Middle Years Programme

Mandatory Subjects

The first two years of high school have a “basic” structure of 24 lessons, plus the 7 lessons that make up the “H-FARM Pathway”, in addition to an additional 9 lessons of the student’s choice, for a total of 40 lessons per week.

The 7 lessons of H-FARM Pathway include

Startup Lab

Study Business and Management by creating, organizing and developing your own startup. An experiential path, from Business Model to Exit, seasoned with theoretical lessons immediately put into practice.

Acceleration Lab

Divided into groups, the students will be assisted by professional mentors from within H-FARM and will work together as if they were a real Startup, to create the project that is assigned to them, which could be an app, a board game, a website, etc.. During the Demo Night, the final event and presentation to the student’s families, teachers and Farmers at the end of the year, the best idea will be selected.

Ignition Lab

One meeting a week with those who have turned their passion into a job: entrepreneurs, artists, marketers, sportsmen, managers and writers. To inspire kids and their dreams.

Human Skills Lab

Students discuss emotional and social issues, guided by professional counselors, and learn how to manage confrontations with others and how to nurture meaningful and positive relationships.

H-FARM Pathway

The H-FARM Pathway is a unique offer, inspired and designed looking at the H-FARM model, with a focus on innovation and the creation of transversal skills: the design phases, the organization of a team, the organization of content, the development and presentation of one’s business idea.

Core Subjects

Science - 6 Lessons
Mathematics - 5 Lessons
English - 5 Lessons
Italian - 4 Lessons
Physical and Health Education - 2 Lessons
History - 2 Lessons

Optional Subjects: The PLUS Pathways

Our students have the possibility to discover and deepen their passions with the support of the school. Within the H-FARM campus, school subjects are a chance to cultivate their individual talents.

This is why we have introduced our PLUS subjects, which are selected by students based on what they feel passionate about, and which are combined with two additional optional subjects to complete a personal pathway. We have designed specific extracurricular activities with lessons/smallgroup seminars for each proposal, so that students study the subject in depth and gain expertise through a more hands-on approach, thus giving them a chance to follow their passions and to nurture their talents.

Choose a subject from each group

Each subject has 3 weekly lessons

Limen

Anthropology and social sciences: from 9/11 to the Arab Spring, from climate change to migration issues, from international organisations to the mysteries of archaeology. The focus is on how to understand these topics and today’s relations based on recent history, and how to face major historical matters still requiring reflection.

Group 1
Individual and Societies+
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or MUSIC or COMPUTER SCIENCE
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

Sports

A pathway for those who race in competitive sports and would like to turn it into a job. Three lessons a week will be dedicated to what completes a sportsperson: mental preparation, focusing and nutrition

Group 1
PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION+
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or MUSIC or COMPUTER SCIENCE or ECONOMICS
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

Novelist

A pathway dedicated to literature, the analysis of antique and modern texts, for all those passionate about reading.

Group 1
LITERATURE+
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or MUSIC or COMPUTER SCIENCE
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

BigRock

A pathway for aspiring artists, in order to develop creativity and immerse in the digital world, its history and its more modern forms, such as 3D art.

Group 1
VISUAL ART+
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or MUSIC or COMPUTER SCIENCE
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

Entrepreneur

A further study of entrepreneurial skills: marketing, social media and communication as a completion of the H-FARM Pathway.

Group 1
MARKETING or SOCIAL MEDIA or COMMUNICATION
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or ECONOMICS
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

Genius@work

A pathway for mathematical minds, for those who do not give up when facing a logic query, and who see reality as numbers and equations.

Group 1
MATHS+
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or COMPUTER SCIENCE or ECONOMICS
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

Geek

A pathway for those interested in technology: drones, coding, apps and software. In order to find out the secrets of computational thinking applied to concrete experiences.

Group 1
COMPUTER SCIENCE+
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or ECONOMICS
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

Tesla in Lab

A pathway for those who love being in the lab and freely use their skills and the lab equipment to carry out their experiments in chemistry, physics and biology.

Group 1
LABS+
Group 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION or MUSIC or ECONOMICS or COMPUTER SCIENCE
Group 3
DIGITAL DESIGN or PRODUCT DESIGN

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