Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes and cooking. It’s about harnessing imagination, empowerment and creativity!
Cooking can help young kids learn and practice some basic math concepts and build language skills. And creating meals can help develop their self-confidence and lay the foundation for healthy eating habits.
This 2022 theme is UNITE! Activism to End Violence against Women & Girls.
4th grade DES on equality.
Today was a big day for us. We started our cycle of lessons on gender equality by figuring out the little things we have all heard around us that feel unequal and disrespectful. Afterwards, we transformed these sayings into words that feel more like us. We thought of how we believed society should be and created an imaginary society we would be proud of. Supporting and investing in kids’ understanding of gender equality is key to a safer, respectful society.
Why DES THEATRE LAB :
Improved Communication Skills.
Theatre teaches kids how to project their voices and speak clearly. Enhanced Creativity. Drama and theatre classes can help kids tap into their creative side.
Boost Confidence.
Improved Teamwork Skills. …
Live a Full Life!
The human footprint on seas and coasts is one of the most severe environmental problems. People’s health is threatened, marine life is degraded, and the aesthetics of the landscape is altered. Our students prove once again that they are active citizens by taking action. Beach clean-up is an easy, fun and valuable process, which, together with sorting the litter, allows children to realize the problem up close. Their involvement in ecological actions is a beacon of hope that guides and inspires us all.
Congratulations to our students!
The significant distinction of DES in the 10th Panhellenic competition of the Union of Greek Physicists with eight prizes, including two first prizes!!!
On 11/11 in our central building, the awards were presented to our students by the vice-president of the EEF, Panagiotis Fildisis and the general secretary Paraskevi Klideris, who awarded and praised the outstanding work of our school in the Physics course and our great success in the Panhellenic competition.
But the awards don’t stop there. Our school achieved six significant distinctions in the 16th Panhellenic Competition of Little Euclid, held by the Hellenic Mathematical Society!! The representatives of the EEF and Anni Riga also presented these awards.
Physics laureates:
1) Yannis Kanatas (1st prize)
2) Nikolas Eleftheriou (1st prize)
3) Ilias Smaragdis (2nd prize)
4) Christina Tzifa (2nd prize)
5) Odysseas Stavropoulos (2nd prize)
6) Aris Palmer (3rd prize)
7) Isabella Dayantis (3rd prize)
8) Christos Nil (3rd prize)
The mathematics laureates:
1) Michalis Mitsos
2) Odysseas Stavropoulos
3) Giannis Kanatas
4) Tzortzis Papathanasiou
5) Nikolas Eleftheriou
6) Ilias Smaragdis
We congratulate our award-winning students and seamlessly continue our innovative educational work for developing young students and education in Greece in general.
Επέτειος Πολυτεχνείου
Σήμερα η μέρα είχε σκοπό. Να εκπαιδεύσει, να ενημερώσει, να δημιουργήσει…νέους ανθρώπους που θα συνεχίσουν να αγωνίζονται για τη δημοκρατία, την ελευθερία,την αγάπη!
As part of our school’s International Baccalaureate programme, the 3rd grade, this year, has taken care of their vegetable garden!
On Friday, November 11, the joy for students & teachers was doubled! The occasion was the visit of the beloved students of the Hopscotch kindergarten to the interactive European school! The students of the 3rd grade took over the tour of our little friends in the school area, and then, they anointed their helpers in the process of taking care of the vegetables in the greenhouse area! No student lacked enthusiasm, dedication, and concentration! The result was genuinely unique, and the collaboration experience was unrepeatable!
DES kitchen garden
The DES Vegetable Garden reminds the students about the true source of our food supply and teaches them valuable gardening and agriculture concepts. They can exercise and improve skills that integrate with other subjects such as Mathematics, Science, Art, Health, Physical Education, and Social Studies, as well as several educational goals such as personal and social responsibility.
Origami is a STEAM Engine
Origami is a great way to merge science, technology, engineering, art, and math together: STEAM.
Origami Improves Students’ Skills
Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, has applications in the modern-day classroom for teaching geometry, thinking skills, fractions, problem-solving, and fun science. What do pizza boxes, paper bags, and fancy napkins have in common? Well, you might have guessed it — origami.
Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, is making a comeback. While some of the oldest pieces of origami have been found in ancient China and its deepest roots are in ancient Japan, it can also impact today’s education. This art form engages students and sneakily enhances their skills — including improved spatial perception and logical and sequential thinking.
An Art Form for All Subjects
Researchers have found several ways that origami can entice lessons while giving students the necessary skills. Here are some ways that origami can be used in your classroom to improve a range of skills:
Geometry
Origami has strengthened an understanding of geometric concepts, formulas, and labels, making them come alive. By labelling an origami structure with length, width, and height, students learn key terms and ways to describe a shape. Using origami to determine the area by applying a formula to a real-world structure.
Thinking Skills
Origami excites other modalities of learning. It has been shown to improve spatial visualization skills using hands-on learning. Such skills allow children to comprehend, characterize, and construct their own vernacular for the world around them. In your class, find origami or geometric shapes in nature and describe them in geometric terms.
Fractions
The concept of fractions is scary to lots of students. Folding paper can demonstrate the fractions in a tactile way. In the class, we use origami to illustrate the concepts of one-half, one-third, or one-fourth by folding paper and asking how many folds students would need to make a specific shape.
Problem Solving
Origami allows children to solve something that is not prescribed and enable them to make friends with failure (i.e. trial and error). In the class, show a shape and ask students to create a way to make it. They may get the solution from various approaches. Remember, there is no wrong answer.
Fun Science
Origami is a fun way to explain physics concepts. A thin piece of paper is not very strong, but if you fold it like an accordion, it will be. (Look at the side of a cardboard box for proof.) Bridges are based on this concept. Also, origami is a fun way to explain molecules. Many molecules have the shape of tetrahedrons and other polyhedra.
Bonus: Just Plain Fun!
Somewhere inside of us is the power to change the world. Roald Dahl
In terms of education, School Elections & Voting are excellent means of teaching children some of the fundamentals of Democracy and elections: opinion-forming, campaigning, debating and voting.
We keep voting secret, so children can express themselves honestly (and not fall out with their friends!). We make sure that when the results are announced, there’s no triumphalism, and we encourage honour in victory and defeat.
The Theater of Shadows, the well-known Greek Karagiozis from the Far East, reached the Balkans and Greece through the Arabs and the Turks. Southeast Asia’s most famous shadow theatres are those of Java, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia, Bali and Laos. The source of their themes is the tales of Rama, based on two Indian epic poems, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
One of the unique features of the genre is orality. This element, combined with the fixed morphology and typology, ensures in the Shadow Theater, on the one hand, the contact with tradition and, on the other hand, the immediacy of the communication between the puppeteer and the audience. This improvisational possibility allows this theatre to function pedagogically and to create a climate of immediacy and communication. The lack of specific texts and the codification of the genre leaves considerable room for the thematic modification of traditional drama. Thus this theatre becomes a genre easily accessible to students and able to serve their entertainment needs.