On Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, at the ERT Broadcasting Studio, our school received an award for the stop motion animation film "Cooking up Hope"  at the 5th International Student Audiovisual Creation Competition "Schools Broadcast on ERT". The event was co-hosted by the ERT Archive and the Educational Radio-Television of the Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, and Sports.

We proudly dedicate this award to our beloved pupils of E1 and E2 classes from the 2022–2023 school year. Now high schoolers, it was their creativity, passion, and teamwork that brought this stop motion animation film to life.👏👏👏

Read the press announcement about the ceremony here.

🎬 Watch our pupils' film here.

eTwinning School Label 2025-2026

 

Our school has been awarded the eTwinning School Label for 2025-2026 as a recognition for our dedication and commitment to promote eTwinning and its values, which are represented by the eTwinning School's mission.

BRAVO SCHOOLS 2025

 

The 50th, 53rd and 54th Primary Schools of Thessaloniki participate in the 8th National School Competition for Primary and Secondary Education. The competition, Bravo Schools is part of the initiative 'in action for a better world – Creating a better world.' It is implemented in collaboration with the World's Largest Lesson (a recognized education program by the United Nations), UNICEF, and UNESCO at an international level. The competition aims to highlight the most comprehensive educational approaches related to the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development.

Our competition entry includes our collaborative project, "Click on Rebetiko," which aligns with the 11th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - particularly Target 11.4, which focuses on protecting and preserving the world’s cultural and natural heritage. 

Click on the link of our competition entry to find out more about our project:

Link

COMMENDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES

 

On November 14th, we were honored to represent our school at an awards ceremony hosted by the Municipality of Thessaloniki. Our school proudly received a commendation for excellence in environmental initiatives and active participation in the 8th Recycling Festival, April 2024.

 Here are some photos from our school’s participation in the 8th Recycling Festival of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, held from April 24 to 26, 2024, at the Thessaloniki International Fair facilities. The festival aims to raise environmental awareness regarding proper waste management and recycling.  We showcased our students' environmental posters and artwork made of recyclable materials. They also had the chance to  see the work of students from other schools. Moreover, they joined recycling workshops and enjoyed eco-themed performances and games.  Congratulations to all participants!

EU CODE WEEK 2024 - EMOTIONS

 

EU CodeWeek 14-27 October 2024

Our school took an active part in this year's European Code Week activities, held from October 14th - 27th. This initiative aims to introduce students to coding through fun and interactive activities while fostering collaboration and partnerships with schools across Greece and abroad. We were excited to learn that Greece ranks second among countries with the most coding-related events. For more information on Code Week, you can visit the official website of the event:

https://codeweek.eu/ 

We joined in an activity initiated by a school in Greece.  "Coding with emotions" was the central idea of the coding project,  giving students a unique opportunity to explore coding through hands-on and creative tasks. Numerous schools from Greece and countries such as Portugal, Romania, Bulgaria and more, joined in and posted their work on a padlet. We really enjoyed being part of this initiative! 

Cross-curricular activities in the 

subjects of English and Art

Here's how we implemented the project in our collaborative lesson: pupils worked in groups and their task was to  "decode" emotions and create emojis based on codes. Next, they had to  explore the classroom, where we had placed four riddles in English and  match the emojis with the emotions conveyed in each riddle. 

Click here to read the riddles

A small group of pupils  designed their own emoji, which they named the “Cool Emoji,” using the ZaplyCode app.   

                                  The “Cool Emoji" Code

The “Cool Emoji"

We proudly present our certificates of participation in EU CodeWeek!

Certificate of pupils' participation

Certificates of  excellence

We proudly present our certificates of excellence for our collaborative activities. Congratulations to all pupils and teachers for their wonderful and creative work! 

Awards and prizes for our short film "Cooking up Hope"

We are happy to announce that our pupils' short film "Cooking up hope" has won three prizes in two film competitions for schools. We are so proud of them!

• 2nd prize at the international competition for schools "5ος Διεθνή Διαγωνισμό Οπτικοακουστικής Δημιουργίας:Τα σχολεία εκπέμπουν στην ΕΡΤ”, σχολικό έτος 2022-23. 

5ος Διαγωνισμός ΕΡΤ

5ος Διαγωνισμός ΕΡΤ-ταινία

• 1st prize for the short film poster and 2nd prize for the short film at the international competition for schools "14oς Διεθνή Μαθητικό Διαγωνισμό Ταινιών Μικρού Μήκους “Cinema…διάβασες;", σχολικό έτος 2023-24   

14ος διαγωνισμός βραβεία

14ος διαγωνισμός-κατάλογος βραβευμένων έργων

Our film is also available at the educational site i-create photodentro and on youtube. 

i-create-photodentro

You can visit the following link to find out more information about the creation of our stop motion animation film.

                              Cooking up hope blog post

Our short film on the Educational Radiotelevision - Vouli channel 

On December 9th, we participated in the award ceremony of the 14th International Competition "Cinema ... διάβασες;" at the Michalis Kakogiannis Foundation in order to receive our awards.

   

COMMENDATION FOR ARTISTIC PHOTO AND PROJECT PRESENTATION

On May 16th,  2024, our school participated in the photography exhibition held at the Vafopouleio Cultural Center of Thessaloniki. The exhibition, running from May 15 to 31, showcased students' photos and posters on a variety of topics regarding the preservation of nature, environment, animals as well as the preservation of intangible cultural heritage.

Our pupils presented posters with photos on the theme of preserving rebetiko music as part of the intangible world heritage. One of their photos received a commendation for   Artistic Photography.

Artistic Photography Commendation

They also received and shared with our school partners from the 53rd and 54th Primary schools of Thessaloniki a commendation for their presentation of the collaborative project "Rebetiko" and their joined actions for preserving it.

 

Here you can take a look at their project presentation.

ΚΛΙΚ ΠΡΟΣΤΑΤΕΥΣΕ ΤΟ ΡΕΜΠΕΤΙΚΟ 

You can read more about the "Rebetiko project here.

EUROPEAN SCHOOL RADIO - MAKE IT HEARD 2024

 

This year we participated in the Student Contest “Make it Heard 2024” entitled "The power of friendship". Our 6th graders created a radio message on the value of friendship.

Their message with the title ''The Ship of Friendship'' is about a ship sailing on the high seas. The passengers are carefree until they hear the captain's warning. The ship is in danger and the passengers have to face a great dilemma. Will they choose to save the ship by giving up their selfish behaviour, or will they choose their selfishness and let the ship of friendship be lost at sea? 

You can listen to the radio message at the following link:

                          THE SHIP OF FRIENDSHIP

We are happy to announce that  a commendation was awarded to the radio message "The Ship of Friendship" for achieving the 13th place in the contest.