Istituto Comprensivo “Ettore Sacconi” has reached this consistency in 2012 thanks to the merging of Primary school “C.e M.Nardi” and the infant school “T. Valdi” to the previous “Scuola Media Ettore Sacconi” and Infant school “L.Leoni”. The merging gave origins to a 1400 students/pupils institute. To these were added, for 7 years, the infant and primary schools in Monte Romano. During the last 10 years the Institute has been involved in many different projects. Our school is set in Tarquinia, a town in Viterbo province. We are a successful state school and at the moment more than 1300 students from 3-14 years old and around 170 teachers are here every day. Our students come from different backgrounds and nationalities. Our school welcomes and is open to any students regardless their religion, nationality, ideology, background.

We have been engaged in many successful international projects, integrating different abilities and involving plenty of different countries. We work trying to follow different methodologies according to the activities prepared and the target audience. Being part of the Erasmus family has been an important choice as it has  involved us in a series of training experiences which have brought to a different organization of teaching and a much more mature series of choices aimed at increasing our pupils’ and students’  wellbeing, connecting us with a European dimension which provides many important values. These experiences are providing our whole school community with the opportunity to learn from and share with other communities in Europe, creating bridges between cultures and different points of view.

Thanks to this project, proposed by and co- built with the Spanish team from Martinet School and the other European teams here collected,  we aim at  improving 2 important areas of our curriculum: mathematics & technology. We are going to explore, learn and improve our teaching methodologies. We want to exchange our best practices in order to set innovative and active methodologies which can help all our students to improve their learning and competences, and of course they’ll guide our teachers to learn different ways of teaching and getting to all students in order to help them reach their goals. Sharing and learning together will certainly make us grow stronger and our student will increase their self-awareness, becoming more responsible and autonomous.