School, Family and Distance Learning at the Time of COVID-19: The Case of the Gazzetta Olimpica

The project La Gazzetta Olimpica is part of the more general context of distance learning activities of the ‘Olympic Village ‘elementary school. In the past years the school had organized the project in person through the involvement of the children of all the primary school classes of the plexus (from I to V) in a journalism laboratory. The aim of the project is to make pupils live an educational experience in which to experiment with a division of roles, tasks, responsibilities and collaboration aimed at achieving a common goal, a result that is the fruit of everyone’s work. The main objective of the magazine was to encourage children to reflect and share the experiences that had remained most etched in their minds during the school year, in order to enhance the daily life of the neighborhood community and therefore encourage, in the long term, also the local development of all the realities active in the area (primarily the school). The project was therefore not new, but the situation that occurred with the health emergency had caused a necessary readjustment to the ‘remote’ school context and a general restructuring of the project’s activities.