The mission of Agrupamento de Escolas Augusto Cabrita is to focus in learning of all students from different grades from our schools.We are a group of schools comprising schools, from kindergarden to high school. We involve pupils in European projects, especially high school or vocational education and pupils in the last years of primary school, usually the ninth year. Our school aims at the good school results of the students that come from very diverse households, in terms of socio-economic, socio-cultural origin. In recent years we had got students from the eastern countries, from the former Portuguese colonies in Africa (Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Guinea, Brazil), India, China and others. Our concern is to be able to work towards the success of our students regardless of their origins, avoiding dropping out of school.

 

Our school is a public school integrated in the district of Setubal, Barreiro county, on the left bank of the river Tagus. The town has fast connection to the city of Lisbon using the ferry. Our headquarters are located at the Secondary School Augusto Cabrita. Our concern is to train students in all dimensions not only giving them a solid academic background to be responsible future citizens. Our school has courses in the areas of management, markting and advertising, computer science and programming, electronics and robotics, tourism and sports management.

 

We have had good results in the different courses in participating in national competitions and in sports competitions. The group of schools as a whole has about 200 teachers and 2100 students at different levels of education. We are a regular and professional school that seeks to meet the training needs of students in the place where we are inserted. Our school is one in our municipality that accepts students with problems of mobility and some with cognitive problems.

The support of this students to develop them skills preparing them to the work market. ESAC school has some experience about national and international project work and it has run some international projects successfully. The students come from a low social family context (often with economic problems due to unemployment) and they are not always motivated to study. They would like to work out often they lack of motivation in learning. This project is important to open minds and contact with other cultures, learning to be more tolerant with others, to motivate them for study. The staff has been taking part in European projects like Comenius, Leonardo and Erasmus+ for 11 years. They are are good at applying technologies to the classes in any subject using ICT, we can use magic boards for some classes. We have experts in ICT and electronics for example that are pioneers and some specific areas. We have also good labs and good staff in biology, chemistry and also in economics, management, languages like Spanish, English and French and in computer sciences in networking and programming languages.