PARENTS’ INVOLVEMENT IN SCHOOL LIFE

Parents, together with the school principal, teachers and students, are responsible for the children’s complete development, education and achievement.

The main aim of our school is to produce more teaching-learning effectiveness and to improve educational opportunities for all the children.

For these reasons, our school is always trying to do its best in order to respond to parents’ needs with:

flexible and creative program activities to enhance the parents’ active involvement in school activities

regular cooperation Parent-teacher

PATTO di CORRESPONSABILITA’

Parents in our school sign an “agreement” where they accept:

To recognize the educational function of the school,To educate their children by giving importance to a

good education, to the respect of othersTo take an active part in the school activities and in

the school-family meetingsTo guarantee the children’s regular attendance at

schoolTo give support to the children’s school/homework

IN EVERY SECTIONS NURSERY,PRIMARY AND JUNIOR SECONDARY

PARENTS TAKE PART IN

RIUNIONI DI INTERSEZIONE/ INTERCLASSE/CONSIGLI DI CLASSE every month, there are parent-teacher meetings at school

where 3 or 4 elected representative parents are invited to discuss about the general situation of the class: behavior, social

relationship, programs, school activities and visits

COLLOQUI INDIVIDUALI during the week, there are individual meetings with teachers.

Parents have important perspectives on their children and can provide the teacher with information about their children's

relationships, interests, and experiences outside of the school. Teachers, on the other end, give them information on the

children’s progress and on the programs.

ASSEMBLEE PLENARIE: twice a year, general meetings with all the teachers to talk about the progress of their children in every sabjects

CONSIGLIO DI ISTITUTO or CDI/School Council meets every 2 months.

A parent is the president and with the other elected members (together with the principal, elected teachers, secretaries and janitors) are involved in making decisions about important issues:

the annual plan of education P.O.F. (to be accepted and approved)the purchase and renovation of school facilities;annual calendar and school timetable;the planning of school and extracurricular activities, projects and school

trips;general criteria for the formation of classes

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

In Nursery School, families: parents and grandparents, are actively involved in activities: they teach how to cook or make biscuits, they tell or read stories, they play games together, they help in the organization of markets, parties, celebrations and festivities. 

In Primary School In Secondary school

Parents take part in some important events, such as festivities, street markets, shows

In general, parents are more interested in meetings dealing with educational concerns or personal growth and development rather than in taking active part in activities, also because they say they have no time or energy.

SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

Parents’

involvement

at school

School also organizes special courses for foreign parents, to help them communicate in Italian; general meetings on some important topics such as drug and bullying at school; information sessions on employment opportunities for students leaving Secondary Jr. school;

Parents are asked to fill in questionnaires in order to give their opinion on how school works and an important feedback on the activities

questionnaire

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