At DES we believe in the knowledge, skills and values that our students must cultivate at this age. Self-confidence, self-awareness, self-management, courage, empathy, critical thinking, humanism, ecological consciousness, love for animals, charity, aesthetic criteria are some of the characteristics of our students and the next generation of citizens of the world. Over time, it takes systematic engagement and repetition to conquer these values and attributes in our children. We expose these young minds to these ways of thinking and acting through many group and individual activities. We maintain relations of mutual support with the association for the blind, the nursing home “Estia Constantinoupoleos”, the shelter for minors in Piraeus: “Kalos Poimin”, the association for the rehabilitation and special education of people with disabilities “Panagia Evangelistria”, we participate in the International book giving day by giving books to various institutions, we host domestic animals in the school premises, donkeys, sheep, chicken, turtles, fish, etc., we make sure to do monthly art-loving activities, we cultivate a greenhouse, we systematically organize beach cleaning and many other ecological activities. For us, these activities and relationships do not occur under exceptional circumstances but are steady and repetitive, part of our everyday life.  After all, according to Aristotle: “We are what we repeatedly do…”

A student who completes DES  primary school receives a certification of a Greek programme: a primary school graduation certificate, according to the curriculum of the Greek Ministry of Education, an IB PYP certificate as well as a B1 level certification of English language and an A1 level certification for foreign languages, certifications corresponding to the age group of our students after written examinations outside the school at the relevant bodies.