The Scientific High School
The Scientific High School “Leonardo da Vinci” was founded in 1970 with the nale IV Scientific School. Afterwords, following a survey among students and teachers of the school, it took the name Leonardo da Vinci The school building between 1970 and 2004 was Palazzo Crosa di Vergagni in Salita delle Fieschine.
Since 2004, after the purchase of the building of the former private school Istituto Arecco and after its complete refurbishing, the address of the school has been Via Arecco,2 close to Piazza Manin, in the prestigious building of the former Gesuite School.
The secondary building of the school is in Largo Giardino, few metres away from the main building, in the 3rd Municipality of the City of Genoa and another building of the school is situated in the district of Molassana, seven kilometres away from the main building.
The students come from various residential areas of the city, from the center to small municipalities in the hinterland. This provides an opportunity for exchange and integration among students with sometimes different lifestyles.
1.1. MAIN FEATURES OF THE SCHOOL
The Leonardo da Vinci School has a long and steady tradition of cultural education. The Educational Offer of the school is founded on the solidity of its tradition as well as on the adaptability to the conditions and needs of the social context, in a continuous attempt to improve the standard of education by overcoming difficulties and challenges of the environment. The final aim of the school is the development of the comprehensive aspect of knowledge in order to enhance the students’ skills and for them to acquire cultural and citizenship skills so that they can define their life project with awareness.
The main goals of the Educational Offer of the school can be described as follows:
- Creation of a balanced education on both aspects of culture, the humanistic and the scientific, in order to understand the core topics of the development of classical thought and investigation and the connections between the methods of knowledge specific to mathematics and the natural sciences;
- Support for the understanding of the structures of the argumentative and demonstrative procedures of mathematics, so that students know how to use them in particular in identifying and solving problems of various kinds;
- Development of the ability to grasp the relationships between scientific thought and philosophical reflection and to use calculation and representation tools for modelling and solving problems;