This document summarizes information about the Colegio Sagrado Coração de Maria school in Fatima, Portugal. It provides details about the school's history, facilities, staff, programs, activities, and community involvement projects. The school offers Catholic education for ages 10-15 based on the Portuguese education system and aims to develop students' skills, values, and global identity through its educational programs.

1. The SANCTUARY OUR LADY of FATIMA

3. 1917 – The Three Shepherd Children 2000 – Beatification of
Jacinta and Francisco
(Seers)

4. Fátima

5. Colégio do Sagrado Coração de Maria
Fátima
Rua Jacinta Marto, 40,
2495-450 Fátima
Tel. 249 530 500
Fax 249 530 509
www.cl-sagrado-coracao-maria-ftm.rcts.pt
e-mail: cscm.fatima@clix.pt

6. Colegio S.C.M. provides the Basic Education to children from 5th to 9th grade
(10-15-year-olds) with a curriculum based on the Portuguese Education System.

9. Colegio Sagrado Coração de Maria is a
non-profit Catholic Educational School, integrated
in the Portuguese National Education System.
It is identified as belonging to the RSHM network
and has a lay leadership (director).
It is recognised by the Portuguese Ministry of
Education and has pedagogical autonomy
according to the Private and Co-operative
Education Statute (Estatuto do Ensino Particular e
Cooperativo), which gives legal rights, financial aid
and defines the State’ s role in controlling the
quality of the education offered.

10. OUR EDUCATION PROPOSAL
The future of the world belongs to the young generations, who were
born in the last century but will grow up in the XXI century.
We must help them to acquire skills and values, in order to build a
respectable place in a society strongly characterized by technological
and scientific knowledge, while promoting their global identity.
Being a "Catholic School" means having a public proposal, similar to
public schools, so that the families can choose freely the kind of
education/ instruction they want to give to their children.
Internally, we - the educational community - intend to build up a
relational style, increase collaboration among the different members of
the educational community (students, parents, teachers and non
teaching staff) that enables a true learning environment and
a qualified education.

11. FACILITIES
The campus at School has a wide surface.
In addition to the buildings and their various
uses, the campus contains:
 Playgrounds/ Sports fields
 Parking area
 Football field and Sports hall.

12. SCHOOL
COMMUNITY
38 teachers
25 staff
19 classes
470 students

13. SPECIALIZED SERVICE FOR EDUCATIONAL SUPPORT
The Psychology and Orientation Service (SPO), has a psychologist who provides a psycho-educational
support to students, teachers, parents and gives guidance to school leavers.
The Special Education Service (EE), has a special education teacher who gives special support to students
with special educational needs, in the classroom or outside it, in articulation with the teachers.
PEDAGOGICAL SUPPORT
There are classes of Educational Support for the subjects Portuguese Language, Mathematics and English.
These lessons try to help students with learning difficulties, offering a range of strategies to help students to
acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values enshrined in the curriculum, aiming their educational
success.

14. Interactive Whiteboards
All classrooms have a video
projector (a total of 22 projectors)
and there is an interactive
whiteboard in each corridor (floor) -
four IWBs.
Internet
All rooms have Internet connection.
The staff room also offers wireless
connection.

15. Integrated School
Management System
All students, faculty and staff
have an electronic card that
allows them to record the
inputs and outputs, buy items
at the cafeteria, canteen
access and request
photocopies.
This system also allows
parents and guardians, in
real-time access, to get all
information related to their
children through an Internet
connection, including
information about entry and
exit to the College,
transactions carried out at the
cafeteria, stationery / print
shop and canteen.

18. EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
Science Club
Art Club
Dance Club
Europe Club
Earth Club
History Club
English Club
Music Club
Solidarity Club
Theatre Club
Chess Club
Computer Science Club
Adventure Club
Gymnastics Club
Handball Club
Photography Club

36. PROJECT
EDUCATING FOR JUSTICE
accomplished activities

37. Christmas Campaign
The aim is to care and share.
The whole school participates in this campaign .

38. The ENGLISH CLUB and the
EUROPE CLUB helped the
national campaign against
leprosy. They baked and sold
home-made cakes and cookies
to raise money, besides
motivating other students to
share their pocket money with
those who need it the most.
ENGLISH CLUB and EUROPE CLUB

39. Centro Social
Paroquial de Santa
Catarina da Serra
Social Centre and Senior Residence
of Santa Catarina da Serra
Students visited local senior
residences regularly and helped
the elderly to overcome their
loneliness and solitude. Students
provided moments of poetry,
theatre, music, etc. or interacted
with the elderly by playing
traditional games or by telling and
listening to their (life) stories.

40. A Wheelchair
for Luis
The whole school community
helped to sponsor a wheel
chair for a local young man
called Luis Cordeiro, who
became tetraplegic after an
accident.

41. •Christmas Campaign
•Campaign against Leprosy
•Visiting underprivileged
People
•Social Intercourses

42. The students of the
A Visit to “Casa do Bom Samaritano” Solidarity Club shared
- a home for disabled children and adults their friendship and
creativity with disabled
children, teenagers
Solidarity Club and adults.
The students
organized a party and
created unforgettable
moments of fun and
affection.

43. Day of the
HUMAN RIGHTS
The right to be happy

44. PILGRIMAGE to Santiago de Compostela
Opinion of a student:
“It was a wonderful and unforgettable experience. We
learned more about each other, made new friends and
saw fascinating places and monuments.”
November 2004

45. Students made
project works,
wrote poems
and messages,
prayed for the
PEACE in the WORLD
Praying for PEACE

46. 24th February
The Day of the SRHM)
Eucharist at the
BASILICA

47. “If you go to Taizé you will find
peace, serenity, warmness… it’s a
very touching experience and you
learn a lesson for a lifetime. You meet
new and different people from other
cultures and with other ways of
thinking” TAIZÉ

48. THE WAY OF THE CROSS
Living the spirit
of
JESUS CHRIST
Fatima (Valinhos) PORTUGAL

49. TREASURE HUNTING
Finding out the value
of FRIENDSHIP and
COMPANIONSHIP and
SENSE of LIVING
lasses walk
together and
share a resting
and a picnic
moment!
Although the
tired faces…
…they loved it!

50. Discovering Mother Nature
In collaboration with the Fatima Rehabilitation Centre for
Children (CRIF), our students walked about 10km in the local
nature and felt how difficult it is to be disabled.
Being with disabled children, teenagers and adults worked out
as a very precious experience.