Welcome to the Websail of the 10th Primary School of Rethymno! A ship carrying people, thoughts, ideas, suggestions and actions concerning kids and education! Our destination? Who cares? What counts is always the journey...! We hope you will find things that interest you along the way and you will give us your own ideas for an even more interesting route... Thank you for choosing us for your navigation and we are wishing you a pleasant and creative journey!
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!
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...!
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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...!!!
If you passed by our school on Saturday morning, you would think you had visited a bicycle exhibition!
About 50 bicycles (big or small, with or without training wheels) were running around the schoolyard!
All this happened within the framework of celebrating the "Day without Cars" (22nd September).
For two hours, Mr Kostas was setting up tracks for us to show our talent in pedal and learn how to hit the brakes effectively!
Let me see who's the most skilled rider!
"Go!"...
...in between the cones!!!!
...and brake at the right time!
However, we didn't stop there! After completing the "artistry" exercises, we left our bikes to the side and got informed about the right riding behaviour when we are on a bicycle. To put it simply: to ALWAYS wear a helmet and light-coloured clothes and have our lights on when we drive at night.
We left the hard work for the end! A specially equipped team with rolls, special colour and the guidance of our teacher and our headmaster painted the crossing on the east side of the school which had completely faded out!
Two other teams painted signs for the pedestrians and cyclists on the pavement. So as we (especially grown-ups) don't forget that the pavements are...
...for pedestrians!
...and bicycles!
It was an awesome Saturday morning!
...much better than a drive in a car...
...to our schoolyard! From back to front! With our bare hands, of course! Pupils and teachers gave their best (and LOTS of working hours) and managed to create what you can see below! And everybody is ready for a second round...!
For starters, here's a short extract of "before" and "after"... As for what happened in between, you can watch it in the video that follows! We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did...!
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A big thanks to little and big ones who devoted endless hours to the realization of our over-ambitious idea... We also thank them because the result was, after all, better than anyone had expected...!
Another thanks to the 9th Primary School of Rethymno and Nektarios Tsagliotis for the equipment they lent us and the expenses they saved us!
A special thanks to the "outside partner", Sofia Nikolidaki for her drawings, her contribution to the painting of the walls and her invaluable advice!
A VERY special thanks for the same reasons (and for twenty extra working hours) to the "outside partner" Giouli Bosdelekidou (with the tongue-twister name)! Despite the fact that we had a hard time to snap her off the walls for three days and her insistence on making everything perfect, we have to admit that, without her, we would probably be at about less than half the way...
