Saint Ursula's Grammar School

  • is a legal educational body which is part of the Ministry of Education´s network of schools

  • provides an eight-year programme of secondary education, which follows on from the junior level of primary (elementary) school.

  • follows the new national curriculum

  • is concluded by school leaving examinations

  • ensures qualified teaching of four foreign languages

  • has an individual approach to students within a small community

  • takes part in educational exchanges with schools in France and Germany

  • in a participating institution of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project

  • is situated in the Ursuline convent building in the centre of Kutná Hora

  • has been active since 1993

  • was officially founded in 1994 by the Czecho-Moravia Province of the Ursuline Order of the Roman Union

Saint Ursula´s prepares students for further education, primarily for university entrance. For this reason, it focuses on a high level of general education, particularly in the teaching of Czech language, foreign languages and mathematics. In the upper school students may choose, according to their individual interests, some subjects from the programme of optional subjects and seminars offered by the school.

The school ensures the qualified teaching of four modern foreign languages: English, French, Spainish and German. In addition, Latin is taught as a compulsory subject in the fifth form, thereafter becoming an optional subject. The subject Citizenship (or Civics) has been widened to promote a deeper understanding of Christian values and traditions, and R.E is taught as a separate, optional subject.

Saint Ursula´s offers an atmosphere of mutual trust, an approach which treats students as partners in their own education and in which a well-rounded personality can develop, and is an alternative to the large and often impersonal state schools.