On Wednesday 28th April, our school hosted a group of 25 students and 2 teachers coming from Italy. This visit came as a result of an etwinning project between a group from our Second Formers, Italian stream and a class in the First year of the Secondary school, Tommaso Fiore, in Bari, Italy.
Early in this scholastic year, Ms Esther Degennaro, enquired with our school via My Space within the @twinning portal, about the possibility of working on a project called Old Town Walking with our students. We gladly accepted this invitation and offered this opportunity to our students. Twelve volunteered to take part and immediately with stated to disseminate the work that had to be done. A group of our boys were responsible to gather some historical data about Imdina, some took pictures, other suggested games or puzzles that could be worked out by the Italian students when they will be in Malta while the last group worked on an interactive quiz and presentation.
The Book Week is an annual event in our School's Calendar. Since the 23rd April is the World Book Day, we always celebrate this activity during the third or fourth week of April.
The Librarian and his committee prepared this programme:
* Mr Matthew Vassallo MA (History) gave a detailed account to our Form 1 students of the first printing and publication processes in Malta.
* Mr Ivan de Battista, an actor and an author of Il-Fanal tas-Sinjur, Id-Dar ta' Sqaq il-Forka, u Id tad-Deheb, was invited to share his experience with all the Form 1 and Form 2 students about the process behind the publication of a book. Mr De Battista spoke how everything starts from an idea but that it takes discipline and hard work to eventually complete a book.
It was like a dream... on Saturday 17th April, our school project was declared winner of the NSTF Young Scientists Contest and three days later, in the afternoon of Wednesday 21st they were waiting at the Malta International Airport to board the plane to take them to Brussels, there they will represent our school in the Belgian Science Expo.
Adrian Farrugia, Gerd Xuereb and Stephan Zammit form our team and together with Mr Anton Grima, our Biology Teacher and Ms Mariella Pia Tabone, Head of the Educational & Cultural Affairs of National Student Travel Foundation - NSTF (Malta) will represent Malta.
Yes we won! Our project entitled The Air We Breathe - Air Quality Monitoring at St Michael School, was voted as the best submitted science project in this year’s edition of the NSTF Young Scientist competition that came to an end this morning.
First of all we would like to congratulate our team made up of Stephan Zammit, Gerd Xuereb and Adrian Farrugia together with our Biology and Chemistry teacher, Mr Anton Grima for their hard work, meticulous presentations and perseverance in working on this very ambitious project.
“To learn to read is to light a fire;
every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
Victor Hugo
Programm_tal-Gimgha_tal-Ktieb.pdf 
The National Student Travel Foundation has over the past years developed a Science Programme together with the Malta Chamber of Scientists and the Malta Council of Science and Technology to increase the interest of students in Science and Technology, and encourage them to read for degrees in science and take up careers within this sphere. The culmination of all these programmes is the NSTF Science Week, this year being organised in collaboration with MCST at Villa Bighi, between April 11 and 17.
