Age 11 - 14
The Montessori approach for Middle School is a set of ideas and actions: a different way of approaching life and school experiences.
Montessori Middle School focuses on the adolescent as a social “newborn”, fragile and in need of support, but at the same time full of resources and with a strong desire to explore themselves and the world around them.
Our study program is specifically designed to meet the specific needs and characteristics of adolescents, guiding them through this delicate phase of their development with practical and meaningful experiences.
Students are encouraged to use the educational environment to build their own identity autonomously. This means that they are encouraged to become self-sufficient through personal experience, to explore, experiment and develop their manual skills both individually and in groups, without adults intervening directly, in order to promote complete and balanced personal growth.
Time Schedule
Monday to Friday
Entry until 8:30 AM
Exit from 4 PM to 4:30 PM
From 7:30 AM
From 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
In Via Bignanico,
with shuttle service included.
Location
What is studied?
Italian
History
Geography
English
Enhanced English (with a native teacher)
Mathematics
Science
Science Technology and Computer Science
Art and Image
Music
Ph. Ed. and Sports
Religion
Civic Education
Montessori Laboratories
Technology
Students work with a variety of tools and materials to design and create objects that respond to everyday needs, promoting a conscious and critical use of technological resources. Projects often involve other subjects in an interdisciplinary way, such as art, science and mathematics.
Montessori Laboratories
Art
Each project emphasizes interdisciplinary learning, cooperative learning and responsibility, involving various operational and methodological tools. It also promotes active participation, freedom of expression, problem solving and the creation of a personal knowledge base.
Montessori Laboratories
Information Technology
The activities carried out promote problem-solving oriented towards research and constructive management of errors.
The main objectives are the conscious and correct use of digital technologies to develop computational thinking and strategic organization of data, and the understanding that digital innovations are a tool that supports and simplifies strategies to achieve objectives.
“The development of language is part of the human personality itself. Words are the natural means of expressing thought, and consequently of establishing understanding between men. If once it was enough to know a single language, today it has become indispensable to teach several.”
Maria Montessori
Intercultural English
Class Hours Structure:
3 hours of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning): These hours are dedicated to cosmic education and include subjects such as history, geography and science. Lessons are taught in the presence of a subject teacher, thus allowing students to learn subject content directly in English.
2 hours of linguistic in-depth study: These hours are dedicated to the study of foreign culture and civilization, replacing the 2 curricular hours of a second European language. The aim is to deepen knowledge of the English language through the exploration of cultural aspects.
These 5 hours of enhanced English are taught by a bilingual teacher with a degree obtained in the United Kingdom to ensure an authentic and stimulating learning experience.
Students also have 3 hours of English per week with an ELS (English as a Second Language) teacher.
Lunch time
Unlike primary school, middle school students do not have specific roles during lunch, which allows them to fully focus on the convivial moment and socializing with their classmates.
Lunch takes place inside the classrooms, where students are divided into mixed groups. This encourages interaction between children of different ages and classes, helping to create an inclusive and collaborative environment. Once a week, there is also the co-presence of an English teacher, which adds an extra educational opportunity, allowing children to practice the language in an informal context.
The Environments
The Como Montessori Middle School is equipped with a soccer field, volleyball net, ping pong table, and basketball hoop, as well as a municipal gym. Students have access to a self-managed urban garden and spaces for outdoor activities and recreation. The school also offers a carpentry workshop, a multipurpose room for art and music, a library, and a computer room with Wi-Fi. In addition, there is an art workshop and a Great Hall for events and meetings.
Paola Faggetti
Coordinator of the Middle School
Paola Fagetti is an English teacher in Middle School and its Coordinator. With 13 years of seniority in the institution, she has contributed to the Middle School since its creation. Her experience includes teaching in various schools and accompanying groups of children in the United Kingdom during the summer, offering them an immersive experience in the English language and culture.
Fagetti trained in the Montessori method in 2015, participating in the first course for Middle School organized by the Opera Nazionale Montessori. She strongly believes in team building and cultivates relationships with colleagues and parents to build an educational alliance around the children that helps them grow in self-awareness. She is a point of reference for new and existing teachers, with the aim of growing together professionally to respond to the emotional and psychological needs of adolescents in a rapidly evolving world.
Fagetti believes that it is essential to protect the adolescent during the time of difficult psycho-physical transition and to nourish his desire to explore himself and the world, in order to discover what his place is in that world. As Montessori quotes: “Adolescence is the period in which the child becomes a man, that is, a member of society.”
Faq
Il programma scolastico è lo stesso della scuola tradizionale?
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Cos'è la libertà Montessori?
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Possono accedere alla scuola Montessori anche bambini che non hanno un percorso montessoriano alle spalle?
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I bambini che escono dalla primaria Montessori poi devono continuare con il metodo anche alle medie o posso continuare con il metodo tradizionale?
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