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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Every year the 2nd primary school of Vrontados ends the year with small nice festivities to go with good mood into the Christmas holidays and with them into the New Year. This year was the same and the TES-volunteers had the luck to observe those beautiful traditions and partly also […]
The 20 of November the 2nd school of Vrontados celebrate the Virgin Mary like every year, Sunday morning some of the mothers of the students, the teacher and children met at the school to prepare flower bouquets, and to decorate the icon of Virgin Mary. The celebration started in the evening […]
Every year, the Greek people remember the university students who got killed by the army of the dictatorship on this day 43 years ago in Athens. It’s a day to think about liberty and democracy. The boys and girls of the fifth class prepared a program with monologues, dialogues, poems […]
The 11th November is a very important day for whole Chios island. On this they the inhabitants celebrate the liberation of their home from the Turks. On this Friday itself, we had the chance to see a huge parade with schools, associations and military in the capital city Chios. There […]
The 11th of November, an important day in the history of Chios Island, because it was the day that the island stopped to be part of the Ottoman Empire and returned to be a part of Greece. In the second school of Vrontados the third class celebrates this day with […]
On Thursday 27 October, one day before the actual Οχι-day, we celebrated the National Holiday at school with a small event. Two students from 6th class started the event by reading texts to the audience of students, teachers and parents. The students of the 4th class prepared traditional songs and […]
28 of October 1940, the Greek population rejected the ultimatum of Benito Mussolini as well as handing over Greece to him with the result that the Italians invaded Greece and that the Greek-Italian wars of the winter 1940-1941 started. This date has become a festive occasion for the Greeks all […]
On the 26th October the school started a little bit different to what we and the children are used to. The reason was simple: It was the Name Day of Saint Demetrius or Agios Dimitrios. Therefore the whole school went to the church Agios Markos -which is the reason for […]