Lower Secondary School

Lower Secondary School

The lower secondary school offered by the Educandato SS. Annunziata boarding school includes programs that aim at increasing the students’ learning capabilities and knowledge. Within this context, the curriculum’s activities and contents are declined by following the national guidelines as well as by incorporating projects that can better respond to the students’ learning and maturation curves.
The primary objective is to guide the students in concentrating on their learning method so as to help them ‘learn to learn’, encouraging the acquisition on their part of a basic widespread culture via the use of curricular and extracurricular activities, workshops, remedial and in-depth study sessions.
The additional and extracurricular activities allow the children to expand their field of experience and to address broader cultural and social issues.
The use of a didactic orientation, moreover, allows the students to better identify the path towards the development of their personal identity.
The teachers and educators accompany the students in their growth at such a young age in which the need for protection must equally meet the need of autonomy.

Activities and Projects

The school organises curricular and extracurricular activities made to supplement the teaching program, enriching and stimulating the children on the cultural, human and social levels. The activities are divided into subject areas and can take place in school or outside the school, especially on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 2 to 5 p.m.

The main activities are the following.

Orientation project

Orientation meetings for prospective students are aimed to provide useful information about the school’s educational and didactic proposals and about how it is organised.
As for outgoing orientation, the aim is to guide the students towards choosing according to their personality and life plans and make the transition into one of the upper secondary school curricula as easy as possible.

Welcoming project

The school is firmly founded on a philosophy of inclusiveness based on an educational per-spective that believes in learning-teaching from the differences present within a class group.
To this end, the school deploys potential facilitators to remove the barriers that prevent the full access of a part of its students to learning.

Humanities

Teachers of humanistic subjects guide and stimulate the students through educational pathways designed to help them achieve the language skills they need to tackle any future paths in all subject areas, upper secondary school studies included.

To help them acquire specific critical skills, special care is taken in choosing reading material and cultural events to participate in that are suitable for the various ages of the children.

Arts

“My Poggio”

The project intends to propose a new way of learning about the national artistic heritage by starting from one’s own school, namely the Villa, by actively involving the children in an edu-cational, cultural and civic experience. The project cultivates interest in the school as a space in one’s life but also as an artistic asset to be appreciated, loved and advertised, favouring al-so the involvement of the families in the process of intellectual growth of their children and educating the students about beauty and teaching them to respect their artistic heritage.
The project is part of the “ADOTTA I MEDICI” (Adopt the Medici) initiative based on the vir-tuous adoption of the precious art in the Villa.

Find more info at the link: http://annoeuropeo2018.beniculturali.it/eventi/mypoggio/

Musical Instrument and Choir Lessons

The Educandato boarding school offers students the chance to study a musical instrument, in afternoon hours, with music teachers specialised in various instruments, such as the guitar, piano, violin, flute and drums. The lessons, held in school, will start only if a sufficient number of children sign up.
Activities may also include educational outings to visit museums and temporary exhibitions and to see theatre performances and/or musical concerts.

Languages

Preparing for Cambridge ESOL and Trinity certifications

The school has been using native English speaker teachers for years to organise courses that prepare students to pass Cambridge ESOL and Trinity exams. The students are divided into small groups following an evaluation test, and on one afternoon a week they attend a two-hour lesson that will enable them to get the following language certifications:

Trinity Grade 2 (Level A1)
Trinity Grade 3 (Level A2.1)
Trinity Grade 4 (Level A2.2)
Cambridge KET (Level A2)
Cambridge PET (Level B1)

Language study abroad in English-speaking countries

Language study abroad is a considerable educational opportunity as it offers students the chance to gain college education experience for the duration of two weeks during the sum-mertime.

Sciences

Coding-Robotics

In the future, our students will be asked to collaborate with colleagues in tackling complex problems, to propose multi-tasking solutions providing clear and timely description of the strategies they have chosen.
This is why the Educandato offers pathways such as ‘Programma il Futuro’ (Program the Fu-ture) (carried out on the Ministry’s online portal), introduction to Coding courses (teaching them to find an algorithm to solve a problem), Educational Robotics courses and activities such as ‘L’Ora del Codice’ (Code Hour) in order to achieve the afore mentioned objectives.

