Two weeks later than usual due to the Corona pandemic, the primary schools finally closed on the 26th of June for the summer holidays. Thus, during the last week everyone was desperately waiting for the holiday. The teachers were starting to watch movies with the children and lessons like the […]
Celebrations
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The 3rd kindergarten of Vrontados had their final celebration on the 24th of June. This year the schools and kindergartens were open two weeks longer than usually because they had to close for many weeks due to the outbreak of Corona in 2020. We, the volunteers were very happy that […]
As a big highlight of the year the 3rd kindergarten of Vrontados prepared a Christmas theatre for Sunday the 15th of December which they performed in the “ΠΕΚΕΒ” club. To have the best performance as possible the teachers started to practice the play already back in November. With much passion […]
The 11th of November is a very special and important day for the inhabitants of Chios Island. More than hundred years ago the island was occupied by Turkey for many years. The population was oppressed, their rights were restricted. But the population of Chios wanted to be an independent part […]
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 […]
Every year on the 21st of November the Orthodox Church celebrates “The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the temple” in the Catholic Church better known as “Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary”. Theotokos is the Greek title for Mary, translated it means “the one who gave birth to […]
On the 11th of November, Chios celebrates its liberation from the Ottoman Empire in 1912. As the 11th is a Sunday this year, our schools celebrated already on Friday the 9th of November.
The 28th of october is an important date to all Greeks, for it is the date on which, in the year 1940, the Greek prime minister rejected Mussolini’s ultimatum. The ultimatum was about axis forces entering Greek territory and occupying certain, unspecified ‘tactical locations’. ‘Ochi’ means ‘No’ in Greek, and […]
On the 4th of July 2018, Vrontados celebrated its 100th anniversary on the square in front of the unknown sailor statue. After most visitors had taken a place, the first speaker was already announced by the headmaster of the 2nd primary school. We heard speeches by different headmasters of Vrontados’ […]
In March the children in the kindergarten learned more about Easter in Greece. The Greek name for Easter is Πάσχα (Pascha) and it is the most important celebration of the Greek Orthodox Church. In the first week of the Easter preparations the children learned more about the religious background. By […]
On Friday the 23rd of March we had a very nice theatre around the topic of the Turkish people who wanted to occupy Chios Island. The 6th class prepared together with the volunteers and the teacher a play, representing the resistance. It was in 1821 on the 25th of March. […]
“Better a single hour that is free, then forty years of slavery and prison.” These are the words of a Nikos Ksilouris song for the Greek Independence Day, a national holiday celebrated on the 25th of March. Not only at this day the Greek people are commemorating the start of […]