In honor of Chios’ independence day on November 11th, the kindergarten where I volunteer has planned a special excursion for the children. As an ESC volunteer and assistant teacher, I get to know the history and culture of Chios together with the children, this is, among other things, my favorite […]
Excursions and Celebrations
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‘Επέτειος του Όχι’ meaning the ‘No’ Day in English is an annual celebration on the 28th of October. On this day people all over Greece commemorate the rejection of an ultimatum set by the Italian Dictator Mussolini during the second world war. The Greek dictator Metaxis denied the Italian army […]
On 16th February we had a carnival celebration in school. Therefore, of course, we had a lot to do. We prepared the decoration inside the building that were garlands out of the kites the children made in the art lessons. We also helped preparing the technical equipment for the party […]
It is carnival time in Greece. During the last days the children of the Second Primary School of Vrontados prepared masks and different handicrafts already. At Friday, the last school-day before the long weekend, our school had a great carnival celebration. Until 10 o’clock in the morning each class had […]
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 […]
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 […]
On the 10th of June the students were almost in holiday, so it was a good idea to say goodbye each others with an excursion in Paduchios. Paduchios is a beautiful port in the north-east of Chios, and the pupils had the possibility to know better their own island. We […]
The “almost” end of the school year deserve a nice and memorable day, in the second school of Vrontados they decided to organize an excursion. This year the excursion of the whole school was in Lithi, a beautiful beach in the west part of the island. We travelled by bus […]
The school year of the 2nd Primary School of Vrontados is slowly coming to an end, so the teachers planned an excursion to the soccer fields near by the airport of Chios for having one more highlight. Also we volunteers joined the children and took care of them during the day. […]
Children from 1st and 2nd classes of Second School of Vrontados took part in small excursion to a park, which was connected to environmental project. The main aims of excursion were not only to collect the garbage but also to learn responsibilities for our nature. It was really sunny day […]
After the 3rd and 4th class spoke about Ancient Greek history in general and got to know Alexander the Great in their school lessons, the teachers of the 2nd Primary school of Vrontados organized an excursion to the Archeological Museum of Chios, at the 29th of April. Fortunately, we volunteers […]