PARALLEL ACTIVITIES AT SCHOOL (ENGLISH VERSION)

PARALLEL ACTIVITIES AT SCHOOL 

28/8/2024

THE FIRST FRUITS OF THIS YEAR

On August 28, 2024 during the summer service, the teachers of the school tasted the first fruits from last year's tree planting. The fruit-laden peach tree bent under the weight. The fruits are many and small in size. A few matured while the majority still needed time. We hope that when the students come, they will have time to collect the now ripe fruits. 

20/6/2024

 PRESENTATION OF TEAM MOBILITIES AND WORK SHADOWING TO TEACHERS 

On Thursday, June 20, 2024, the participating teachers in this year's mobilities shared their experience, the positives and negatives and the good practices they saw in the countries they visited with your teachers from our school and also with teachers from other schools after a friendly invitation.

 

The presentation was made in chronological order of the movements during the year and not by program section. Initially, the videos that the students had prepared were shown and then the participating teachers took the floor with a simultaneous display of the website of the program or presentation that they had prepared for that day.

The event was welcomed by the coordinator of the program, Ms. Dimitra Dobrou, emphasizing how important this year was and how many opportunities were given to students and teachers (32 students and 14 teachers) to participate in the Erasmus+ KA1 accreditation program.

The presentations started with the reception of September 25-29/9/2023 to remind and compare with the rest of the mobilities.

Followed by the 1st mobility at IES MIGUEL ROMERO ESTEO in Malaga, Spain 13-17/11/2023. Then the mobility participant Ms. Ioanna Karakassiou took the floor, pointing out how impressed she was by two things: 
1. The doors of the classrooms remained open during the lesson, as there was silence during the educational process.

2. It was possible for the teacher to use a mouthpiece to make it louder in class.

Then the mobility at the Max-Plank-Gymnasium school in Ludwigshafen, Germany 4-8/12/2023 was presented by the participating teacher Ms. Chrysoula Parousis who underlined, among other things, "... in Germany the students were given the opportunity to see up close the BASF factory, which is the largest chemical factory in the world, and to get to know the purely industrial city of Ludwigshafen as it was formed after the great destruction caused by the bombings of World War 2. 
The waste management of the city was impressive, where nothing is left unexploited but they take care of their recycling to produce electricity..."

Third in chronological order was the mobility at Liceo Scientifico Statale C.Peano in Monterotondo, Italy 18-22/3/2024. The speech was taken by the director of the school, Mr. Dimitrios Papadopoulos, who also participated in the mobility. After the presentation of the video, he mentioned how hospitable his Italian colleagues and parents were who drove an hour unprofitably to take them to and from the airport. Even during the mobility, strong bonds of friendship were created between teachers and students. It is characteristic that the participating students in the mobility, although they had hosted in September, wanted to offer a second hosting to the students of Italy in April 2024. 
The presentation was completed by Ms. Siopi who participated in the program with the job shadow action, commenting: " ...The teaching at the school in Monterotondo was teacher-centered. The teachers delivered the lesson face-to-face, without organizing cooperative learning models. The teaching was done using interactive tables, the lesson content was not accompanied by the corresponding worksheets and the interaction between teachers and students. I was impressed that the students were handing over their cell phones upon entering the room and placing them numerically in collapsible cases..."

On the same dates, the movement took place in Pamplona, ​​Spain 18-22/3/2024 after it coincided with that of Italy. We are fortunate that the two movements took place in a week in which Holy Monday and March 25, 1821 were celebrated, so that the smooth running of the school was not disrupted.

This is where the philologist Ms. Vicky Lazaridou took the floor, who participated in the job shadow action, spotting ". ..at the entrance of the school there is a sign that prohibits jockey hats, mobile phones and headphones. The classrooms look like ours, but they have 2 blackboards: a chalkboard and an interactive touch one. The teaching is teacher-centered, with lots of questions from the students... "

Last featured was the mobility Zaklagna Skola Ulika Vajanskeho in Lucenec, Slovakia 13-17/5/2024which took place in the last week of classes. Ms. Anastasia Livanou and Pelagia Saltamara shared their experience with the other teachers who had

prepare a small presentation for this day. Among other things, Ms. Livanou described " ...they emphasize cleanliness, that's why students and teachers wore sabos or slippers and groups of students every week cleaned the courtyard area. Among the negative impressions I submit the long-hour educational visit to the Biogas Power Station where, due to the unpleasant smell the students did not attend." 

The presentation was completed by Ms. Saltamara who participated as a job shadow. Among other things, he emphasized the following " ...I really liked the original board they had. It was a whiteboard and the blackboard was closed with shutters on top. It also went up and down in height, so important for students and teachers!In addition, many children in their chairs had cushions to make them sit more comfortably. The students had the workbook open on their desk, the teacher pointed to the specific page they were working on in the book on the interactive whiteboard. He wrote the correct answers on the interactive so they didn't keep asking if they didn't hear well. Also, the students had lockers with their personal items, something very useful!..."

A short break followed...

