Istituto Comprensivo “Giacomo Ferrari” Supports Growth and Community

Istituto Comprensivo “Giacomo Ferrari”
Parma - Italy

• Supports children personal growth

• Teaches respect for rules, for neighbour and the
sense of social solidarity

• Promots the learning of logical, linguistic,
technological and operational skills

• Offers to pupils training activities and a curriculum
counselling path

Kindergarten
“Sergio Neri”
6 classes
Age 3-5

Primary School
“Anna Frank”
12 classes
Age 6-10

Secondary lower School Hospital School
(Primary and
“G. Ferrari”
17 classes
Secondary School)
Age 6 -18
Age 11-13

Primary School

SCHOOL TIME
From monday to Friday (no school on Saturday)

NORMAL TIME CLASSES
3 days 8.10 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
2 days 8.10 a.m. - 4.30p.m.

LONG-TIME CLASSES
5 days 8.30 a.m. - 4.30 p.m.
.

Secondary lower School
SCHOOL TIME
From monday to Friday (no school on Saturday)

NORMAL TIME CLASSES
4 days 8.00 a.m. - 1.30 p.m.
1 day 8.00 a.m. - 4.00p.m.

LONG-TIME CLASSES
2 days 8.00 a.m. - 1.30 p.m.
2 days 8.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
1 day 8.00 a.m. - 4.50 p.m.

MUSIC CLASSES
4 days 8.00 a.m. - 1.30 p.m.
1 days 8.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m.
2 afternoons per week, 2 tuition modules and 1 module music theory


Subject distribution - CLASSES IN NORMAL TIME

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Compulsory Compulsory Compulsory Compulsory Compulsory
8.00 a.m. – 9.00 a.m.
Subject Subject Subject Subject Subject
9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
10.00 a.m. – 10.50 a.m.
10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. break break break break break
11.00 a.m. – 11.50 a.m.
11.50 a.m. – 12.40 p.m.
12.40 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.
1.30 p.m. – 2.20 p.m. Lunch
Compulsory
2.20 a.m. – 3.10 p.m.
Subject
Compulsory
3.10 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Subject

Secondary lower School Weekly Timetable
NORMAL TIME
Subjects 1st Year 2nd Year 3rd Year
Letters 11 11 11
Italian 10 10 10
History
Geography
Discussion 1 1 1
Math/Science/Technology 9 10 9
Math/Science 7 7 7
Technology 2 2 + 1 2
Foreign Languages 5 5 6
English 3 3 3 +1
French 2 2 2
Art 2 2 2
Music 2 + 1 2 2
Physical Education 2 2 2
Religion 1 1 1
Total 33 33 33


Subject distribution LONG-TIME CLASSES
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

8.00 a.m. – 9.00 a.m.
9.00 a.m. – 10.00 a.m.
10.00 a.m. – 10.50 a.m.

10.00 a.m. – 11.00 a.m. break break break break break

11.00 a.m. – 11.50 a.m.
11.50 a.m. – 12.40 p.m.
12.40 p.m. – 1.30 p.m.

1.30 p.m. – 2.20 p.m. Lunch Lunch Lunch

Compulsory Compulsory Compulsory
2.20 p.m. – 3.10 p.m.
Subject Subject Subject
Compulsory Compulsory Compulsory
3.10 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Subject Subject Subject
Compulsory
4.10 p.m. – 4.50 p.m.
Subject

Weekly Timetable
Subjects LONG-TIME CLASSES
Letters 15
Italian 11
History - Geography 3
Discussion 1
Math/Science/Technology 10
Math/Science 8
Technology 2
Foreign Languages 5
English 3
French 2
Art 2
Music 2
Physical Education 2
Religion 1
Total 37

Primary School

Collaboration with the university of Parma
Department of Mathematics

For students of the first classes (Age 6)

AIM:
• To give to children a different mathematical approach
• To create apt atmospheres to the development of the mathematical
language
Activities:
• Structured activities in order to learn
 Natural numbers (amount and largenesses)
 Relations of order between the numbers
 Change
 To coordinate the semeiotic symbols starting from the various
representations.
 To replace “the more economic” symbol to the realistic design.
 To operate examples of equations.
 To learn the base concepts of traditional geometry.
Time : Two hours a week


MUSIC CLASSES

During their stay at school (three years) pupils learn to play an
instrument selected thanks to an aptitude test. They can choose among
flute, violin, horn or piano .

