Last week, with 2 last classes of the school, we went to Farkaina, a playground near Chios city. Here you can play but also practice sport. But before enjoying the place, the children had the opportunity to learn the rules and the right behavior to have on the street. Indeed, a […]
Monthly Archives: September 2017
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On 25 March the village of Nenita celebrated the Greek Independence Day with the children marching through the village accompanied by drums. Unfortunately, us volunteers only saw the students practising for the event but even the rehearsal was quite impressive. All the children marched in step and were very focussed. […]
Last week, with the 5th and the 6th grades, we went to the city to learn more about the byzantine period of Chios Island. First, we visited the byzantine museum, located in the center, in the Ottoman Mosque. It’s a small place, with one room. In the hall you can […]
Tomorrow is the 25th of March, and Greece will celebrate the Independence day (Ikostí-pémpti Martíou) and also the Annunciation of Virgin Mary (Evangelismós tis Theotókou). So during this week, children from the 6th grade prepared a show about the Uprising against Turkey, which happened in 1821. They also trained for […]
Today the children from the 6th class performed in a play for the celebration of the 25th of March. After many rehearsals and a lot of preparation they greatly presented the historical happenings of Souli in front of two different audiences. Firstly the play was shown to all the students […]
As part of their lesson about the right way of nourishment the third class went for an excursion to the beautiful Kampos of Chios with a tour guide and we had possibility to accompany them there. The area of Kampos is one of the most characteristic areas of Chios which […]
The school and kindergarten of Nenita celebrated a very special day on 16 February 2017 and we became part of a Greek tradition called Τσικνοπέμπτη (Tsiknopempti). The literal translation is “Thursday of the Smoke of Grilled Meat” and it is part of the three weeks of carnival. What happened? Well, […]
The last Thursday, the second of the month, the sixth class of the second primary school of Vrontados made an excursion to a music- and video-studio in Chios-city and we accompanied them there. The class will participate in a competition for short-movies and had finished the filming for it. For […]
I am a volunteer in TES for more than half a year now and I believe that I somehow know the Greeks and the Greek culture, but for me Tsiknopempti which happened last Thursday was something very unexpected and a crazy but great experience! Tsiknopempti or in English something like […]
It is good for the children to get to know the true value of books from the beginning and so when the teacher asked the forth class what we will find there were we will go, all together said treasurers. At the second of May the children of the forth […]
In the 2nd Primary school of Vrontados we celebrated the “Tsiknopempti”, , a nice part of the Greek Easter Tradition. Also called Smoke Thursday the Thursday where the air is filled with the aroma of charred meat. Tsiknopempti is the day during the Carnival period which marks the beginning of […]
Carnival time in Greece officially ends on “Clean Monday”, so the school and the kindergarten of Nenita celebrated this cheerful time of the year on the Friday before. How did they do it? With a huge party and loads of food of course. In the primary school at 9.30am everyone […]