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We are the pupils of the 5th Class of ent from today’s as far as behavior and
the Primary School of Arnissa and we mischief and the teachers’ treatment are
have completed a lot of assignments concerned.
about the history of our school. We Teachers were very strict but the
worked together with other schools, like pupils, young as they were, used to be
the Primary School of Lagyna and the very mischievous and cause trouble in
Experimental School of Thessaloniki. order to skip some of the lessons by
We had some meetings, we made Pow- placing sharp objects on the teacher’s
erpoint presentations using old pictures chairs or find cheap excuses for the
and texts centered on the theme of the times they had not done their home-
history of our school. work.
Our topics included: the school build- Punishment was very harsh of course,
ing, school life, rules, mischief, the histo- and pupils, especially boys, would even planted by our ancestors. They also
ry of the school uniform, school subjects, get spanked on the hands for serious used to play hopscotch, with balls, a
activities and a Think Link project. All of matters. game called ‘mila[apples]’, with an elas-
these we presented to the other schools Kiriakos Georgiadis tic band, ‘tzami’, and chase bout now we
online. can play countless games. Some way
It was an experience we all liked and The history of the school yard beyond the yard, there is a small forest
would like to repeat next year. The school yard was constructed after deep into which there is a pillbox. The
Iordana Gatsou the school was built around 1952-1954. pillbox was built around 1947 and is lo-
In the past, there used to be a theatre cated deep in the forest.
Our school today stage surrounded by bleachers (all of Polyanthi Mpogia
Our school is located in Arnissa, at the which still exist) and below the stage,
end of the village, near the mountain. It there was a sand pit and a high bar next Primary School of Arnissa, Pella
was built of hewn stone in 1954. The to the water fountains. 5th Class
school yard is big, there is a nice basket- The theatre stage is in the centre and
ball court and rows of bleachers. The the bleachers, where we sometimes sit Teacher in Charge:
most impressive thing is that beyond the during breaks, are on its right and left Athanasios Theodorou
bleachers there is a small forest and the sides. There used to be a construction
pillbox. for swings, a see-
Our school has two floors. On the top saw and there was a
floor, there are three classrooms, there high bar and the
is also a library, an event hall and two of- yard was made of
fices, one for the headmaster and one soil before there
for the teachers. were water foun-
Our school is very beautiful and I love tains and a basket-
it very much. ball court. The
Stathis Tsitiridis school yard was
built by the local
My grandmother’s school people and it took
My grandmother used to be a pupil in them around three
the Primary School of Arnissa from 1966 years to complete.
to 1972. Those times were quite differ- The trees were