Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham

Design: Dr. S. Tryfonos

Dear parents, elcome to February’s

newsletter! It has been a very busy

but great year so far as our students

have been engaged in various events

and have been explored new topics in

the context of the lessons.

February has been a quite short month as

staff and students will have the opportunity to have

a break during the half term (20/2/2017-26/2/2017).

Below you can see the highlights of this

month:

Great news! Our school has achieved to

get the funding of £25,000 for the playground

scheme. The project for the construction of the new

playground will be on place soon. Thank you

everyone for the support!

The children of the nursery and

reception celebrated the carnival tradition with fun

parties!

Thank you for taking the time to read this

month’s newsletter.

Kind regards,

Sofia Giagkoula

Teacher (Erdington and Worcester)

BA in Primary Education,

MA in Special and Inclusive Education

Highlights of this

month…

The greatest achievement for the school this month is the approval of the design of our new playground.

The school has decided to go with the best quotation and we have invited two of the four companies that provided us with

Welcome note for

January Issue

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Up and Coming Events and Holidays: ● Half term holidays: 20/02/2017-26/02/2017

Schools re-open on Monday 27/02/2017. ● Sunday, 5th of March: Annual memorial for E. Pallikaridi a And G. Afxentiou. The celebration will take place in church with Mr S. Vasileiou and his class to be responsible for the event. ● Saturday, 25th of March 2017: Mother’s Day event! Afternoon tea for all mothers and competition for the best poem! The event will take place in Hyatt Regency Hotel Birmingham at 13.00-15.00. (The students will stay at school until 15.30) ● Sunday, 26th of March: 25 March 1821 and Evangelismos

Our school will celebrate the historical events of 25th March 1821 as part of the Greek war of Revolution where all classes will take part.

Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham

Design: Dr. S. Tryfonos

their quotes to visit our school and provide us with a second quote..

The proposed plan for our playground will potentially transform the image of our old school entrance. The total cost will be around £25000-£30000 and the school is dedicated to fundraise for the total amount as well as take loan. The proposed plan is due to start in June and we hope to complete by next October

Details from this design may vary and are likely to change at the final stage.

Most of this area is now neglected but we hope with the new playground not only we will provide an area for children to play and relax during break-time but also we will transform the area to a better and much more welcoming entrance to the school. During the final stage of this project we will add swings

and seesaws, as well as we are aiming at buying small trikes, and scooters for Early Years Children.

Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham

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This month we also celebrated the “Apokries” and also “Tsiknopempti”. The Early Years have worked on the traditions of this time of the year quiet extensively and towards the close of the first half of this term all children enjoyed celebrations for “Apokries” with fancy dressing and lots of singing and other activities.

…best

outfit

from this

little girl!

Carnival party of nursery and

Reception in Erdington

Year 1 also joined to the

fun games

Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham

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Since this February was the month of

Celebrations of “Apokries”,

“Tsiknopempti” , “Sikoses” and

“Kathari Deftera”, Children of Year 3

have made their own cheece pies

(“diropittakia”)

Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham

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The Thursday before the Half Term Holidays,

Children in Stourbridge celebrated

“Tsiknopempti” (“Smoked Thursday”), with lots

of food and dancing. Parents joined us at the

end and enjoyed dancing “Frankosyriani”

Learning about

winter!

Year 1, Erdington

Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham

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…writing work of the

month 29/01/2017

An essay by Sofia Pitsillidi about Greek School. Sofia work without support and managed to write a good description using also a mini whiteboard for drafting her work. Well Done Sofia!

Pupils of the month: In Greek school of Ayia Triada we celebrate any

achievement, good work and learning! The following are the students who have been awarded as pupils of the month for attendance, effort, achievement and participation:

Erdington Savvas A. Kyriacou (Nursery, Monday) Kyriakos Georgiou (Reception, Monday)

Leonidas Singleton (Nursery, Saturday) Evangelos Fiotakis (Year 1, Saturday) Anastasia Cosma (Year 1, Monday) Aimilia Barton (Year 1b, Monday) Elisavet Matopoulou (Year 2, Saturday) Savvas Kyriakou (Year 3, Monday) Maria-Sofia Apostolaki (Year 3, Saturday) Sofia Pitsilidi (Year 3, Monday) Alex Agapakis (Year 4, Saturday) Elisavet Selianiti (Year 5, Saturday) Andreas Serghi (Year 5, Monday)

Worcester Despoina Prokopoiou (Year 1) Christiana Demetriou (Year 2) Bavlos Christodoulou (Year 2) Dimitris Fotopoulos (Year 5) Tamworth Giannis Christofi (Year 3) Christos Kamenos (Year 5) Stourbridge Antonia Fantis (Year 1a) Adriana Xiouroupa (Year 1b) Anastasia Markou (Year 3) Aggelina Jassel (Year 5) Cannock Maria Nikolaidou (Year 2) Fofi Billiou (Year 3)