6th Primary School of Serres

     International Day of Peace at the 6th Primary School of Serres

This educational activity was organised with the 6th Primary School of Serres students on Thursday, October 2, to celebrate World Day of Peace. 

 On Thursday, November 2, 2023, the Headteacher of the 6th Primary School of Serres, Karagiozis Ioannis, and the school's teachers' association participated in a welcome celebration for the refugee students from Ukraine and Iraq that the 6th Primary School of Serres welcomes every day. 

These are students aged 6-12 who are accommodated in the Serres Refugee Accommodation Structure (EDPFAA Serres) with Refugee Education Coordinators Zoi Sidiropoulou, Georgios Porgiopoulos, Papacharalambous Charalambos – Panagiotis in charge.

The refugee students study in the reception classes of the Zone of Educational Priority (ZEP) to support the integration of these students who come from vulnerable social groups in the Greek school with the main object of learning the Greek language but also teaching support in other subjects, to their adaptation and stay in the general education system is facilitated.

The person responsible for the coordination of the celebration was the art teacher, Vicky Brusali, in collaboration with the music teacher, Maria Sekeroglou, the French teacher, Matoula Makripoulia and the Teacher of Educational Priority Zone (ZEP) Vasiliki Sismanis.

The Greek students welcomed the refugee students in Ukrainian and Arabic, holding Greece-Ukraine-Iraq flags that they made themselves with the help of art teacher Vickys Brusali. The 4th-grade students sang the song Irini by Yiannis Markopoulos. Then, the refugee students, in collaboration with the 6th-grade students, played the Finale melody from the opera Guglielmos Tellos by Russini under the guidance of music teacher Maria Sekeroglou.

Afterwards, the Greek students gave the refugee students the flags of Greece, Ukraine, and Iraq and educational toys as a gift offered by the Association of Parents and Guardians of the 6th Primary School of Serres. The welcome celebration ended with musical and rhythmic games and dances in which all the school students participated, animated by Matoula Makripoulia, French teacher and Vickys Brusali, art teacher.

The celebration of welcoming refugee students is part of the peace-themed actions implemented in October in the framework of actions of schools belonging to the UNESCO school network, as the goal of the celebration was to make refugee students smile, feel accepted at school and that music, painting, dance unite people.