The Schools offer a high level of education, with the happiness of students and the realization of their objectives in mind. They thus ensure the most fertile ground and secure environment, the necessary conditions for students to develop their aptitudes and strengthen their abilities, to create and stand out. The Schools help to shape multifaceted personalities, while inspiring and guiding students to success in their cultural and social life.
This success is due to:
- Carefully selected faculty.
- Innovative teaching methods applied: Case Studies, Flipped Classroom, Watch & Learn.
- Continuous enrichment of our facilities: digital classrooms, digital communication platforms.
- Additional hours of instruction in core subjects: Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, Computer Science.
- The preparation classes (Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Science, Greek and English dramatic and rhetorical speech, choir, orchestra, theater, basketball.
- The Studies Abroad program: counseling center and preparatory courses (SAT, TOEFL, IELTS) for admission to U.S., Canada and European universities.
- Laboratory exercises and experiments in Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Biology and Computer Science.
- Innovative programs in literature, cinema, environment, social contribution.
- Cultural and sports activities and excursions.
- Supplementary book material written by highly trained teachers of the Schools.
- Participation in international congresses and competitions.
Curriculum
The curriculum aims to help students respond to the Schools’ high demands and to render students protagonists in their effort to gain admission to higher education institutions in Greece and abroad, while at the same time strengthening each student’s cultural and social dimensions.
Detailed Program
Digital Education
IT in Mandoulides Schools has always been and remains is a priority. Every technological development that can help our children with their journey to knowledge is in harmony with the school curriculum and works towards their benefit. This is also manifested by the outstanding achievements of our students in International and Balkan Olympiads.
“Teach the latest knowledge” – Democritus
More specifically by using the modern laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art tools that are constantly being updated, we are expanding the supply of educational work by teaching Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Junior – Senior High School in the following areas:
High School Programs
KeyCERT Computer Certification
Programming Preparation Courses
Mandoulides Python Camp
Art & Science Days
Robotics Preparation Courses
Research and Development
Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship
Foreign Languages
French and German
English
Bilingual Program
Forensics
Innovative Programs
Case Studies
For decades, case studies have been successfully used as an educational tool in prestigious universities abroad and specifically in law, business and medical undergraduate and graduate schools.
Case studies are realistic stories that connect academic knowledge with everyday life. In dealing with case studies, students assume a leading role and answer scientific and ethical questions. This educational method can be used not only to explore scientific issues, but also to develop critical thinking and cultivate team spirit.
Objectives:
- Development of critical thinking abilities.
- Cultivation of team spirit.
- Exploration of modern scientific issues.
- Predominantly influenced by STEM sciences.
Watch & Learn
Preparation for the Panhellenic examinations is changing…
For the first time in Greece, Mandoulides Schools are applying exclusively an innovative program, which provides 10th, 11th and 12th grade students the opportunity for further practice on topics of Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry on the model of the Panhellenic examinations, online, at home!
Students are able to:
- See the solutions to original practice questions on video created according to the Panhellenic examinations’ standards, answered in an exemplary manner, as the examination system requires.
- Familiarize themselves with the system and the examinations’ requirements.
- Practice addressing challenging questions of varying degrees of difficulty
Flipped Classroom
The class is changing…
The program Flipped Classroom takes 8th and 9th Grade students on an exciting journey of knowledge in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology through modern online lectures, which students can watch at home, before the lectures are given in class!
The implementation of this program allows teachers to spend more time on additional consolidation exercises and to cooperate with all the students in the classroom, while making lectures enjoyable and creative
Preparation Courses
Mandoulides Schools provide their students with the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and cultivate their inclinations and skills in the following after school programs.
- Greek Debate
- First Lego League
- EUSO
- English Debate
- Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning
- Computer Science – Programming (preparation for Panhellenic Informatics Competition)
- Orchestra
- Choir
- SAT
- Drama
- Virtual Business
- We Speak Greek
- Forensics
Clubs
General
Clubs are an innovative initiative of the Schools that enables our students to:
- Discover and cultivate their specific inclinations and talents
- Express their creativity and ingenuity
- Take initiative in the spirit of teamwork
- Engage in something unique.
Culture and Arts
- Spanish
- Junior Forensics
- Public Speaking
- Rhetoric Speach
- Cinema
- Junior European Youth Parliament
- Junior Achievement
Sciences
- Mathematics
- Robo Coders
- Informatics
- The Science Club in the Science Lab
Sports
- Aerobics-Zumba
- Cheerleading
- Basketball
- Volleyball
- Soccer
- Chess
Supplemental Teaching
The Schools in their effort to improve and support students’ edification apply the following actions:
Revision Courses
These are held during the first week of September before the start of the school year and are aimed at students who want to cover gaps in the Greek language, English language and Mathematics.
