Context

Lorenza Villegas de Santos High school is located in San Calletano neighborhood in Medellin (Ant, Colombia). This is an all-girls school and it has three branches called, Esteban Jaramillo, Simona Duque and the main building Lorenza Villegas de Santos.

The principal of the high school is Maria Isabel Villa, and there are three coordinators, one for each section. It has 2220 students.
DRESS CODE

You can see in these pictures the everyday and the sport uniform.


There are morning shift (from 6:00 am to 12:30pm) and afternoon shift (from 12:40pm to 6:40pm)
The main branch has two blocks, in the A block we have a school restaurant, a big patio, for the brake and for practicing sports; two sets of bathrooms with seven toilets each one.
In the B block there is a theatre for 600 students called SANEY MADRID ZULUAGA, a parking lot, a big library called LUCELLY VILLEGAS DE SANTOS, the principal office, and the s secretary office
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The school has two computer rooms. In the English classroom there is a video beam, a computer (but it´s broken), a DVD player, a TV set , a tape recorder, and it also has internet but it is too slow and most of the times it doesn´t work.



The relationships among students in general terms are good but sometimes they fight , Especially for boys, Even tough they lack of many things the students have values and they respect their teachers and follow the rules.
Most of the students´ parents are watchmen, taxi drivers, bricklayers, messengers, street sellers, housekeepers, bus drivers, and most of them couldn´t study in a high school. Besides, many students do not have a father, due to the violence, they were killed or they left them when they were little children. The socio- economic stratum is low many of them are in strata 1,2 or 3 and they are in the SISBEN which is the health system supported by the government.
There is a good environment to study, but IT is important to mention that outside the high school, it means in the neighborhood (Aranjuez), there are bands of gangsters and criminals that are always looking for beautiful girls and some students like that kind of guys and that get them in troubles, and because of that sometimes they have to leave the school and the neighborhood. Most of the students’ interests are to finish their studies in the High School and begin to work to help their families.

The relation between teachers and the administration is good, there are respect and cordiality.
There are four English teachers, two in each shift (morning and afternoon) .
The school has assumed as pedagogical model, the developing model which has to do with learning the students to learn, developing investigation abilities in the students, this model is based on active pedagogies that say that student learn by doing activities that are interesting for them and related with their needs. The developing model has method called the meaningful learning and we are implementing this as a way to understand the students cognitive needs and that makes students understand their reality and improve interchange ideas.
We focus on developing the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) emphasizing one in each period, so we emphasize reading comprehension in the first period, listening in the second, speaking in the third and writing in the fourth. You can see the syllabus in a chart in another entry.