Best Practice: Polo Liceale di Imola "Rambaldi - Valeriani" e "Alessandro da Imola"

1. "Sport & School in Europe"

"Sport & School in Europe": Values conveyed through sport activities

After the launch of the project in 2004, in 2005 a questionnaire about Values in Sport was submitted to the students of 9 schools who had agreed in participating (Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Hungary).
The questionnaire, on values in sport, was prepared by CONI (Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano = The Italian Olimpic Committee), translated into English and French and sent to the schools who had agreed on contributing to the project.
CONI processed the outcome of the questionnaire and each school analysed its own results and compared them to the general ones.

Click here to read the questionnaire
Click here to download the questionnaire

 

Delegations were formed by 10 students and two teachers from each school and spent four days in Riccione (end of September 2006). The programme of the meeting included a sport day with matches of football (5 players each team), beach volleyball, basketball and badminghton; a working day in class on "Values in Sport".



 

Working in groups, students produced posters on advertising Values in Sport and the ideal European Sportsman/woman. They also worked on a Glossary (in 7 languages) of 20 most important words related to Sport.

Evaluation
The meeting was a great success for the active involvement of students.

Is this best practice transferable to other schools?
Recommendations International projects are always very useful and positive in terms of students' involvement. They find that working with peers of different Countries stimulate their curiosity while getting to know each other. They appreciate learning about style of life and cultures through direct experience and through peer-learning.

There will be a CD made by the end of this school year with all the material produced during the meeting and the results of the questionnaire.

Click here for a short report of the meeting on website of the Italian Olympic committee

Website in Italian

Click here to watch the video of the Italians

Tutti abbiano bisogno di qualcuno / Everybody needs somebody

Click here to read the child's rights in sport

The teachers prepared a chart on agreed basic rights in sport for children.

2. SOLIDARIETÀ AGITA = CITTADINANZA ATTIVA

"A bridge of solidarity starts from school: the true name of Peace is Education"
SOLIDARIETÀ AGITA = CITTADINANZA ATTIVA
Solidarity in practice = Active citizenship
Since 2001 every year.
Students of the entire school

Theme: Solidarity as a permanent value of life.

Redistribution of the Earth sources. We are working not just to give African people help, but we are trying to promote their self-supporting skills both in the cultural and economic fields .
At our school there is the Solidarity Committee made up of some teachers who are the reference group and coordinators of the long distance schooling adoption project (PPA= Project Parents Adoptive). Each year the students organise activities to raise funds for the project.

The activities consist of:

• making a calendar (students in costumes are the subjects of the photos);
• selling chocolate eggs at Easter time;
• selling manufactured articles made by the students themselves (in workshop with the teachers);
• collecting old clothes during the first summer holiday days (to be sold for recycling);
• Performances of the choir "Coro Gospel" made up by students of our school.

The project was started by the Lycée "Rambaldi-Valeriani" and "Alessandro da Imola" in collaboration with "San Giacomo" Association and now it includes other high schools of Imola, each partner giving its support according to its own expertise.
Our school in particular is in charge of the adoption for poor children in Bukavu who are financially supported in order to attend school. This year we have adopted 63 young children and we plan to keep the same number next year as well.
In Bukavu we are linked to a local NGO association called BRAPTE who makes sure the funds get to the right people and keeps in touch, informing us directly about what happens and the latest news (including the information of the war that just broke out on 1st April 2007).

From the adoption project other activities have been generated:

1. training courses here in Imola for young people of Bukavu (supported by the school); The Imola Technical School for agriculture "Scarabelli" offered free training courses to 4 young people from Bukavu (they had already a degree in agriculture). Our school provided money for their journey. The Technical School "Alberghetti" in Imola provides little agricultural machines.
2. the project of building a maternity hospital in Bukavu (by San Giacomo Association). A Scientific Lycée from Dolo (Venice - Italy) cooperates in raising funds for the maternity hospital. At the maternity hospital in Imola 4 people from Bukavu were able to attend training courses.

The training courses ended in December 2006 and we hope to continue from May onward if the war doesn't cause a complete stop to connections.

Other projects are being carried out in this network of solidarity (drilling water wells, activities with microcredit, EcoFoot football school, health center Malkia-wa-amani, etc....).
This year, during the visit at our school of these people from Bukavu, another idea came out while entering a chemistry class who was working on how to make soap. In Africa soap is considered a luxury and very expensive product, but it can be easily made and they thought of starting a little factory to make soap in Bukavu. Unfortunately because of the war, the idea can't be turned into practice for the moment.

Evaluation
The few lines above are not sufficient to describe the great amount of work behind these projects, but it is important to stress how successful they are in terms of the results they achieve, the persistence of the activities and the multiplying effects they have. Getting to know these young people of Bukavu and becoming their friends has shown that Solidarity is not one-way direction, but that reciprocity is the success for projects of this kind. Friendship (and not pity) among peers gives life and keeps these projects going on.

Is this best practice transferable to other schools?
Yes, definately. Everything starts from a good idea and its success is due to direct contacts with people and the desire to involve everyone on both sides.

Photo album
Information about the original materials

(language, downloadable, available, number of pages...)

Chocolate for you ... and school for me!
An egg full of hope

"In Bukavu, democratic republic of Congo, there are a lot of young children who, because of the war, have lost their parents or have been abandoned. Now they live on the road; it's here they eat, sleep and very often they rob in order to survive. They are the so called "Les enfants de la rue", or even the children of the other world. They have no identity; they do not exist for the town. This makes them aggressive as they have lost hope.
Giving them the possibility of a school education means to give them a bit of hope. They will know there is someone (even if in the distance) who thinks about them, tries to help them to make them believe in a better future. Helping these poor children we help the adults of tomorrow, the ones who will be in charge of building up a society. Helping these children we participate in giving peace."
By Pierre Lokeka of the PPA Bukavu.

The welcome of our friends in Bakavu Gabriel and Marie Therese were in Imola for the stage project. Gabriel worked with the electricians of the company Hera Ami while Marie was for a stage at the maternità hospital in Imola. Now Gabriel is in charge of the conduction of ithe hydroelectric power station which gives electricity to Bukavu. Marie will work in the maternity hospital which will be opened next to the Malkia Wa Amani centre. Leaflet for the collection of old clothes which will be sold to be recycled

The Governor of Bukavu city welcome the delegation from Imola The Governor of Bukavu city welcome the delegation from Imola The Governor of Bukavu city welcome the delegation from Imola The Coro Gospel of the students from Licei "Rambaldi-Valeriani" e "Alessandro da Imola" Invitation for Theatre performance

3. Litter project

Click here to read the Litter project (year two)