Smells like... teen spirit in Top Radio!

The 11-year-old "broadcasters" decided to prepare a radio tribute to their favourite boyband, One Direction for the radio station of our school, "Top Radio"!

The kids collect information about their favourite singers and play a lot of the songs they love!

Listen to the broadcast, as it was played by the European School Radio, here:

Junior potters!

Last month we visited the Art Workshop of the Municipality of Rethymno. We wanted to learn all the secrets of clay at first hand. Most of all, we wanted to learn about vessels and how the ancient Greeks painted them with all those beautiful images.
Mrs Frosso welcomed as cheerfully and explained everything to us!

First we make a draft!

We cut the border...

...decorate it with geometrical shapes...

Ready!

We begin painting!    We use motifs...   Beautiful, isn't it?    ...with warriors, too!    Ready for the furnace!    15 days later the vessels arrived at school!    We can see our patterns!    A real piece of artwork!  Original post by Maria Priniotaki

A trip to the North Pole!

Strange things happen in the North Pole... Almost magic things!
It's very-very cold! ΟK, we all knew that...
But up there in the north everything is different...
Day and night... The sun and the sky...

So, we boarded our Websail and travelled very far away!!
We met the Eskimoes and they told us how they build their igloos, their ice houses.

We arrived there in summertime. During a day that lasts for...6 months!
Even at night, the sun doesn't set... It never hides...

But when it DOES set, it is for good!.
The night there lasts for six months... Yet, it is not always dark...

Original post by Dimitris Alexakis

Do you know all the truth about tomatoes?

WE know EVERYTHING about tomatoes! First off, we know they are fruit and not vegetables! Didn't you know? Read this: http://10dim-tsesmes-en.blogspot.gr/2012/02/our-salad-days.html
Now we know how tomatoes took their red colour! Read the story as it was written by the D'2 class student, Nektaria Kiose.

"Once upon a time there was a tomato. She thought it would be nice to go to the sea and she did. She sat a little till she had set up the umbrella and taken off her clothes. She finally got into the sea and swam. After a short while she got out, ate and after some time she got in again. Later she got out, took out her mobile phone, put on her earphones and lay down.She put on her sunglasses and thought of sleeping a bit! But that "bit" turned into a full four hours! How could she have imagined when she lay down that she had put on everything except of the most important: her sunscreen!!!
When she realised, she saw she had messed up. And so she had got sunburn. She had turned all red! Everybody loved her new look since then!
All the tomatoes of the world decided to imitate that look and since then all the tomatoes of the world turned red!"

Original post by Maria Priniotaki

A library from...scratch!

  A dreary-library! The image of the room that was about to host our school library was something like that! But the kids of the 10th Primary School, as genuine bookworms, deserve a much more beautiful place for reading! Not only for reading, actually! A place where they will be able to relax, let the stress off, but also have fun playing board games, doing puzzles or watching a video presentation! We had no choice, thus, but to give them such a place!
  We started out (how else?) by painting the room and we went on to sort the books out and classify them into categories... We added a sofa, some floor pillows and a carpet for warmth and games! There are still a few...artistic interventions (we'll be owing you an updatte on this), but our library iss ready to work!On Wednesday, during the second break, get in line to meet a new buddy: a book!

Hmmmm...

...now THIS...

...you can't call this a library room...

What do you think?

Shall we begin???

A good painting for starters...

...and the artistic details...

...by the artistic hands...!

What's wrong, Mr Dimitris? Are we tired???

In the meanwhile the bookcases must be sorted out!

Besides, this is the issue in question..!

Of course, the artists...

...keep doing their job undistracted...!

Hey! Something's missing here!!!

Now we're talking...

Let's remember before and after again...!

BEFORE...

...and AFTER...

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...and AFTER...

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...and AFTER...

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...and AFTER...

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...and AFTER...

A doll!

You must be getting tired of us thanking people, but it's impossible to NOT thank, for once more, our colleagues and friends, Yiouli Bosdelekidou and Dimitris Varelas who, despite the fact that they aren't teaching in our school, often give us their help and talent with great love for what they do!

...and don't forget: there are still lots of classroom in an emergency condition in our school...!!! 

Happy birthday, Websail!

It's been a year already since Mr Dimitris was timidly making his first post in this weblog, without knowing how, or where it would lead us...

 "This is my first blog! I feel like I'm sailing in uncharted waters! Let's hope taht it will be full of interesting and useful experiences... The ambition is the creation of a place of meeting and dialogue amongst teachers, parents and students of the 10th Primary School, around the issues of the school, of learning and education in general..."

 The blog that startes out with so many questions and insecurity was about to become everyone of us' "Websail", go outside the walls of our school and take us to places near and faraway, real and imaginary!
We would like to thank for once more, from the deepest of our hearts, all of you who travel in the Websail and help it keep going...
All that's left to us is wish it...

Happy birthday and lots of happy voyages!!!