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Hello and welcome to our blog! We are the students and teachers of the vocational secondary school “A. Volta” in Fano, Italy. This blog is open to those who want to share their comments and opinions on current issues. But what does “Bridging the gap” mean and why did we choose this name? The word “GAP” is a … Continue reading
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On the last Saturday of September, class V TIEN, together with a delegation of the other fifth forms, went on a fieldtrip to the “Sustainable Living Festival” in Fano. Here you can watch a video that explains the concept of sustainability. After discussing the meaning of SUSTAINABILITY, we took part in a series of workshops … Continue reading
Matthias Canapini graduated from our Art School “Liceo Apolloni” two years ago. After studying Oriental Languages in Pesaro for a year, he decided he wanted to learn more about the world so he started working as an independent photoreporter travelling around Italy, the Balkans, Syria and Turkey with the aim of giving voice to past … Continue reading
This year we have also researched different international organizations which contribute to make our world a better place! This is what the students of class IV TIEN have discovered:
Environmental problems can be found in all areas of the world, and they affect land, water and air. Some result from what humans take from the environment, in the form of land for agriculture, and accommodation for a rapidly increasing population; mineral and fossil fuel resources; and timber. These problems include deforestation, erosion, damage to ecosystems and reductions in biodiversity. Other problems stem from … Continue reading
Last week I went to Saltara with my class and two teachers. The meeting was at the station and we left at 8.00 a.m. In this school in Saltara there was a conference with Peppino Impastato’s brother. Peppino Impastato was an ordinary person who lived in Palermo and he was a son of mafia people but he … Continue reading
The World Café methodology is a simple and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. This morning we used this technique to brainstorm the contents of a letter we are writing all together. Well done boys … your English needs perfecting but you worked really hard … it’s great to see you all so involved … Continue reading
Last Monday we were greatly honoured to speak to Mrs Luisa Morgantini, leading member of the Italian peace movement and former vice-president of the European Parliament, about the importance of solidarity. Thank you for your beautiful words of peace. We are also very grateful to Ms Romina Orianda for her interesting report and beautiful photographs.
Today we went to Pesaro to see the exhibition “Living together in Palestine”. Mr Leandro Foglietta guided us around a photographic tour of Palestinan history between the years 1880 and 1948.
Year 4 is working on the topic “Solidarity”. We are trying to understand why people choose to help others and in order to answer this question we are exploring stories of people who devote their time and life to make the world a better place. Some of these stories take us to Palestine …. Solidarity: … Continue reading
Last week we listened to this poem in class. Rafeef writes this poem after an interview with an American journalist in which he asks a question which contains a very hard and unacceptable stereotype. He says that Palestinians teach hatred to their children. After this question Rafeef tries to calm down by looking inside herself; … Continue reading
Our classrooms were a bit boring and depressing so …. we livened them up with some useful posters 🙂
Today years 3 and 4 watched the film “Welcome” by Philippe Lioret. The film tells the story of Simon Calmat (Vincent Lindon), a French swimming coach who is divorcing his wife Marion (Audrey Dana). Simon tries to help a young Iraqi-Kurdish illegal Immigrant, Bilal Kayani (Firat Ayverdi), whose dream is to cross the English Channel from … Continue reading
I attended job training for five weeks from June to September at “Lavorazioni meccaniche Marco Vagnini” in Serrungarina, a small village near our town. This company operates in the field of mechanics, in particular they lathe and solder pieces. My company tutors were Mr Marco Vagnini and Mrs Michela; the school tutor was Mr Antonio … Continue reading
Flying is always a weird sensation. it seems as if you weren’t really flying, soaring among clouds and over the hills, the mountains and the beautiful scenery of our beautiful country. And from the moment you’re flying until you get home again …. you miss the people you know, your family, your friends, your town. … Continue reading
Nowadays schools don’t offer the education that we need but neither are we ready for a serious debate on our needs. For me school should be a place of culture , self-expression for us guys and for this we should feel more comfort inside school buildings and we should be free to express our passions … Continue reading
