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Niñito Jesús Kindergarten

Children entering the Kindergarten

FEATURES:

When 1995 academic year started, Niñito Jesús Kindergarten opened its doors for the first time.

Providing education, shaping habits and values is a task that should be undertaken at an early age. Hence the need of full-day classes. Teachers, prefects and special music, gym and catechesis teachers provide assistance to the girls and boys that attend the Kindergarten every day.

Niñito Jesus remains open all year round, with school activity going from March to December. During summer and winter vacations, the camp is active, with many classes for children aged 2 to 5.

Young children from San Nicolas Home for Infants and from the catchment areas attend the Kindergarten where, apart from regular school activities, they get the fruit of experiences and projects that have been carefully planned to make teaching more meaningful. At San Nicolas students are given breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. Day students come to school using a free Foundation bus that picks them up in their individual neighborhoods.

Presbítero Manuel Alberti E.P.B. Primary School

EPB School students with their head and teachers

FEATURES:

It has been operating since the beginning of the academic year, in March 1995. Presbitero Manuel Alberti is structured as all provincial schools: there are 3 cycles of 3 years each.

Children take full-day classes and have breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack at the institution. Education is the best tool to fight the scourge of school attrition.

Playing during recess

Because the center provides assistance to a population at high risk, extending full-day classes is the appropriate way to give containment to these kids.

Presbitero Manuel Alberti EPB Primary School not only gives education to children from the Ciudad del Niño Don Bosco dwelling homes but also gives assistance to the Foundation's day students, especially to those from the Obligado settlement in Bella Vista, from the 2 de Abril settlement and from William Morris town in the district of Hurlingham.

A free school bus picks children up so that they can attend classes.

E.S.B. “Escuela Secundaria Básica” Initial High School

'Escuela Secundaria Básica' Initial High School

FEATURES:

The "Escuela Secundaria Básica" Initial High School covers the first years of the secondary cycle (7^th, 8^th, and 9^th years), physically moving apart older students from small primary school children.

This school is a preparatory cycle to the higher studies at the Polimodal High School. It is a most perfect bridge "from Primary to Secondary education" or, in current terminology, it is a bridge from EPB to Polimodal High School. This is a formative cycle with renewed instructional quality. Besides from official subjects youths attend workshops on catechesis, arts, farming, learning techniques and stdy methodologie.

The High School main entrance

Madre Teresa de Calcuta High School

FEATURES:

Madre Teresa de Calcuta High School offers students two possible curricular options: Specialization in Goods and Services or Art, Design and Communications. This institution has been functioning since March 1998, but the complete building was opened at the beginning of 1999 academic year.

High School students in a classroom

It has a kitchen, a dining hall, a small movie theater, IT rooms, art and design rooms, and a library.

Children attend full-day classes. They have breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack. Apart from children living in Ciudad del Niño Don Bosco, the attending population is made up of day students from Barrio Obligado and Barrio San Damian settlements.

Children may choose to take a Drama Workshop and to sing in the Felices los Niños Foundation Choir. They also make jam and handicrafts at the different workshops.

Ceferino Namuncurá Higher Education School

Ceferino Namuncurá High School students

FEATURES:

Opened on March 26, 2001, Ceferino Namuncurá Higher Education School completes the educational cycle and prepares Foundation's graduates to get a job.

The College delivers three courses: Teaching Training in Physical Education, Teaching Training in EGB 1 and 2, and Teaching Training in Basic Education.

Given the context in which classes are given, students get special training in dealing with minors at risk, which reflects the reality of our sociocultural context. The School is open to all persons who wish to take teaching training courses oriented to minors at risk.

The College offers, free of any charge, integrated and specialized training.

Since the Niñito Jesús Kindergarten and the Presbítero Manuel Alberti E.G.B. School are located very close to the College, there is no need for students to move elsewhere in order to do their residency.

