Positive and negative aspects of school systems

Italy

Written by Flavio A., Alessandro S., Lorenzo S., Ikhlase L., Domenico G., Daniel C.

A positive aspect of our school is the timetable from Monday to Friday from 7.50 to 1.50 p.m. because when lessons finish we have time to do sport, to relax and do homework. 

A system where students are appreciated when they behave positively.

Written by Gregorio U., Gabriele T., Asia M., Angelica P., Sebastiano V.

We think that the IT lab is the best part of our school because it is useful, it is entertaining since all the world is based on technology, but in Italy we have still to deepen our knowledge in this sector. Now we are using “sketch up” which programs in 3D (like Scratch) in a course financed by a resilience national plan which has the aim to help female students to cope better with Technology, Science, Maths, Art.

In the Italian school system they must add more entertaining projects: for example by playing and learning together. If I were a teacher, I would give 20 minutes of relax and play together and then another 20 minutes where you have to repeat the topics and then let the kids play with Wordwall. This way the kids will learn more than normal.

Greece

Written by Dimos Z.

At the Greek educational system we have a lot of holidays. Also, we finish school in early June.

On the other, hand we have a lot of homework and a lot of exams.

SPAIN

Written by Dani, Daniela, Adrián, Veronica and Pablo.

Talking about the educational system in Spain we have to say that there aren't many holidays during the school year.

Students usually stay in the same school from 3 to 16 but also, there are a lot of school in which students finish at the age of 18. Then, they go to universtity. Student use ICT during their classes in order to improve their learning.

Students must study a lot of subjects and do lots of exams and projects, as well.

In mosts schools students start their lessons at 8 o'clock in the morning and finish around 2 pm. During the day they have two breaks. they love playing football, basketball or talking to their friends. 

Green country in the project

We asked each other questions on the forum to introduce ourselves and our schools at the beginning of the project. We created a poll on the question "How do you get to school?". We had the idea to elect the "greenest country". 

 Italy

We are not very green since most of us (9 people out of 11) come to school by car. Sestri Levante is a quite big town near the sea, but we all live far from school and our homes are on the hills surrounding the town. In some cases the school bus doesn't arrive there. Since these areas are not very inhabited the public service of means of transport doesn't operate here very much: there are only 5/6 public busses arriving there during all the day. Italy is not so green, but maybe in the future we hope to do better.

Maybe the areas where you live have better services. 

Spain

In our case we are generally green. Our school is two kilometres from the city center. Most people live in that area. 29 students out of 50 boys and girls get to school on foot everyday. There is a special path so that pupils come complete safely to school. They love walking and talking to their partners on the way to school. Most teacher walk to school as well and it's a fantastic opportunity to talk to them about their hobbies. Only one student out of 50 go to school on bike. Some of them (18 out of 50) come to school by car. They usually live outside our town, 20 or 30 kilometres far away from the school. And finally only two students get to school using public buses.

Spain, step by step, is trying to be a little greener. Let's go ahead!

(Written by Lucía, Macarena, Alejandro, Alfredo and Lola)

Greece

Here, in Greece we usually go to school on foot. Some students live quite far from the school, so they have a number of different ways to go to school like by school bus or by car. The problem with the bus is that you need to wake up really early otherwise you will miss it. Another way is by car where the kids get driven to school by their parents, this way is quite beneficial as kids can wake up whenever they want but it is not always the most practical way, because parents can not always do it. 

Almost all of our teachers go to school by car and many middle aged people use car in our area. Our case here in Greece is quite unique because as we get older we prefer more and more to go to work by car, not even by public transportation.

In my opinion the best way to go to school is on foot. Me and my friends care a lot about the enviroment so even kids who live far away from school would prefer going to school by bike because it is way more environmentally friendly so that  we can live in a better place and become greener step by step!!!

Written by Christos K.

Presentation of the jigsaw about human rights

Written by Gregorio U., Sebastiano V., Asia M., Angelica P., Sebastiano V.

Yesterday, 27th May 2024, we organized an event to commemorate the convention UN about the rights of children and adolescents where each class of the school prepared a jigsaw about the rights: 1. Right to physical and psychological upbringing 2. Right to protection from violence, exploitment, abuse 3. Right to education 4. Right to family 5. Right to opinion 6. Right to freedom of thinking and religion 7. Right to nationality 8. Right to protection from war, macis, discrimination 9. Right to free time, playing A small group from each class presented the jigsaw on the basketball court. As you can see in the photos we created a frame joining our hands and we listened to “All together” song and “We are the world”. We presented the jigsaw on the 27th May because we commemorate the event of the signature of the convention in Italy which happened on 27th May 1991.

