Ancien groupe scolaire de la cité notre-Dame de la compagnie des mines d'Aniche, aujourd'hui école maternelle Frédéric Chopin, écoles primaires Nicolas Copernic et Marie Curie Sklodowska

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History

The collective facilities were located around the church, between the Notre-Dame and La Clochette housing estates. The girls' and boys' schools, whose large size is explained by the high birth rate of the Polish population, are connected by a long covered playground serving sports activities and recreation during rainy weather. They adopt a very particular plan with very large corner pavilions housing classrooms and offices. A nursery school for the youngest and a dispensary completed the complex towards the north, followed by a small square reserved for festive activities with a bandstand and a village hall. Only the nursery school remains. The plan of the primary schools is atypical: the grouping into pavilions of classrooms, offices and service spaces is unusual and does not appear to have been adopted in the standard typology of primary schools whose characteristics were quite formalized by circulars and official publications from the Ministry of Public Instruction from the Third Republic onwards. The fact that it was a "private" construction allowed for an originality of design that municipal buildings did not have.