The school has a long history and was founded in the beginning of the twentieth century by Feike Kalsbeek, who will always be remembered as the initiator and name giver of the school.
It grew from a school at which some 70 pupils did advanced primary education into a modern comprehensive school where pupils can take exams in all the usual subjects but also in visional arts and sports.
Our branch houses a havo department (higher general secondary education)  and a vwo department (pre-university education). About 1700 pupils are taught here by more than 150 teachers. The other site is called Bredius and there another 1200 pupils take lessons at vmbo-level (preparatory intermediate vocational education).

Our students are between twelve and eighteen years of age and they come from the city of Woerden itself but also from neighbouring villages. They cycle to school in all weather and some of them have to ride about 25 kilometers a day!

Our educational program is such that it challenges our students to come to good results in a safe learning and living environment. It also encourages pupils to cooperate and it pays a lot of attention to individual children so that they can discover and develop their own qualities. Moreover, they are also taught how to increase their independence, to improve their reflective powers and to enhance their critical awareness.  

Each school year has a couple of key events:
• The annual musical. (this year’s title was “Little Shop of Horrors”)
• “Couture et exhibition”, the fashion show at which the department of visional arts shows its products.
• The project on energy in the second form.
• The play “Vrouwen aan de macht” (Women in power) in the fifth form.
• Speed-skating tournaments against other schools.
• Volleyball tournaments.

International activities are:
• An email project in the first form.
• An exchange of pupils with schools at Hazebrouck (France) in the third form.
• Five-day schooltrips to Prague, London, Berlin and Paris in the fourth or fifth form.
• Language trips to Oxford, Berlin or Paris in the fourth form.
• A study-tour to the former concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.  

Woerden
The city of Woerden has a long history which goes back to the Roman Period. This still shows in the shape of the old town and the Castellum which originally dates back to this period. This castellum used to be an encampment on the northern boundary of the Roman Empire, which was the river Rhine and which is called the “Old Rhine” nowadays.
Nowadays, Woerden is a provincial town situated in the rural heart (“The Green Heart”) of our country. The city has about 50.000 inhabitants and consists of some housing and industrial  areas surrounded by fields and meadows.