavaca, and Querétaro) Colegio Pestalozzi
Asia	German Swiss International School Swiss School in Singapore RIS Swiss Section (Bangkok)
Europe	SIS Swiss International School (Friedrichshafen, Ingolstadt, Kassel, Regensburg, and Stuttgart-Fellbach) Scuola Svizzera di Milano Scuola Svizzera di Roma Escuela Suiza de Barcelona Colegio Suizo de Madrid
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