“OUR COUNTRY, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY“

1o Oloimero Dimotiko Sholio Verdikoussas

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GREECE

Greece, known since ancient times as Hellas, is a country located in southeastern Europe.

• Greece is near the Mediterranean Sea.

• The main part of Greece in on a peninsula.

• A peninsula is a body of land surrounded by water on three sides.

• The rest of Greece is made up of islands.

According to the 2011 census, Greece's population is around 10.8 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki, which is commonly referred to as the co-capital.

The climate of Greece is primarily Mediterranean, featuring mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. • Winters are mild and wet

– allows for limited farming – grapes and olives.

• Summers are warm and dry – leads to drought – grapes and olives are one of the few plants that can survive the summer droughts.

Greece consists of nine geographic regions: • Macedonia• Sterea (Central)

Greece• The Peloponnese• Thessaly• Epirus• The Aegean Islands

(including the Dodecanese and Cyclades)

• Thrace• Crete• The Ionian Islands

Greek flag

ANCIENT MONUMENTS

Parthenon

Karyatides

Sounio

Epidauros

Olympia

Vergina

Knossos

Delphi

The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the 8th century BIt was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet, and was the first alphabetic script to have distinct letters for vowels as well as consonants. It is the ancestor of the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Apart from its use in writing the Greek language, in both its ancient and its modern forms, the Greek alphabet today also serves as a source of technical symbols and labels in many domains of mathematics, science and other fields.

In its classical and modern forms, the alphabet has 24 letters, ordered from alpha to omega.

Greek language

National Independence Day

Greek Independence Day, national holiday celebrated annually in Greece on March 25, commemorating the start of the War of Greek Independence in 1821. It coincides with the Greek Orthodox Church’s celebration of the Annunciation to the Theotokos, when the Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her that she would bear the son of God.

In celebration of Greek Independence Day, towns and villages throughout Greece hold a school flag parade, during which schoolchildren march in traditional Greek costume and carry Greek flags. There is also an armed forces parade in Athens.

Greek Parade

Greece is famous about its history, the Mediterranean food and tourism.

Thessaly is a traditional geographic and modern administrative region of Greece.Thessaly lies in central Greece and borders the regions of Macedonia on the north, Epirus on the west, Central Greece on the south and the Aegean Sea on the east. The Thessaly region also includes the Sporades islands.

Larisa is a town in the center of Greece. Larisa has about 165.000 inhabitants and it is built around the Pineios river. It is an ancient town and its history starts about 4.000 years ago.

The Orthodox church of Agios Achillios

ANCIENT THEATRE OF LARISA

ART GALERY OF LARISA

FORTRESS OF LARISA

ALKAZAR PARK IN LARISA

DIACHRONIC MUSEUM OF LARISA

OUR SCHOOL Our school is situated in a picturesque mountain

village- Verdikoussa- at an altitude of 980m.

The school was built in 1924. It is a two-storey stone building. The lower level hosts the Kindergarden and the pre-elementary school, and the upper level hosts the Elementary or Primary school. The school compound is fairly small.

This is our soccer field.

Our gym

Next to the gym there is a lush vegetable garden.

On the left hand side of the school there is theOrthodox Church of Prophet Helias

In our school, we are encouraged to participate in education outside the classroom.

Sports, music and dance, play an important role in our school

Many activities are held in our school. Our pupils perform regularly on public occasions.

In our school there are classes from 1st to 6th grade. Mr. Valdoumas is the Principal of our school and there

are nine qualified teachers who help us in every possible way.

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