By Anna, Chloe, and Niki (B senior) The ‘Story behind the animal’ is a collection of stories that our b senior students wrote inspired by the book “If you loved me just a little bit” by Adespotoulia Xanthis. The money raised from the book, will allow the shelter to build the 1st nursing home for
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For language teachers and educators. The exam period is looming on the horizon, while practice tests, vocabulary lists, and more exam-related instruction begin to intensify. You are flirting with the idea of incorporating some extra slots of “teaching” the test while assigning some extra homework sounds like a good prescription for bridging those “last learning
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Read Anna’s story which was written as a follow-up activity for our creative writing session that was inspired by PeacheyPublications 2018 and its “Story from Questions” activity. The questions were based on Gabriel Gracia Marquez’ story, “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”. Picture by Anna Emmanouil The Old Man with the Wings by Anna Emmanouil Once upon a time in a beautiful and magical
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Inspired by an online murder mystery game, our intermediate students had to unleash their creativity and come up with their own detective story! The following detective stories were written by Lydia Georgatzi and Stathis Skrimponis. Detective Story #1: The Beach Murder by Stathis Skrimponis It was one sunny day in the city on the 30th
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Why poetry? In our journey to fight racism and inequity, teaching about social and racial injustice is essential. In their book Making Poetry Matter, Sue Dymoke et al talk about the role of poetry in class, stating that poetry is ‘a vehicle for exploring and describing the real world” offering “an opportunity to test the
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Blog Post Competition: “The City We Love!” This blog post was written exclusively by our B senior (CEFR A1) students Mary, Bill, and Angel for the needs of our Blog Bost Competition entitled ” The City We Love”. The competition took place among the B senior students and following the presentation of their projects, the winning post was chosen to be published on our school’s website. Well Done to all! The activity is based on the PBL (Project Based Learning) method according to which students work actively
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The Extensive Reading approach was first launched by Harold Palmer and Michael West. What is extensive reading? Where does it take place? Extensive reading is the act of reading texts as in books, graded readers, comic books e.t.c. in sessions varied from 20 minutes to 1-hour long in order to ensure that everyone gets to
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Read the following film reviews written by two of our students. In this blog post, Elias talks about “Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion” whereas Joanna about the “Fantastic Beasts”. Have you ever watched these movies? Read to find out what the two students have to say! Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
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How to Become an Independent and Active Learner; the Role of Memory The article is inspired by the MOOC “The Science of Learning -What Every Teacher Should Know”, provided by Columbia University and available on the Edx platform. What is Active Learning? Active learning is a prerequisite for lifelong learning which in turn leads to
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STEM Education is a new student-centered approach for Experimental Learning that allows students to explore the rules of Science-Technology-Engineering and Mathematics and apply them in a hands-on way. The Teacher’s role is limited to that of a facilitator, thus boosting students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills in an independent way. Students’ work is the product
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