Return ticket: Finland & Italy: Rosso di San Secondo School presents

Our school

"Rosso di San Secondo" middle school is situated in the new area of the town. It is quite big: there are 615 students, 72 teachers and 17 people on the staff.

There are 24 classes. Some of them are 2.0 classes: students use iPads or netbooks , interactive boards and very few books because all the subject contents are on the school platform.

Our school is very special because it has been chosen by the Board of Education, together with a few other schools in Italy, to experiment with new technologies. It has joined the national project “Cl@ss 2.0”, thanks to our headmaster who strongly believes that technology may help and also change the teaching-learning process.

Interviewing our headmaster

We have 12 subjects in our timetable: PE, English, Maths, Science, Italian, Music, Geography, History, Spanish, Technology, Art, and RE. We have 5 lessons a day, for a total of 30 lessons a week.

Our lessons start at 08:30 a.m. and finish at 01:30 p.m. At 10.25 a.m. we have a break which lasts 15 minutes. During break we chat and we have a snack outside, if it rains we stay inside.

Six classes have a different timetable or a “long” time: the students have lunch at school and go home at 5:30 p.m. twice a week.

1A, 2A, 3A are musical classes: the students learn to play different instruments such as the violin, the guitar, the flute and the piano. These students make up the school orchestra and they sometimes take part in national competitions with brilliant results.

Our school has got some labs where we can do special activities we can't do in our classrooms, like experiments and researches. There is an Art lab, a Science lab, a Technology lab, an IT lab and a Music lab.

We have also a canteen, a big library and a very big meeting room. There is a big gym, with a stand and two dressing- rooms, where we play volleyball, basketball, dodgeball or we do athletics, and a small one used mainly for exercise with disabled children.