When there are 16 years Alberto Rodrigues was invited to drive the primary and Secondary School of Vila Cova, Barcelos, the averages were at the bottom of the tables the national. The then professor of Physical Education in this group is located 10 kilometres from Barcelos, in the field, asked parents and students if they wanted to be among the good schools or bad. They chose the side of the bread has the butter, beginning to rise on the lists.
And it was no amazement that they have received this year the title of the best public school on the index of the successful promotion, with a difference of 21.8% in relation to the national average. Alberto Rodrigues does not like to speak of strategies of success in a school, "every student is a student". Altogether, there are 700, and the attitude inculcated in the young people is that they do not inhibit addressing the director and the teachers in the corridors.
In the EB2/3 de Vila Cova for more than 10 years that the big bet revolves around books. "A good reader is a good student," says the director, who quickly realized that if it were not for the school to provide them, few people would have a book by the bedside.
in A social context of low education of the parents (the majority have fewer of the 9th year), many of the mothers are foraging textile and fathers employed in the civil construction. More than half of the students in primary and secondary school are supported by the social action school.
in A generation facing new technologies, Alberto Rodrigues chose to innovate, equipping the library of e-readers, with a capacity of up to a thousand books that can be borrowed and taken home. Laptops and cell phones are not prohibited in the classroom. "Are the garb of them," admits the professor, telling him that the project of the Virtual School already earned the group a prize of €15 thousand of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and €20 thousand of Montepio, for the installation of the Room of the Future, which breaks with the traditional model of desks lined up, in which the teacher delivers and the student listens – or not.
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"The classes have to be interactive and the teacher is a supervisor of the knowledge, passing on more of that content, ways of research, today the key to survival professional", you represent Paulo Faria, professor of Portuguese, critical rooms that do not change 200 years ago, in spite of the renovations of the Park School. "Out to change the paradigm, to take advantage of the tablets," he says, referring to the fact that it ends the class with a quiz on digital support that allows you to know what the students have retained the material.
Fatima Bridge, 16, a student at the 11, dreams of becoming a profiler criminal, walk to read "Inferno" by Dan Brown, which has accessed via the network’s pinterest of the school, before seeing the movie in the holidays. Pedro Lopes, a fellow pupil, appreciates at the school the ease with which taketh away the doubts in network with teachers and colleagues. "Are classes outside of the room," says the candidate to a computer engineer "if you have medium-sized", explains the son of a working-class textile and a construction worker who had emigrated to Corsica.
Between the mountains and the river
In the grouping of the Arga e Lima, the second audience on the podium at the index of the promotion of success, 17% above the average of the country, did not surprise the director Agostinho Gomes, accustomed to the reputation of good students of the school of the quiet village of Lanhases, in the municipality of Viana of the Castle.
More conservative than the leader of the school of Vila Cova, the teacher changed the teaching of History by the direction 27 years ago admits of no phones in the rooms, neither fear the criticism of their teaching to be "old-fashioned". To the repair responds with results: retention rates are very low (3% in year 10) and 60% of the approximately 170 secondary-school pupils to enter in higher education in the course of the first option.
you do Not have magic formulas, because he believes that "in the same batch, not all breads come out the same", but acknowledges that it helps to know by name a good portion of the students and have a stable of teachers. Another of their mottos encourages all teachers to teach Portuguese, Physics, Mathematics or Biology.
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Within the walls of the pool share the same playground 560 students, from pre-school to year 12, refuting "fears unfounded" parents and grandparents who did not see with good eyes the interaction between kids and adults. "Respect to be respected is the primer repeated since little ones," recalls Augustine Gomes, proud of the rare cases of indiscipline in a school "humanized, trigger, garden" the ten kilometres of Ponte de Lima. To the back there is the stillness of the valley, bordered by the Serra d’ Arga and the river Lima.
"The absence of distractions turns out to be an advantage over the schools of the cities", he / she, although the thousand inhabitants of Lanheses, such as those of the surrounding villages, live far away from paradise. "The medium is poor, the young couples earning low wages, many are unemployed or receive subsidies and social reintegration", she emphasizes.
The support of the municipality
To compensate for the lack of resources of the parents, there are years that the younger will receive backpacks with books, encourage the older ones to take books from the library, and attending workshops and training of Physics and Mathematics. In the school that welcomes students from the three parishes close, the school transportation "is effective" and the time school from 8: 30 to 17h, the "favourable" to learning.
"Some parents want their children to stay here even longer, but at these ages the family is essential, such as the extra-curricular activities", refers to Augustine Gomes.
less than 20 kilometres from the sea and Viana, in the EB 2/3 of Agra Lima the focus is on water sports, with the Camera to subsidize the access to the swimming pools of children of the 1st cycle, while the students of the 2nd and 3rd cycle practice without costs sailing, rowing or surfing. Study visits and trips to Lisbon, Madrid, Paris or Rome are also encouraged, paid for with revenues from the school. "It is good to encourage them to get out of the hole," concludes the director.
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