1st Geniko Lykeio Pallinis "Pierre Coubertin"

1st Geniko Lykeio Pallinis "Pierre Coubertin"

1st GENIKO LYKEIO PALLINIS “PIERRE DE COUBERTIN” is a general secondary school (high school) focused on general education. It is situated in the city of Pallini, a suburb of Athens, the Greek capital. We have about 350 students aged from 15 to 18 years old and 28 teachers. Most of our students come from working class or middle class background. The school is a member of the International Pierre De Coubertin Committee’s school net that organizes youth forums worldwide every two years, involving students in cultural and athletic activities and spreading the Olympic spirit. We have participated in many forums. In September of 2015 we hosted students and teachers from schools all over the world within the framework of the 7th International Pierre De Coubertin youth forum. Our students participate in European contests such as Euroscola,Euso and support the N.G.O. Make a wish, an organization which caters for children suffering from terminal diseases. They also take active part in “Youth Parliament”, an action held every year in the Greek Parliament, where teenage students argue about important issues of today’s reality. Our school is open to the society as cooperates closely with local authorities and organizes charities, gathering each year clothing, food, books, toys, etc, for people in need. Our students have also the opportunity to take part in athletic events, watch theatrical performances and movies and learn about important matters that concern them from professionals invited at school. Moreover they join cultural events (musical and theatrical shows) all over the school year. We have participated in four Erasmus KA2 projects from 2014. In the first one our school was the coordinating between 8 schools. The teachers of our school always attend courses in order to be aware of the new techonologies and the fields of their specialization. We also participated in a Erasmus KA1 project with a title “Attractive and innovative European school” for the school years 2018-2020. Also, our school participates in municipal actions for the environment and the annual festival with several projects, like paintings, songs and videos. Finally a high percentage of our students succeeds in entering university and follows an academic carrier..

As already mentioned our school is a member of the International Pierre De Coubertin Committee’s school net that organizes youth forums worldwide every two years, involving students in cultural and athletic activities and spreading the Olympic spirit. We have participated in four Erasmus KA2 projects from 2014. In the first one KA201 – “Youth Of Europe connect to a “Right” net “ our school was the coordinating between 8 schools. The coordinating team included three teachers of our school: Mrs Lamprou Effrosyni (computer science teacher ), Mrs Kalamatianou Angfeliki (literatture teacher) and Mrs Gkogka Dimitra(English teacher) which undertook to write the project and the application, to plan the goals, the activities of the project but also to manage its implementation and dissemination keeping a balance between 8 schools with great success. Τhus the coordination team developed management, administration and efficiency skills. In this project we created several ppts, videos, quizzes, website, blogs , ebook and an Adroid game that we uploaded in the Playstore. Also a large majority of our school teachers have been involved in these projects thus developing communication, digital and language skills. They have took part in several meetings all over the Europe so they have gained comfort in the use of English language, ICT, in the creation of presentations, videos, questionnaires and quizzes. Our last Erasmus project with title : DI.S.T.AN.C.E: A Digital Tool for Teaching Science and Coding in Distance has the main goal to increase the quality and efficiency of online education and to produce innovative digital content for online science education and to increase the technology literacy level of teachers and students. Developing robotics and coding skills in teachers and students and making them usable in science lessons and developing a virtual science and robotic coding laboratory that can be used in computer environment in order to be able to teach Applied Science courses and to develop projects for this. With the 2nd project “SELFY-Save Earth Life for Europe” we all involved with environmental issues, like recycling, the forest’s protection, the air, soil and water pollution and a lot of actions were taken regarding them like the creation of recycling bins, the creation of a song with lyrics urging people to recycle, tree planting in places that have been burned, field trips and observation of the elements of nature like the trees, the plants, the lakes, the rivers etc. Also, our school participates in municipal actions for the environment and the annual festival with several projects, like paintings, videos. We are very aware of these issues, in the last fire in Attica, the fire reached our school and burned some trees and also some of our students’ s houses were burned.