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eTwinning Day.

Last May 9th we celebrated etwinning day. 

The students participating in the etwinning project “Journalist for my school” prepared an exhibition mural to visualize all the good things about carrying out an etwinning project. 

We consider  very important to give visibility to all the opportunities that etwinning offers us, improving learning and, above all, improving some skills. 

We encourage you to participate next year. 

We are etwinning school!

Awarding of the creative storytelling set in schools, partner in the project

 Today, 10th May, we awarded the winners who wrote the three stories set in the schools partner in the project.

Friendship bank in our school.

The United Nations Anti-Bullying Day took place on 4 May. People who are bullied are more likely to suffer from depression and anxiety. They might lose interest in the activities they enjoy, avoid spending time with other people and not go to classes or school, which has a negative effect on their learning. The message is that bullying is never OK. 

Trying to prevent these aspects in our school, and coordinate with the psychologist from our school, a group of students from Secondary started at the beginning or the the course a special action called FRIENDSHIP BANK. The students are in charge of ensuring that all those students who need  can come to the friendship bank during break time and share their concerns, always are under the supervision of the school psychologist. They usually have systematic meetings with her and talk about how we can help students who have some type of need during the course, above all we take care of listening to them during recess hours.

The friendship bank is a place where boys and girls who suffer from problems or bullying are helped by a group of children who are committed to attending to the needs of others and thus make them feel accompanied instead of alone.

🛑 TOGETHER WE CAN STOP BULLYING!

Lesson concert held by Ms Nastasi and Pietro Piva

 Written by Daniel C., Ikhlase L., Alessandro S., Lorenzo S., Flavio A., Domenico G.

On the 27th of March we went to a ex Church to assist a concert lesson held by Pietro Piva, an ex student at our school and Elena Nastasi, a music teacher at IC Sestri Levante. In this lesson we learned about trumpets and the varius types of them. To attend this lesson were a lot of different classes, and of each class 1 student could try to play it. Pietro Piva explained the different components of a trumpet. They also played some songs. This lesson help us further under stand this instrument.

Concert lesson about string instruments

 Written by Alessandro S., Lorenzo S., Ikhlase L., Domenico G., Flavio A., Daniel C. 

On 4th March Davide Mocini, a guitarist and lutenist, came to an ex monastery in Sestri Levante to tell the students of our school the history of string instruments and to explain the evolution and development in the last four centuries. 

The musician explained the various differences and how the technique of approaching the performance has changed, the different ways of plucking the strings, proposing, for each of them, some pieces and also exposing very particular curiosities, such as the different writing of the notes on the scores . “It is clear that the instrument that attracts  most of the attention” – he added – "is the electric guitar, which is nowadays language  and it is a completely different instrument from the other three on which we are carrying out important work to revive them. Getting into these repertoires is very difficult for a person who has never heard them before. It takes a lot of patience and a lot of listening education to enter this type of world."

Davide Mocini has a diploma in classical guitar and lute, plays in a Renaissance trio and continues further in his studies on the baroque lute. He composes songs with the Renaissance lute which he often combines with the electric guitar, contaminating, without altering, the original atmosphere of that distant world.

Professional orientation & work areas in the pharmaceutical industry

Written by Dimos

The students of the 3rd grade of the Soufli High School participated in the activity "Professional orientation & work areas in the pharmaceutical industry". The activity was implemented by the non-profit organization The Tipping Point for the school year 2023/24, with the aim of the students interacting with each other through live group sessions with professionals of different specialties in order to discover professional paths of their interest, as well as with scientists and executives of the pharmaceutical industry Pharmathen.

Astronomy at school

Written by Daniel, Ikhlase, Alessandro S., Lorenzo S., 

Another activity we have done is that of the astronomer who is passionate about taking photos of celestial bodies.He brought us several images and knowledge to us, helping us better understand how our galaxy is formed.We have conducted ulterior studies on the history of the moon, on the stars, how they are classified, on our galaxy and on nebulae. If another galaxy existed that is ten million years ago and if people went there, they would see how are planet would end.

Chado: Tea Ceremony

Written by Chrysa - Anna

In February students of Junior High School of Soufli visited the Silk Museum of the Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation at Soufli to visit the exhibition "As silk", which included selected authentic objects from the collections of the Asian Art Museum of Corfu.

In the context of learning about Japanese culture, the 1st grade students took part in the "Chado: Tea Ceremony" activity. It is a reenactment of the tea ceremony, which is combined with a memory card game and has been the main Japanese entertainment since the Heian period.

We take care of our environment.

