Today, Monday the 11th of September, is the first day of this new school year ! The children came with their parents and some grand-parents and siblings. For today, no lessons, it’s a special day dedicated to the benediction of the priest from the local church Agios Markos linked to […]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
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On the 11th of September the school started in Nenita, Chios. At 9 am all students with their parents met in front of the school. The first day of school is always ‘celebration day’. Therefore they had an extra ceremony with a priest. The students formed lines, starting with the […]
Our first time in the City of Chios, our first night on a sailing boat, our first sailing experience… This weekend has been really adventurous. We arrived at the port of Chios City with our sleeping bags, bread, a melon and many expectations. But we still had to wait, our […]
During the summer holidays of the schools and the kindergarten our team of volunteers organized summer activities for the children in the villages Nenita and Katarraktis. Five days per week for 2 hours in the evening we played different games with them, having a lot of fun together. Nenita experiences: […]
On 7 June the kindergarten already celebrated the end of the school year because the Greek summer holidays are very near. From Thursday 15 June no school will be open anymore. We volunteers in the kindergarten were a big part of this celebration. We learnt the songs and choreographies with […]
Every year before the summer holidays most schools go on a „big excursion“. Why “big”? Because this excursion, unlike others during the school year, lasts the whole day. What really surprised us was that every child was accompanied by a family member, so per child it was at least a […]
On Friday 28 April the first three classes of the primary school went on a little adventure. Three teachers, one volunteer and 33 children got on a bus that would bring them to two places on the island. Because it was really hot that day every child had to wear […]
Today we had a special guest in 2nd primary school of Vrontados. A police officer from the Traffic Police Station of Chios came to speak for two hours to the children about the main ways of transportation, street signs and security information. The awareness of the significance of this topic […]
On Friday 5th of May, Sassa Voulgari, a storyteller coming from Athens, performed in front of the children in the school library. Firstly A’, B’ and Γ’ classes and later the remaining ones had the pleasure to listen to her enchanting stories about princesses, kings, castles, sailors, birds and beautiful landscape […]
In preparation of the Christmas Theater the TES volunteers made paper masks for the scene where the witch Frikantela magically changes children into frogs, ducks, cats, dogs and then cows. With the help of our handicrafts and some light and fog effects it looked really mysterious in the end! To see all […]