Some months ago, Kostas, the director of the 3rd Primary school of Vrontados, had the nice idea of creating a big wall painting to improve the appearance of the school. We researched and looked for some inspiration and decided together with the school to paint the four seasons of the year. […]
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As you probably know we are a team of international volunteers from all over Europe, currently consisting of people from Austria, Germany, Norway and Spain. That is the perfect precondition for what we planned to do: teach the children of the 3rd primary school of Vrontados traditional dances from our […]
During the last couple of weeks we had a project with the children of the 2nd class in cooperation with their teacher. We wanted to give the children the possibility to try out and get familiar with traditional bread from different countries. So we started with traditional Greek bread which […]
Christmas is just over, but fortunately there is always time for some delicious sweets. So the 1st class of the 2nd primary school of Vrontados baked some traditional Greek Troufakia. Therefore we melted some chocolate and mixed it with cream. Then the children enjoyed crumbling one and a half packages […]
Children should grow up, learn, play and rollick in a friendly, optimistic and colorful environment that complies with them. Therefore, the school’s headmaster asked us volunteers to paint the grey wall that surrounds the gymnastics field with occasional support from the pupils. Our aim was to create a fanciful, children-friendly […]
During the past weeks, we, the volunteers, have made school ground paintings in the 2nd Primary School of Vrontados. The paintings create a colorful atmosphere in the school, and will be used by the children in the breaks, as well as in the lessons. Our aim, in cooperation with the […]
At the beginning of this very emotional day, we watched two teams of pupils doing athletes. Children had the task to fill their bottles with water which was in the bucket on the other side of the court, as soon as possible. Children ran with a cup, filled it with […]
On Monday, June 15, the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados had its final celebration. Every class had prepared one or two different presentations. So the children weather danced, played theatre or sang. The teachers were really creative and had nice ideas. One class for example danced and acted to an […]
In the 3rd Primary School of Vrontados the school ended the school year with two celebrations. One was the final athletics celebration, where the children had prepared some traditional Greek dances, which they showed to their parents and which took place some days before the last school day. We helped […]
Last week the third Primary School of Vrontados celebrated different dances from all over the world. We volunteers helped the whole year to collect, learn and teach dances from Italy, Spain, Germany, Cameroon and Poland. And suddenly it was the end of the school year and time to present what […]
The school year 2014/ 2015 is coming to its end and as every year the first class of the 2nd Primary School of Vrontados prepared a final theatre play over several weeks. To every good artistic performance belong convincing costumes that stimulate the viewers’ imaginations and enable a better understanding […]
The children of the Katarraktis school celebrated the independence day from Turkey with an interesting show about its history, performing in an old theatre decorated with paintings and little Greeks flags. Wearing traditionals costumes and singing some songs suitable to the moment our children made us understand the importance of […]