Preparation Courses
Student Time
Students have the opportunity to find answers to their questions and discuss educational issues with their teachers during half-hour breaks.
Prep Hour
Taught each week during half-hour breaks by teachers of:
- Ancient Greek and Mathematics (7th Grade)
- Ancient Greek, Mathematics and Physics (8th and 9th Grade)
Peer Tutoring
Outstanding Senior High School students help Junior and other Senior High School students with Modern Greek, Ancient Greek, Mathematics and Physics under the supervision of the respective teachers
STREAM STEPS
Art & Science Days
The program caters to Junior and Senior High School students of Mandoulides Schools and other schools of the city, public and private. Its main aim is to bring children closer to the world of Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Astronomy and the arts.
STREAM DAY
STREAM DAY includes STREAM (Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Mathematics) actions aimed at cultivating skills, developing critical thinking and making learning pleasant and creative.
During STREAM DAY, Elementary and Junior High School students will have the opportunity to:
- Present various STREAM arts and crafts that they created during the school year
- Watch original and impressive experiments in the well-equipped physics, chemistry and biology labs
- Get to know the world of architecture from the ARKKI SCHOOL team
- Design and play with KODU and SCRATCH
- Watch FLL races
- Learn while playing and having.
Literature and Discourse Programs
Bookmates
Current Events
Polybius, History Ignoramus
Eugene, the Grammar Expert
Environmental Projects
Sports
The Schools, since their foundation, have the ancient saying “healthy mind in a healthy body” as a guide in combining sports with excellent education.
Sport is an integral part of school life and supported by highly qualified teachers of physical education and coaches, as well as by outstanding infrastructure.
Our students’ numerous and significant distinctions on a world and national level fully justify this choice.
School Sports
According to grade, age and class in the course of Physical Education, objectives and priorities are reached through the following actions:
- Development of physical abilities: endurance, strength, speed, flexibility, agility
- Development of simple and complex motor skills and satisfactory performance of some of them
- Awareness and cultivation of rhythm
- Learning basic techniques in individual and team sports
- Teamwork exercises
- Team sports
- Regulations and their application
- Internal team sports contests
- Familiarization with basic principles of injury prevention
- Acquisition of knowledge of sports science and parallel application through practical lessons
- Promotion of health and wellness, with an emphasis on participation, alternative exercise and sports
- Olympic education: visits by athletes who have excelled in the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Studies Abroad
The Studies Abroad program facilitates Mandoulides students in preparing for higher education abroad at the same time they prepare for admission to Greek universities.
International, European and National Conferences
Mandoulides Schools prepare students for their crucial role as active and conscious citizens of tomorrow, by helping them achieve success in today’s global environment.
Having that in mind, they encourage students’ participation in a multitude of local, national, and international programs, such as:
Corporate Programs
Corporate Programs are career orientation programs based on the principles of experiential learning where participants learn through observation and interaction with executives of an organization or a company.
Art and Performance Programs
Debate
Debate
Since 2001, students of the Schools have trained in Greek language rhetorical speech contests, including debate, impromptu, motivational speech and expressive reading. In this way, they cultivate critical thinking, are familiarized with the formulation of grammatically and aesthetically correct discourse and practice rhetorical style, always within the framework of each respective contest’s rules. The result of their efforts is the great success achieved on a local and national level.
Orchestra and Choir
Orchestra and Choir
The cultivation of musical culture is a tradition at the Schools. Students of the orchestra and the choir accompany school and extracurricular cultural events. Each ensemble, independently or together, has been awarded first place in the student cultural competitions of the Ministry of Education and at international music festivals abroad. They have also collaborated with important Greek artists such as Manolis Mitsias, Giorgos Hatzinasions, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Lavrentis Mahairitsas, Dionysis Tsaknis, Nikos Papazoglou, Loudovikos of Anogia and Evanthia Reboutsika
Theater
Theater
The Schools, believing in the value of theater education, have introduced to their curriculum a variety of activities related to the art of theater. From Kindergarten to High School, student theater groups perform ancient and modern drama. The aim of the theater group is to cultivate theatrical education. Through the collective experience of values, through cooperation, responsibility, dialogue, respect for others, critical thinking, expressive power, imagination, creativity and self-expression, students learn to love art and culture and acquire the ability to actively participate in broader cultural developments. Within a climate encouraging enthusiasm and confidence, performances that achieve the objectives of theatrical education are presented.
Visual Arts
Visual Arts
Students creatively express themselves through visual arts and receive distinctions on a national and international level. Awards and prizes are bestowed in international, European and national art competitions.
