Monday, 21. October 2019

Today we had our first job shadowing activity. Therefore we visited the "Archbishops Seminary School" in Rabat. After a two hour bus ride we were heartly welcomed from the Deputy Head Secondary Mr. Gordon Baldacchino. He told us some informations about the school and we could ask him questions about the education system in Malta. 

The school was founded in the year 1703 and since then the teachers promoting a catholic, committed lifestyle to their students. "It aims at encouraging its students to form a community whose values are communicated through the interpersonal and sincere relationships of its members. This is done by sharing a common outlook on life based on the good news of the gospel." 

It´s a school only for boys and there were more things different to Austria. E.g.: 

• 40 minutes lessons
• obligatory school uniforms
• One of the teachers visit the families at home, before the students are allowed to the school. 
• There is a lottery for the schools in Malta. The farther you are in the front of the lottery the greater choices you have of different schools.

After Mr. Baldacchino told us about the school and the maltese educational system we were invited to join some lessons. In general the teaching is very similar to the teaching in Austria.  But it´s always good to see how other teachers design their lessons. Either to get some inspiration how to do it or to know how not to do it. ;)

At the end of our visit to the "Archbishops Seminary" we were picked up from the bus which brought us to Bugibba. There we visited the "Malta Classic Car Museum". This museum really takes you back in time. They have a collection of old cars and motorbikes from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.

 

After that we strolled around Bugibba and our new guide for the next days, Mr. Ernest Spiteri, told us some things about the city. He showed us for example the place were Saint Paulus was shipwrecked. So the legend says that Apostle Paulus himself brought Christianity to Malta.