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(French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') of the
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district. , school_code = 0596420H , head = Valérie Caron , staff = (±) 40 , gender =
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(co-ed or coed). , enrolment = ± 320 (2018) , language = French, German, English , website
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École Saint-Joseph is a French
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school ruled by the Ministry of National Education and based in Solesmes,
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, within the
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bordering Belgium. It was founded in 1892 by the
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(French: ''Archidiocèse de Cambrai'') of the
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and is attached to the
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educational district contractually regulated by
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. It is part of the ''Saint-Pierre
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'' comprising schools in three other cities ( Le Cateau,
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). The manor is a regional landmark due to its typical
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. As of September 2018, it has more than three hundred pupils supervised by a staff of around forty agents.


History

The École Saint-Joseph is the merger of two
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schools fusioned to create
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: * The Saint-Joseph school for girls was already run before 1900 by the Canonesses of Saint-Augustin of the Notre-Dame Congregation, a female teaching
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founded by
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(1565-1640) but their building located 'du Pontceau' street was subsequently taken over to become the 'Hospice de Solesmes'. The nuns then abandoned teaching and a new 'Saint-Joseph school' was officially inaugurated on 3 October 1904 at '18-50 Rue de l'Abbaye ' with civilian teachers in a large building ceded by
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(1893-1913) transferred from the
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. The school will remain there until the start of the 1961 academic year, when it relocated to a
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with typical
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of the canton located on Place
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, made available to it by the "Maison des Å’uvres" and managed by the
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recognized by diocesan right on 17 May 1876 by the senator of the
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and
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and pontifical on 10 July 1934. They are not to be confused with
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. The sisters will manage the school from 1961 to 1980. * The Sainte-Marie boys school was established in 1892 in a building built for the teaching brothers of the Christian schools that run it. After the
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, these brothers not having returned to Solesmes, the school building was ceded to the
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which enlarged it and made it its "minor
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" which currently constitutes the central building of the Institution Saint-Michel. In return, the
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handed over to the school a building at '18 rue de l'Abbaye' where it relocated in 1924 with a
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teaching body.


Philanthropy

Since its inception, the school has organised
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fundraisers and
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activities throughout its academic years which include the collect of clothing as well as
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and equipment for African schools; the Opération Pièces jaunes to finance the hospitalisation of children; Purina contests for the acquisition of
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s for the
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or its
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. Every year since 2009, sister Monique, a representative from a children's charity in
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visits the school, and pupils donate the proceeds of their
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charity activities. In 2021, the Saint-Joseph and Saint-Michel students joined the '
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For Life' by the
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foundation creating origamis later assembled by Belgian
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(1972) to create eight trees exhibited at the
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in
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and at the
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in
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which raised 75,000 euros for the
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of
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, a
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humanitarian emergency service in France and worldwide whose purpose is to provide
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and ambulatory nursing to
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people and people in social distress.


Sports

The school is granted access to Solesmes' swimming pools, the Marie Amélie Le Fur Sports Hall and the Édouard Delberghe building's indoor courts and
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room, where they practice
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disciplines.


See also

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Communes of the Nord department The following is a list of the 648 communes of the Nord department of the French Republic. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Ecole Saint-Joseph
Solesmes on education.gouv.fr (
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's Official Website) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ecole Saint-Joseph Catholic elementary and primary schools in France Nord-Pas-de-Calais Hauts-de-France 1892 establishments in France Educational institutions established in 1892