Mathematical Games

Participation in:

Rally Matematico Transalpino (Trans-Alpine Mathematical Rally) – Team games designed to develop teamwork skills, the capacity to relate with others and to exchange solution ideas and strategies, promoted by the University of Siena
Kangourou della Matematica (Mathematical Kangaroo) – Individual games designed to spread the culture of mathematics, promoted by the University of Milan.

Computer sciences

The students are introduced to the use of and navigation in the Web so as to delve into infor-mation and become able to find good quality scientific and cultural info. This knowledge will become useful in later school years with the development of their critical skills.

Physical activity

Over the years, the boarding school has participated many times in out of school sports events, such as school track & field sports races and championships.

During Day Boarding hours in school, sports activities such as athletics, volleyball, fencing and tennis can be organised (when a sufficient number of students enrol to participate).

Orari Scuole Media
IIIIII
Italiano555
Storia, Geografia,
Cittadinanza e Costituzione
444
Matematica e Scienze666
Tecnologia222
Inglese333
Seconda lingua comunitaria
(Spagnolo)
222
Arte e immagine222
Scienze motorie e sportive222
Musica222
Religione111
Attività di approfondimento
in materie letterarie
111
Totale303030
Orari Scuole Media
IIIIII
Italiano555
Storia, Geografia,
Cittadinanza e Costituzione
444
Matematica e Scienze666
Tecnologia222
Inglese333
Seconda lingua comunitaria
(Spagnolo)
222
Arte e immagine222
Scienze motorie e sportive222
Musica222
Religione111
Attività di approfondimento
in materie letterarie
111
Totale303030
Orari Liceo Classico Europeo
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Religione11111
Italiano3232313131
Lingue e Letterature Classiche3232323232
Lingua Inglese2231313131
Lingua Tedesca3231313131
Arte1111111111
Storia2121111121
Geografia in Lingua Inglese2121111111
Filosofia212131
Matematica2232113131
Fisica212121
Scienze Naturali1121111111
Diritto e Economia1121111111
Educazione Fisica1111111111
Totale22162514261426142814
Orari Liceo Classico Europeo
lez-lab.lez-lab.lez-lab.lez-lab.lez-lab.
Religione11111
Italiano3232313131
Lingue e Letterature Classiche3232323232
Lingua Inglese2231313131
Lingua Tedesca3231313131
Arte1111111111
Storia2121111121
Geografia in Lingua Inglese2121111111
Filosofia212131
Matematica2232113131
Fisica212121
Scienze Naturali1121111111
Diritto e Economia1121111111
Educazione Fisica1111111111
Totale22162514261426142814
Orari Liceo Linguistico
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua Latina22
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 244333
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 333444
Storia e Geografia33444
Storia33
Filosofia222
Matematica33
Matematica e Fisica444
Scienze Naturali22222
Storia dell'Arte222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Linguistico
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua Latina22
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 244333
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 333444
Storia e Geografia33444
Storia33
Filosofia222
Matematica33
Matematica e Fisica444
Scienze Naturali22222
Storia dell'Arte222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Linguistico ESABAC
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua Latina22
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 244333
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 333444
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia222
Matematica33
Matematica e Fisica444
Scienze Naturali22222
Storia dell'Arte222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Linguistico ESABAC
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua Latina22
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 244333
Lingua e Cultura Straniera 333444
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia222
Matematica33
Matematica e Fisica444
Scienze Naturali22222
Storia dell'Arte222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Scienze Umane
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua e Letteratura Latina33222
Lingua e Cultura Inglese33333
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia333
Scienze Umane44555
Diritto ed Economia22
Matematica33222
Fisica222
Scienze Naturali22222
Storia dell'arte222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Scienze Umane
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua e Letteratura Latina33222
Lingua e Cultura Inglese33333
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia333
Scienze Umane44555
Diritto ed Economia22
Matematica33222
Fisica222
Scienze Naturali22222
Storia dell'arte222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Scientifico Tradizionale
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua e Cultura Latina33333
Lingua e Cultura Inglese33333
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia333
Matematica55444
Fisica22333
Scienze Naturali22333
Disegno e Storia dell'Arte22222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Scientifico Tradizionale
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua e Cultura Latina33333
Lingua e Cultura Inglese33333
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia333
Matematica55444
Fisica22333
Scienze Naturali22333
Disegno e Storia dell'Arte22222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Scientifico OSA Cambridge
