VIDEO | The ITIS Majorana of Cassino is also open in the afternoon to prevent dispersion

Thanks to PNRR funds, the school has started mentoring courses, L2 workshops and afternoon extracurricular projects

ROME – The video story of the Ministry of Education and Merit this week is dedicated to the ITIS “Ettore Majorana” of Cassino which, with the funds of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR ) to reduce territorial gaps, has started mentoring courses, L2 workshops and afternoon extracurricular projects.

ITIS “Ettore Majorana” in Cassino (FR) is attended by 1,200 students from four Provinces of three different Regions and from very different socioeconomic contexts. To respond to the many needs of such a vast user base, which includes many foreigners and vulnerable students, thanks to the PNRR the Institute has been able to activate mentoring and strengthening courses for basic skills.

“Ours is a very varied school reality, with different problems – explains the teacher Sonia D’Epiro –, for which we have activated a workshop path to strengthen basic skills, of L2 in particular, which acted on strengthening knowledge of the Italian language. We welcomed this opportunity made possible by the PNRR with great enthusiasm, to further guarantee our students’ educational success”.

To combat school dropouts, it was also decided to keep the school open beyond the traditional opening hours. “All the laboratory activities that are carried out in the morning – comments Stefania Giacomobono, first collaborator of the DS – sometimes need greater in-depth analysis. For this reason, as well as for a series of extracurricular projects activated, we thought it was necessary to extend the hours”.

“Keeping school open in the afternoon – adds Luigi Velardo, teacher – is fundamental for the typology of our users for a series of reasons, from the distance that many students face between school and home, to the need to intensify and strengthen the ‘school activity so that school is experienced to the full’. Among the laboratory projects activated, the Physics one has been particularly successful among students, who can take part in a practical activity and effectively use the laboratory instruments. According to tutor Francesco Bevacqua, “this type of activity is highly engaging both from the point of view of content and from an emotional point of view. The dimension of ‘know-how’ and ‘doing’ is always important within teaching and has a strong value against dispersion”.

#NoiriamoLeScuole is the project of the Ministry of Education and Merit dedicated to the stories of teaching and community and to the stories of the PNRR Education.