The educational programmes offered at CGS aim to highlight students' individual talents and skills by providing them with the right conditions to develop their critical ability and to correctly formulate selection criteria. They combine learning experience with social reality, providing students with specialized and general knowledge through trans-disciplinary learning.All IB PYP schools follow six large common trans-disciplinary units of global ...
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At the core of the philosophy of all IB programmes (from PYP to the Diploma Programme) is the Student Profile consisting of 10 different attributes, which aim to develop a broad range of human capacities and responsibilities that encompass intellectual, personal, emotional and social growth CGS students are offered a range of opportunities to develop, demonstrate and reinforce the attributes of the learner profile in the daily life of the learn...
The Global Issues Network (GIN) club at CGS participated at the annual GIN Euro conference in Luxembourg on 27-30 March, 2019. During the conference, the club at our school delivered a presentation entitled Special with Potential. The presentation dealt with a sensitive social issue regarding people with special needs. In particular, our students described various types of physical and mental disabilities, highlighted the difficulties people with...
On Wednesday, March 6, 2019 the Global Issues Network (GIN) club at CGS visited the City of Athens Citizen Assistance Unit, one of the most important structures of the Centre for the Reception and Solidarity of the Municipality of Athens (ΚΥΑΔΑ). The unit is at the core of social solidarity in the city. It aims to address the problems of vulnerable groups and combat the factors that lead them to poverty, exclusion and social isolation by pro...
In collaboration with Anatolia College, John Hopkins University and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, CGS will be an examination center for the Center for Talented Youth (CTY Greece) for the third consecutive year. The Center for Talented Children / CTY Greece comes under the auspices of both the Ministries of Education of Greece and Cyprus and was created through the partnership of the American College of Anatolia of Thessaloniki with the US John...
On Wednesday, December 20, 2018 the Global Issues Network (GIN) club visited the Ark of the World - a voluntary non-profit charity for Mother and Child Protection. The mission of the Ark of the World is to provide protection, care and love to children without a supportive environment, and to support single-parent families facing serious financial and social problems. During the visit to the Ark of the World, members of the GIN club offered statio...
Last week, MYP 4 students Maria Violetta Lopez-Ibanez, Christos Mousakis and Despina Petrou represented CGS brilliantly at the final round of the World Scholar’s Cup Tournament of Champions at Yale University, where this year’s theme was “An Entangled World.” The CGS Team competed alongside 2,300 students from 58 countries in Team Debate, Collaborative Writing, the Scholar’s Bowl and the Scholar’s Challenge covering 6 different discip...
On Wednesday, October 17th, the IB Diploma Programme at CGS welcomed senior admissions representatives from member universities of the World Class Study in London (WCSiL) Consortium - Imperial College London, London School of Economics, King’s College London and University College London. Over 100 guests including students, parents and educators from CGS and other schools in Athens, attended a most informative evening including a presentation o...
Swimming: a comprehensive fitness system! The main goal of swimming is to improve physical fitness, increase muscle strength and endurance, reduce fat, increase both the range of movement and elasticity of the limbs, while also bolstering the athletes’ concentration and self-confidence. The CGS Swimming Academy, which goes far beyond amateur sport for both the young and old, is now the foundation of our school for the creation of a strong and c...
