Type Jesuit, Catholic Gender Coeducational Founded 1906 | Director Raimundo Barros Phone +55 86 2107-4400 | |
Established 1906 (111 years ago) (1906) Grades Pre-kindergarten through 11 Website diocesano.g12.br (in Portuguese) Address R. Barroso, 363 - Centro (Sul), Teresina - PI, 64001-200, Brazil Motto Educating for the beauty of peace Similar Instituto Dom Barreto, Colégio CPI, Grupo Educacio CEV ‑ Uni, CSCJ ‑ Colégio Sagrado, Colegio Procampus Profiles | ||
Diocesan College (Colégio Diocesano), also known as the College of St. Francis de Sales, is a Brazilian Catholic school located in Teresina, Piauí.
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The school has morning, afternoon, and evening shifts and offers education at the day care, primary, secondary, and adult levels. It follows the Ignatian pedagogy of the Jesuits who run it.
Its Saraiva Square campus opened in 1925 and that on Benjamin Constant Street for two to six year olds opened in 2003.
History
In 1906, the first bishop of Piauí, Antonio Joaquim D'Almeida, founded the school along with the diocesan seminary. In 1914, the second bishop of Piauí closed the school for lack of funds, and took up residence in the building which has since had his court of arms on its facade. The third bishop of Piauí, Dom Severino Vieira de Melo, reopened the school in 1925 under the name of St. Francis de Sales, running a boarding school. The school held a military style uniform with two parallel stripes on the pants legs for full-time boarders and a wide stripe for semi-boarders. Later, this was changed to khaki pants and a white short-sleeved shirt.
In 1945, the scientific and classic courses along with the technical trade school were initiated, including a course in accounting. At this time, a group of students also founded New People magazine. In the late 1950s, the boarding house was closed.
From October 1959 until early 1960, the school had its first lay director, Bernardo Lopes de Sousa, who administered the school during the transition period until the arrival of the Jesuit fathers in 1960. Since then, it has networked with Jesuit schools.
The school's children's division was opened in 2003. Today it serves more than 600 students between two and six years old. The pedagogical model for the Children's Diocesan College is rooted in Ignatian pedagogy that considers the child's level of development and uniqueness and emphasizes playfulness as a learning strategy.
In 2015, the school placed twelfth in Piauí state in the national secondary school examination (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio).
Facilities and programs
Facilities include 38 classrooms, 10 group study rooms, 58 individual study booths, laboratories for physics, biology, chemistry and robotics, besides 3 computer labs, a multimedia room, and an auditorium seating 300. The central library has a collection of approximately 44,000 works and subscribes to 30 periodicals and newspaper, catalogued on computers and on the internet. Those between kindergarten to fifth grace use the children's library, with its 9,000 works and 11 journals.
Zero Waste Project aims at involving all actors on the campus cooperating to limit entirely the amount of waste sent to the landfill, thus promoting environmental awareness, sustainability, waste reduction, and conservation. This is achieved through training and installation of compost and recyclable material facilities.
Magis House Teresina, located at the school, hosts youth from throughout Brazil for the Spiritual Exercises, training, and prayer evenings, as well as volunteer opportunities and celebration of faith.