CARNIVAL ABOUT TALES

This year our carnival has been related with the tales that pupils are working about: Snowhite, Peterpan and The Rainbow fish. Pupils performed and danced for their friends, teachers and parents.
These are some photos and videos of this celebration.
Enjoy!

30th January, PEACE DAY

Last 30th January we celebrated Peace Day. All the pupils went to the playground and sang a song together. Then we listened to a story and danced.
At last some doves flew.

SPANISH NATIONAL POLICY OF EDUCATION IN EUROPE TO PROMOTE INTEGRATION

COMPENSATORY EDUCATION

The compensation for inequalities in education authorities assigned to the OBLIGATION to develop compensatory actions in relation to persons and social groups in disadvantaged situations.

Educational Compensation aims to place the students at a disadvantage in adequate levels of development that allows them to break the marginalization needed for their future work and social development. The model must be inclusive compensator.

• Student in need of remedial education:

One who for belonging to disadvantaged social group or collective school this significant lag between their proficiency level and the level curriculum which is actually enrolled and educational needs inclusion and support needs arising from a late entry, irregular schooling or ignorance of the language of instruction.

INTERNAL ACTIONS

Addressed to the acquisition of:

1. Basic skills and communicative competence in the language of instruction.
2.  Activities for the socio-affective

Ø  Plans host.

·         Curriculum evaluation.

·         Detection of needs.

·         Development of an action plan, adapting to the means (organizational, natural, personal ...) of each center.

·         Guidance to families included in the action plan tutorial.

Ø  Development programs of social skills.

Ø  Other activities to improve care for the needs.

ITALY: immigrants and the right to education

ITALY: immigrants and the right to education

Italy is one of the most important destination countries for migrants to Europe: Around 5,000,000 regular migrants live in the country (about 8 per cent of the total population) and the annual growth rate of migrant presence is – together with Spain – the highest in the European Union.

The right to education is guaranteed to foreigners regularly residing in Italy, under the same conditions of Italian citizens. In particular, minors are guaranteed the right (and obligation) to study: all minor foreign citizens must comply with a “compulsory education period” (primary and secondary school), even if they do not have a residence permit (school enrolment does not constitute a requirement to regularize neither minors, nor their parents).  Law 40 has established the compulsory education for all foreign children, has foreseen initiatives for the learning of the Italian language and has promoted the protection of the language and culture of origin. “School community receives linguistic and cultural differences as a value to establish as a basis for reciprocal respect, exchange among cultures and tolerance; in order to reach this goal, it promotes and encourages initiatives aimed at reception, protection of culture and language of origin and implementation of common intercultural activities” (Art. 36, comma 3).

Italian schools impose a 30 per cent limit on foreigners in classes in an attempt to help integration.
Under Italian law, education is compulsory for minors until they are 15: minors are automatically enrolled in the class which corresponds to their age. The teaching body can anyway decide to enroll minors in an immediately upper or lower class, by taking into consideration minors’ preparation, the studies they carried out, and their educational qualification.

In Italy children must compulsory attend primary and secondary school. After the fifth year of primary school and after the third year of secondary school children have to take an exam (primary school diploma and secondary school diploma respectively). The secondary school diploma is necessary both to enroll to high school, and to take part into state competitive examinations, it is additionally required by almost all employers.

High school is not compulsory. Attending high school allows students to take their school learning examination, thus obtaining a school-learning certificate (called: “diploma di maturità”) that allows them to be admitted to university.

Support for school integration

Teachers and students of infant school, nursery school, primary school, secondary school and high school can be supported in several different ways in order to reach school integration: social workers of various municipalities – on the ground of their acquaintance as to young people – intervene and support students that have some difficulties at setting in at school.

Some voluntary workers’ associations – in accordance with teachers – activities aimed at helping in their class, (there are for example groups of voluntary workers that help children to do their home work after school).

Adult’s Education

The Permanent Local Centers (Centri Territoriali Permanenti) are in charge of Adults’ Education. People over 15 years of age can avail themselves of adult’s education services. The Permanent Local Centers organize several free public courses:

• to get the primary school certificate;

• for foreign people that want to learn Italian, (various levels); within the district it is also possible to attend the preparatory class aimed at taking the Italian language exam with the University for foreign people (Italian language Certificate as a Foreign Language – “Certificazione di Italiano come lingua Straniera C.I.L.S.);

• for adults’ education (foreign languages, multimedia education, pre-professional classes,  etc.).

Vocational Training

Vocational training is addressed to people over 15 years of age.

Vocational training courses train people to carry out qualified jobs within industries or other working places.

“Upper level” Vocational Training is addressed to young people holding a diploma or a degree.

Vocational courses can be set up by local Authorities and by other Public and Private Bodies.

If supported by a Public Body, vocational training courses are free. In some private schools a fee is charged. For some courses scholarships are awarded. Secondary School certificate is usually necessary to be admitted. Courses making part of the Provincial planes financed by the Regions.

Italian tale:The wolf and the three sisters- Italo Calvino

ONCE there were three sisters who worked in a certain town. Word reached them one day that their mother, who lived in Borgoforte, was deathly ill. The oldest sister therefore filled two baskets with four bottles of wine and four cakes and set out for Borgoforte. Along the way she met the wolf, who said to her,"Where are you going in such haste?"         "To Borgoforte to see Mamma, who is gravely ill."         "What's in those baskets?"         "Four bottles of wine and four cakes."         "Give them to me, or else – to put it bluntly – I'll eat you." The girl gave the wolf everything and went flying back home to her sisters. 
Then the middle girl filled her  baskets and left for Borgoforte. She too met the wolf. 
       "Where are you going in such haste?"         "To Borgoforte to see Mamma, who is gravely ill."         "What's in those baskets?"         "Four bottles of wine and four cakes."         "Give them to me, or else – to put it bluntly – I'll eat you."So the second sister emptied her baskets and ran home. Then the youngest girl said, "Now it's my turn." She prepared the baskets and set out. There was the wolf.         "Where are you going in such haste?"         "To Borgoforte to see Mamma, who is gravely ill."         "What's in those baskets?"         "Four bottles of wine and four cakes."         "Give them to me, or else – to put it bluntly – I'll eat you." 
The little girl took a cake and threw it at the wolf, who had his mouth open. She had made the cake especially for him and filled it with nails. The wolf caught it and bit into it, pricking his palate all over. He spat out the cake, leaped back, and ran off, shouting, "You'll pay for that!" 
Taking certain short cuts known only to him, the wolf ran ahead and reached Borgoforte before the little girl. He slipped into the sick mother's house, gobbled her up, and took her place in bed. The little girl arrived, found her mother with the sheet drawn up to her eyes, and said, "How dark you've become, Mamma!"         "That's because I've been sick so much, my child," said the wolf.         "How big your head has become, Mamma!"         "That's because I've worried so much, my child."         "Let me hug you, Mamma," said the little girl, and the wolf gobbled her up whole. With the little girl in his belly, the wolf ran out of the house. But the townspeople, seeing him come out, chased him with pitchforks and shovels, cornered him and killed him. They slit him open at once and out came mother and daughter still alive. The mother got well, and the little girl went back and said to her sisters, "Here I am, safe and sound!"  



Borgoforte is in North Italy, but our children (4 and 5 age) have set the tale in Apulia, Conversano and Alberobello:
      Children 4 and 5 age