Lower Secondary School

Cafeteria

The AIS cafeteria is a real and true school project with various age-dependent, educational objectives. Taking care of the environment and the meal quality is certainly part of this project; for this reason the school has carefully studied the local organizations so that the meals served are mainly composed of ingredients that are organic and local. The proposed menu is authorized by the local authorities and is constantly reviewed to make all the improvements possible so that lunchtime is an all-out positive experience for the students.

LATIN ETYMOLOGY

Available for 2nd and 3rd grade of middle school, it brings children closer to the Latin language through courses designed to make them aware of the morphological structures of the Italian language, as well as familiarizing them, progressively, with translation training.

Cambridge Assessment International Education

Main purpose of this project is to offer children the opportunity to acquire and develop a linguistic patrimony. For this reason the teaching of the English language is intensified to 5 curricular hours a week, with the possibility to participate in optional afternoon workshops for another 3 hours a week.
Learning English in primary school is an essential element of the integral formation of children’s personality, because it familiarizes them with cultures different to their own, fostering acceptance and understanding. The primary school and lower secondary school of AIS is part of the Cambridge International Education network and is one of the first schools in Italy to offer the Cambridge curriculum for Primary and Lower Secondary Schools to its students. The network boasts of more than 1,300 schools in more than 110 countries. The young people of our school, from 6-14 years of age can benefit from the Cambridge program, recognized as a synonym of excellence worldwide. Cambridge International is a further opportunity for AIS to prepare its students for life, helping them to develop curiosity, love for learning, their potentials and to prepare themselves to shape a better world. AIS offers learning courses to its students that are completely in English and with the support of the International Cambridge Assessment. The students registered at the school therefore have the opportunity to also learn through educational material offered by Cambridge and to be evaluated with the Cambridge Assessment method, facing and passing as much as two Checkpoints.

Lower Secondary School

• first year – Cambridge: KET – (A2)
• second year – Cambridge: PET – (B1)
• third year – Cambridge: FCE (for excellence ) – (B2).

READING AND WRITING WORKSHOP

The workshop follows a series of gradual objectives in terms of difficulty and competencies. In the first year of middle school the students read a text together and then, with the guidance of the teacher, learn to measure the attention they can pay to a novel or a long story. In the second and third grade middle school, with an increasingly difficult course, they learn different text composition techniques, by way of ‘activators’ and structure guides they have to complete. They are accompanied by their teacher throughout.

AUDIOBOOKS:

The workshop is available for the first year of middle school. By listening to literary texts in audiobook format and through specific exercises given to the kids, curiosity is stimulated. Students manage to quickly memorize the salient points of the story, and, immediately afterwards, to reuse them in the tools that the teacher proposes. The aim is to apply the same procedure in the face-to-face lesson, learning to grasp the fundamentals of the explanation and to pin them down effectively.

STATE ARCHIVES

Through direct contact with historical documents and with the mediation of an expert in the field, the children experience the concept of ‘historical source’ directly and learn the basic method of research at the same time.

Library project

After a series of ad hoc classroom lessons designed to make the children understand how a library works and how they can use it, a number of educational outings to the local municipal library are planned.

SCIENCE WORKSHOP

Science subjects need real-life experimentation to be understood and appreciated by students. The place where we make this possible is the Foligno experimental science laboratory, thanks to the collaboration of its technicians who show our students what happens when a principle of physics, geology, astronomy, microbiology or chemistry is applied in everyday life.

MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP

The multimedia workshop offers secondary school children the opportunity to approach the world of technology, the Internet and IT from an early age.
It pursues the following goals: the acquisition of awareness in the use of new technologies, the empowerment of the students in the use of the Internet and social media, and the learning of useful programs for the realization of small objects with the 3D printer. In the school’s multimedia room, each student has a personalized PC at their disposal that they will use for the entire secondary school cycle where they will learn to manage their own virtual work space.