Pupils are eligible to apply only after taking an aptitude test
which evaluates their ability to recognize pitch and tune and to
reproduce sounds, their tonal memory and rhythm discrimination
and reproduction.

1. Projects promoting the wellbeing and the
readiness to get in touch with others

Primary School Secondary lower School

For pupils of local primary
schools

AIMS: Informing the Primary Schools teachers of the region about
the Secondary School System
Activities: Secondary and Primary School teachers‘ meetings
Time : December

Aim: Making our school known to Primary School students
Activities: Music, arts, ICT, science and history workshops at the
Secondary School
Time: December

Aims: To guide parents in choosing the school that suits their children’s
ducational needs explaining the P.O.F. (Academic Plan)
Activities: Meetings with the parents of the prospective first classes
Times: December

Aim: Information passage of students data to form the first classes
Activities: Meetings between teachers from Primary and
Secondary School
Times: May / June


For pupils and parents of the first classes

Aims: making children know school environment
Activities: Visiting laboratories, gymnasium, etc.
Times: First week of school

Aims: encouraging children to meet peers and facilitating integration and the
"feel -good -together” sense
Activities:
 ludic workshops (educational psychologist)
 Trip within the territory
Times: September / October

Aims: Let the parents of the classes know their children’s
teachers
Activities: All the teachers meet the parents of their class
Times: October


For pupils with special educational needs
and their parents

Aims:
 Cooperation among parents, teachers, educators and Health Service
practitioners
 Making pupils reduce their anxiety for the new environment
Activities:
 Meetings among Special Teacher and parents, psychiatrist and educators with
the referent of the future school.
 Workshop activities in the future school with pupil and teacher for disabled
children
Time: March / April (after enrolment)

Objective: Proper daily routine management of disabled pupil
Activities: Meetings between parents, teachers and educators of the new
school
Time: September - before the start of school activities


Turned to pupils with special educational need with a
diagnosis of medium severity

Aims:
 Increasing the level of self-confidence, self-control and autonomy;
 Living new experiences;
 Developing ability to communicate with peers and teachers;
 Stimulating new relationships;
 Increasing motivation and extending attention and concentration time;
 Becoming aware of their educational achievements;
 Upgrading and enhance the operational skills.

Activities:
 Toward the orientation and mobility in the environment;
 Let’s paint with the colours (creativity);
 The music of the body (psychomotricity).

Time: From October to May


Turned to pupils with Specific Learning Disorders and their
teachers

Aims
 Valorization of the individual resources, (which are not always recognized
by the school);
 Giving dyslexic pupils the opportunity of a positive curriculum;
 Support to the teachers.
Activities:
 Arranging a personalized teaching plan (in order to identify appropriate
compensatory and dispensational tools)
Time: The whole school year.


Turned to international pupils

Aims:
Defining shared practices insides schools about the reception of students
coming from a foreign country;
Facilitating the entry of children and young people of other nationalities into
the school and the social systems;
Promoting a favourable welcome climate paying attention to human relations
in order to prevent and remove any barriers to a full integration;
To promote communication and collaboration between school and territory
about the themes of welcome and intercultural education, in the perspective
of an integrated learning/training system.
Activities:
Carrying out the welcome protocol *
Time: by the arrival of a new student

* The Protocol highlights common patterns about the following matters:
•bureaucratic and administrative (enrolment)
•communicative and relational (first meeting)
•educational - teaching (class proposition, hospitality, intercultural education,
teaching Italian as second language)
•social (relationship and collaboration with the territory)


Turned to international pupils

Aims:
Fostering cultural and social integration of pupils from different ethnic groups
and nationalities;
Ensuring full and effective exercise of the right to education;
Encouraging the acquisition and / or consolidation of language skills in everyday
situations
Activities:
 Language laboratories (L2) inside and outside the school.
Times: the whole school year


