Have you ever wished for a clear guide to help you find your way around school?
School life consists of spaces, rules, activities and changes that often take time to understand. This observation inspired Valentina, a MYP student at H-FARM International School Vicenza, to develop a website designed for other students.
An informative, essential site designed to facilitate orientation in everyday school life. It includes, for example, an interactive map to understand where the auditorium, canteen or library are located; an updatable calendar with key dates for the school year; and a section dedicated to useful contacts, such as extracurricular activity coordinators or academic tutors. Valentina’s work is therefore a useful tool for those who want to feel more confident within the school, right from day one.
Valentina started by asking herself simple but central questions: what information does a student really need? What would I have liked to know when I arrived? What content is difficult to find today? This approach guided every choice: from the selection of materials to the structure of the site and the language used.
Organised into thematic sections and designed to be updated over time, the site is presented as a shareable resource. It is built with the idea that it can be enriched by others, becoming a stable tool to support the school community.
During its creation, Valentina worked on relevant cross-cutting skills: time management, to organise the operational phases; research, to evaluate sources and content; communication, to integrate feedback; adaptability, to review solutions when necessary.
The project shows how students can make a concrete contribution to the quality of school life by combining digital skills with a genuine focus on everyday needs. It is not just a matter of creating something that “works”, but of thinking about a tool that is truly useful, accessible and sustainable over time. Initiatives such as this help to build a more collaborative school that is more attentive to those who experience it every day. Above all, they offer students the opportunity to feel like an active part of a community that is growing thanks to their contribution.
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