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, […]
Primary School 2016/2017
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]