Primary School

Teamwork, field trips, books, research, excitement, creativity, relationships, nature, responsibility and collaboration.

Our Primary School is a place where children grow and learn through play, curiosity, and imagination — within a structured and organized environment that helps them learn how to learn.
The daily program follows the national curriculum but enriches each subject with experiential and creative methods. Traditional tools meet children’s ideas, turning lessons into dynamic and engaging experiences.
The daily program follows the national curriculum but enriches each subject with experiential and creative methods. Traditional tools meet children’s ideas, turning lessons into dynamic and engaging experiences.

KEY ELEMENTS

 

Learning in Groups

Our primary classes include up to 22 children. For English, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts, we work in smaller groups of 10–11. Small group work helps children organise themselves, take initiative, collaborate, and navigate disagreements with growing independence.

Learning in Groups

A Range of Learning Tools

Every new idea or learning goal is approached through multiple pathways: the board, books, notebooks, hands-on activities, play, art, and projects within the school community. This variety allows each child to engage in ways that fit their learning style.

A Range of Learning Tools

The Role of Play

Play helps children understand themselves and others, learn to follow rules and boundaries, collaborate, cope with both frustration and success, and simply enjoy the process of childhood.

The Role of Play

Individual Support

We observe children throughout the day, in lessons, during play, at lunch, and in the garden. We support them as they develop strategies for everyday challenges: what to do if someone takes their ball, how to respond when they feel angry, how to ask for help when they don’t understand something. We notice their interests, highlight them, and help children explore them in depth.

Individual Support

Learning Beyond the Classroom

We make regular visits to the forest as well as archaeological sites, theatres, museums, and other places connected to the curriculum and the group’s interests. These experiences broaden children’s understanding of the world and invite real-life learning.

Learning Beyond the Classroom

The Atelier

Our atelier is a creative space where children experiment with materials and techniques, express their ideas, and develop their aesthetic awareness. It is also a place where concepts from language, mathematics, and history take on form in new ways.

The Atelier

Psychopedagogical Support

Every child and family has access to our Psychopedagogical Team—psychologists and special educators with expertise in learning differences. They support children’s wellbeing and development in close collaboration with teachers.

Psychopedagogical Support

Parents as Partners

We see parents as partners in their child’s learning journey. Communication and feedback are essential. We offer workshops for parents, host whole-family events, and invite parents into the school as “experts” when their knowledge connects to the children’s projects.

Parents as Partners

Democratic Processes

Democratic thinking is part of everyday life at school. In our classroom circles, children discuss topics that matter to them, solve problems together, and vote on decisions. The same approach shapes our School Council, where all primary-school children participate.

Democratic Processes

Goals

Our aim is for every child to:

  • Arrive at school feeling happy and secure.
  • Develop a love for learning, inquiry, and experimentation.
  • Be in touch with their emotions and build emotional awareness.
  • Recognise their strengths and develop strategies for managing challenges.
  • Keep their creativity and imagination alive.
  • Function as an active member of a democratic community.
  • Experience a wide range of stimuli that help them cultivate different aspects of their personality and identify interests, inclinations, and talents.
  • Build strong cognitive foundations and learning skills that allow them to follow the paths they choose as they grow.

Frequently Asked Questions

The school opens at 08:00, and lessons begin at 08:15. The academic day finishes at 14:00.
The full-day programme continues until 16:00, followed by afternoon workshops that run until 17:05.

We have chosen to remain a small, family-centred school with relatively small class sizes.
Each year, Grade 1 may have one or two classes.
When there is one class, most places are taken by the children of our own Kindergarten.
When we open two classes, we are able to welcome new families, as availability increases significantly.

Every year, for any places that become available, we contact interested families in the order of their first communication with us.
For more information, you can contact us at welcome@paixnidagogeio.gr,
210 6724288 (option 4), or 6980001266.

Annual tuition for all grades of Primary School is €7700 and covers the full-day programme for the Ministry-defined school year.

Children bring their own healthy morning snack and enjoy it together in their classroom.
For lunch, families may either send food from home or choose the Dadstronomy service, which delivers fresh, warm meals daily.

Our school buses serve the following areas: Papagou, Cholargos, Agia Paraskevi, Chalandri, Filothei, Palaio Psychiko, Neo Psychiko, Girokomeio, Lycabettus, Kypseli.

English is part of the curriculum from Grade 1.
A second foreign language—Spanish or French—begins optionally in Grades 3 and 4, with one hour per week in the full-day programme.
In Grades 5 and 6, children have two hours per week as part of the morning timetable.

Four cohorts have graduated from Grade 6 (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025)), and they transitioned smoothly into a wide variety of secondary schools: public general schools, arts schools, music schools, and Greek-language or bilingual private schools.

Our reunions, parent questionnaires, and the children’s academic results all show the same picture:
By the time they leave Paixnidagogeio, children know themselves well, have the knowledge needed for the next stage, are eager to build on what they’ve learned, and have the techniques and tools required to face the academic and social challenges ahead. They feel confident in themselves and comfortable expressing their ideas, opinions, and needs to peers and adults.

The ongoing connection we maintain with our graduates and their families confirms what they themselves say: Paixnidagogeio gave them not only a strong foundation for secondary school but an important foundation for life.