The children's house
Program A (08:30-13:00)
- Brunch is offered between 09:00-11:00 with organic fruits & vegetables, freshly squeezed juice and some protein (cheese, yogurt, free range eggs). Sweets are not allowed. Carbs are offered in moderation, mainly in-house baked bread made by the children in the classrooms. Packaged foods are avoided.
- Music and movement class once a week
- Teamwork games in English 1 time per week
Uninterrupted activity daily 3 hours in the classroom with:
- Montessori material for sensory refinement, fine motor development and strengthening of the fingers with pre-writing exercises,
- Botany with educational cards and matching in the garden with real leaves material, caring for plants, learning different flowers, planting,
- Geography through puzzle maps of the world and continents and the flags of countries,
- Culture acquaintance with customs and traditions mainly from the countries of origin of the school families,
- Music through musical instruments and also introduction to the great composers,
- Art through different materials (clay, crayons, tempera on an easel) for the expression of emotions and the inner world,
- Practical life activities to aid visual and auditory memory, eye hand coordination, fine and gross motor movement development using different tools, enhance self-confidence through active participation, contribution and cooperation, builds logical thinking, boosts sequencing, helps spatial orientation, improving patience level, controlling impulses,
- Mathematics through hands-on experience to learn about volumes, dimensions, numbers, units, tens and so on, games with addition, subtraction, which progressively include games of multiplication and fractions,
- Sandpaper letters (Greek and/or Latin alphabet), pre-writing exercises with movable alphabet and visual letter recognition, reading and progressively writing for any child who can support it.
Play in the garden 1 hour daily, that involves:
- Caring of the animals that live in the garden, Daphne the dog and many tortoises, showing respect for all living creatures,
- Recycling and composting to develop environmental awareness
- climbing, balancing, hiding, exploring, caring of plants and trees (watering, digging, planting), observing weather phenomena, admiring nature that changes with the seasons
Program B (13:00-15:00)
- Lunch sent from home, which follows a meal plan suggested by the school (meat, fish, legumes, chicken, vegetable dish). Lunch is a social time that helps children learn table manners, eat and be exposed to a variety of foods, learning how to respect the people sitting next to them.
- After lunch, an additional 1.5 hours in the classroom for art projects, book reading, story telling, individual and group activities and much more!
Program C (15:00-17:00)
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Subject to gathering up a group of 8-10 children interested, the following activities will run, one each day of the week:
- Pottery
- Nature & Ecology
- Arts & Crafts
- Rhythm & movement
- Montessori maths
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Amenities
- School bus service. We provide a choice of school bus for the safe transportation of children to and from school, with an experienced driver and escort. The safety of our students is paramount, and therefore buses collect and leave children at the closest possible point.
- Catering by Chef John. We provide the option for catering at the school. We work with Chef Yiannis who brings freshly cooked food based on traditional Greek cuisine to the school every day, following a variety of balanced diets (meat, fish, legumes, chicken, vegetable dish, or adapted to each family's specific diet such as vegan, pescetarian, or allergy friendly) and served in stainless steel bowls with no ecological footprint, accompanied by a salad. Tried and tested and very cared for in terms of its raw materials!!
- Lectures. Every month we organize a lecture (in Greek and/or English) to empower parents and promote parent-teacher communication.
Past lectures examined:
- Language Development
- Encouragement over praise
- Prepared Environment
- Promoting Independence
- The Role of the Adult
- Toilet Learning