4th Junior High School of Petroupolis

Our school, 4th Junior High School of Petroupolis, is a Gymnasio/ Secondary level Education, with 340 students aged 12-15 years old and 30 teachers.  It is located at Petroupolis, a suburb of western Attica, 8 km from Athens city center, in a new building (only 5 years old) over a hill with a spectacular view of Athens. It is fully equipped with laboratories for Informatics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology, extra rooms for English, French and German language lessons, terrains for basketball, volleyball, football and Physical education lessons. Four of the classrooms are equipped with interactive whiteboards. There is a spacious library with furniture available for studying and also in Library a plasma TV and a DVD are available and are used in many subjects as a teaching “material”. There is a Ballroom/theatre with a stage and audio equipment, a room for Parents Association and 3 offices (for teachers, sub-directors and school’s director). As our curriculum sets operating hours from 8.15 a.m. to 14.10 p.m. there is a cantina for snacks and not a dining room. But almost every day our school is open until 15.30 due to extra curriculum activities.

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Subjects taught in our school are within the national curriculum in the areas Language and Communication, Mathematics, Science, Man and Society, Arts, Physical Education, Informatics and  Technology and Counseling. Every year there are extra curriculum project groups of mixed(from all classes) students in areas of Culture, School’s Magazine Publication, Environmental Awareness, Health Education and Sports. The teachers of our school are very  interested to develop along with students  further  extracurricular activities like drawing the  interior corridors, making posters and events for special international days, gardening our school garden, participating in activities for charity (recycling and bazaars), theatrical/musical event in the end of school year in our Community local theatre  (“Theatro Petras”).

Since 2018 our school has awarded the eTwinning School Label.

And if you click here you can see a video about our school's curriculum