Our school is one of the oldest public schools of Modern Greece, after the War of Revolution.

It was built in the beginning of the 20^th century at the centre of Paleo Faliro a suburb of Athens.

At that time Paleo Faliro was a seaside suburb where the rich Athenians had their summer houses. Now it is still considered a suburb of Athens but it is a high density populated residential area of the Athenians.

When it was founded it had only six classrooms and an office. Later three more classrooms, a teachers’ office and a canteen were added. Five years ago a tenth classroom was added.

We have 200 students and a staff of 14 full time teachers and 5 part time ones. Our students are from grade 1-6 (six to twelve years old). Due to lack of space we do not have a kindergarten, an assembly room, a library, a science and computer lab and all the other facilities the modern schools have. Unfortunately we cannot add any more rooms due to building regulations in the area.

Just opposite our school is the church of Our Virgin Mary whose facilities like the assembly room we use for theatrical plays and other school events.

Due to its central location every year more students that we can accommodate apply and we have to send them to neighbouring schools.

We follow the National Curriculum which is compulsory for all the primary and secondary schools in Greece. Regular teaching starts at 8:15 in the morning and ends at 1:30 in the afternoon. Then it is the afternoon session which is not compulsory that starts at 2:00 in the afternoon and ends at 4:00. Students who stay in the afternoon session have lunch (they have brought from their homes or buy a sandwich at the canteen) between 1:30 and 2:00, they can study their homework supervised and helped by teachers from 2:00 till 3:00 and then they can have extra activities like more sports and physical education activities, theatrical education, more foreign languages, more music.