The school is located in Gorizia, close to the town centre. Our students are boys and girls interested in learning foreign languages or scientific subjects. Three courses are activated in our school: modern languages, science and technology, public health.
The first two years are more or less the same: they are meant to complete the general educational process started in lower secondary school and to prepare pupils to face more demanding and specialized subjects during the remaining three years, when the different characterization of each course is evident.
The public health course ( Ambiente e Salute) helps pupils understand the new forms scientific knowledge has taken on. It allows them to acquire some skills in the scientific fields of chemistry, mathematics, physics, through the use of the school’s laboratories as well as working experience in professional laboratories in the area.
The science and technology course is widely based on experimental scientific subjects, mathematics and informatics, which take up 60% of the weekly schedule.
The course in modern languages favours a wide-ranging cultural approach to humanities through the study of Latin, mathematics, history of art, philosophy, along with the communicative learning of three foreign languages: English, German, and Spanish.
Our school has a long-lasting tradition of students’ exchange programmes with schools from other countries. On such exchange programmes cross-cultural syllabi are developed in one or more languages, with the co-operation of several teachers, generally not only language teachers.
Modern didactics and a number of activities make studying here a special experience.
Several services to the students are present in our school, such as the information service regarding university and post-diploma studies or careers; this service is part of the regional study and careers advisory service of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Since November 1996 we also have an office open to the public, linked via Internet to the Noopolis Data Bank on study grants and scholarships.