Art by Students
Traditional Dances
Traditional Dances
The traditional dance group boasts a rich history with seamless participation in regional student cultural competitions distinguished by great achievements and distinctions. The group has participated in folk dance festivals and excelled in events such as “Days of Expression and Creativity.” With faith in the continuation of Greek folk tradition and in conveying our cultural heritage to younger generations, the group continues its work and provides students with the opportunity to experience a multifaceted education.
Eating Healthily
The fast-paced life of students and their families nowadays renders the establishment of a healthy diet hard to achieve.
Mandoulides Schools educate their students and raise parents’ awareness in relation to healthy diet, while implementing the program “Eating Healthily at Mandoulides Schools.”
- Free and healthy breakfast is provided to students of the Day Care Center and Kindergarten.
- The quality and origin of the products offered by the canteens are checked.
- Labels are placed on the products sold by the canteens as well as on the individual meal packages mentioning their calories and nutritional value.
- The lunch menus of the optional catering service are created by specialized dieticians in accordance with the Mediterranean diet.
- Special Educational Programs are organized in order to familiarize students with various issues regarding diet, health and physical activity.
- Students and parents receive information about diet from experts, physical education teachers, athletes and writers of children’s books.
- The physical development and eating habits of our students are monitored by dieticians.
- Visits to food production facilities are scheduled, where students are informed about the processing and storage of raw materials as well as the promotion of products.
- A vegetable garden is maintained on the Kindergarten – Elementary School premises, in order for the students to discover the value of biological products
Catering Program
Menus are designed by nutritional experts and are based on the Mediterranean diet, using, where possible, raw materials tested for their quality and origin with the exclusion of unnecessary animal fat or additional chemicals.
- Meals are prepared on the day they are served and are delivered on time
- Meals are GMO and nut free and thus cannot cause allergies
- Meals come in individual trays, which cover all the hygiene requirements and contain labels of calories and nutrients
- Parents can select as many days as they wish depending on the student’s participation in extracurricular or after-school activities or in the study program
- When a student is absent, the charge for the day’s meals is still applied.
Registration Forms
In order to participate you need to fill out the online registration form at the Schools’ digital platform mymandoulides.
Once you have done so, a private agreement between you (parent – legal custodian) and the catering company will be sent to you. Signing the private agreement is a necessary condition for participation in the program. The private agreement is signed only once, after you fill out the first registration form.
The registration form must be submitted by the 20th of each month along with he days of the following month for which you will require the catering company’s services. Payment must be made by the 25th for the upcoming month in the catering company’s bank account.
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Partners
“Kouzin” is a lifestyle. We get the best organic raw materials from small, certified, organic farms and small farmers from Greece. In the spirit of “farm to table”, we taste recipes thanks to the use of the purest Greek organic products, and our chefs’ creativity.
We use proper cooking techniques without needing to use added fat, preservatives & mainly palmoil free.
This way, we manage to make new, tasty recipe suggestions which constitute a mix of familiarity and modernity. Following strict diagrams, we check the orders of the quantities of the raw materials, their storage, and the arrival of customers, so that the food products do not end up getting thrown away due to their alteration caused by poor management.
Moreover, all packages used for the transportation of food products are biodegradable or recyclable. The importance of sustainability in the field of gastronomy requires commitment to the sustainable model in our cuisine, in order to build environmental awareness of our customers.
Thanks to this principle, we got certified as a model organic cuisine following the requirements and protocols of the certifying body “BIOHELLAS”.
We would like to welcome you to “Kouzin” considering love, wellness, and respect towards our body through our great flavors
Extracurricular Programs
Mandoulides Schools give students the opportunity to attend Extracurricular Programs that aim at providing an integrated education and cultivate their skills.
In the Extracurricular Programs of the Schools:
- Presentation, guidance and supervision are provided by select, experienced associates
- Classes are carried out in the Schools’ state of the art facilities and are held in a safe environment
- Students are transported using a school bus service
- Parents save precious time
- There is extra charge.
Sports Academies
Mandoulides Schools give students with the opportunity to attend Sports Academies that aim at providing an integrated education and cultivate their skills.
In the Sports Academies of the Schools:
- Training is provided by highly qualified and experienced coaches
- Classes are carried out in the Schools’ state of the art facilities and are held in a safe environment
- Students are transported using a school bus service
- Parents save precious time
- There is extra charge
Summer Programs
The Schools continue operating in the summer months and offer several educational and sports programs.
Why choose the Schools’ Summer Programs?
- We creatively utilize our free time
- We acquire knowledge in a fun and playful way
- We develop our social skills
- We participate in excursions and outings
- We practice our favorite sports
- We learn by playing and creating in a safe and familiar environment
