Italy

The Comprehensive Education Institute “A.Gatto”

The Comprehensive Education Institute “A.Gatto” is located in Battipaglia (Salerno) in the South of Italy. It is directed by Mrs. Lea Celano and has got about 1300 students, 120 teachers and 20 employees.

The territory that it serves is rich of social and cultural occasions and centers of integration. It is made up of 5 school complexes: 2 Infant Schools -2 Primary Schools- 1 Secondary School.

The kindergarten school is using innovative methodologies, apply the Montessorian pedagogy, coding and new methodology which is spreading in Italy, called “senza zaino” (no backpack). A Erasmus project (“Smart child”) with partners from Slovenia and Czech Republic has just ended.

Each class of Primary and Secondary School has been equipped with interactive whiteboards in order to give pupils a new stimulating learning approach.

There are foreign language, science, technology, music, art and computer laboratories. We are doing an Erasmus project about Coding and Robotics with two French schools. Thanks to this project we are implementing STEM activities and training our teachers with some courses in the school and outside it

Besides, there are music courses of piano, violin, clarinet and trumpet and a school orchestra