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First Grade Secondary School
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A scuola in Italia
At school in Italy
1. How is the Italian school organized?
2. The first grade secondary school
3. Which persons work in the school?
4. Which are the subjects?
5. For students who don’t know Italian
6. Which material is needed?
7. How are the results valued?
8. Absences
9. What role do parents have?
10. Students
11. Timetables
12. General rules
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Com’è organizzata la scuola in Italia?
How is the Italian school organized?
CRÈCHE
UP TO 3 YEARS OF AGE
NURSERY
FROM 3 TO 6
PRIMARY SCHOOL
FROM 6 TO 11
FIRST GRADE SECONDARY SCHOOL
FROM 11 TO 14
SECOND GRADE SECONDARY SCHOOL
OVER 14
You enrol at the first grade secondary school.
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La scuola secondaria di 1° grado
The first grade secondary school
The first grade secondary school lasts three years and ends with an examination.
A diploma is given to those students who pass the examination.
You have to attend classes for 30 hours a week, in the morning.
You can choose to attend classes for 2/3 hours in the afternoon, too.
The enrolment at state schools is free, only a contribution for insurances,
photocopies, … is required.
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Quali persone operano nella scuola?
Which persons work in the school?
Presidenza
Segreteria
Collegio
Composed of:
School Headmaster
Composed of:
Administrative manager
Secretarial staff
Composed of:
Teachers
Headed by the School Headmaster
Consigli di classe
Consiglio di Istituto
Comitato genitori
Composed of:
Teachers
Parents’ representatives (n. 4 each class)
Composed of:
School Headmaster
Teachers’ representatives (n.4 each school)
Parents’ representatives
Secretarial staff (n. 1 each school)
Administrative manager
School collaborators (n. 1 each school)
Composed of:
All parents’ representatives
A parent with chairman functions
School collaborators
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Quali sono le materie?
Which are the subjects?
In each class you have many teachers.
The subjects are :
Italian
English
EU- second language
History
Geography
Mathematics
Science
Technology
Computer science
Music
Art and image
Physical education
Civil living together
*Catholic religion / Activity instead of Catholic religion
* Catholic religion is taught for one hour a week. At the moment of enrolment
parents have to fill in a specific form to declare if they:
REQUIRE
NOT REQUIRE
this subject
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Per chi non sa l’italiano
For students who don’t know Italian
In the school
Italian courses for foreign students
are organized during the morning.
Students are divided into little groups, depending on their language knowledge, and
make specific activities in an equipped laboratory, under a teacher’s direction.
The course is completely free.
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Che materiale serve?
Which material is needed?
When parents enrol their child they receive the list of schoolbooks.
Schoolbooks have to be paid by parents.
Before buying them, you have to contact the teacher coordinator of the class.
Families with economic problems can ask for a contribution or can borrow them,
filling in a specific form they can find in the secretary’s office (books must be given
back within the school year ).
Families have to pay the school material too: homework diaries, pens, exercisebooks,…
The books needed for the Italian course are provided by the “Comune di Modena”
and given free to students.
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Come vengono valutati i risultati?
How are results valued?
The school year is divided into two parts:
1st four-month period – from September to January
2nd four-month period – from February to June
At the end of each four-month period (February and June), teachers give parents the
school valuation where you can find the judgment and observation about the
student’s learning and behaviour.
Judgments are expressed with these words:
non sufficiente (not sufficient) – sufficiente (sufficient) – buono (good)
– distinto (very good) – ottimo (optimum)
The school valuation has to be signed by a parent.
Suggestion about the school choice
In the school valuation of December the future school will be suggested to students of
the third class.
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Assenze
Absences
Attending school is a right and also a duty.
You have to attend at least ¾ of the school classes.
Each absence has to be justified by a parent, using the absence book issued by the
secretary’s office at the enrolment.
When the absence lasts more than 6 continuative days (Saturdays and Sundays
included), you have to present the doctor’s certificate, too.
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Che ruolo hanno i genitori?
What role do parents have?
In the Italian school the relation between parents and teachers is very important.
To follow the school life of your child you have to:
 read and sign school communications
 participate to school meetings
 participate to colloquies
Those parents who don’t speak Italian well can ask for a linguistic-cultural mediator during
the meetings.
Each year teachers meet parents in different occasions:

Election of the class representatives ( 4 each class). They have to keep relations with
teachers and the other parents. The parents’ representatives of all classes compose the
“Comitato genitori” which organizes social and recreational activities inside the
school.

Class meetings. All parents of the class take part in this meeting and teachers speak
about the class general problems, propose initiatives …

School valuation handover. In these meetings teachers inform parents about the
boy/girl’s behaviour at school, his/her result in each subject, his/her relationship with
the other students of the class...

Personal colloquies. Each teacher is available one hour a week (in the morning) to
talk with parents about their children. Those families who can’t meet teachers in the
morning, can meet them all together in the afternoon (once each four-month period).
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Gli alunni
Students
Each student has to respect the persons, students and adults, who work in the school .
You respect other people with good manners, but also respecting timetables, others’
things and opinions, hygienic rules, study duties, others’ rights.
Each student has to take the useful material at school and follow activities with
attention.
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Scuola secondaria 1° grado ___________________________
First grade secondary school
Via_________________________
Address
Tel. ________________________
Tel.
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L’orario
Timetable
From Monday to Saturday
MATTINO
MORNING
Ingresso in classe
Entrance into classroom
Inizio delle lezioni
Classes beginning
Intervallo
Break
Termine delle lezioni
Classes end
ORE
HOURS
POMERIGGIO
AFTERNOON
Ingresso in classe
Entrance into classroom
Inizio delle lezioni
Classes beginning
Intervallo
Break
Termine delle lezioni
Classes end
ORE
HOURS
La segreteria ha sede presso la scuola _____________________________________
The secretary’s office is located c/o the school
Indirizzo _____________________________________________________________
Address
Telefono ________________________________
Telephone
Orari
Timetable
Mattino dalle ore ……………………… alle ore ………………………
In the morning from
to
Pomeriggio dalle ore ……………………… alle ore ………………………
In the afternoon from
to
The School Headmaster receives on appointment.
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Norme generali
General rules
 Students can enter school when the bell sounds.
 If a student arrives late he has to present an excuse note signed by a parent. A
student can leave school before classes end if a parent or a delegate person fetches
him.
 Absences of one or more days have to be justified on a specific book.
 During classes (except the 1st and 4th hour) students can ask teacher to go to the
bathroom. When each class ends they can’t go out but have to prepare the material
for the following class.
 During the break students can leave classroom to eat snacks and go to the
bathroom. You can walk or stay in corridors but a right behaviour is necessary.
 Classrooms and laboratories have to be kept in order.
 At school the cellular telephone can’t be used but the secretary’s office phone is
available in case of necessity.
 When classes end teachers take students to the school exit; the exit must be in
good order.
 If rules are not respected disciplinary measures will be taken.
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