Cans For Kids is a registered Cyprus charity that for more than 30 years has been recycling aluminium and using the proceeds to buy medical equipment for the children's wards at Cypriot hospitals. Donations to date total over €250,000.

The Can Bank can be found at the waste disposal area by the D&T/Hall gate. By taking your cans to a Cans For Kids can bank, you not only help the environment, but you know that your efforts are giving something back to the community.

A big achievement for Gregoris as he is one of the few people in the modern era to have a paper published before starting their university studies. More specifically Current Research in Physiology has published Gregoris' coauthored paper: “Rhythmicity in heart rate and its surges usher a special period of sleep, a likely home for PGO waves” (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crphys.2022.02.003).

This paper was co-authored with Dr Andreas A. Ioannides and Dr Lichan Liu while working part-time at the Neuroscience Research Centre AAI Scientific Cultural Services (AAISCS). In this paper, rhythmic changes in the heart rate along with the accompanying increases in arousal are studied, leading to two new important findings. First, hints for a new putative sleep stage called “REM0”.  Secondly, one of the most promising pieces of evidence for identifying non-invasively the area within the brainstem which sends the “Long Lead Initial pulse” (LLIP) for Ponto-Geniculo-Occipital (PGO).

This important article was the outcome of research Gregoris was conducting in Neuroscience at AAISCS directed by, Professor Dr Andreas A. Ioannides, in the last two years while being a student at the English of Nicosia. His involvement in research at AAISCS originally started with a summer internship which developed into getting the status of Junior Researcher participating in various research projects undertaken by AAISCS.

We are proud of Gregoris and we wish him good luck in all his future endeavours.

Activities ranged from simple acts, like smiling and saying thank you to large-scale projects supporting charities.

Our whole school “From our Table” raffle and bake sale was particularly successful, raising over EU3000 for Adopt a Family through the Pancyprian volunteer programme.
Details of all our initiatives are listed below. A huge thank you to our teachers, Chain of Change leaders, students, families and sponsors. We are looking forward to spreading kindness all through 2022 and we hope it’s contagious!

The poets spoke with students about inspiration and language and shared ideas about identity and culture in multilingual poetry.

After qualifying last year for the European U20 Championships, at just 18 years of age, our student Christos Ashiotis, is now aiming to qualify for the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships Colombia, to represent Cyprus in the 2022 Mediterranean Games in the Men’s 400m event, and to break the U20 400m Cyprus National Record. 

If you wish to register for the event, see the text below (the debate will take place in English and will be online for the public). 
 
What should be Europe's future? How should the EU face the climate or digital revolution challenges? On March 1st, we will be giving the floor to the committed youth alongside French & Cypriot experts!
 
#EU2022FR #ideasnight European Parliament Office in Cyprus 

➡ Learn more & register here:  http://swll.to/1stMarch
 

Guest speaker: Dr Stella Kafka, Executive Director American Meteorological Society
Date: Friday 18^th February 19:00
Time: 19:00

Link to join: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NmJkOTRlNmUtY2QyMi00NzJiLWI5NjctNmVkMzk0ZWNkMTc4%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2231c93034-1280-4e4a-9bc6-032bc7baccbc%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22c2e23e11-2c44-42c9-9f89-f1d66c42aa5d%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d&btype=a&role=a

Congratulations on her effort and hard work

There's lots more to come with ECO month, Arts Week and Medimun just round the corner.