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
About us
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
OUR STORY
Who are the Stimmatine sisters?
1908- Foundation year
1908- 1981 Stimmatine Sisters
In 1908, in response to the need to provide employment for mothers with knitting and to care for and Christianly educate their children, the Sacred Heart kindergarten, financed by the better-off families of San Venanzio and San Vincenzo and built along the Riolo River, was born at the urging of San Venanzio's parish priest, Don Gaetano Pasquini.
From 1908 to 1981 the activity of knitting and children's education was entrusted to the Poor Daughters of the Sacred Stigmata of St. Francis of Assisi commonly called the Stimmatine Sisters.
The congregation was founded by Anna Maria Fiorelli Lapini (1809-1860) who, widowed in 1842, decided to become a Franciscan tertiary and took in a number of girls, the daughters of poor peasants from the environs of Florence, and devoted herself to their education.
Operating bodies and staff
Eighties - restoration
1988 - Missionary Sisters of Childhood
In 1988 Don Andrea Astori welcomed with joy the arrival of the Missionary Sisters of Childhood in the management of the kindergarten Sacred Heart.
The Institute of the “Missionary Sisters of Childhood” was founded in Pesaro in 1951 by Mother Flora Pallotta who realised her vocation of love towards children by dedicating herself to their education and the development of their potential, in particular the Institute was born to respond to a need for charity towards the numerous refugee children from Istria and from Dalmatia in the immediate post-war period.
Don Pio Cavallina restored the kindergarten and
entrusted its management to secular staff.
2001- Private school recognised by the state
2012 - Earthquake
From 2021 on
2014 - The new headquarters
Following the 2012 earthquake, the building of the old parish school was declared unfit for use, and for the following two years all activities were moved to the parish hall of San Vincenzo (oratory), which served as a school on weekdays, and on holidays was set up for the celebration of Holy Mass.
2014 saw the inauguration of the new Sacred Heart Preschool, built on the site of the former St. Vincenzo's bell house, behind the respective church.
In the same year, the Missionary Sisters of Childhood concluded their precious 25-year ministry in our parishes.
In September 2014, Don Matteo Prosperini entrusted the educational and didactic management to Enrica Scazza, as Coordinator and Teacher, and with the resumption of the new school year, the entire staff is secular.
The new coordinator is Caterina Selva.
In 2021 becomes Don Marco Malavasi the parish priest.
In November 2025, Bischop Matteo Zuppi visited our school.
From 2026 Don Daniele Nepoti is the current manager and legal representative of the School.
Teaching staff board
Intersection Council
Manager
It has educational and didactic functions
It has collaboration features
Legal representative and guarantor of educational identity
COORDINATOR
CATERINA SELVA
COORDINATOR CATERINA SELVA
PARISH ADMINISTRATOR
DON DANIELE NEPOTI
TEACHERS
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.
