Some information about 2nd primary school of Trikala: The 2nd Primary School of Trikala is located in the town centre and it's one of the firstly-founded schools in the town of Trikala. It was founded in 1899. The new building was erected in the year of 1976 next to the river of Litheos and in the new unified area of the old-prison block, St. Constantine's church and Cursum Mosque. At first, seven classrooms functioned. But, due to the increase of enrollments, there was an extension of the teaching facilities and 6 new classrooms were built. The overall area of the building -both ground and first floor- is 1962sq.m. The building is public. In the 2010-2011 school year, the school was incorporated in the 800 Primary Schools with extended time-table which apply the Unified Reformed School Curriculum (E.A.E.P.). New cognitive subjects were added, i.e. Computer Studies, Drama and Art for all grades. English was added in the 1st and 2nd grade. Moreover, the teaching hours of PE have increased as well as English. Furthermore, E graders have the choice of a 2nd foreign language (either French or German). Currently, at school there are 250 pupils and 28 working teachers. Furthermore, there is an integration class for students with special needs and a class of refugee students. During the school's operation, teachers and students have designed and implement a variety of educational programs about health and wellbeing, environmental issues, cultural issues and traffic education.
Important Projects:
This year the school is implementing a school education mobility project entitled "Nice to meet you, let’s go play.-2020-1-EL01-KA101-077663", which incorporates two main goals: (i) preventing refugee students from early school leaving and (ii) creating a school environment with equal learning opportunities for all.
The school has been participating in one Erasmus + project: "We all live in the same world - let’s care for it" 2018-1-DE03-ΚΑ229-0. In all phases of the project, the aim is to show the children how to eat healthier food, how to use herbs and vegetables (partly from their own school gardens or from the ERASMUS- garden) during cooking.
In 2009, the school participated in Comennius project “All Different All Equal”2009-1-DE3-COM06-18893 7. The aim of the program was the knowledge, the application and the evaluation of new training methods in order to select the ones that will help in the best possible way integration of students with learning difficulties and special needs in school and in society in general.
In the school year 2018-2019 the school participated in the program "and if it were you" implemented by Panhellenic Network for Theater in Education and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The program uses experiential activities, theater and educational drama techniques aimed at raising awareness of teachers and students on human rights and refugee issues and support schools and teachers who implement programs with a similar approach.