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 […]
2016/2017
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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 […]
Today we went with the school on an excursion to the beach of Pantoukios. This beach is not very far from Vrontados, and as soon as the bus stopped there the children jumped out and ran towards the shore to start the competition of who finds the most beautiful sea […]
On Friday 24th February, the carnival celebration took place in our school : almost all the children arrived in the morning with various costumes : a lot of policemen, princesses, cowboys, Indians, vampires or mommies… In the beginning of the day, pupils had normal lessons, or almost : during an […]
Carnival, the time of the year when you have the opportunity to embody everything you would like to be or you are interested in, for one single day. A day that makes children from everywhere all excited. The last Friday, the 24th of February, the Friday before the Greek carnival, […]
To celebrate the end of the school year and to enjoy all together a sunny day on the beach, last Friday we went with all the school on a trip to Lithi. Everyone was there: children, teachers and also parents, brothers and sisters who came along to accompany us and […]
On January 30 we celebrated a special religious day with our students: Οι Τρεις Ιεράρχες (the “Three Holy Hierarchs”). It is the celebration of Ιωάννης ο Χρυσόστομος (John Chrysostom), Βασίλειος ο Μέγας (Basil the Great) and Γρηγόριος ο Θεολόγος (Gregory the Theologian). They were bishops of the early church and […]
Our Children in excursion: Daskalopetra is the perfect place where the children can have fun, with the playground and the big space around. They played many different games with the volunteer of T.E.S that always are present in every occasion for support and take care of the child’s especially during […]
On the last school day before the two-week-long Christmas holidays the children of the second class presented a theater play to the children, teachers and parents of the school. It took them and their class teacher long time and hard work to realize this event. The name of the play […]