“I want the children to come to school in the morning happy and leave at noon happy, fulfilling, of course, their obligations, and I believe that we achieve this goal with the cooperation of the members of the management team, the educational staff and their parents and guardians”, the director of the Aglantzia High School, Petros Michael, told Phileleftheros, during two visits on Friday and Monday, October 20 and 23, 2023 – “at the only school in Nicosia that is located in the forest,” as he pointed out. His words are confirmed by everyone we met there.
“As a child of the capital – the third-grade student Evanthia (Eva) Petevi wrote for Phileleftheros – I feel very lucky to have the opportunity every day to walk through the tree-lined park of the Pedagogical Academy to go to my school, away from the noise pollution and exhaust fumes, listening to the chirping of birds instead of the horns of cars. I also feel lucky because the small community of the school is in a very good balance, as the relations between the students and the teachers are excellent and characterized by a spirit of mutual respect and appreciation.”
The president of the Central Student Council, third-grade student Panagiotis Andreou, agrees with her. He described all the teachers as “excellent” and stressed that “the students are all good to each other, with little or no fights and upheavals.”
For Kakia Demetriou, the school’s communication officer, “The happy environment for the children is a matter of good circumstances, the main one being that “our principal, with his good character, experience, and knowledge, motivates all of us in this direction.”
In the same spirit, the philologist Maria Polychrona said that “our headmaster has the gift to run the school effectively and at the same time make you feel comfortable and want to give something more and not just do what is necessary.”
The reports of the president of the Parents and Guardians Association of the school, George Pierides, indicate exactly that. He wrote: “We are all involved in trying to create a school environment where our children wake up in the morning and want to go to school.
