Featured Content Archives - Acorn House International

24 March 2023

- La Middle School alla Camera dei Deputati

Posted by Lara Lioce
Categories Class Blog, Featured Content, School Blog, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

06 May 2022

Un Magistrato a scuola

Posted by Lara Lioce
Categories 2021-22, Featured Content, School Blog

Il Giudice Luciano Pugliese a scuola: un'esperienza unica per gli studenti della Acorn House che hanno così potuto consolidare le competenze acquisite in Cittadinanza e Costituzione, affrontando tematiche attuali e interessanti, quali gli articoli 3, 17, 18, 24 della Costituzione italiana, la differenza tra associazione a delinquere e associazione di stampo mafioso, l'importanza dell'invenzione del pool antimafia di Falcone e Borsellino.....

20 July 2021

Year 9 Play: Romeo and Juliet

Posted by John Clarke
Categories 2020-21, Featured Content

We said goodbye to our Year 9s in June, after seeing them successfully achieve outstanding results in their Cambridge English exams and Italian state exams, both of which were taken in unique circumstances due to the ongoing coronavirus scenario. It … ....

15 July 2021

Year 8 Play: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Posted by John Clarke
Categories 2020-21, Featured Content

The end of year play performance by Year 8 called on them to be versatile and motivated, as the continually changing covid scenario meant they had to rehearse their scenes in isolation from the rest of the school, rather than … ....

27 May 2020

Double language effect English-Italian: language, reading & immersive methodology comparison

Posted by Office
Categories Featured Content, News

Monolingual children refer to those children who understand and speak only one language, whereas bilingual children understand and speak two languages. In particular, simultaneous bilinguals are children who have been exposed to two native languages since birth and early bilinguals … ....

17 January 2020

Euristica della paura

Posted by Denise Del Monaco
Categories Featured Content

“Piuttosto che difenderci dall’oceano, dobbiamo proteggere l’oceano da noi stessi. Siamo diventati più pericolosi noi per la Natura di quanto essa stessa sia stata per noi. Siamo diventati il nostro maggior pericolo proprio per i nostri stupefacenti risultati nel … ....

14 January 2020

Welcome, to the Anthropocene…

Posted by Stephen William Gale
Categories Featured Content

First seen as the definitive transition to modernity, plastic took the world by storm. It took the form of our cars, trains, hospital machinery, eased our packaging problem and helped us store food for longer. It was literally an all … ....

19 December 2019

Nati per leggere

Posted by Valeria Sorbino
Categories Featured Content

“Tutti grandi sono stati piccoli una volta. Ma pochi di essi se lo ricordano” Così scriveva Antoine de Saint-Excupéry nel suo bellissimo capolavoro : Il piccolo principe. La lettura è una delle competenze cognitive più importanti per un bambino che … ....

18 December 2019

Why is homework important?

Posted by Natalie Parry
Categories Featured Content

Parental concerns about their children’s homework loads are nothing new. In recent years there has been an increase in the amount of homework given to students in elementary grades, and critics point to research findings that, … ....

06 December 2019

Let’s learn whilst listening to Music!

Posted by Olivia Sutton
Categories Featured Content

The effects of Music on Childhood development and it’s role within the classroom Aristotle taught “When we hear (music and poetry) our very soul is altered.” From Hippocrates to Native American medicine, people have long used singing and playing instruments … ....