Vittoria High School Projects

At Vittoria High Schools, we devote the first days of each new school year to activities that are not strictly educational, often taught outside the school, outdoors and in nature.
The workshop on team building, a technique proven in a variety of professional contexts but still not common in the school environment, promotes meeting new class groups while fostering the team spirit and sense of belonging that plays an essential role in the ability to study in a peaceful and productive way.
The students experience the value of collaboration, the importance of feeling part of a group and mutual empathy. They learn to share goals, manage time and draw lessons from their successes and failures. The importance of the collaborative and collective aspect of study is one of the main requirements for students to feel involved, to be key players in their course of study and take responsibility for it.

CAS enables students to enhance their personal and interpersonal development by learning through experience. It provides opportunities for self-determination and collaboration with others, fostering a sense of accomplishment and enjoyment from their work. At the same time, CAS is an important counterbalance to the academic pressures of the DP.

The three strands of CAS are characterized as follows:

• Creativity – arts, and other experiences that involve creative thinking.

• Activity – physical activities complementing academic work elsewhere in the DP.

• Service – an unpaid and voluntary exchange that has a learning benefit for the student. 

A good CAS programme should be both challenging and enjoyable – a personal journey of self‑discovery.

Study trips abroad are organised, both during the school year and when school is not in session. These experiences are systematically incorporated into the educational program and accompany our students’ language certification pathways. Some of these experiences have developed a series of permanent, international relationships over the years, with class and teachers exchanges and the implementation of educational partnerships.
Our school encourages and supports quarterly, half-yearly or yearly attendance abroad for students in the 4th year of the Italian Curriculum High School and welcomes students from other countries who apply. Upon return to Italy, the students are assisted in catching up on missed subjects and adequately supported in school reintegration.

One of the most popular projects at our school is the school newspaper. The editorial team consists of a group of middle and high school students, coordinated by a literary teacher and the school's digital communications manager. Commenting on school events and trivia, the students learn to use new media and create content such as blog articles, videos, reels, photographs and interviews.