Istituto Comprensivo “Giovanni Pierluigi” Palestrina is a compulsory education school with 700 students aged 3-14. It includes two kindergartens, two primary schools and a big middle school. It has a long tradition in the musical field. There are six classes where pupils study violin, guitar, flute and piano, a school orchestra and a children’s choir.
Our organization offers a wide range of after school activities: a Learning Territorial Centre (CTP) where adults, foreigners and refugees have the opportunity to get a middle school degree; Italian language courses for foreign pupils; Romanian language courses for Romanian pupils; Trinity Certification courses for middle school; a Ceramic laboratory where pupils can do handicrafts.
The main building is located in the small town of Palestrina, in the south of Rome (about 35 km). Palestrina is older than Rome. There are important archaeological ruins of an old Roman temple. Palestrina has been affected by a strong immigration wave from Eastern Europe, in particular from Romania and Albania.
The socio-economic and cultural aspects of students’ families are not homogeneous, thus emerging a very diverse economic and social stratification. In our institute the number of foreign students has gradually increased. The school recognizes its fundamental mission in offering equal opportunities to all pupils, promoting gender equality, respecting the rights of every citizen and preventing violence and discrimination. It stimulates progressive self-knowledge, which is the basic precondition for overcoming difficulties.
The purposes, considered as priority for our school, are: to raise the level of education and the rate of success in school; the development of personality offering, in addition to basic knowledge, wide opportunities for cultural enrichment. For two years, Istituto Comprensivo “Giovanni Pierluigi” Palestrina has been involved in the project in the European Community “Spazio Europa”. For several years students have been taking the Trinity European Certification Exam. Every two years, our students take part in a cultural exchange with a French Middle School, Collège “Emile Zola” – Igny (Paris). French students come to Palestrina for a week and they are hosted by our students’ families.
In 2017 our school joined its first Erasmus + project concerning climate changes in partnership with schools from Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal and Poland.
You can find out more about our town and our school below by watching this presentation in video format or by seeing/downloading it in its original PPT format.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Hrtda6ABmye0-ZU3Uq1Z-x69Yku86xbd