Year 2 Activity - Trees

2nd graders during their English class finished an environmental activity on the importance of trees in our lives. Students had the chance to read the real story of Kenyan activist Wangari Maathai. Each student created a poster with a slogan and a drawing, relevant to the vital importance of trees.

Posters

Eating Healthy

Students from the 1st and 2nd grade attended a seminar by nutritionists Chrystalla Katelari and Antigoni Andreou from the team Change Eat (www.change-eat.com). The lecture was given in a playful way and informed the students about Health and eating healthy. After the lecture the school offered to all the students that attended the seminar a rich and healthy breakfast.

Green Holidays

6th Graders during their Geography and Science classes worked as teams to create a presentation with the title Green Holidays. The aim of this project is to present Cyprus cyclist's routes, natural wonders and rare endemic flora and fauna.

Green Holidays

Respect - Value for a Lifetime Competition

The art competition "Respect - A Value for a Lifetime" that was organized by our school with the support of Ministry of Culture has ended. The winners are Maria-Miruna Puscasu, Evangelia Eracleous and Joyce Hmadi. All winners will be awarded on the 21st of June at the Graduation Ceremony.

Evangelia  Eracleous




Maria Miruna Puscasu

Joyce Hmadi

Nature Calendar

Collaborating countries decided to create a Nature Calendar to illustrate each countries nature through out a year. For the photos that are going to be included in the calendar there will be a photo competition that will take place between May 2017 - December 2017. Participating in the competition is not mandatory. All students that are interested in participating in the competition must take a photo of Cyprus nature clearly showing the season. Every month a photo will be chosen with the exception of May were 3 photos will be chosen. The competition will be active during summer months and the students will have to bring their photos on a usb and give it to their teachers in September. The calendar will include 4 photos each month, 1 from each country but also stating the student's name who took the photo.

First Grade Respect Activities

First graders watched a short film on respect and afterwards they had to draw a picture about respect.

Video

Easter Cards

There was an electronic Easter card exchange between the 4 schools and for paper economy the schools decided to make only 3 cards, take a photo of the cards and send one to each school.

Video

Asil Anom

Students of the Craft Shack Group created "Asil Anom" (Mona Lisa anagram). This activity is part of Environmental respect since all the materials used were the leftovers from previous activities. No new material was bought and the result is a mosaic of the famous painting. Each student had to use any material that was left (considered trash) to cover two A4 paper, then all the papers were glued together and plastic caps where used as a frame.

Mascots

We welcomed Pepe and Pepa the two Spanish little monster mascots which were constructed by the students of the Spanish school. These two beautiful monsters aim to help students understand the importance of respect on diversity regardless of looks. Pepe and Pepa will take part in activities on respect and the photos taken during these activities will be placed in the personal diary that accompanies the mascots. The two mascots will remain to our school until the end of the school year while our school mascot will be in Poland for the same period.

Raising Kids with Self Respect

In collaboration with the School's Parents Association we organized a lecture with the topic "Raising kids with Self Respect". Participants discussed with the lecturer about the importance of self respect for children's happiness and development and ways that parents can help children have more self respect. The lecturer was Clinical Psychologist Mrs Dora Papageorgiou.

Students Trip to Spain

Six schoolgirls (6th Grade) traveled to Spain to the School El Ejido Almeria, accompanied by two school teachers. The students had the chance to get to know local culture by visiting museums, historical monuments and participating in lessons of 5th and 6th grade classes and learning flamenco. They were accommodated by two families for two afternoons where they had joyful time and participated in several activities in relation to our theme. They visited bio greenhouses and learned about biological ways to preserve plants and had the chance to plant their own seeds in pots and placed them in the school's inner corridor.  Our students in collaboration with other students from Poland, Spain and Bulgaria created the Respect Dictionary in five languages (English, Greek, Bulgarian, Polish, Spanish) on A0 paper which where placed outside the events room of the Spanish school. Another activity that our students participated was to use graffiti on the school's gym outer wall and play in mixed groups the game "Games without frontiers". During the trip there was a mascot exchange between the schools and the mascots will travel every 3 months to a different collaborating country and used for school activities on Respect.

Link : Erasmus Spain Visit

Art Competition

The Greek Elementary School G C School of Careers organizes a student art competition with the theme "Respect -  A Value for  a Lifetime". It's an individual painting competition for the 5th and 6th graders, the purpose of the competition is for the students to understand the meaning of respect (self respect, respect towards others, environmental respect) and to reflect on their paintings what they have understood. The competition will take place between the 1st of March and April 30th and it is under the approval of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Recipe For Respect

Create a recipe for respect. What ingredients do you need? First graders during Erasmus+ activities they worked in groups and used ingredients like Love, Laughter and Help to prepare the Respect recipe.

Link : Recipe Ingredients

Environmental Code

Slogans made by 4th-5th and 6th grade students about environmental respect were included in an Environmental Code and the Environmental Code was posted in each classroom.

Link : Environmental Code

Slogan

During their English class, students of the 4th-5th and 6th grade were taught about slogans. Each student had to select one of the 3 subjects of our project (Self Respect, Environment, Fellowship) and write a slogan about it in English. A team of teachers selected 5 slogans from each subject. An online voting poll was set for both the parents and the students to select one slogan from each category. The results were:

•    Save the planet, stay alive. (Elena Kyriacou, 6 Blue)
•    Love yourself (Mary Philippidou, 4 Blue)
•    Treat others like you want to be treated (Pantelides, 5 Green)

These 3 slogans will be printed on tshirts along with the other countries selected slogans. These tshirts will be used during activity events to spread the value of respect. All slogans will be part of Code of Respect for all 4 schools and will be posted on the school entrances.

Link  : Project

Link : Results