GOALS

The purpose of setting up the Higher Level was to provide an answer to the challenges presented and to the new situations which will arise in this first decade of the 21st century. The main goals are:

• To promote, to favor and to develop teachers and social educators, young people at risk and the research on the sociocultural world.
• To promote the training of teachers and social educators who accompany the life of minors at risk, who perform as mediators favoring their personal growth and social insertion and who perform as framework in the process of school teaching.
• To favor the access of young people at sociocultural risk and of popular environments to an educational and/or technical profession, qualifying them for their insertion in the job scene.
• To develop research on the sociocultural world and on the process of teaching and learning as a foundation for projects to be implemented with the aforesaid population.

AVAILABLE FACILITIES

• Two computing rooms
• Two libraries
• Theater
• Projection room
• Heated swimming pool
• Soccer field
• Basketball field
• Fine arts room

EXTRACURRICULAR SUBJECTS OFFERED BY THE COLLEGE

• Social Challenges I and II
  These are necessary for the students to internalize the social context, learning how to act in view of situations of violence, abuse, discrimination, abandonment, etc.
• Preventive Teaching
  St. John Bosco's teaching system, which is known as the “Preventive System” is the pedagogical tool we set up as our objective and our goal. Inspired in its three pillars, Love, Reason, and Religion, we find it to be an effective way of giving a reply to the population we aim at.
• Theology
  To train teachers who choose and transmit the Christian message and the values which are part of our identity.
• Computing
  Providing PC operation, it offers didactic goods for work with children and introduce them to technology.
• Language Workshop
  A workspace available for the improvement of this fundamental issue of the teaching task.

Beato Artémides Zatti EPB School for Adults

FEATURES:

Poverty generates exclusion. Beato Artémides Zatti EPB School for Adults was therefore opened to give schooling to young adults and adults who could not study before. The complete course has a 3-year duration. The school enrolls students aged 18 and older. In addition to the regular curricular subjects, they take IT, Art Education and Catechesis lessons. Students attend classes from Monday to Friday, from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. They get an afternoon snack and supper at school premises.

Madre Teresa de Calcuta High School for Adults

FEATURES:

Young adults and adults who wish to complete their studies may do so at Madre Teresa de Calcuta High School for Adults. It offers a course on Specialization on Goods and Services.

Angel de la Guarda Special Education School

FEATURES:

The Angel de la Guarda special education school opened its doors in March, 2001.

Angel de la Guarda School Students

Its goal: to give children and teenagers with special needs and high risk the chance of getting education. This child, an irrepetible subject who must and needs to build his own identity, looks together with his family for a place where comprehensive development of the person is valued.

In its fourth year Ángel de la Guarda day-by-day reasserts and confirms its pedagogic project: developing the world of self-expression, of movement, of verbal expression, sounds, and plastics as elements of communications for intellectual acquisitions; through the personalized work of each educator for each student; carrying out tasks which promote crativity, the wish to communicate, and curiosity. Through the area of technology we offer the chance of exploring the environment, the elements, tools, matter, processes, starting at the most basic levels up to the most complex forms. For instance, each year groups partake at municipal, county, and nationwide craft shows, at tournaments at the Buenos Aires province level, at tournaments among county schools as well as those open to the Community, they share orchard and personal care activities

80 pupils are enrolled, which means eighty chances, eighty initiatives. Together with many of them we work towards a reinsertion in normal school, either E.G.B. or initial school. Some of them will soon assist high school. But I'll refer to this at another time.

We want to tell you we are inserted in a municipal project named "Consejo Municipal para las personas discapacitadas" (Municipal Council for disabled people) which is composed by different institutions, bodies, and interdisciplinary professionals in order to assist diversity, different disabilities, and above all to know the needs of the Hurlingham community.

There is a long way to go. Few schooling entities are dedicated to special schooling. A large number of children with special needs have no access to schools. This way their insertion in the community is difficult, without having internalised the tools which the school prepares, brings closer, offers, and works through with each one of them.

We make ours a sentence the author of which we don't know, but which summarizes how we look at these children and young people: "Like birds, people are different in their flight but have the same right to fly."

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