studying a second EUropean language. But our school also organizes extra school courses to help its students to get international English Certifications, like Trinity and Cambridge ones. In the last years these courses, together with other on computers, were organized thanks to the help of European Union (PON-FERS).
In order to promote foreign languages and the development of a European concience, we are involving our students in some etwinning projects.
this year the school joined an international project called Multikulturalità, the main aims of which are to promote solirdarity, tolerance and mutual respect among different countries.
Another important and very productive laboratory in our school is the one on ceramic.
Primary school gives great importance to drama and music, too.
The Istituto Comprensivo Salvemini is located in Battipaglia, in South Italy. It is divided into Infancy School, Primary school and Lower Secondary School. So its about 1200 students are from 3 to 14 years of age and they have differentsocial and cultural background also because the school consists of 3 different buildings situated in different places in town, with different economic situations. in our school There are science laboratories, computer labs and almost all our classrooms have Interactive Multimedia Board. Students start Learning English during the first year of Primary school (6-year-old Students), while during the first year of Lower Secondary School( 11-year-old students) they start