Upcoming Activities

The Pontifical Mission Educational and Cultural Center is please to announce a Reading Challenge and Competition in Arabic that we are organizing for local school students. The competition will start this coming September 2019 and ends on May 2020. This project is being funded by the Pontifical Mission Office in Jerusalem, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education – Bethlehem Directorate. The competition targets the participation of 4th and 5th graders from various schools in Bethlehem, Beit Jala and Beit Sahour. This project was approved during the meeting which took place between Mr. Sami Marwa, Director of Education and Higher Education, [...]

Goals and Objectives Reinforce/complement teaching and learning process with varied activities To improve the methods of teaching by integrating varied activities in the classroom Empower teachers to be more creative by introducing/adapting various activities which serve as learning tools to motivate the students in the learning process To enhance/develop the reading, writing, summarizing/analyzing, communication and comprehensive skills of the students through involvement in varied activities Stimulate children’s interest and develop their capacity to think critically/creatively; construct their own views; express themselves and move away from what is rote learning to being a more active agent of their own learning To [...]