Pétalas Infantil [Childish Petals] was a school newspaper written by 7-10-year-old girls at Colégio Coração de Jesus, a Catholic elementary school in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina (SC), from 1945 to 1952. In this publication, which circulated monthly among the students and their families, the girls reported daily activities at the school, possibly with the approval of the institution. With this material in our possession (66 issues of the newspaper), which is considered ordinary, this study focused on the articles, comments, and reading suggestions that expressed protocols of civility through messages of orientation and rules of personal, school, and civic conduct, which characterized the school culture from the period. It sought to highlight, through the lenses of the History of Education and of Written Culture, the importance of this handwritten material, analyzing it as one of the components of the material school culture and, therefore, as a document that allows understanding and analyzing indications of knowledge and school practices at that time which reveal both aspects of the internal functioning of the school institution itself as well as the civilizing proposals that they present through written means
school newspaper; school culture; written culture; History of Education