Everyone in Britain knows Jamie Oliver, the multimillionaire TV chef. But when he left school at 16 with just 2 GCSE qualifications his teachers didn’t imagine that he would become so famous a few years later. Jamie’s school experience is unfortunately not unusual. In the UK, 47% of young people leave school at 16 with … Continue reading
The students of our school are proud to present ENERGETICALLY a sustainable journey around the province of Pesaro at the discovery of energy and its many forms: energy that transforms, that sets in motion and provides power, energy produced by water, by the food we eat, energy that we wish was sustainable, ecologically friendly and then … … Continue reading
Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of alternative sources of energy Centaalternative energy View more PowerPoint from melanie segal
A great presentation created by my colleague Tiziana Volpato with her students for a Comenius project. Our home is like a mirrored shell, it reflects our idea of comfort, it provides protection, it fits our needs, it reflects our attitude towards the environment, so the greenER… the better. Green house View more PowerPoint from melanie … Continue reading
An Inconvenient Truth is a documentary film about climate change, specifically global warming, directed by Davis Guggenheim and starring former United States Vice President Al Gore. The documentary is based largely on a multimedia presentation that Gore developed over many years as part of an educational campaign on global warming. Trailer of the film
A song by John Lennon about the working class. Class V TIM and V TIEN, please post your comments under the video
Ca’ Virginia is an environmentally friendly Country House and Beauty Centre.Our students went there to discover the secrets of this eco-hotel. Last week with my class and other classes of IPIA Volta, I went to Ca’ Virginia to see some forms of renewable sources of energy and to learn how it is possible to live … Continue reading
ENGLISH 4U – FINAL COUNTDOWN After the good results obtained at the Trinity English exams, we had the chance to travel to England for three weeks to study English at the Embassy school. This journey was interesting and useful. I think my English has really improved and now I can say that I have visited … Continue reading
Modern Times is a 1936 comedy film by Charlie Chaplin that has his iconic Little Tramp character struggling to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film is a comment on the desperate employment and fiscal conditions many people faced during the Great Depression, conditions created by the efficiencies of modern industrialization.
Carol Ann Duffy wrote the poem ‘Education for Leisure’ in the 1980s. She worked as a visiting poet in a school in the East End of London at the time, and relates the school’s policy of exclusion of disruptive or difficult pupils with the political policies of the time. The poem is a monologue told … Continue reading
You are living in Britain at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. As we have seen the population of Britain is growing and people are moving from jobs in cottages and farms to jobs in towns working in big factories. These factories have been set up to use new machines to produce more goods for … Continue reading
There’s a law of life that says “If something bad can happen, it will happen”. It’s called Murphy’s Law, and it took its name from Captain Edward Murphy, an American aeroplane engineer from the 1940s. He was investigating why planes crashed, and he got a reputation for always thinking of the worst thing that can … Continue reading
This week, year 5 classes are going to start the recycling@school project. They will then teach younger students how to separate their rubbish and use the correct bins. Reusing and recycling items means that less waste has to be buried in the ground in landfill sites, plus we save valuable resources by turning waste into new … Continue reading
“Boom!” is a protest song by American alternative metal band System of a Down. It was released on their 2002 album Steal This Album!. The song describes the uselessness of bombs and warfare, and compares how thousands can die from starvation and poverty when billions of dollars are spent creating bombs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boom!_(song)
Travelling is part of people’s life. We all travel and we travel for many reasons. Listen to the song The Passenger by Iggy Pop and then tell us why do you think people decide to travel?
“Don’t Demolish My Future” is the cry today from a small Bedouin community near Jerusalem, called Khan al-Ahmar, all of its members U.N.-registered refugees displaced first in 1948 and now under imminent threat of displacement once more. “Don’t Demolish My Future” is also the name of an online campaign launched by the United Nations Relief and Works … Continue reading
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