On 15 June the school year officially ended in Greece. To celebrate the beginning of summer the students presented songs and theater plays in front of parents and classmates. Especially the first and last class of the school thought of something special for the event. Also we had to say […]
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The 15th of June is the last of school in Greece. The families came to celebrate this joyful day with the children. First the pupils of the 1st grade presented a show on which they worked a lot with their teacher during the lasts weeks : the island of the […]
Last Wednesday, we were invited to the goodbye party for the 6th graders. It took place at Ηως, a restaurant near the beach Daskalopetra. The teachers and the families were reunited around tables and had dinner. Some of the pupils presented a small theater show in English. It was a […]
The end of the school year means excursions and celebrations. So, on Friday the 9th, we celebrated two hours with traditional dances and dancing shows. Every grade performed 2 or 3 group dances. The children of the first and the second grade presented small shows with hand made masks. The […]
The 7th of April, the last day of school before the Easter holidays, we went to school to celebrate Easter. This time, we went to Agios Nikolas, near the port. After the office, everyone had some cookies, chocolate and orange juice. Then we enjoyed the view on the sea. Back […]
On 25 March the village of Nenita celebrated the Greek Independence Day with the children marching through the village accompanied by drums. Unfortunately, us volunteers only saw the students practising for the event but even the rehearsal was quite impressive. All the children marched in step and were very focussed. […]
Tomorrow is the 25th of March, and Greece will celebrate the Independence day (Ikostí-pémpti Martíou) and also the Annunciation of Virgin Mary (Evangelismós tis Theotókou). So during this week, children from the 6th grade prepared a show about the Uprising against Turkey, which happened in 1821. They also trained for […]
Today the children from the 6th class performed in a play for the celebration of the 25th of March. After many rehearsals and a lot of preparation they greatly presented the historical happenings of Souli in front of two different audiences. Firstly the play was shown to all the students […]
The school and kindergarten of Nenita celebrated a very special day on 16 February 2017 and we became part of a Greek tradition called Τσικνοπέμπτη (Tsiknopempti). The literal translation is “Thursday of the Smoke of Grilled Meat” and it is part of the three weeks of carnival. What happened? Well, […]
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 […]
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 […]