The environmental program "Walking in my city" was implemented by the teachers: Kambitaki Argyro, Plastara Aikaterini and Stavroulakis Antonios, as well as 25 students from the three classes of the school during the 2023-2024 academic year. The main purpose of the program was for the students to get to know the cultural elements that make up the historical past of the city of Heraklion by choosing sustainable, environmentally friendly transportation. More specific objectives were: a) the recognition and respect for the value of cultural identity and the protection of the natural social and cultural environment. b) the organization of activities through environmental paths and visits to historical-cultural monuments of the city, with an emphasis on the Venetian walls.
In this context, the environmental team collaborated with the Info Point and the Historical Museum of Heraklion. Through the environmental-historical routes, the students of the group focused on the most important fortification project of the Mediterranean, the Venetian Walls. Afterwards, they had the opportunity to attend an in-depth briefing at the school and a thorough tour of the field, by Ms. Athina Sfakaki, in an in-depth study of this great historical monument.
Finally, the students made a poster of their proposals for the monument. Specifically: 1) to be a place of visit for all who arrive in Heraklion and to become an integral part of the tours concerning the old city 2) to be included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites 3) to become a pole of attraction for young people, children and seniors, so that the city can get the benchmark it/we deserve.
This poster was the project for the program's participation in the 1st Student Environmental Conference of the National Educational Action Network "Istanbul-Thessaloniki, An Educational Coexistence - Citizens of the City, Greeks of the World" of the DDE and PDE West Thessaloniki, organized under the auspices of of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople, on the 6st Απριλίου 2024.
EDUCATIONAL VISIT TO INSTABUL
The participation of the 13th High School of Heraklion in the 1st Student Environmental Conference, which was implemented under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, at the Zographio Lyceum, from 4/4/2024 to 7/4/2024, in Istanbul, took place with great success. 2119 students from 117 school units of the country participated in the work of the Conference. Its purpose was to function as a field of cooperation, education and creative dialogue between students and teachers from schools in Greece and the diaspora on environmental and sustainability issues at the basis of the sustainable development agenda, building communication bridges between Greek and Greek schools. homogeneity.
In this context, a group of the school, consisting of 25 students and three accompanying teachers, had the opportunity to highlight aspects of the cultural heritage and the natural environment of the city of Heraklion, with an emphasis on the Venetian Walls. The involvement of the students in the network helped them cultivate critical thinking, develop social skills and gain experiences of experiential learning, collaboration and participation in their empowerment process as "active citizens". In parallel with the work of the conference, the group had the opportunity to visit monuments that marked the course of Hellenism, while the meeting with His Holiness Mr. Bartholomew at the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the heart of Christianity, was a particularly moving experience for students and teachers.
WALK AROUND THE VENETIAN WALLS
As part of the "Walking in the city" program, 25 students of the school had the opportunity to attend a comprehensive and thorough information about one of the most important fortified monuments of our city, the Venetian walls.
The briefing was given by Ms Athina Sfakaki, a member of the association of professional tour guides of Crete and a writer, who, always willing to contribute to society and highlight the cultural heritage of our country, gladly accepted our invitation in order to present to us the largest and best preserved Monument of Fortified Architecture of the Eastern Mediterranean
On Tuesday at 5-3 Mrs. Sfakaki came to school presenting to the students of the group an excellent power point about the historicity of the Venetian walls. On Monday, at 11-3, the briefing continued and ended with the tour of the monument.
The guided tour started from the trench of the Vittouri rampart and passed through the Jesus gate, where it now hosts a permanent exhibition about the writer N. Kazantzakis. The gate is one of the most beautiful examples of Renaissance architecture in the Venetian city. Afterwards, the tour continued to the gallery which today functions as a place of remembrance for the National Resistance in Crete, as it was here that prisoners of the Germans were imprisoned in World War II. The group ended up at the largest and highest bastion of Martinego where the tombs of N. & E. Kazantzakis are located. Here the students recited passages from the great Cretan author, played and danced.
The school warmly thanks Ms. Athina Sfakaki who, with a lot of love for the city and with high professionalism, volunteered the thorough information and the interesting tour.
At the same time, through the educational visit, the student group had the opportunity to escape for a while, from the demands of the school program, as in this way entertainment, relaxation and fun were combined with knowledge, intellectual cultivation and aesthetic pleasure respectively.
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