Before the school started again after the long summer break here in Greece, we decided to welcome the pupils from the primary school with some nice and colourful games on their school yard. To get some ideas how to create paintings where the children could do jumping games on, we […]
Primary School
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Before the actual school start, the teachers were already preparing the materials for their lessons. We assisted them by transferring the books of each grade from a storage room in the center of the city. When arriving at the school we put them in order and handed them out to […]
One of the most important goals of our organizations is to teach and to share with children from the local community knowledge about Europe and our volunteers’ native countries. As in the summer, we hosted four people from Poland we decided to prepare a presentation about this country – its […]
In September 2011, we went to the primary school in Vrontados to create a room where children can be taught the subjects of Chemistry, Biology and Physics. We put the materials of the school out of one storage room, put them in order, and cleaned them with the advices of […]
The pupils of the 4th class of the primary school were preparing music instruments, made of material of normal things that one uses at home. We were helping them to decorate the bottles or boxes with colourful serviettes, which they filled with some rice so that they became percussion instruments. […]
On the 21st of February 2012, the weather was already like in spring – after a period of rainy weeks. So, the teachers of the primary school decided to take advantage of this and to make an excursion with the whole school to the local beach Daskalopetra. There, not only the […]
On the 6th of March 2012, was the against violence at schools. For this occasion, the primary school’s classes created presentations to make each other aware of and to prevent violence at schools. We participated the rehearsals of the children in the 2nd class practising a song with a little […]
As the children of the 2nd class were learning about stamps, faxes and e-mails, we were asked to make a short presentation on how the e-mail system actually works. While we presented the system on the basis of gmail on the computer, the director of the school explained everything in […]
The teachers of the 5th and 6th class invited us to participate in the geographie lesson as they are learning about European countries right now and also gave us the opportunity to present the geography of our countries to their students. Already during a break, a map was rolled out […]
In the last week of March 2012, the primary school decided to do an excursion day. So, always two classes gathered to go together on a day trip through the area of Vrontados. We, in the role of assisting teachers went with different groups, guarded and guided the children during […]
As the beach season has started again, the school decided to go to the local beaches and collect the garbage there. Each class was assigned a different beach and afterwards the whole school met at the beach “Daskalopetra”, where also an other primary school was. The children really enjoyed this day […]
As volunteers we are able to do many creative and various tasks. One of these was creating costumes for the 1st class of the Third Primary School of Vrontados. The children performed a play at the school and needed some costumes of sea animals like crabs, calamari, fish and octopuses. […]