The event "A Day at the Museums" took place today, at the Museums of the Pancyprian Gymnasium, as the culmination of the first year of the "Hellenic Language and Culture" Department of the Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinary-Disciplinary Learning Day School of the Pancyprian Gymnasium.
During the day the students of the Day School participated in workshops on photography, visual arts, science, music-theatre and journalistic reportage. The members of each workshop, together with their animators, selected objects from the museums' exhibitions and, in conversation with them, produced original creations. After the end of the workshops, the students' creations were presented in front of an audience.
The guests were welcomed by the Director of the Pancyprian High School Mr. Loizos Sepos, who expressed his admiration for the work done throughout the year in the pilot program of the Day School. On the event "A Day at the Museums", Mr. It is Culture, our Language, our History, the speech of our ancestors, which reaches us."
The event was welcomed by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, Mr. Mr Prodromos Prodromou, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports and Youth, who stressed that the programme of the Full Day High School, together with the STEAM Direction, is supplemented with "an additional strand of paramount importance for the Education of Cyprus and for excellence in all cognitive subjects, the strand "Greek Language and Culture". He continued: "Everyone understands how important this supplementation is because it comprehensively cultivates the active and critical thinking citizen". Regarding today's action, the Minister pointed out: "Today, our students interacted with the Museums of their school in an original way, which is in line with the philosophy of learning by doing."
The event concluded with the honorary awarding of the students of the Day School by the newspaper "Phileleftheros" and the Pancyprian High School. An honorary memento was awarded by the Pancyprian Gymnasium to the teachers who guided the students to the exciting world of knowledge and creation through the "Day at the Museums" as well as to the teachers who staffed the Day School during this school year, transforming the vision into practice.
The organization and realization of the event was undertaken by the Assistant Headmistress Mrs. Michael Fantaros, the Philologists Mrs. Fotini Theodoulou and Mrs. Niki Christodoulou, and the animating teachers Mr. Haris Zevlaris and Mrs. Elena Paisiou (Photography Teachers), Mrs. Stella Lancia Assistant Director and Mr. Panayiotis Grigoriou (Art Teachers), Mr. Anthoulis Demosthenous (Philologist), Ms. Ioanna Satrazami (Professor of Music) and Ms. Maria Victoria Estavi (Professor of Theatre).
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