Italy

Carano Secondary School and Mazzini Kindergarten and Primary School


We are a State school situated in Gioia del Colle, near Bari, Apulia, South Italy. The school’s students go from the age of about 3 to 13/14, and are located into five different buildings and places of the town. They are 1004 in total. Carano Secondary school is attended by 311 children divided into three grades: first, second and third level. Teachers are 139 in total and the staff is also composed of 25 people with administrative tasks. The teachers that work in the Secondary school are 48. 


The town is an interesting tourist place with its archaeological site and a beautiful medieval beautiful castle. There is also a very important military airport. The school welcomes students from Morocco, Albania, Georgia, Moldova, Russia, China, Senegal, India and Afganistan and it is deeply vocated to language and cultural exchanges. The school pays  particular attention to disadvantaged pupils with socio-economic problems and children with special needs are always integrated in their classes, even if they follow individual activities with specialized teachers.

Typical Apulian dishes

Cialledda

The Cialledda is a typical dish of the peasant tradition and is prepared mainly in Puglia and Basilicata. Emblem of poor and peasant cuisine, the cialledda is a classic example of the ability of the older generations to make a virtue of necessity.

In order not to waste the leftovers of bread, they were combined with seasonal vegeteables, becaoming an hearty and full of flavour meal.

The cold cialledda, also known as the "reaper's breakfast", helped the laboreres to start the working day in the hot july wheat fields in the best possible way. It is a purely summer dish, refreshing and light. The hot version, on the other hand, was generally and evening and winterdish, prepared from time to time what the gardern offered.

The cialledda was usually served in a large earthenware dish place in the center of the table.

The main ingredients are:

Cold Cialledda



Warm Cialledda with egg


Focaccia

Focaccia is an Italian flatbread. It is very popular with a soft interior and a slighltly chewy crust.

In the land of Bari, we usually eat focaccia as a snack, but sometines it is eaten as a main meal.

There are many sort of focaccia in the whole of Puglia, but the loved one are with Mortadella, Provolone cheese or Mozzarella, tomatones, olive and oregano. 


Orecchiette

Orecchiette is a really ancient type of pasta from Puglia and Basilicata. 

The word "orecchiete" means "little ears" and, of course, the name comes from the shape. This pasta, made with semolina flour, became popular in Puglia between the 12th and 13th century.

This flour is used in almost all Italian dried pasta and we only need the flour, water and salt.

Traditional Italian street games

Blind man's bluff

Blind Man’s Bluff is a popular kids’ game that goes far back. 

The game's origins can be traced as far back as 2,000 years, when it was played in ancient Greece. Blind man's bluff is known by other names around the world. In Spain, it is called gallina ciega ("blind hen") and in Italy, it's called mosca cieca ("blind fly").

Hopscoth

Hopscotch is a popular playground game that requires chalk and a small, throwable object for set up and play. It can be played alone or with multiple people. 

Hopscotch can be played on a variety of courts, which are essentially a geometric arrangement of squares. However, the classic court follows a linear pattern using 8 to 10 squares, with some squares in a single-wide row and others in pairs along the court.

Handkerchief


Teams line up on opposite sides and a handkerchief is placed in the middle. At random the “caller” calls out a number. The players that have been assigned that number both run to the middle and try to be the first one to grab the handkerchief. The player who grabs the handkerchief first gets a point for their team.