On October 22, Tuesday, the Basic and Secondary School Professor Dr. Francisco Freitas Branco, Porto Santo, celebrates the beginning of recreational animation activities with the presence of teacher-animators and the use of cooperative games and dynamics.
It is an opportunity for non-formal education — interconnecting various disciplines, knowledge and practices —, achieved through mathematical games, environmental education, chess, sport, among others. The activities aim to foster behaviors of tolerance, cooperation, inclusion and citizenship. The participation of students is free. This is one of the initiatives of the Citizenship Education Action Plan entitled “Da Escola para o Mundo – Agir, Incluir, Transformar”, the result of a partnership with the NGOD AIDGLOBAL. Several activities will be promoted over two academic years, namely volunteering actions, participatory student assemblies, training of young leaders, meetings with Education Officers, pedagogical gardens and fifth and training of teachers and non-teaching staff (learn more here). The Plan was selected among 25 applications from all over the country, has as main recipients students from four classes of the 8th year (2019/2020) and is designed to accompany these young people over two school years. Although the focus is on the 3rd cycle, the Plan extends to the entire school and the local community, in order to reflect and act in favor of Human Rights and Sustainable Development. This Action at the Porto Santo School results from an application for the Citizenship Education project, managed by the Gonc̃o da Silveira Foundation and the Research Center for Human Development of the Portuguese Catholic University, under the Cidadãos Ativ@s Program (Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Bissaya Barreto Foundation).