La Encarnación school takes a very important step towards environmental sustainability with the implementation of a system of self-consumption solar panels installed to optimize the collection of solar energy. Aware of the importance of preserving the environment, AMPA La Encarnación has invested in a photovoltaic solar energy system that will generate clean and renewable electricity in order to supply the energy needs of all its facilities.

This investment maintains the path begun with the commitment to the adoption of renewable energy sources. In fact, La Encarnación has previously installed solar panels, which feed into the electrical grid, to which are now added the self-consumption panels.

Our objective with the environment has a double aspect by providing our students with the opportunity to learn about the science behind solar energy from a practical and experiential approach that not only enriches their academic understanding, but also inspires them to be agents of change in the fight against climate change.

First attempts with Scratch

Written by Gregorio, Gabriele and Asia.

Our science project: scratch

A few weeks ago, our science teacher proposed a new programming project. The goal of this project is to end up being able to create our own videogame about celiac diseases.

We started by pasting a pre-made flowchart into our very first script. Our teacher explained that we needed to add a background to our “videogame“. She also explained to us that we needed to create a new character and modify the project to our liking. We went to the IT lab so many times to perfect it. Our classmate, Angelica is so good at it. 

In the next science lesson we will eventually finish this project and the teacher will give us a grade.

This will be part of our civic education program. 

You can play with the videogame we created and shared. The character is celiac so it mustn’t eat gluten!

Bancarellino literary award

 BANCARELLINO 2024

Written by Sebastiano and Angelica, with the collaboration of our schoolmate, Janko.

The “Bancarellino” is a competition to encourage the kids to read books.

The goal of this competition is to read 3 books in 3 months. Students become literary critics and vote the best one.

In our class 8 students  took part because we like reading, then 2 teachers came to our class with 8 class books and distributed them. 

Each class has a number of books based on the number of participating students. On 25th of May we’re going to Pontremoli in Tuscany to rate the best book, which will be awarded.

Progetto di Elena Piazze

Geogebra

Written by Lorenzo S., Alessandro S., Domenico G., Ikhlase L.

In our school there were various activities that impressed us, for example a work with geogebra that really impressed us. Geogebra is a virtual platform in which you create geometric figures, our Maths teacher gave us an outline (we had to make a kite exactly). A few days before carrying out this work we attended a short lesson where they told us how to use the platform. The same day we attended a short lesson where he said that mathematics is not created but discovered therefore it existed before we existed in nature. The majority of the class managed to do the exercise successfully. It made us more aware of the world of geometry and competent. The organisers congratulated us.

Everyone grows up only if they were dreamed

 Written by Sebastiano V., Gregorio U., Gabriele T., Asia M., Angelica P.

Davide Cerullo

 On  Tuesday 13th February, we met Davide Cerullo, an ex member of the camorra, who came to our school and taught us his story.

He was born in Scampia, a quarter in Naples, that is not well seen since it’s full of criminals. He had exactly 6 sisters and 8 brothers, this is also one of the reasons he never felt loved. Since he was young he used to work for the camorra by delivering narcotic substances without even knowing. He would get paid by member of the camorra since he couldn’t get punished legally. When he was really young he was already dreaming of having a gun; now he dreams of being a kid again.

One of the biggest reasons he joined the camorra was that he didn’t get any education and wasn’t able to stand up for himself. Camorra is an illegal criminal organisation based in Campania, a region in the South of Italy.

The aim of the meeting is that every child grows up with good worths only is their parents, school and environment help them to have good roots and he underlined the importance of education in this process.

When he was 14 years old he got control of a drug dealing square and also got his hands on a gun; he felt like God and earned 900.000 lire a day (about 4500 euro a day).

When he got arrested for drug dealing he was 17, and found a small copy of the Bible on his bed and started browsing it till he got to one of the last pages and he saw that his was repeated 3 times, from this point forward, he understood that there was still a chance for him to change and become a better person.

He changed his lifestyle and when he grew up he founded an association named Albero delle storie (The Tree of Stories) to help the kids of Scampia.

Now he has about 42 nephews, and he is finally happy..

Regional athletics championship in Imperia

Written by Flavio A., Domenico G., Ikhlase L., Daniel C., Alessandro S., Lorenzo S.

On the 6th of February we went to Imperia. Our bus arrived 1 hour late. The journey was tow hours long, but pleasently quiet. When we arrived we started immediatly our warm-up routine.

The course was quite interesting: you would start on the straight and do 3/4 of a lap and then cut into the grass, do some zig zag in the middle and then go on to the track, and behind towards the lockers on the gravel to then get back on to the front straight and do another lap.

