Memories

The school’s memories are rich with moments of celebration, as shown in photographs capturing the most significant experiences. These memories form a visible trace of the school’s history, reconstructing meaningful paths, moving us emotionally, making us smile with joy, and showing how the ways of being together have evolved over time.

Flipping through the albums, one finds celebrations with and without parents, occasional festivities born from the needs of school life, and planned events—celebrations in the form of open lessons, theatrical performances, or games with various purposes (strengthening bonds, commemorating events, evoking a sense of time, welcoming, conveying messages, or promoting change). Some festivities are also linked to social traditions.

Celebrating at Piccole Orme follows certain important and meaningful constants: connections with children’s developmental rhythms, their needs and abilities, and the thematic or guiding thread developed throughout the school year.

Teachers and parents must recognize that children need both roots and wings. Roots provide the energy necessary to live and grow, to be stable, strong, and integrated into the surrounding family and social environment. Wings allow them to be autonomous, free, and to soar high, drawn to the sunlight, in the sky of full autonomy and personal fulfillment, in encounters with others, in dialogue, spirituality, and the future they will create for themselves and for the world.