For second year pupils

Aims:
 Responding to the difficulties that children may experience at school
 Enphasize, enhancing the quality and positive experiences of preadolescents
 Creating a warm and stimulating environment both on the human-relational
and accademical viewpoint
Activities:
 Expressive workshops held by the educational psychologist and the teachers
of letters;
 Tutorials, counselling and technical guidance to self-consciousness and self-
confidence;
 Orientation training workshops managed by educators operators of social
cooperatives (within school) together with teachers
 Individual curriculum counselling training programs addressed to pupils at
risk of school drop-out (entry into employment)
Time: The whole school year


For all pupils and teachers

Aims:
 Responding to pupils uneasiness
 Removing the barriers to their peaceful integration into social life and in the
school system

Activities:
 Intervention of the psychologist into the class councils to define action plans
for pupils.

Time: The whole school year


For all pupils and their parents

Aims:

 Providing support to the "person" (changes, orientation, self-consciousness of
individual resources, relationships, etc. ..);
 Offering support to overcome learning and behavioural difficulties.

Activities:
 Interviews with the educational psychologist

Times: the whole school year


For all pupils

Aims:
 Fostering the habit of boys and girls to recognize the appropriate ways to
protect and promote their welfare;
 Leading boys and girls to the self-consciousness of the value of their bodies,
to the knowledge of the problems associated with their development and the
affirmation of their identity;
 Preventing from dependency;
 Developing the concept of respect for the environment and enhancing
appropriate behaviours

Activities:
 Talks by experts to discuss about the following topics:
 Health and lifestyles
 Solidarity projects
 Sexuality and affectivity
 Local resources
 Old and new dependency forms
 Food and environmental education
Time: the whole school year

1. Projects to learn how to use all the
languages to become citizens of the
world


For pupils and teachers

Aims:
•Encouraging interchange between the school and the area;
•Pooling resources for research, testing, documentation:,
•Collaborating in the provision of courses and teaching strategies
•Giving "goals" and "motivation" new and different to the work of students
through co-operation

Activities:
Educational training - Planning and running educational
interventions

Cooperation and coordination of -Learning to cooperate
working and studying groups - Managing cooperation

Sharing information and knowledge -Learning to interact in group
- Designing and engineering
documents


For pupils of second and third year

 Aims:
 Broadening cultural horizons through the direct knowledge of the cultures
whose languages are learned at school;
 Creating contexts of authenticity through which students are more exposed
to the language they are learning;
 Creating cooperative learning environments, for specific educational
activities through collaboration between the teacher, the foreign student
and heterogeneous groups of pupils in the class
 Activities:
 Lessons with the mother tongue student
 Time: from January to May

3. Complementary Activities
To complement and enrich the knowledge of school
pupils

Primary School

 Guided tours and educational trips

 Sport activities
 Team games, judo, athletics…

 Music activity

 Theatre activity

 Laboratory history of Parma


 Guided tours and educational trips

 Strengthening of laboratories in mathematics and Latin
 Aims:
 Valorizing excellence
 Stimulating the exploration and the acquisition of autonomy
 Contributing to the orientation of interests and abilities of pupils
 Activities:
 Mathematics workshops (with lecturers from the University of
Parma - Department of Mathematics)
 Latin course (outside expert)

 Sport activities
Cross country, athletics, badminton, rugby, basketball,
volleyball, etc

 Theatre activity


 Laboratories of cognitive enhancement through the
Feuerstein method
Aims:
 Promoting a positive attitude towards learning;
 Experiencing mediated learning

Activities: workshops conducted by experts (first year)

 Support in carrying out homework
Aims:
 Overcoming school failure by recovering basic skills;
 Becoming more confident in one’s abilities
Activities:
 afternoon workshops with volunteers teachers outside the
school

 Participation in events: cinema, theatre (in a foreign
language)

Prof.ssa Maria Bedodi Prof.ssa Stefania Carpi

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