Scientific High School - sports orientation

The Scientific High School with a sports orientation offers a significant opportunity to combine an extensive and harmonious culture in both the humanities and science, by promoting the educational value of sport.
This is an educational model that recognises the added value of sports practice in the processes for building skills and personality, in which the intention is to emphasise the uniqueness of sport, not in training or recreational terms, but in terms of pedagogical and cultural value.
The sports-oriented section is structurally integrated, starting from the first year of study, into the Scientific high school curriculum referred to in Article 8 of Presidential Decree 89 of 15 March 2010, Article 3, paragraph 2, in which it offers specialised teaching and activities.
It is aimed at studying motor and sports sciences and one or more sports disciplines in greater depth. All this within a cultural framework that favours, in particular, the acquisition of the knowledge and methods of mathematical, physical and natural sciences as well as economics and law.

It guides the student to develop the knowledge and skills and to acquire the necessary competences to identify the interactions between the different forms of knowledge, motor and sport activity and the culture of sport, ensuring the mastery of the relevant languages, techniques and methodologies.
With appropriate measures and through orientation programmes, the educational institutions involved ensure equal opportunities for all students, including those in critical educational circumstances and with disabilities, within the limits of the ﬁnancial resources available under current legislation.
The sports-oriented section implements the student's educational, cultural and professional proﬁle at the end of the second cycle of the education and training system for the high school system referred to in Annex A to Presidential Decree 89 of 15 March 2010. To this end, the proﬁle is integrated with the learning outcomes envisaged for the sports-oriented section.
The learning outcomes, syllabus and specific learning objectives are set out in Annex A to Presidential Decree 52 of 5 March 2013 on the "Regulation for the organisation of programmes in the sports-oriented section of the high school system" pursuant to Article 3(2) of Presidential Decree 89 of 15 March 2010.

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Compulsory activities and subjects for all students

Annual timetable

Activities and subjects
	1st two-year period		2nd two-year period
	1st year	2nd year	3rd year	4th year	5th year
Italian language and literature	132	132	132	132	132
Foreign language and culture	99	99	99	99	99
History and geography	99	99
History			66	66	66
Philosophy			66	66	66
Mathematics*	165	165	132	132	132
Computer Science	66	66	66	66	66
Physics	66	66	99	99	99
Natural sciences**	99	99	99	99	99
Sports law and economics			99	99	99
Motor and sport sciences	99	99	99	99	99
Discipline sportive	99	99	66	66	66
Catholic religion or alternative activities	33	33	33	33	33
Total hours	891	891	990	990	990

* with Computer Science in the first two years
** Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
N.B. There is provision for the teaching, in a foreign language, of a non-linguistic subject (CLIL) included in the area of compulsory activities and subjects for all students or in the area of subjects that can be activated by the educational institutions within the limits of the staff quota allocated to them each year.

The Scientific High School Sports Section curriculum is defined in Appendix A of Presidential Decree 52 of 5 March 2013.
To find out more about the specific learning objectives for Scientific High School Sports Section, see Appendix A of Presidential Decree 52 of 5 March 2013 'National Guidelines'.

Courses and orientations - Biology with a biomedical orientation

In a number of schools, an experimental specialisation-orientation course is in operation, which provides for the introduction of the subject of Biology with a biomedical focus from the third year onward.

This three-year course allows students to acquire skills in the biological field, including through laboratory work, and enables those interested in pursuing studies in the chemical-biological and health fields to make an informed choice.

The annual total is 50 hours, 40 of which are spent at the school's laboratories (both with teachers and with medical experts) and 10 hours, in cross-disciplinary skills and PCTO orientation courses, at healthcare facilities identified by the Provincial Association of Surgeons and Dentists.