We won in total 3 medals (1 gold,1 silver and 1 bronze). Andreas Kelesis won the gold in category Youth A(1200m-200m-1200m). Stephie Dracou came 3rd, and Maria Nearchou came 2nd in the category Youth D(400m-100m-400m). In total, our school ranked 3rd.

The English School team members were:

1. Charalambos Pantelides
2. Andreas Kelesis
3. Christos Magnitis
4. Vasily Zalesov
5. Nikolas Alexandrou Taliotis
6. Matthaios Ioannou
7. Gabriel Azar
8. Constantinos Kyriakos Pedonomou Middleton
9. Michael Nicolaos Kanellos
10. Marinos Surrerier
11. Anastasia Zannoupa
12 Maria Nearchou
13 Stephanie Dracou

Great work everybody!!

It was a good opportunity for our girls to prepare for the upcoming season. Congratulations to all players.

Introducing our team: Andrea Iacovou, Irene Yianna, Miranda Zangoulou, Andreana Epiphaniou, Nikoletta Christophorou, Maria Leandrou, Agathi Christodoulou, Kyveli Matsi, Nayia Stefanou, Victoria Georgopoulou, Andrea Christodoulidou, Anna Maria Hatjantona and Elia Vasiliou. Coach Andreas Anastasiadis.

Wishing you all a good start!

Results of afternoon games competitions:
Year 2 Basketball Competition
K V N:  12 – 14
B V W:  10 – 55
 
Year 1 Football Competition
K V N:  2 – 2 (N won on penalties)
B V W:  2 – 3

Except for the Inter-House Competitions that took place, students participated in the following sporting activities:
 

• Volleyball
• Softball
• Futsal
• Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
• Tennis
• Handball
• Table Tennis
• Circuit Training

For safety reasons:
 
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LOOK AT THE SUN
 
It is extremely dangerous to observe this event even with dark sun glasses, 
the only safe way to look directly at the Sun is through special-purpose solar filters which we have at the astronomy club.

Many congratulations to these students, their families and teachers who have supported them throughout their academic journey.  
 

On Thursday, 13th October 2022 we had our first full afternoon game session since March 2022.  Boys in Years 1 to 3 attended. 

The results of the inter-house competition that took place were as follows: 

Year 2 Basketball Competition
B V N:  16 – 9
K V W:  25 – 14

Year 3 Football Competition
B V W:  1 – 1
K V N:  0 – 3

Our student also participated in the following sporting activities: 
Volleyball
Softball
Futsal
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
Tennis
Health and Conditioning
Handball
Table Tennis
Circuit Training

It was wonderful to see students competing and having fun. 
 

The five students aim to learn more about the French culture, develop their French speaking skills and stretch and challenge themselves in Maths while engaging in activities with five students from the local school. 

The College Jules Ferry is a Science and Maths oriented public middle school in France, which promotes and celebrates diversity. 
Our students are hosted by the families of five gifted French students and have been attending lessons and participating in projects and activities with them since Monday 10th of October. They are also enjoying the opportunity to practise their French with their hosts and teachers and learn about the history of Chambery, a beautiful medieval city which has been the capital of Savoie since the 13th century. 

Mr Demetriou is engaged in job shadowing at the school during this week and his aim is to find out about how the project-based learning methodology is used in different disciplines at the school to stretch and challenge gifted and talented students. Here are some of his impressions: 
‘There is no time pressure on covering a syllabus and they spend more time on projects. They play games like puzzles and labyrinths. The desks are arranged individually, handouts are at the back of the class where students go to collect them. Some students are engaged in group work while others work individually. The teacher observes and facilitates. Every student has a small whiteboard, glue, and scissors and all the handouts are pasted  into their exercise books. The games are created by gifted students and in the class there was a university student assisting the teacher.

In French lessons, they have sports equipment in class and students sit on gym balls. Bicycles in the class are a great idea as students exercise and listen as well. The teacher paid for this equipment but she has her own class, and the equipment is stored there. Students are allowed to draw as the teacher is reading a book aloud. Some students exercise while others are listening. They do not have books. 
 
In Art, the students work in groups of four, and using the project-based learning approach, they have 4 months to prepare a newspaper, which they will present in class and then to the whole school. 14-year-old students are marked using two different grade systems, colors and grades out of 20. In the last year of middle school, they have exams. During each presentation, the teacher gives feedback. 

Gifted and talented students move at a different pace, and they can skip a year, having the approval of the school’s Headmaster.’ 
 

The English School team of eleven Year 5 students, Mr K. Kutuglu and Ms K. Demetriou left Cyprus on the 8th October and after a bus, a plane, a train, and another bus, we arrived in Soverato on the evening of 9th fresh and ready to take on new challenges. 

Day 1 was all about culture. We arrived at our partner school, I.T.T. G.Malafarina for the opening ceremony.  Our students played their part by delivering excellent presentations about culture in Cyprus and exchanged ideas and thoughts with the Italian students and our other partner students from Volos, Greece.  In the afternoon we socialised with the local students and ate pizza and pasta.  An exciting football match took place in the evening, made even more dramatic as it started raining too!! 

Day 2 was all about digital literacy, we used video editing software to generate videos about our trip and responsibility allocations and then we coded for 2 hours straight. Our partner school is a technical school and digital literacy plays a huge part in the education of the Italian students. After lunch the students played a digital treasure hunt game around Soverato using “Goosechase” that was really fun! 

Ms Katie Demetriou who is job shadowing during this Erasmus+ mobility, got the chance to observe good practice and see how digital literacy can be used for educational purposes to enhance student motivation, engagement and creativity.

We look forward to what the coming Erasmus days will bring us!

Our team won 1st place for The English School in the juniors category (years 1 to 3) ! In addition our year-4 student who represented the school in the seniors category (years 4 to 7) fought a great battle and managed to secure 3rd place for our school!  In the overall players standings two of our students managed to get 2nd and 3rd place. Congratulations to everyone!

The English School Chess Team are: Pavlos Chrysostomou (4G), Mikhail Kiselev (2W), Andreas Kyriakides (1G), Zilin Su (1G), Giorgos Lioudakis (1B) and Olympia Xenofontos (1B). 

Special thanks to Stelios Kyriakides (ES parent) who brought the tournament to our attention but also helped with the organisation as well as all the English School parents who attended the tournament and supported our players.

The next tournament will be in December and we will be welcoming more students to join the team. In the meantime students will have the opportunity to compete in online tournaments organised by the English School Chess Club.

Christos Symeonides (teacher in charge of Chess Club)