About School

The Nuno de Santa Maria School Group aims to be an organic unit of reference, at local and national level, innovative in its proposals and pedagogical practices, as well as in the formation of critical, conscious and enterprising citizens, committing themselves to provide their students an education that allows them to position themselves in the world and prepare themselves for their diversity, complexity and unpredictability, providing themselves with indispensable information, knowledge, ability to adapt and overcome, to have a happy existence.In order to develop a broader range of competences in young people, schools in 2nd and 3rd cycles and secondary schools offer a number of clubs and projects in which all students can participate in order to enrich their cultural, scientific, social and physical skills.

Throughout the last school years we have been developing a project in our school “Curricular flexibility” within the framework of the project launched by the Ministry of Education, which consists in including in regular curriculum different subjects that will enrich students formation, during this time we have developed many projects related with environment but keep looking always for one more. The aims of our school were designed to providence a good and effective education in all areas, but in particular the environment which we consider that every single student must respect and protect.

Our group has some teachers with much experience in the project’s subject.

We are a ECO-SCHOOL, which means we are part of a Governmental Project, that pretends to develop a "green mentality" in all students, forming responsible citizens who lives in communion with environment. Over the years we have developed at least 20 projects on this topic,so we consider that we have experience in this matter.

The Profile of the learners,

It is located in Tomar, about 120 km from Lisbon. It has about 2200 students from 3 to 18 years old from kindergarten to upper secondary. The students of the school are distributed by 15 schools. 23% of them have economic problems, 7% are students with special educational needs and 19 students are autistic. There are about 220 teachers and 80 educational assistants. We also have 2 psychologists, speech therapist and equine therapy. In addition to the normal courses of study procedures, there is a professional multimedia course in the secondary and a vocational course in the third cycle.