... and then answers were given to the questions-questions of the attending teachers of the other schools regarding the accreditation, how it was achieved, the organization and the finances of the mobilities.

 

16/5/2024 
PRESENTATION OF GROUP MOBILITIES AT THE PROGRAM PRESENTATION DAY AT THE SCHOOL

On Thursday, May 16, 2024, in the school's event hall, the current school year's programs were disseminated to the students of the school. The mobility of the European KA1 Erasmus+ Accreditation and KA2 program, which took place after Christmas, were presented at the diffusion together with the rest of the programs (cultural, environmental, career training) .

More specifically, the coordinator of the program Mrs. Dimitra Dobrou greeted the students and gave a brief information about Erasmus. 

 

 

 

Afterwards, the students who participated in the mobilities took the floor. First, the videos they created after the movements were shown and then they described their experience and answered questions from the audience.

a. Group mobility in Monterotondo, Italy and reception at GE Hortiati within the framework of the “ Interacting in a Sustainable School ” program 18-22/3/2024.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://gelhortiatienvironmentandpsychology.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_20.html

 

b. Group mobility in Pamplona, ​​Spain as part of the “ On the Road to a Sustainable Future” program 18-22/3/2024.

https://gelhortiatienvironmentandpsychology.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_3.html

It should be noted that from the movements of the European   Erasmsu+ KA1 Accreditation program with the subtitle "On the Road to a Sustainable Future " the movement to Lucenec, Slovakia was not presented as it took place in the last week of the courses 13-17/5/2024, during the week where the diffusion of precepts took place.

11/3/2024 
MEETING WITH THE STUDENTS

On Monday 11/3/2024

the students of the Erasmus pedagogical group gathered in the school library together with the coordinators of the program in order to organize the hosting of the cooperating schools.

23/1/2024 
ONLINE MEETING OF THE ORGANIZING RECEPTION COMMITTEE

On Tuesday 23/1/2024, the members of the Erasmus hosting committee met online in order to be informed by the coordinators of the program about the actions and procedures of the reception. The reception of partner schools of the program "Interacting in a Sustainable School" actions Job Shadowing & Group Activities is set for the last week of April 2024, 22-26/4/2024.

 

 

22/12/2022

PRESENTATION OF THE THREE MOBILITIES TO SCHOOL STUDENTS

A special action took place at our school on Friday, December 22, 2023, with the protagonists being our students who participated in the mobilities in Spain (Job Shadowing) and Germany (Group Mobility). The activity started with the greeting of the school Director and the introduction by the coordinator of the program. Then the students took the floor.

The videos they created were shown in which they presented the daily educational tasks and visits as well as carefree moments of fun with the teachers and students from the participating countries. In addition, the children shared their experiences and expressed their gratitude for the unique opportunity they were given to experience the benefits of Erasmus+ programs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Student experiences are presented here

 

 

PREPARATION FOR MOBILITY IN MALAGA

The group of students traveling to Málaga started working on the projects they would present while female students are preparing the gifts they will offer to the host school.

 

 

 

26/9/2023

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

This year our school participated in the celebration of the European Day of Languages ​​for 2023, set for September 26 by decision of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, with a poster challenge .

 

 

 

 

 

The students were asked to work in groups to create their own poster in which they rendered a Greek word of their choice in as many languages ​​as they could, known as well as unknown to them at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The purpose of this activity was to gain knowledge of our linguistic wealth, to highlight less spoken languages ​​than those we usually use and know, and to promote the need to preserve the rich cultural heritage of man. 

Listed below are the students' projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our school will also participate in the best T- shirt competition on the theme of the European Day of Languages, organized by the European Center for Modern Languages ​​( ECML/ CELV) for the year 2024 with one of these posters.

 October 8-14, 2023

ERASMUS DAYS 

AT THE HIGH SCHOOL OF HORTIATI

 

As part of the Erasmus Days program held October 8-14, 2023, in schools from all over Europe, GEL Hortiatis participated with an interactive game with the B Lyceum class, specifically B1, with the title EUROPE : A MULTI - LINGUAL EXPERIENCE and "Inclusion and Diversity" theme .  

 

 

 

 

 The children were divided into groups and asked to identify as many European countries as they could on the maps given to them, and which language The children were divided into groups and asked to identify as many European countries as they could on the maps given to them, and which language or languages are used in each. In the final stage the students had to find the word 'inclusion' in as many European languages ​​as they could. The winners were awarded with the badge of the European citizen.

 

 6/19/2023

Informational Meeting

 

On Monday, June 19, 2023, in the event hall of the school, an informational meeting was organized for the parents and guardians of the students of the 1st High School (2nd High School with the new year) as well as the teachers in order to be informed about the Erasmus + program that will be prepared at our school.

Initially, the school director Mr. Papadopoulos welcomed parents and students. Then the coordinators of the program Ms. Lalaga Styliani and Dimitra Dobrou informed the attendees about the Erasmus + program developed during the school year 2022-2023 at the school and about the mobilities planned for the following year. At the same time, they emphasized the conditions for participating in the program.

You can watch the presentation of the update here.