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua e Cultura Inglese33333
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia222
Matematica54444
Informatica22222
Fisica22333
Scienze Naturali34555
Disegno e Storia dell'Arte22222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
Orari Liceo Scientifico OSA Cambridge
IIIIIIIVV
Religione11111
Lingua e Letteratura Italiana44444
Lingua e Cultura Inglese33333
Storia e Geografia33
Storia222
Filosofia222
Matematica54444
Informatica22222
Fisica22333
Scienze Naturali34555
Disegno e Storia dell'Arte22222
Scienze Motorie e Sportive22222
Totale2727303030
OSA Cambridge Sciences Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
English Language and Culture33333
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy222
Mathematics54444
Computer Science22222
Physics22333
Natural Sciences34555
Drawing and Art History22222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
OSA Cambridge Sciences Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
English Language and Culture33333
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy222
Mathematics54444
Computer Science22222
Physics22333
Natural Sciences34555
Drawing and Art History22222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
Traditional Scientific studies Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language and Culture33333
English Language and Culture33333
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy333
Mathematics55444
Physics22333
Natural Sciences22333
Drawing and Art History22222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
Traditional Scientific studies Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language and Culture33333
English Language and Culture33333
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy333
Mathematics55444
Physics22333
Natural Sciences22333
Drawing and Art History22222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
Humanities Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language and Literature33222
English Language and Culture33333
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy333
Humanities44555
Law and economics22
Mathematics33222
Physics222
Natural Sciences22222
Art History222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
Humanities Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language and Literature33222
English Language and Culture33333
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy333
Humanities44555
Law and economics22
Mathematics33222
Physics222
Natural Sciences22222
Art History222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
ESABAC Languages Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language22
Foreign Language and Culture 244333
Foreign Language and Culture 333444
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy222
Mathematics33
Mathematics and Physics444
Natural Science22222
Art History222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
ESABAC Languages Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language22
Foreign Language and Culture 244333
Foreign Language and Culture 333444
History and Geography33
History222
Philosophy222
Mathematics33
Mathematics and Physics444
Natural Science22222
Art History222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
Languages Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language22
Foreign Language and Culture 244333
Foreign Language and Culture 333444
History and Geography33444
History33
Philosophy222
Mathematics33
Mathematics and Physics444
Natural Science22222
Art History222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
Languages Hours
IIIIIIIVV
Religion11111
Italian Language and Literature44444
Latin Language22
Foreign Language and Culture 244333
Foreign Language and Culture 333444
History and Geography33444
History33
Philosophy222
Mathematics33
Mathematics and Physics444
Natural Science22222
Art History222
Exercise and Sport Sciences22222
Total2727303030
European Classical Studies Hours
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Religion11111
Italian3232313131
Classical Languages and Literatures3232323232
English Language2231313131
German Language3231313131
Art1111111111
History2121111121
Geography in English Language2121111111
Philosophy212131
Mathematics2232113131
Physics212121
Natural Sciences1121111111
Law and Economics1121111111
Physical Education1111111111
Total22162514261426142814
European Classical Studies Hours
lez-lab.lez-lab.lez-lab.lez-lab.lez-lab.
Religion11111
Italian3232313131
Classical Languages and Literatures3232323232
English Language2231313131
German Language3231313131
Art1111111111
History2121111121
Geography in English Language2121111111
Philosophy212131
Mathematics2232113131
Physics212121
Natural Sciences1121111111
Law and Economics1121111111
Physical Education1111111111
Total22162514261426142814
Lower Secondary School Hours
IIIIII
Italian555
History, Geography,
Citizenship and Constitution
444
Mathematics and Science666
Technology222
English333
Second community language
(Spanish)
222
Art and image222
Exercise and sports science222
Music222
Religion111
In-depth activities
in literary subjects.
111
Total303030
Lower Secondary School Hours
IIIIII
Italian555
History, Geography,
Citizenship and Constitution
444
Mathematics and Science666
Technology222
English333
Second community language
(Spanish)
222
Art and image222
Exercise and sports science222
Music222
Religion111
In-depth activities
in literary subjects.
111
Total303030