2010s -

One more decade which sees hundreds of students pass from our classrooms, learning and excelling while our graduates are travelling and working abroad, or thriving in Greece. Our French Department enters a new stage under the direction of M. Serge Loens, a French native with such deep love for Greece that he learnt Greek and decided to remain, marry and raise a family in Greece. He was a teacher who was much loved by his students for many years. After working with us he went on to write coursebooks for learning French which our school uses to this day. Alongside M. Loens, Mme Matina Bousiouta becomes a great teacher who shares her immense love of French with her many students. 

Ms Jeannie Efstathiou gradually takes on more and more of the management of the school as her mother decides to retire from active teaching. With her grandmother's vision being more relevant than ever, she takes significant steps to keep the methodology updated and suitable for the new generation. Technology plays a central part but so does the encouragement of 21st century skills such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking. Mindfulness and the belief in a growth mindset are given their rightful significance in the learning process and are emphasized in conversations with students and parents alike.

In order to reflect all these changes the progress reports are updated to include Oral and Written Performance as well as Effort. In 2018 graphs replace mere numbers in order to show progress and turbulations through the term. 

At the core of our school life remain all the cultural events that our students participate in and are excited about, like the annual celebration of Francophonie , supervised by the director of the French Department and the German evening, orgαnized by Herr Dimitris Papoulias, who keeps the German Department thriving and guarantees success in the Goethe exams for all our students. In 2013 Ms Zozetta and Ms Jeannie start an English-speaking book club which brought together book lovers from the most advanced classes of our school.

At the same time dozens of students a year prepare with our teachers for the IELTS exam which has become a requirement for studying abroad. To this day our alumni study and work abroad with success in the IELTS exam. 

Ms Jeannie takes on the preparation of students wishing to be admitted to Pierce College ACG and Athens College. The success rate is extremely high and the flow of students from our school to these schools is constant and the tradition continues. 

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