Erasmus+ KA2 “Outdoor learning and sport activities” Partinico 8th-12th May 2017 Istituto Comprensivo “Cassarà – Guida”
Our school is located in Partinico, Italy a town on the north-west coast of Sicily, Partinico ° Sicily with a population of about 30.000 inhabitants .
. Our school is a comprehensive institute which includes different education levels: Kindergarten, from 3 to 5, Primary school, from 6 to 10 and Scuola Media (Middle school) with Music Course, from 11 to 13.
Our school is attended by 210 students and 20 teachers at kindergarten, 420 students and 34 teachers at primary school 356 students and 57 teachers at scuola media. Every year the number of students increases.
Kindergarten COLLODI The school has four school buildings: COLLODI Kindergarten-Primary school ‘MAGGIORE GUIDA’ MAGGIORE GUIDA Scuola media Kindergarten – Primary school ‘Ninni Cassarà ’ ‘DANILO DOLCI ‘ NINNI CASSARA’ DANILO DOLCI
This school is entitled to Collodi. He was a children ’s writer , he wrote the world-renowned fairy tale novel THE ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO.
The ‘MAGGIORE GUIDA’ school is a Kindergarten and a Primary school. MAJOR VINCENZO GUIDA WAS A YOUNG HERO OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
Kindergarten – Primary school ‘DANILO DOLCI ‘ This school is entitled to Danilo Dolci (1924-1997). He was an Italian social activist, sociologist, popular educator and poet.
This school was built by Danilo Dolci in 1972 an it is located in the countryside. In this school students can study and do several activities in contact with nature. Every autumn children can do the olive harvest. Then there is a celebration called “ Sagra dell’olio” that involves children and their families. SAGRA DELL’OLIO
Scuola media This school is entitled to Ninni Ninni Cassara’ Cassarà, a symbol of honesty, legality culture and struggle against mafia. Ninni Cassarà was a chief of NINNI CASSARA ’ Police and was killed by mafia in 1985 at the age of 37. He worked in the staff of the well known judge Giovanni Falcone killed by mafia in 1992. The first committment of our school is promoting democracy values, starting with refusing to accept the equation: Sicily =mafia.
In our school students can do several different activities such as: Drama, Choir, Pottery to enlarge and improve their education. .
Children also study the area they live in and its traditions.
Our mission is to involve people considered “ different ” (foreign students, disabled, disadvantaged pupils), being aware that each member of the community has his/her own value. . The school is the seat of territorial resources centre for pupils with special needs (CTRH) and Support centre (CTS)
Sicily 11/28/11
Sicily has a rich and unique cultural heritage, expression of the many civilzations of its long history.
It has a rich heritage of biodiversity in relation with various natural ecosystems . Mountains, volcanoes, hills, coasts, little islands, form a mosaic of landscapes with a lot of different products. .
. chestnuts, pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds, wood fruit and prickly pears
Sicilian mountains are not very high: wheat, cereals and fodder plants are widely cultivated .
. Sicily has the largest concentration of vineyards in Europe. Autoctone and international varieties of grapes grow on its hills, producing good and appreciated wines.: whites, reds, sparklings, sweets, grappas.
. Olive trees produce different varieties of olives and fragrant oils in relation with the different environments.
Along the coasts sandy beaches take turns with rocks.
In the ancient little towns of fishermen lots of tourist activities are now developing.
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