In our Institute there are 11 schools:

• 1 Secondary school (11-14)

• 5 Primary Schools (6-10)

• 5 Kindergarten Schools (3-5 anni).

Most of them are in the town (Lodi) but also in three villages in the sourroundings, near the town (Boffalora d’Adda, Crespiatica and Corte Palasio).

In the whole Institute there are 1123 students:

• 262 in the Kindergarten

• 513 in Primary school

• 348 in Secondary school

 

And 128 teachers:

• 25 in Kindergarten

• 67 in Primary school

• 36 in Secondary school

 

There are also 22 people working as school assistant and 6 people working in the administration

Our Head teacher is Mrs Caterina Guerini

 

KINDERGARTEN

Pupils go to school for 40 hours a week.

From Monday to Friday from 8.00 in the morning to 16 in the afternoon. There are two teachers per class that work in the school about 5/6 hours a day (except meetings with parents or other teachers which are in extra school-time).

There is a teacher for religion and one for english. In some classes there is a teacher for pupils with special needs.

 

PRIMARY SCHOOL

Pupils go to school for 40 hours a week.

From Monday to Friday from 8.30 in the morning to 16.30 in the afternoon. There is an average of two teachers per class that work in the school about 5/6 hours a day (except meetings with parents or other teachers which are in extra school-time). There is a teacher for religion and one for english. In some classes there is a teacher for pupils with special needs

 

SECONDARY SCHOOL

Pupils go to school for 30 hours a week.

From Monday to Friday from 07.50 in the morning to 13.30.

Students go to school in the afternoon in some times of the school year; they attend lessons to recover or to improve the learning.

They study two foreigner languages (english and spanish or english and french)

In some classes there is a teacher for pupils with special needs

 

We have a lot of foreigner students; the main part of them are born in Italy, but every year arrive studentsthat don’t speak italian.

The school plans activities and project for inclusion and to make them more comfortable with the school program.

EDUCATIONAL OFFER PLAN

It’s a document, a sort of Identity Card of the school.

It’s prepared and written by the Headteacher and a group of teachers coming from all the school of the Institute at the beginning of the school year, in October.

You can find:

• how the institute is organized and how it works

• the objectives of all the subjects

• the projects chosen by teachers for the school-year

• the methods to evaluate the pupils

• the ways the school has chosen to collaborate with families

• the way the school plan to use money for activities and projects

 

One of the things we do to improve the learning process is proposing projects in the classes and to the students. Sometimes we are helped by expert people which is payed by the school; sometimes we do them ourselves.

They are about a lot of different topics (art, drama, sport, life skills, orientation, emotions, good health, music, science, creative writings…)

It’s a way to teach and a way to learn. Pupils are involved in activities that help them to learn by doing and to think about how they learn. This is an important skill for pupils. They become more aware and confident about themeselves

 

Projects of the school

• Peer education

• Intercultural didactic

• Writing and publishing books

• Good health activities

• Improving english with mother tongue teacher

• Drama

• Art and crafts

• Music

• Sport

• Baby english

• Math in progress

• E-learning

• Continuity project (for pupils of the last year of each school order)

 

Teachers are involved in training courses during the year. Some of them are organized by the school; some other are organized out of the school.

They are about different topics: evaluation, class management, inclusion, bullying prevention…