Primary education in Greece.
The Greek Primary School.
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Translated in English
by: Mary
Lembessi
"English languadge teacher in the 2nd
Neon Faliro Primary School."
The first stage of Greek Education (Primary Education) receives children from 5-12 years of age.
This includes Primary school and Kindergarten.
Primary school
The aim of the Primary school is the main-sided mental and physical development of the students within the framework set by the wider aim of Primary and Secondary education
1) In particular, Primary school helps students:
a)To widen and rearrange the relations between their creative activity and the things, situations and phenomena they study.
b)To build up the mechanisms that contribute to the assimilation of knowledge, to improve their physical and mental health and cultivate their moving abilities.
c)To acquire the content of the most important notions and gradually have the ability to move from the data of the senses to the region of the abstract thought.
d)To acquire the ability to use oral and written speech correctly.
e)To familiarize themselves slowly with moral, humanitarian and other values organize them to a system.
f)To cultivate their aesthetic criterion so as to be able to appreciate works of art and express themselves accordingly through their own artistic creations.
2) Primary school Education lasts six years and includes classes A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Children who have completed the age of 5 years and six months on the 1st of October of the year of the enrollment may attend Class A.
Age is proved by a birth certificate.3) Students who leave school receive a certificate of studies which is used for the enrollment in Secondary School. The type of this certificate is determined by decision of the Minister of Education.
4) Primary schools, depending on the school capacity, can have up to 12 positions for teachers.
5) For once, it is possible to have 7 up to 11 positions in schools, when the number of students, the classrooms available and the distance between schools require so.
6) School capacity depends on the ratio of 25 students to one teacher for one or two teacher schools and 30 students to one teacher for the rest.
7) A common decision by the Minister of Education and the Minister Finance may reduce the number of students to each permanent.
8) The establishment and improvement of primary schools and the proportional increase of their capacity is arranged by a Presidential Decree issued on the motion of the Ministers of Education and Finance.
9) In some cases, where special local circumstances call for it, it is possible to establish a one-teacher school regardless of the number of students Who are going to attend it.
From this page we will also try to give answers to teachers, students and all the people interested in the following questions:
1) What kind of people work in Primary Schools.
2) What kind of work they do.
3) Which children go to a Green Primary School.
4) Which lessons are taught.
5) Some thoughts for a better Primary Education.
The English language in the Greek Primary School
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