On the 16th of May a science teacher visited the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados. He brought a lot of equipment, reaching from simple lamps and cables to generators and even some chemicals. He then set up his equipment in 5th grade, and gave his lesson for 3 hours. The […]
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On Tuesday, 14th of May, the three primary schools of Vrontados competed against each other in a self-organized sports tournament taking place at the stadium next to the first primary school. In weeks of preparation ahead, the sports teachers formed a team (or in case of Agios Georgios two, as […]
As a group we decided we want to make use of our two weeks Easter holidays and therefore came up with the idea to travel around the Peloponnese. The planning process, which started weeks before we set off to Athens on the 20th of April, proved to be difficult and […]
Easter is one of the most important festivities for Christians all around the world and as Greeks like to celebrate, you’re probably not surprised if I tell you that also the schools had big celebrations on the last day before the two-week Easter break. The first kindergarten and primary school […]
On the 17th of April, the students from the 5th grade from the school Panagia Erithiani visited the very first leprosy hospital in Greece, which is located around 20 minutes south of Vrontados. Once arrived, we were welcomed by our guide for the day and walked down a little path […]
Last Sunday, some of us volunteers decided to use the sunny weather and walk to a close village in the North of the island, Lagkada, which is located around 10 kilometres north of Vrontados. We started after breakfast and enjoyed the nice view. Walking to Lagkada from Vrontados, you walk […]
On both the 1st and 2nd of April authors visited the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados. The first author presented 2 of her books to the 1st and 2nd grade, including reading out parts of her books. The children enjoyed it a lot and listened carefully. At the end the […]
On the 3rd of April many schools sent their 4th – 6th classes or a select few of them to a big sports stadium of one of the primary schools in the city. The children got picked up by a bus at 8:30 in the morning and were transfered to […]
As the 25th of March is a public holiday in Greece, we volunteers used the long weekend for a trip to Turkey. Our journey started with a ferry ride to Cesme, from where we went by bus to the airport in Izmir and further by plane to Istanbul. We spent […]
It is that time of the year again – Greek Carnival. This Celebration marks the beginning of a 3 week period known as „Αποκριά (Apokria)“. The first week is the so called preannouncement week, the second week is the week of meat, and the third week the week of cheese, […]
On the 22nd of February one of our volunteers accompanied the first and second graders of the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados. The Excursion started at 8:30 am, when the children got picked up from the school by a bus. They then drove to the city of Chios, where the […]
For this years christmas, the primary schools and the kindergarten of Vrontados prepared celebrations. In the first primary school of Vrontados, the children of the first class already rehearsed since the beginning of December for a play their teacher wrote by herself. The story was about christmas elves, a sad […]