The course was well planed and gave our team a third place with a first, a 14th, and two other unknown placements. The return journey was almost better than the first because we were al in a good mood and happy to get back home.

Flavio A. won a gold medal, Anna won a silver one and the team composed of Flavio A., Daniel C., Francesco S., Alessandro B, and Domenico G. got  a third placement

🏅🥇🥈🥉

Thanks to our P.E. teacher, Ms Alessandra Tinè. 🇮🇹🏅

Yellow and Black Vintage Outdoor Adventure Trip Video di Elena Piazze

“Con lo sguardo di Nella” – “Looking with Nella’s eyes” Shoah commemoration theatre performance

 Written by Gregorio U., Gabriele T., Sebastiano V., Asia M., Angelica P.

Every year in our  school in February there is a show performed by students. They act and read stories of people who had lived during the Second World War and the Shoah.

On the first of February 2024 we went to the cinema and we watched this performance, named “Looking with Nella’s eyes”. At the beginning the actors got expelled from their school in Genoa, and they got deported to the concentration camp in Calvari, a small town in Fontanabuona in the province of Genoa. They lived in slums and life was really hard because they were prisoners and hardly got fed. After that they were taken to Milan and then to prison. Later they were deported to Auschwitz Birkenau from platform 21 which was the platform the trains left towards the concentration camps. 

When they arrived there they divided people: they tattooed a number on an arm to recognise them, they shaved their heads, they got dressed as prisoners and the weakest ones were taken to gas chambers and when they died they were burned. This is the first story we were told.

The second story is about Andra and Tati and their cousin Sergio, at the beginning Sergio said that they moved from Naples to Rjieka but there they were arrested and taken to San Sabba concentration camp. They were taken to milan where they found their grandma and they left to Auschwitz. When they arrived they were divided and their grandma was killed while Andra, Tati and Sergio were led to a kinderblock. Once the lady who looked after the children told Tatiana that one day someone will ask them whether  they wanted to see their parents again and they should have answered that they don’t. they were exchanged for twins and for this reason they survived.

The third story was about Liliana Segre who told that she was deported to Auschwitz at the age of 13 but since she looked older, she was divided and went with the women and they cleaned the slums and worked. At the end there is a flashback about the first story of Nella’s life who died in gas chambers a month before her sixth birthday. 

In our opinion it was touchy and it is important in their life. By Gabriele T., Gregorio U., Sebastiano V., Angelica P. and their classmates

Happy Peace Day

Peace Day is a special day when everyone around the world comes together to promote peace and understanding. It happens on the 30th of January  every year. On this day, people do different things to show their support for peace.

 

Some people might organize events like concerts, marches, or art exhibitions to spread the message of peace. Others might hold discussions or workshops about how to solve conflicts peacefully. Many schools also take part by teaching about the importance of peace and encouraging students to be kind to one another.

 

At La Encarnación school, Peace Day has been a day of celebration and reflection, focused on the transformative power of empathy and understanding. With the theme "Recipe for Peace", students have participated in activities that encouraged dialogue and creativity. The morning concluded with a collective commitment to take with us the lessons learned and work together to promote peace everywhere. 

 

 

Peace Day is important because it reminds us that even though there are many problems in the world, we can all work together to make it a better place. It's a time for us to think about how we can be more peaceful in our own lives and how we can help others do the same.

 

So, on Peace Day, let's all take a moment to think about how we can spread peace and make the world a happier and safer place for everyone.

HAPPY PEACE DAY TO EVERYBODY

 

 

Regional athletics students championship

Written by Flavio S., Daniel C., Domenico G., Ikhlase L., Alessandro S., Lorenzo S.

On January 16th we arrived at the train station at quarter to seven and after half an hour we were on board of the train. We changed the train in Genoa Nervi and headed towards the stadium. We started our warm-up routines and shortly after the races started: first the younger girls, then the younger boys, after that the older girls and then it was our turn. We had students running as teams and solos. The team qualified as second good placement: a first, two 15th, a 24th, and a 48th. The ride home was less chaotic than the first one and you would chat with friends. Now our next destination is Imperia to run a 1,5 km cross.

At the competition Flavio A., Alessandro B., and Daniel C. took part and they qualified for the next competition Imperia on February 6th.

Today we are having a selection at school to take part in the competition in Imperia… Good luck and break a leg! 

💪🍀

by: Flavio A., Daniel C., Domenico G., Alessandro B.

Villa Gentile athletics stadium in Genoa Sturla

IC Sestri Levante team taking part in the regional athletics school students competitions with our P.E. Teacher Ms. Tinè