From Our Pedagogical Director and Coordinator: N°6 - September/October 2014
From Our Pedagogical Director and Coordinator: N°6 - September/October 2014
From Our Pedagogical Director and Coordinator: N°6 - September/October 2014
Some of the teachers of the Liceo dei Colli, from left to right: Almut Stolte, Francesca Zannoni, Alessandra Mazzoni, Indro Cattel Casattelo, Angelo, Francesca Bing,
Valentina Maffei, Christopher Clouder e in basso, Giulia Miscioscia and Elisa Martinuzzi
commencement of this experience. The most effective organizational model, by which we were inspired, was to deal with situations
on the spot, so as to embrace the needs of all, while still following
the main program, structured by a few basic rules that left each one
their own independence .
Valentina Sprecacenere - Grade XI
During the trip to Sicily, in my opinion, a wonderful relationship developed between students and teachers.
The class came together during this trip and lived these days in
an atmosphere of joy and interest for the topics brought by the
teachers. To live through intense moments like these, all together
as a school, was a wonderful experience: the relationship between
students and teachers was pleasant, fun and easy going. Without
any tension, some of the factions within our group came much
closer together, thanks to the forced proximity that is experienced
on such a trip. It seems to me, that this kind of forced community
that one experiences during a trip allows us to get to know each
other more easily.
Dario - Grade XI
agriculture thanks to which we try to preserve the fertility of the ecosystems. The
farm has recently been equipped in order
to accommodate groups and provide teaching in the field, offering the opportunity
to those who come here to work together
with the staff and to observe directly how Working in the vineyards of Loppiano
they are organized and how they manage their working day. I spent only the first
three days with the students, that is to say
Sunday the14th , Monday the15th and
Tuesday the 16th until evening . These
were three very beautiful and very intense
days, for myself and for them. In addition
to the interesting activities on the farm
that took up most of the time (just to name
a few: grape harvesting, sampling of the
grapes and the calculation of sugar content in the laboratory, reconstruction of an Practical lesson in Loppiano
ancient arch etc.) ; We also had the opportunity to get to know each other better
by cooking and sleeping together in the curious and willing to learn more about
same apartment . The kids proved to be certain topics. It has been a very positive
excellent cooks and also keen workers, experience.
Teacher Francesca Zannoni
The High Schools Open Day, Lorenzo Galligani, who teaches sculpture at the Liceo dei Colli, while running the workhop.
From Parents
Parents at work
the villas ballroom with its frescoed ceiling was an ideal setting for
the banquet scene. Others were staged outside: the act in which
the witches communicate their three prophecies to Macbeth was
set in space surrounded by stone walls where the witches appeared to be dancing around their cauldron in a grotto. The audience
lined up on the exterior stairs leading down toward them to watch.
The unanimous favourite of the students was the final scene of
the play, in which the army of Malcolm, son of the king, and Macduff, another general, march upon the castle to seek revenge for
the murder of their family members, and a battle ensues. The stu-
dents wore camouflage reaped from the park surrounding the villa
and fought using self-constructed wooden weapons. Their Kung
Fu instructors, Valentina and Angelo, had rehearsed the fighting
scene to perfection with them.
At the completion of the play, with evil avenged and the general
Macduff having been hailed as the new king of Scotland, order
has been restored, so to say. The audience fell into roaring applause. Even though many would have found it difficult to understand the words of the play, staged in a foreign language, the
performance was lost on no one!
Nina Marton (mother of two students at the Liceo)