How were the continents formed?

OK, we live in Europe.
But has Europe been in the same position since forever? Has it had the same shape?
Or, maybe, does it travel on the sea?

 Do you ever wonder, how the were continents formed?

Of course, things didn't happen exactly like that... It took a bit more time!
Watch the creation of Planet Earth and its continents...

Are you, by any chance, curious about the future?
Will the continents change places and shapes again?
In the following video you can see not only the past, but also the future of continents...

Original post by Dimitris Alexakis

It was a wonderful evening...

...and this isn't a "figure of speech"!
Last Sunday, Sakis Sakellaridis (bouzouki and singing), Lefteris Tzagkarakis (lyre, rhythm section and singing), Giorgos Stavrakakis (guitar and singing) and our friend and colleague Alexandra Vergadi with her beautiful voice (the music band "Figure of Speech", in other words) gave their best and made our evening fantastic with singing, dancing and, mainly, good music!

There were a lot of people...!

And the "Figure of Speech" in great spirits...!

We ate well...

Danced...

Danced a little more...

...and even more...

Well, much more...!

Smiles speak for themselves...

A small taste of how we spent that evening...:

 For one more time, we would like to thank the people who helped make the music evening a reality and those who were there last Sunday!
A special "thanks" to the "Figure of Speech" who honoured us with their performance and to the Parent-Teacher Association for the noon-stop "running" and preparations!

Day without cars!

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... Original post by Maria Priniotaki

Have a nice and special school year!

...When was it that schools closed for summer holidays, that we were getting sun burnt on the beaches, that we were bolting ice-creams down (two at a time!), that September arrived, we barely realised!
  We know you missed school (besides, we missed it too!) and now came the time we have all been waiting for!
  So, relaxed and after we got blessed by the priest, let's roll up our sleeves! EVERYBODY, no-one excepted!
  Get yourselves equipped with schoolbags, pencils, and all the other school accessories and, most importantly, with your brightest smile and the best of your mood!
  We promise you that for another year we will try our best to discover, create and learn as much as possible-together! Using the ingredients of love, motivation and team work we can "build" our future more beautiful and full of hope!

HAVE A NICE SCHOOL YEAR!!!

We gave colour!

...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...

...and so the journey goes on...

Signs and messages of communication

The two unrivaled Ms Katerinas strike again!!!
The two fifth grade classes, within the framework of the "Flexible Zone" class, have been exploring and running a flashback to the development of communication from antiquity till today. One of the results of their quest was the song "Signs and Messages of Communication"-given in the modern Greek Sign Language...

"I'm getting a message, talk to you, talk with you...

I'm sending a message, disagree, I love thee...

I'm writing a message asking you to see you...
I'm hearing a message, I agree, I love thee...

I say, listen, I'm walking, you meeting...

Message just for you I am here to tell you...

Even in disagreeing, on this we are agreeing:

We are trying to persuade, rhetoric is being made!"