{"id":605,"date":"2023-06-05T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/?page_id=605"},"modified":"2023-06-05T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:11:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"605\" class=\"elementor elementor-605\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-761192d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"761192d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-background-overlay\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71d75deb\" data-id=\"71d75deb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d93e75 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"1d93e75\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeInUp&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.14.0 - 26-06-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Mikiel Anton Vassalli Junior Lyceum was situated at the tal-\u0126andaq area in Qormi and was established in 1981 on the grounds of the former Royal Naval School that served children of the British servicemen between 1947 and 1978.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Lic\u0307eo M.A. Vassalli, as it was also known, was named after the patriot Mikiel Anton Vassalli who had at heart the social, economic and political future of the Maltese people. It offered secondary education to male students between the ages of ten and sixteen. The school complex was characterised by Nissen huts and small blocks set in a random layout adjacent and along a main thoroughfare that directed vehicular traffic in a single direction from one gate to another. Having formerly been a barracks during World War II, this layout was intended to resemble a Maltese village camouflaging the military infrastructure from potential air attacks. To support educational activities, the school had a number of facilities including: a multi-purpose <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hall, a gymnasium with parquet flooring, an athletics\u2019 room, three basketball\/tennis\/volleyball courts which also served as football pitches, a cinema room, a table-tennis room, a music room, an arts\u2019 studio, as well as a computer room which was a first of its kind in the 1980\u2019s.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A unique characteristic of the school that distinguished it from other local educational institutions was the fact that all subject teachers had their classroom which meant the students and not the teachers moved from one class (teacher\/subject) to the other at the end of each lesson period which lasted forty five minutes. Another particularity was that the first session started at 08:45 \u2013 the latest starting time for secondary schools in Malta. Wednesdays were half-days intended to give students a midweek break to enjoy sports and extracurricular activities.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National educational protocols mandated that students attended classes in a school uniform and different schools sported their particular colours to distinguish them from others. The Junior Lyceum winter uniform consisted of green trousers, blazer and jersey with a light beige shirt and a green tie with thin diagonal red and white lines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The summer uniform saw the students shed the blazer, jersey, shirt and tie replacing these with a short-sleeved polo shirt in the same beige colour as the winter shirt and carrying the school\u2019s emblem on a left chest pocket.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The school was so popular in the 1980\u2019s that it became the educational yardstick for students in their last year of primary school, who strived to pass examination sittings specifically set for entrance to the Junior Lyceums. Lic\u0307eo M.A. Vassalli was at the very top of educational standards within the public sector which success also had a pull-effect on private secondary schools. Mr John Michael Testa, the chartered headmaster to the school and project driver on the Ministry of Education Junior Lyceum plan, encouraged students to achieve their best and to participate in various educational and sports competitions at national and even international level. Mr Testa\u2019s unwavering drive was contagious and a high bar was set for the Lic\u0307eo M.A. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vassalli students, paving the way for enhanced potential in each individual student\u2019s career achievements.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read more about Li\u010beo Mikiel Anton Vassalli The Mikiel Anton Vassalli Junior Lyceum was situated at the tal-\u0126andaq area in Qormi and was established in 1981 on the grounds of the former Royal Naval School that served children of the British servicemen between 1947 and 1978.\u00a0 The Lic\u0307eo M.A. Vassalli, as it was also known, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661,"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/605\/revisions\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liceovassalli.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}