Scuola Media Statale Michelangelo

The Michelangelo school is situated in Bari and the pupils belong to the middle class. The Institute is structured on three floors with classrooms, laboratories of technics, music, art and computer, and an Auditorium for the dramatizations and meetings.

In the school disables of different desease are welcome. There are specialized laboratories and activities, managed by the technological operator and mostly by the local Sanitary Service.There are eight courses, called sections. Each section is formed by three classes: first, second and third class.

The pupils are 655 (from 11 to 14 years old). Four courses have five lessons a day from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 30 lessons a week, while the pupils attending the other four courses have lunch at school and the lessons finish at 4 p.m.. These last courses, called ‘tempo prolungato’, have 36 lessons a week with activities of laboratories and ‘open classes’.

The general plan of the activities is prepared by the teaching team of the school, directed by the Principal Mrs Francesca Roca.

Extra curricular activities are cineforum, sport games, projects ofeducation to peace, dramas, intercultural projects and multimedial activities.

Every year in november, all the classes take part in a scientific project, wich aims to promote the interests of the young people in the scientific and technological culture.

The main finality of the Michelangelo school is to prepare the pupils to gain a better quality of life through a solid cultural knowledge.

The curricular foreign language is English but the pupils can attend extra curricular courses of French, German and Spanish. The pupils of many classes exchange letters, drawings and other works with twin schools in other European Countries. Many teachers of the school are concerned with the didactic experimentation of History, new methods of both Technological programs and Mathematics.

The disable children are integrated with their luckier friends and take part in the common activities organized by the school team of teachers but specialised teachers lead them in individualized programms responding to the needs of each of them.

The social and cultural levels of the pupils attending the school is medium-high and they all are going to attend the secondary high schools after the third year. To meet their need the teacher’s team plans many activities in order to increase interests, promote aptitudes and help them in the choices for their future.

Extra curricular activities are: cineforum, dramas, youth games, health education and different projects such as the scientific and technologic culture’s week, a project for the cooperation between North and South Countries, an experimentation of a new method for learning history and multimedial laboratories.