The Bodoni Commercial High School in Parma, was founded in 1974. Since the  school year 1993/1994, the school has been located in Viale Piacenza 14 – Tel.0521-986760 Fax 0521-987002.

It’s one of the schools in Parma best served by public transport.

Bus line: 6-9-11-12 bus stop Viale Piacenza (in front of the school)

Bus line: 3-4-5             bus stop Barriera d’Azeglio (100 metres from the school)

Bus line: 1-10-14-15-19  Railway Station (FF.SS)

Bus line: 7-8              V.le Toschi

The School is attended by about 900 students, the classes are 33 plus 3 evening lessons and 4 classes in the local penitentiary of Parma.

The school manager is Mister Guido Campanini.

There are about 110 teachers; non-teaching staff is composed of a general-administrative director, 8 secretaries and 9 supervisors, 9 cleaners and 9 assistants, 2 technical assistants and 1 librarian.

 The building was built in conformity with safety regulations for the needs of students: in fact every part of the building is easy to reach, thanks to lifts and sloping floors, without any type of architectonic barrier. The school has the biggest library in the province, a video room, an auditorium with 400 seats, equipped with up to date audio-visual aids and internet connections. There are two gymnasiums, one of which has seats for the spectators where athletics events can easily be organised. Finally the school offers five I.T.(Information Technology) laboratories; one Physics Laboratory, one Chemistry Laboratory and two Language Laboratories.

The official school syllabus provides the teaching of foreign languages in the first two years for all the classes, then in the last three years the teaching of one or two languages or the teaching a third language for the E.R.I.C.A. course.

Native speakers and a modern multimedial language lab are other possibilities at hand.

Moreover the school offers different projects aiming at a more motivating and stimulating approach to the  study of European languages.

In the last few years much effort has been made to improve the knowledge of the European Union: in all its linguistic and cultural aspects.

We want our students to became real and convinced European citizens.

THE PROJECTS

TRANSNATIONAL MOBILITY PROJECT

With Transnational Mobility of Regional Commission N^ 1064/2005, the school obtained the approval of the transnational project.

This activity will be carried out with European Social Fund ministry of Labour and Social Policy.

This project aims to develop insight into European culture, to enrich the students’ education, with specific visits and exchanges during the school year in different European countries.

 
THE CLIL PROJECT (Content and Language Integrated Learning)

This project is organised in collaboration with Parma University to simplify the study of scientific subjects for the foreign students attending the school.

The contents of some topics are learned both in the foreign and Italian language.

Thanks to this integrated approach these students can learn the Italian language.

The activities of this project are based on the collaboration between  apprentices and teachers of the specific subjects.

 
PROJECT TO IMPROVE THE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE “BIENNIO”

This project organised by the local University and the Ministry of Education aims to help students in the first two years to acquire the correct  methodology and specific language of scientific subjects: it is based on the more general Goal Oriented Project Planning. 

The attention of Bodoni school towards the success of their members can be seen in the use of new didactic strategies based on modern communicative technology used every day and in every subject. 

The high school has a computer system composed of a local network which links all the school services. The local network has a server which keeps all the data under  central control and it is also responsible for supervising the network. Access to the geographical network is through a router on the ADSL line.

Thanks to the network the share of the data and hardware is now possible. Due to this system more modern experiences are also possible and it has been beneficial for the students.

The school is also trying to experiment the school registers on the network. This can improve  communication between the school and families. The families have different passwords which allows them to get information about the absences and the grades of their children. Finally there is another opportunity: families can communicate with teachers by e-mail.