Liceo "G.D. Cassini"
some history
Our school was born as a branch of the Massena High School of Nice. When in 1860 Nice was annexed to France, our school took the name of G.D. Cassini and it was the italian school nearest the boundary with France. On the 21th april of 1865, the Official Gazzetta of the Kingdom of Italy decided to definitely call the High School of Sanremo “Cassini”, in honour of the famous ligurian astronomer and mathematician. Since then, Cassini High School has become one of the most important schools in Sanremo.
Liceo Cassini is the oldest institute of superior studies of the province and one of the few centenary high schools in Italy.
In 1961 a section of the scientific high school was created and became independent in 1973. In 1990 the G.D. High school decided to set a section dedicated to the European languages: English, French,German,Spanish And Russian. At that time the high school was divided into 2 institutions (humanities,science) and both were indipendent until 2000.
In 2001, they joined, giving birth to the present “G.D. Cassini” high school with its 3 branches: humanities, science and modern languages.
a day in Liceo Cassini
Courses start at 7:50 a.m. and finish at 1:30p.m. We have a break in order to eat our snacks and it lasts 10 minutes. Sometimes we have re-entries for making up lost hours. Our average class size is 27 students, the class relationship and friendship is very important. Our high school lasts 5 years but if you haven’t great marks in several subjets you must repeat the same class that you’re attending. Liceo Cassini offers three different programs: Foreign Languages, Scientific studies and Classical studies. In Foreign Languages we study English, French and another foreign language (we can choose among German, Spanish and Russian). In the Scientific studies we specialize in maths, physics and chemistry while in the Classical Studies we study latin and greek. In every program we study Italian, maths, philosophy, history of art, history and English. One scientific section and all foreign languages sections offer ESABAC, a special program giving the opportunity to get the French BACCALAUREAT (BAC). Our school also provides a range of several extra activities such as photo’s labs, courses for PET and FIRST, cinema, theatre, maths competitions and school trips. Courses start at 7:50 a.m. and finish at 1:30p.m. We have a break in order to eat our snacks and it lasts 10 minutes. Sometimes we have re-entries for making up lost hours. Our average class size is 27 students, the class relationship and friendship is very important. Our high school lasts 5 years but if you haven’t great marks in several subjets you must repeat the same class that you’re attending. We have a unique class for all our subjets and we also have a lot of orals to help us speaking confidently and fluently.