Cycle I Education (Grades 7-8-9)

The 1st cycle of education is based on the Learning Goals and the National Curriculum and ensures the attendance of enrichment curricula. At this level the students are the subjects and main actors of their learning as a result of their academic and pedagogical experiences.

The Primary School Curriculum refers to a set of learning and values that the students develop and acquire, evoking its organisation, its hierarchisation and articulation as well as its importance throughout the school career:

• To develop a democratic practice, through participatory processes in the definition of the educational policy, as well as, in the daily pedagogical experience, in which the interveners of the educational process are integrated;

• To reconstruct the relationship processes that shape the school experience, giving priority to the articulation between teacher/student, as well as the specific conditions for the appropriation of knowledge;

• To plan, jointly, the activities and the teaching exercise, as well as the complementary activities to be performed at the level of the non-teaching component;

• To cultivate persistence, the taste for know-how, cooperation, solidarity and respect, aiming at the improvement of interpersonal relationships and the educational success of the students;

• To create conditions conducive to the articulation between content / ability (s)- knowing / knowing – doing / knowing – being;

• To enhance the creativity that develops through symbiosis – reproduction / invention; logic / imagination;

• To evaluate the construction of learning (s), in its multiple components;

• To make explicit the dialectic rights/duties with a view to the co-responsibility of all those involved in the educational process.