The Primary School number 4 of Vila Franca de Xira - Portugal

Primary School number 4 of Vila Franca de Xira

The Primary School number 4 of Vila Franca de Xira is one of the three primary schools of our Group of Schools. It is part of the same building a kindergarten room.

It is located 2km from the town of Vila Franca de Xira, in a neighborhood of homes with reduced trade, a community and two private institutions of Social Solidarity with the valence of Leisure Activities.

The school was built in The Beginning of the 80s on the site of an earlier cakes school. The main bulding recently undergone a major refurbishment. It has a library belonging to the national network of school libraries.

The Primary School number 4 of Vila Franca de Xira is a multicultural school because of their cultural and linguistic diversity, with a tradition in education of deaf students.

The classes are organized by grade from 1st to 4th grade, but the Kafkaesque Portuguese education provides a single teacher being allowed classes with more than one year of schooling.

The classes are made up of 24 students, in the case where there is the integration of pupils with SEN, are reduced to 20 students.

5 of 7 existing classes have students with special needs, adds a class of deaf students with implementation of the Curriculum of Portuguese Sign Language.
 Support teachers teach Portuguese to foreign students.

There is a Parents Association which plays an role.
Students have 25 hours per week of the National Curriculum subjects and 10 hours of Enrichment Activities Course, which are often the last facultative. These activities are made up of teaching English, teaching of music, speech-motor and physical support for the study.

Schedule of operations

Primary School: 9h/12h and 13h30m/15h30m-teaching component:; 12h/13h30m - Lunch
15h30m/17h30m-Activities Enrichment Course.

Preschool: 9h/12h and teaching 13h/15h-teaching component
15h/17h30m- Family Support Component

Equipment: 8 classrooms of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education, a kindergarten room,

Canteen,

 Gymnasium

Library

School Population: 8 classes in the 1st cycle, 152 students, a group of Pre-School, 15 students, a class of Bilingual Education Bilingual deaf students, five students.

Teaching Staff: 8 teachers in the 1st cycle, a kindergarten teacher.

Special Education: 3 teachers

Technical Experts: Forming a Portuguese Sign Language; a Sign Language Interpreter, Speech Therapist, Psychologist and Technical psychomotor

Non-teaching staff: 5 Operating Assistants

Hours 9h/17h30m:

1st cycle: 9h/12h and 13h30m/15h30m-teaching component:;

12h/13h30m – Lunch

15h30m/17h30m-Activities Enrichment Course.

Preschool: 9h/12h and teaching

13h/15h- teaching Component

15h/17h30m-Component Family Support

Kindergarten

Classroom

Library 

Gymnasium

Canteen