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A Secondary & Higher Secondary level school facility, Last School is unique in following the “Free Progress” approach: inviting the students to progressively define their own program of development. This approach has a demonstrable structuring effect on their personality and increases their autonomy, self-confidence and capacity of innovation. The school offers a curriculum designed to develop each child integrally through their mental, vital, physical and, when possible, to help them grow inwardly also. | |||
The teachers assist the students in finding what they truly are and want to become, and to build in themselves a rich multifaceted personality, through a great variety of learning activities. This became all the more important in a context of restriction of activity due to the corona epidemic. | |||
===Activities of the year:=== | |||
We had 30 full time students this year, from 14 to 18 years old, spread in different groups according to their level in each subject. 5 more students were coming part time for specific activities. | |||
The normal program of Last School includes literature, visual art in all its forms, social sciences, natural sciences, philosophy, mathematics, physics & chemistry, languages, 3D modelling. Physical education is very much insisted upon as well as extra-curricular activities such as dance, music, theater, so that all the parts of the being are awakened and developed. | |||
Art is an important component of the program having in it a triple objective: first, to refine the being and give to it a sense of beauty in everything, second, as an exercise of concentration and focus, and third as an opportunity to develop the capacity to work with matter and to make it a conscious expression of beauty. | |||
Mathematics and sciences are approached to sharpen the analytical mind and awaken the intellectual integrity embedded in scientific methods. | |||
Literature and language are used to develop the capacity to think and express oneself, whether in writing or orally, and to touch some of the most essential questions of human life and condition. | |||
No subject is an end in itself but all serve as a means by which to address and develop diverse parts of the being. | |||
The older students are encouraged to involve themselves into various Auroville activities as part of their school program. | |||
This year was marked by the [[lockdown]] then by restrictions. We were not able to offer a normal full program to the students. Replacing our normal classes by online courses was not a valid option, since for us a school is first of all a place where people come together to create an atmosphere of growth and progress. This atmosphere is an active element of the school and had to be preserved. | |||
The students were requested to create their own program and contact the teachers individually for help and guidance. Small groups were allowed in the school premises on a part time basis. | |||
An additional member joined the team to follow up the students in a more individual way and make sure nobody was left behind. | |||
===Outcomes:=== | |||
As a consequence of the context of the epidemic, there were fewer teaching hours delivered, but this was more than compensated by an increased autonomy on the side of the students, as well as more motivation and intensity in their work. | |||
No case of covid contamination has been reported in the school. | |||
===Reflections:=== | |||
Crises are an opportunity to create something new, to realize that we are not the victims of circumstances and that we are always able to respond creatively to challenges. | |||
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A Secondary & Higher Secondary level school facility, Last School is unique in following the “Free Progress” approach: inviting the students to progressively define their own program of development. This approach has a demonstrable structuring effect on their personality and increases their autonomy, self-confidence and capacity of innovation. The school offers a curriculum designed to develop each child integrally through their mental, vital, physical and, when possible, to help them grow inwardly also.
The teachers assist the students in finding what they truly are and want to become, and to build in themselves a rich multifaceted personality, through a great variety of learning activities. This became all the more important in a context of restriction of activity due to the corona epidemic.
Activities of the year:
We had 30 full time students this year, from 14 to 18 years old, spread in different groups according to their level in each subject. 5 more students were coming part time for specific activities.
The normal program of Last School includes literature, visual art in all its forms, social sciences, natural sciences, philosophy, mathematics, physics & chemistry, languages, 3D modelling. Physical education is very much insisted upon as well as extra-curricular activities such as dance, music, theater, so that all the parts of the being are awakened and developed.
Art is an important component of the program having in it a triple objective: first, to refine the being and give to it a sense of beauty in everything, second, as an exercise of concentration and focus, and third as an opportunity to develop the capacity to work with matter and to make it a conscious expression of beauty.
Mathematics and sciences are approached to sharpen the analytical mind and awaken the intellectual integrity embedded in scientific methods.
Literature and language are used to develop the capacity to think and express oneself, whether in writing or orally, and to touch some of the most essential questions of human life and condition.
No subject is an end in itself but all serve as a means by which to address and develop diverse parts of the being.
The older students are encouraged to involve themselves into various Auroville activities as part of their school program.
This year was marked by the lockdown then by restrictions. We were not able to offer a normal full program to the students. Replacing our normal classes by online courses was not a valid option, since for us a school is first of all a place where people come together to create an atmosphere of growth and progress. This atmosphere is an active element of the school and had to be preserved.
The students were requested to create their own program and contact the teachers individually for help and guidance. Small groups were allowed in the school premises on a part time basis. An additional member joined the team to follow up the students in a more individual way and make sure nobody was left behind.
Outcomes:
As a consequence of the context of the epidemic, there were fewer teaching hours delivered, but this was more than compensated by an increased autonomy on the side of the students, as well as more motivation and intensity in their work.
No case of covid contamination has been reported in the school.
Reflections:
Crises are an opportunity to create something new, to realize that we are not the victims of circumstances and that we are always able to respond creatively to challenges.
