Istituto d’Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “G.Torno”

Our teaching activities aim at increasing the skills and the interest of our students and at encouraging them to interact with the world outside the school. Our activities include:

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SELF GOVERNING ACTIVITIES
In 1999 The Board of Teachers together with the Headmistress decided to divide the school activities in two types:

A Phase
B Phase

They alternate within the school year: we have an A phase week in September, December, March and May.

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SPECIAL PROJECTS
Apart from ordinary curriculum activities, we take part in special projects which allow us to:

• Investigate selected subjects
• Interact with training and cultural centres outside the school
• Improve the quality of the school teaching
• Make the learning and teaching process more effective

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CULTURAL EXCHANGES
For some years now we have been organising cultural exchanges with both Italian and European schools. Some of them are financed by the E.U. They aim at:

• Getting to know different cultural and social ways of life,
• Improving students communicative ability,
• Improving the awareness of our European citizenship,
• Carrying out study trips,
• Investigating common themes with foreign students.

Our tradition dates back to 1994 with an exchange with Werner-Siemmens-Gymnasium of Magdeburg in Germany and a class of the language course.

In 1996 we had an exchange with I.E.S. Alpajes of Aranjuez in Spain and a class of the biochemistry course on environmental issues such as water pollution in our area.

Again in 1997 and 1998 there were two exchanges with the Spanish school on the themes of health and food and the reciprocal images and stereotypes.

In 2000 there was an exchange with an Italian secondary school from Angri, in the south of Italy. The aim was to knock down stereotypes between the North and the South of Italy in favour of a deeper knowledge of both cultures.

In 2001 we repeated the experience with the same Italian school. This time the interest was in the reciprocal local areas analysed in their historical, socio-economical and cultural aspects.

In 2001 we also had exchanges with the Belgian Rozemberg Institute of Secundair Onderwejs of Mol and the Hungarian Szent Laszlo Gimnazium of Budapest.

In the school–year 2001-02 we are carrying out exchanges with 4 European schools : the Belgian school of Mol, the Hungarian school of Budapest, the German school of Quickborn and the Finnish school of Helsinki.

COMENIUS PROJECT 2003 – 2006
For almost three years we have had a partnership with schools in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Denmark with a project powered by the EU with interesting and involving activities like
Students' Exchanges
E-mail projects

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VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE
The unified two-year course aims at helping students to choose a suitable specialisation for the three following school years, through:

• Optional school subjects
• Meetings with the teachers and the students of different specialisations
• Psychological counselling

After the two-year course the vocational guidance continues with other initiatives such as:

• Informationand visits to universities
• Help to enrol at universities
• Meetings with professionals of different branches
• Traineeship in industries and local agencies

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SPORTS
Thanks to the involvement of our P.E. teachers our students take part to local and regional competitions