On March 25th the whole country celebrates the Greek War of Independence. Also in the primary schools this is an important date. The actual celebration took place on March 24th because the following day was a national holiday. Already weeks before both 6th classes of the 3rd Primary School of […]
3rd Primary school of Vrontados
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Every year the last weekend of carnival is celebrating in Greece. It is called Main Carnival Weekend. Also in our 3nd school in Vrontados was celebrating Carnival. On Friday children have dressed up as they want, for example: as a fairy tale, as a policeman and of course as a […]
The 3rd primary school of Vrontados made a really interesting excursion to an beautiful church in Vrontados: They went to the church of Agios Nikolaos so the priest could explain to them the meaning of the holy Prosfora bread, that is given to them during a service and represents the […]
The second class of the 3rd primary school of Vrontados visited a bakery in Chios City where they discovered all the secrets that the bread has and they had the opportunity to make their own bread as professionals. They got to know how a bakery is inside, which ingredients the […]
It is the last week of school, but as usual last but not least. Today, 10th of June, our students did a very special workshop, the port police from Chios came to the school for explaining to them some basic tips about safety and behaviour in the beach and sea. […]
It’s December and Christmas is coming. In the 3rd Primary School (AGIOS MARKOS) in Vrontados we are helping many teachers with Christmas preparations, crafting decoration for the christmas tree and helping the children to create customized decoration. We helped a teacher to craft reindeers by wine corks : we glued […]
For the Christmas celebration in the 3rd primary school of Vrontados we prepared two dances with groups from the first and second class. Already one month before the celebration we sat together and came up with ideas until we found two suitable songs and made choreographies for them. Then practice […]
In many countries Easter is the most important celebration of the year. Greece is no exception of that so it’s not surprising that the Greeks have many traditions during that time in spring. One of these traditions is to walk with “Lazarus” from door to door and sing the Lazarus […]
One week before Christmas it is really hard for everyone to focus on school and work, so it was very convenient that there was an excursion for the whole school planned. All the children, most of the teachers and three of us volunteers got on the bus early in the […]
In November 1973 students started a protest against the Regime of the Colonels and then locked themselves in the Athens Polytechnic. In memorial of the many people that stood up for freedom and fairness and got killed or injured Greeks celebrate the Athens Polytechnic Uprising on November 17th. We went […]