History
The Liceum Ogólnoksztalcace (high school) in Kazimierza Wielka first opened in 1919. At that time, the Polish Country had just regained independence. In this exciting time, a group of local peasants, social workers, and officials of the "Lubna" sugar factory, supported by the Kazimierzan parish priest, brought into being a six-class co-educational grammar school. This first school survived until 1929, when the political and economic situation forced it to close.
On November 1, 1939, the high school was reborn. This was a difficult time for the factory settlement of Kazimierza Wielka. Hitler's forces had occupied the town. Since Hitler liquidated high schools in the whole country, the school could only be kept up through an underground conpiracy. That was how the Secret Complete Groups of Grammar School and Liceum came into being. Classes were directed by Professor Stanislaw Tync, a refugee lecturer of Poznan University. Professor Tync was the cofounder of this school and later became the headmaster. During the occupation, these secret groups passed several hundred students, taught by many splendid teachers, who found shelter from the war there. Among the teachers who founded the post-war liceum and continued their educational mission were Jadwiga Galant from Kraków, a married couple named Pawlowscy from Kraków, Janina Furmanowicz from Poznan, and Joanna Wiesiolek from Sanok. There were also well-educated, native "Kazimierzans" teaching in the school, including Bronislaw Siwiec, Jan Golec, Franciszek Jedraski, Zofia Szafranska, priest Michal Lesniak, and many others.
Immediately after removal of the Germans, the conspiratorial liceum and grammar school finished its great activity. It was January 31, 1945. On February 23, 1945, Prof. Tync lead a teachers' conference and the teachers decided to create a Private Co-educational Liceum and Grammar School of the People's Gmina Council in Kazimierza Wielka located in the former palace of the manager of "Lubna" factory. Most of the students came from primary schools located in the former and present region of Kazimierza Wielka.
The Founders' Commitee - 1945r.
The first seat of school - a former palace of the manager of "Lubna" factory
In December 1948, the liceum and grammar school received a status of a state school under the name of "State Liberal Education of the Liceum Stage in Kazimierza Wielka." Its first headmasters were Stanislaw Tync (later a lecturer of Wroclaw Universuty), Antoni Znojek, and Jan Golec. The school moved to its present location in 1962 and was renamed for Maria Sklodowska-Curie. It also got a new school flag and dormitory. Under the leadership of next group of headmasters, Franciszek Trzepatowski, Boleslaw Malinowski, Janina Sadza, and Tadeusz Luszczynski, the school was developed further. The profiles of teaching were eventually crystalized and the Olympic movement was developed.
In addition to academics, the school also offers opportunities for student social activities. Students created their own social club for local teenagers. For many years, the club was based on the Scouts' team. In 1968, the students named the club "Hades," and Hades is still active today.
The number of students continues to grow, and an increasing number students are being admitted to the University. The school is well-known and valued within the region. In 1989, the school began to establish close contacts with other countries through an exchange program with a school in Germany. In 1990, English was brought into the educational programme.
There have been four former students' assemblies in 1978, 1985, 1995 and 2005.