Sacro Cuore Nursery School © 2026 All rights reserved
via San Vincenzo n°5/a | 40015 San Vincenzo di Galliera -BO
Phone 051812337 | E-mail sacrocuoregalliera@gmail.com
School Code BO1A099003 | VAT 03749161208
Parochial Private School
Who we are
The "Sacro Cuore" Nursery School is an educational institution managed by the Parish of San Venanzio of Galliera.
With decree no. 488/532 from the Minister of Education, we have been a parochial school since the 2000/2001 school year.
FISM federated school
HISTORY
1908
year of foundation
WHO ARE THE STIGMATINE SISTERS?
The congregation was founded by Anna Maria Fiorelli Lapini (1809-1860) who, after being widowed in 1842, decided to become a Franciscan tertiary and began to welcome into her home some girls, daughters of poor farmers from the surroundings of Florence, and to dedicate herself to their education.
1980s - restoration
1908- 1981
the Stigmatine Sisters
1988 - the Missionary Sisters of Childhood
In 1908, to meet the need to provide work for mothers through knitting activities and to care for and educate their children in the Christian faith, the Sacro Cuore kindergarten was established at the initiative of the parish priest of San Venanzio, Don Gaetano Pasquini. It was funded by the wealthiest families of San Venanzio and San Vincenzo and built along the Riolo river.
From 1908 to 1981 the knitting activity and the education of the children were entrusted to the Poor Daughters of the Sacred Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi, commonly known as Stigmatine Sisters.
In 1988 Don Andrea Astori joyfully welcomed the arrival of the Missionary Sisters of Childhood in the management of the Sacred Heart kindergarten.
WHO ARE THE MISSIONARY SISTERS OF CHILDHOOD?
The Institute was founded in Pesaro in 1951 by Mother Flora Pallotta, who fulfilled her vocation of love towards children by dedicating herself to their education and the development of their potential. In particular, the work was created to respond to a need for charity towards the numerous refugee children from Istria and Dalmatia in the immediate post-war period.
2001
2014 - the new headquarters and other changes
In September 2014, Don Matteo Prosperini entrusted the educational and didactic management to Enrica Scazza, as Coordinator and Teacher. With the start of the new school year, the entire staff became secular.
From 2021 to today
The school becomes equal-status.
In 2014 the new headquarters of the Sacro Cuore Kindergarten was inaugurated, built on the site where the house of the San Vincenzo bell ringer once stood, behind the respective church.
In the same year the Missionary Sisters of the
Childhood concluded their precious ministry in our parishes, which lasted 25 years.
2012 - the earthquake
Following the 2012 earthquake, the building of the old Parish school was declared unusable and for the following two years all activities were moved to the Parish hall of San Vincenzo (oratory) which on weekdays served as a School while on holidays was set up for the celebration of Holy Mass.
Operating bodies and staff
Teaching staff board
Manager
Intersection Council
It has educational and didactic functions
Legal representative and guarantor of educational identity
COORDINATOR
CATERINA SELVA
It has collaboration features
PARISH PRIEST PRO-TEMPORE
DON MARCO MALAVASI
TEACHERS
COORDINATOR CATERINA SELVA
TEACHERS
2 PARENT REPRESENTATIVES PER SECTION
EDUCATIONAL STYLE
Our school aims to be a formative environment, made up of daily experiences
and educational proposals designed to "learn life", to acquire
skills, knowledge, and emotional and relational resources to BE in the world; it
aims to stimulate children to explore, to inspire them in the process of learning,
through paths made of questions, hypotheses, experimentation, construction, verification,
reflection.
Our school as a learning environment:
"learning life"
Being in the world
Daily activities and educational proposals to acquire skills, knowledge, and emotional and relational resources
Not just one, but many different kinds of learning
- Cognitive
- Ethical
- Social
- Spiritual
- Play
- Direct experience with nature, things, materials
- Movement
- Relationship
- Ability to imagine and create
NATURAL RIGHTS OF CHILDREN
Mission
Preschool contributes to the education and the affective, psychomotor, cognitive, moral, religious, and social development of children by promoting their potential for relationships, autonomy, creativity, and learning, and aims to ensure real equality of educational opportunities.
With respect for the educational role of parents, it contributes to the integral formation of children and, in its autonomy and didactic and pedagogical unity, ensures educational continuity with the nursery and primary school.
The aim of our projects is to stimulate and promote a different expressive opportunity to convey emotions, moods, and personal experiences, within a child-friendly play environment.