The Portuguese educational system has national exams in key subjects at various grade levels. Students with special needs receive specialized teaching with individualized curricula, teachers, resources, and support. Education is compulsory and free, with financial support available for students in need. The school calendar has 180 days divided into 3 terms, with breaks at Christmas, Easter, and summer holidays. Student assessment varies between primary and secondary school, using qualitative ratings or quantitative grades. Assessment criteria examine both knowledge and attitudes, with different weightings and tools used to evaluate skills like reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

1. Portuguese Educational System
Agrupamento de escolas de Oliveira do Bairro

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3. National exams
examples
Portuguese: 4th grade
6th grade
9th grade
12th grade
Maths: 4th grade
6th grade
9th grade
12th grade

4. Children with special needs
There is a special law to ensure that these
children have special teaching:
–Specific curricula;
–Specific teachers;
–Different resources;
–Pedagogical support;
–...
They attend regular school

5. Welfare measures
•Compulsory education is free. Parents support canteen fees,
transportation and school materials for their children.
•Students with proved economic needs are supported by special
law. This support depends of the level of needs and can be one,
some or all of these:
–Canteen fees;
–Transportation;
–Lodging;
–School books;
–School stationery.

6. School Calendar
Our school calendar is set annually. There are
180 school days, divided into 3 terms:
•The 1st term ends at Christmas holidays;
•The 2nd term ends at Easter holidays. In
between there is a 3 day interruption for
Carnival;
•The 3rd term ends at the summer holidays.

7. Student’s assessment
Primary scholl
Qualitative
Poor
Average
Good
Very good
5th to 9th grades
Quantitative
1
2
3
4
5
10th to 12th grades
Quantitative
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
Grades are decided by the class council and subsequently
delivered to parents, in the end of each term.

8. Assessment criteria
Students’ assessment is divided into
knowledge and attitudes.
The percentage that the school can assign is
up to 30% to attitudes and the rest goes to
knowledge.
some exemples:

9. To know /
To know how to do it
85%
Essencialskills
Listening comprehension and
speaking 15%
Assessmenttools
Exercises:
Listening
comprehension
speaking
5%
10%
Writing
Reading
compreh
ension
30%
Individual work,
Group work,
others
10%
Written tests 60%writing
25%
Grammar
15%
To be /
To know how to be
15%
Responsibility
- reveal autonomy
- develop awareness: work,
cooperation, solidarity
Respect
- accomplish the rules
- know how to interact
7,5%
7,5%
- grilles and registers 15%
Language Department
3rd stage
Portuguese
specific assessment criteria

10. Essencial skills Percentage Itms
To know /
To know how
to do it
80%
50%
Reading comprehension and writing:
Written tests – 40%
Other written work – 10%
30%
Listening comprehension and speaking:
Listening comprehension – 15%
speaking – 15%
To be /
To know how
to be
20%
20%
Responsibility - 10%
- reveal autonomy
- develop awareness: work, cooperation,
solidarity
Respect – 10%
- accomplish the rules
- know how to interact
Language Department
2nd stage
Foreign Languages specific assessment criteria
Reading comprehension 50%
Vocabullary 15%
Gramar 25%
Writing 10%
Written tests: