Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham Design: Dr. S. Tryfonos Dear parents, very warm welcome to all of our new students and parents, and an equally warm welcome back after Christmas vacation to all our current ones! We hope you had a nice break. My name is Penny Vasilaki and I am really glad for being a new member of the teaching staff of Ayia Triada School. The Autumn semester finished, leaving behind wonderful memories of a term full of energy and creative work. The new year is upon us, meaning a busy, but full of expectations, schedule for this month and beyond. The weather might be getting colder and colder, but don’t forget that we still have many events and celebrations for our students and parents throughout January. Whatever you have planned for the year, I hope there's something on the horizon that brings you joy, even in the most icy, grey, poor and abstemious of months! Panayiota Vasilaki BA in Greek Studies and Philology MRES Modern Greek Studies Highlights of this month… This month, although pretty short, our school staff, Management Board and pupils have been working really hard for the Three Hierarchs event. This event is an annual event and it is always celebrated towards the end of January. This year the Celebrations for the Three Hierarchs was held on Sunday the 29 th January and our honorary Guest this year was the Consul General from London Mr Ioannis Koukoularidis. The event was successful, with the children saying some poems and a few words about the three Saints of Orthodoxy in the church and the differ party that was thrown at the banqueting hall of the Estia. The following are some highlights of the event. Welcome note for January Issue A
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Newsletter Greek School of Ayia Triada Birmingham
Design: Dr. S. Tryfonos
Dear parents, very warm welcome to all of our new students and parents, and an equally warm welcome back after Christmas vacation to all our current ones! We
hope you had a nice break. My name is Penny Vasilaki and I am really glad for being a new member of the teaching staff of Ayia Triada School. The Autumn semester finished, leaving behind wonderful memories of a term full of energy and creative work. The new year is upon us, meaning a busy, but full of expectations, schedule for this month and beyond. The weather might be getting colder and colder, but don’t forget that we still have many events and celebrations for our students and parents throughout January. Whatever you have planned for the year, I hope there's something on the horizon that brings you joy, even in the most icy, grey, poor and abstemious of months! Panayiota Vasilaki BA in Greek Studies and Philology MRES Modern Greek Studies
Highlights of this month…
This month, although pretty short, our school staff, Management Board and pupils have been working really hard for the Three Hierarchs event. This event is an annual event and it is always celebrated towards the end of January. This year the Celebrations for the Three
Hierarchs was held on Sunday the 29th January and our honorary Guest this year was the Consul General from London Mr Ioannis Koukoularidis. The event was successful, with the children saying some poems and a few words about the three Saints of Orthodoxy in the church and the differ party that was thrown at the banqueting hall of the Estia. The following are some highlights of the event.
Also during the dinner party not only we have been presented with lovely dance performances and singing but also some of the students who have taken their examinations received their awards. At this point we need to thank the Church and the Church Committee who every year the give to the school the money for the awards of the Outstanding Pupils of the year. The photo below is from our student who received A* in her GCSE in June 2016, Elena Kyriakou. Well Done
Elena!
We are very happy to announce that the students will represent our school at Παγκυπριος Μαθητικο ς Διαγωνισμος
Λαογραφιας, Όμιλος ‘Κτήμα Πάφος’, an initiative taken by our headteacher, Dr Tryfonos. We will participate in the competition with an original traditional song about ‘ξενιτιά’, composed by Nikos Savvides and the lyrics of which were written by the teacher of the students Miss P. Vasilaki. Additionally the students who represented Ayia Triada Greek School in the Competition (Sofronia Barton, Anna Karafillides, Mariam Serghi and Andreas Serghi) have been awarded by the Consul for their outstanding performance and the effort that they have put and the time they have dedicated to this competition . We all felt extremely proud and moved, when they sang the song at the celebration of the Three Hierarchs.
After many rehearsals, the song finally recorded on Saturday, 28th of January by Minoas Koutedakis at school. At this point, I would like to express my most faithful thanks to Mr Savvides and Mr Koutedakis for their volunteer work and for kindly dedicating their time, labor and inspiration to our school. The following are some highlights from the event:
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the photo of the day 29/01/2017 Teachers enjoying themselves at the Three Hierarchs Celebration!
Pupils of the month: The following are the students who have been awarded as pupils of the month for attendance, effort, achievement and participation:
Stourbridge Reception: Sofia Ioannou Nursery: Loukia Markou Year 1a: Anna Gallen Year 3: Antonia Fantis Year 5: Jacob Partali Tamworth Reception: Zacharias Glover Year 1: Josh Colen Year 3: Ioannis Christofi Year 5: Christos Kamenos Erdington Nursery: Melina Georgiou (Monday) Reception: Nikolas Izamis (Monday) Nursery: Ioanna Anastasiadou (Saturday) Reception: Loukas Selianitis (Saturday) Year 1: Melita Shakespeare (Saturday) Year 1: Xenophon Varnavas (Monday) Year 1b:Aimilia Barton Year 2: Vasiliki Stamelos Year 4: Alex Agapakis (Saturday) Year 3: Filippos Psychogios (Saturday) Ioannis karafillides (Monday) Year 5: Andreas Serghi Year 6: Stratos Papadopoulos Worcester Year 1: Dimitris Gouvas Year 2: Illianna Christodoulou Year 5: Rafaela Gabriel Cannock Year 2: Maria Nikolaidou Year 3: Christina Gabriel
Up and Coming events:
Half Term Holidays: 13-18/02/2017
05/03/2017 Annual Memorials for Evagora Pallikaridi and Gregory Afxentiou. This event will be held at the church and Year 2 of Mr Vasileiou class will be leading this event.
25/03/2017 Saturday Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea Party, will be held at
Hyatt Regency Hotel Birmingham for Mother’s Day. The party for only mums of our school will take place from 13:00-15:00. Attendance at the cost of £17 pp. Tickets available by members of our Management Board (School time will be extended to 15:30 on that day)
26/03/2017 Sunday Celebrations at the school for 25th March 1821 and Evangelismos
