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Milan, February 15 2020 – A twinning between two Milanese schools in order to start a virtuous path of mixing public and private. It happens in Municipality 5, where, between Viale Ortles and Via Gargano, a new school structure will be built. The ICS International School will move to the new complex, a private primary school currently operating in via Fontanili which, as a result of an agreement signed by the Municipality and the company that manages it, will be twinned with the Antonini primary school, part of the Comprehensive Institute Elsa Morante, also from Municipality 5.
 
The collaboration, which was born within the urban planning agreement relating to the establishment of the new school complex, will facilitate exchange and enrichment between students and teachers of the two institutes. ICS International School, a school that offers an international study curriculum enhanced by teaching that develops the fundamentals of design in terms of project method and collaborative learning, is committed to guaranteeing the provision of certain services and activities that the students of the Antonini primary school. These include the presence of a native speaker teacher to develop English language skills for twelve hours a week from 1 October to 31 May of each school year. Added to this is the creation of two workshops a year, for a minimum of twenty-five hours each, dedicated to the rudiments of design and suitable for primary school children.
 
Furthermore, in the future, it will be considered to activate school-work alternation paths for ICS International School secondary school students to be carried out within the twinned school on specific topics identified from time to time and the twinning could also be developed with games, tournaments, visits and exchange opportunities between schools.
 
“Developing an educational path that lays the foundations for enhancing, through the direct experience of children, the value of sharing and cultural exchange is one of the first guidelines of the ICS Symbiosis project. Our school presents itself as a place of research, where creative symbiosis is generated and where the meeting between children and different generations enriches and promotes, at the same time, culture for the surrounding community in an exchange that places the care and growth of self towards the other. This is the approach we believe in - says Stefano Paschina, managing director of ICS International School - if the whole school sets itself these same objectives, we will always be available to welcome children and young people from other schools with a view to giving back to all young students concrete activities that enhance communication open to dialogue, integrated and capable of adding community value to training activities".
 
The twinning agreement will last thirteen years and activities should begin in September, when the new school will be inaugurated.