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heating which starts
automatically. Moreover, there
used to be green boards on the
walls, on which you wrote with
chalk pieces and they used a
sponge to clean the board.
Sometimes the kids flicked the
chalk sponge in the classroom
which caused a great amount
of annoying dust filling the
whole place! In older times
teachers used to be mean and
they all had a rod! They
punished the students very
often and beat the kids who had
long fingernails.
Editing group:
Tsaousoglou George, Haka
Elsida, Potouridis Stavros
• Some people gave money else because the number of swings for the children in the
and other refused. children was increased and schoolyard. The number of According to the interviews,
• They sold cardboard boxes therefore the classrooms were pupils was much smaller in the we realized that the kids used
to find money and they took 80 used by the primary school past and there were only six to have a great time. They
drahmas for the students students. The school was classrooms, whereas today played various games like the
meals. founded in the1993. there are fourteen classrooms. sack race and the jump rope.
• The first building of Editing team: There used to be swings at the In addition, some pupils
our school was founded in the Varka Avgi, Georgakis area where the open air chess edited a newspaper with the
1955 and was given for use in Stelios, Dimou Konstantina, and the classrooms of B2 and help of their teacher and
the 1957.It is a ground floor Mboutzoras Ioannis, A2 are now. There used to be would sell it. Another
building with six classrooms in Koutloubasi Katerina, only one school building years difference is that students
the row and two small offices. Papadopoulos Alexander. ago, whereas now there are were taught how to sew and
The length is 63 meters and the Students of E1 grade three buildings and a gym. embroider.
width is 12 meters. There is a Editing group: Editing group:
corridor of 136 m3. The school OUR SCHOOL IN OLDER Tsilifikas Nick, Ntinoudi Polizoudi Evdokia, Nika
yard covers an area of TIMES AND NOWADAYS Mirela, Triantafillou George, Daphne, Mihailidis-Ageloudis
approximately 5 acres. The After our research, having Naisidou Alkinoi, Tafaki Maria, George, Pipos Nikolas.
need for more classrooms interviewed parents and Tsalikis Christos, Patoulidou
increased and so another grandparents who went to the Nikoleta By the pupils of B2
building was constructed at the Primary School of Lagyna and SOURCES:
other side of the yard. In the also having studied the book of When our parents went to Book title : LAGYNA
past a kindergarten with two the history of the village, we school they used to play Verbal testimonies by locals
classrooms used to be on the found very interesting various games like: dodgeball,
ground floor but eventually a information about our school. football, the game of tag, hide ILLUSTRATION &
new one was build somewhere There used to be slides and and seek, the rubber band DRAWINGS
jump, the sack race, the jump Drawing: Elementary
rope or the egg-and-spoon schools of Arnisa & Lagyna
race. Nowadays we play the by Konstandina (E1)
game of tag and hide and seek. Collage: Our school then
At break they used to eat cheese and now (B2)
pie, gums, sandwiches or hot Image: The old building in
dogs. We are not allowed to eat 1963
unhealthy food at school now. Image: Interviews of locals
Editing group: by B2 students
Basa Aisel, Mavroidis Supervising teachers:
Markos, Tembeloudi Frideriki, Papasimeon Elisabeth
Ftergiotis Dimitris Chatsikou Ioanna
Translation:
There used to be a wood or Krouli Mirella &
oil stove in every classroom Foustalieraki Chara
that the cleaning lady lit every ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
morning. Now there is central OF LAGYNA THESSALONIKI