The experience: 84 CGS students join seven schools last weekend to debate, write and explore new knowledge in the World Scholar’s Cup Athens Round. The challenge: they work in small teams and consider many questions through this year’s theme, “An Unlikely World”… they discuss whether Greece should land a woman on the moon or if extinct animals should be brought back to life and all this implies. The highlights: CGS students are ...
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English with a touch of STEM: The “Blood Mobile” Simulation Game By Chris Moustakis and Irene Tsamoura (6th grade students) While we were working on the Unit of Inquiry “The Human Machine”, we played an amazing game called the “Blood Mobile” Simulation. Through this game, the children had the opportunity to understand what happens when blood circulates in our body. In that game, every child had an important role to play. Some of us we...
Weather station What is the temperature currently at CGS? Is it very windy? Is it humid? The school now has its own weather station! You can access «real time» weather information through the following link: https://penteli.meteo.gr/stations/pallini-cgs/
The aim of all IB programmes is to develop internationally minded people who, recognising their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world. The IB learner profile lists the attributes we strive to develop in all CGS students. The profile aims to develop learners who are: Inquirers We nurture our curiosity, developing skills for inquiry and research. We know how to learn indep...
Our extra-curricular activities are innovative, fun and are offered through a variety of approaches. They combine alternative teaching methods and philosophies with the promotion of our overall aims of Knowledge-Skills-Attitudes-Values-Behaviour. Although they are not curriculum-driven, they have been inspired by the teachers. The aims of extra-curricular activities are: To supplement, strengthen and promote the goals of each grade level’s ...
Encyclopedias are a basic source both for school work and for personal research and information gathering. CGS has taken out an annual subscription for MYP, High School and IB students to the authoritative and award-winning Britannica School (online form of Encyclopaedia Britannica). Britannica School provides information on three levels as well as access to related articles, pictures, videos and educational activities. Please feel free to browse...
The library is regularly updated on current publishing and is enriched with the appropriate printed and electronic material and is equipped with the appropriate support technology, available for use by teachers and students. In particular, our library houses: Approximately 18,000 books (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, scientific and literary books for adults and children, and illustrated books for young children) classified according to the Dewey c...
The aims of our library are: To support the educational programme at our school. To encourage initiative and spontaneity in the quest for learning: in other words, not only to offer numerous and varied sources, but to help children develop the skills of identifying, evaluating and utilising information. To stimulate the children’s interest and love for books and help them, through different stimuli, to discover and develop their individual inte...
