A Galaxy of Life Skills

👽 ✦ 🌌 A Galaxy of Life Skills · eTwinning Bringing Our Alien Mascots to Life! From imaginative creations to AI-assisted animation, a collaborative video and our digital Alien Passports. CREATE COLLABORATE INNOVATE As part of our eTwinning project A Galaxy of Life Skills , my students embarked on a creative journey to design their own alien mascots and introduce them to the world. What began as an artistic challenge gradually evolved into a collaborative process involving digital design, voting, AI-assisted animation, video production and the creation of personalised Alien Passports. MISSION 01 🎨 From Imagination to Creation Our journey began with the creation of the alien mascots. Students transformed their ideas into original characters, using their imagination and artistic skills to bring their extraterrestrial visitors to life. Each creation reflected a unique personality and offered an opportunity to express individuality and creativity. 📸 OUR CREAT...

We received our Certificate of Participation in Code Week 2026! 🎉🏅 With joy and pride, Episkopi Primary School received its certificate of participation in Code Week 2026! Our little programmers discovered the exciting world of programming with the PRO-BOT robot and, together with the mascot of the eTwinning project A Galaxy of Life Skills, traveled to the countries of our partners, getting to know important sights and cultivating environmental awareness. We learn, create and plan the future!  

👽 🚀 🪐 EU CODE WEEK ALIEN ECO EXPLORER Code the Way Across Europe! 🌍 One alien visitor. Four teams. Exciting eco-missions! 👾 A Coding Mission Begins! Our young explorers embarked on an exciting coding adventure with Pro-Bot as part of EU Code Week ! Their mission? To guide an alien visitor through a series of eco-missions using coding, logical thinking and teamwork. But first, they needed a plan! 🧠 Mission 1: Plan the Route! After getting to know Pro-Bot, its basic functions and the activity mat, the pupils headed outdoors and formed four teams . Each team received an eco-mission and worked together to plan the robot's route on paper. They organised the movements, discussed their ideas and wrote their code step by step, preparing their programs before entering the commands into Pro-Bot. ...

 As part of the activities of our eTwinning project, “A Galaxy of Life Skills,” the students of class E2 created one of the components of the project logo. The students were divided into five groups and used Canva’s AI tools to bring their creativity and imagination to life. Each group created imaginative images of aliens standing on different planets of our Solar System, contributing a unique element to the project’s logo.

  With great joy and enthusiasm, the 5th Primary School of Rhodes took part this year in the global Erasmus Days initiative, a celebration dedicated to European cooperation, friendship, learning, and cultural exchange! The students of classes G1 (teacher: E. Papazachariou) and E2 (teacher: A. Christou) took the lead in organizing this special day. With creativity, dedication, and great enthusiasm, they prepared activities that took us on a journey across Europe. Our younger and older students worked together wonderfully, proving that the Erasmus spirit has no age limits! Among the activities were creative posters , as the children painted the flags of European countries and decorated the school corridors with their colourful creations. Alongside the other Erasmus Days activities, the students were introduced to the new European eTwinning project, “A Galaxy of Life Skills,” in which our school is participating. As part of this project, the students will become mentors to little ali...

Erasmus Days 2026 – Celebrating European Collaboration! 🇪🇺 Our school celebrated Erasmus Days 2026 with a festival full of creativity, games and European spirit! Pupils participating in this year's eTwinning projects helped prepare and present six interactive activity stations. Through word games, European discoveries, project challenges and creative activities, pupils celebrated European cooperation, cultural diversity and the joy of learning together. The festival was a wonderful opportunity to share our school's eTwinning projects with the wider school community. As part of this celebration, our A Galaxy of Life Skills project invited pupils from across the school to take part in the “Design an Alien!” challenge, creating their own alien mascots inspired by the project's galactic theme. The challenge continued at home, where children could submit their creations, including three-dimensional models. All...

  We Celebrated Erasmus Days at Episkopi Primary School!   VIDEO ERASMUS DAYS AT EPISKOPI On Friday, 16 October, our school was filled with smiles, creativity and joyful voices! Together with Apostolos Loukas Special School and with our young eTwinners taking centre stage, we enjoyed a special day full of joy, learning and inclusion. Our pupils prepared educational and fun activity stations where they explored Europe, worked together, played and created wonderful moments of friendship and communication.  Dressed in blue and yellow, the colours of Europe, teachers and children came together as one big team, sharing a powerful message: We learn together, collaborate, embrace diversity and spread love and respect!   We were honoured by the presence of our school inspector, whom we warmly thank for joining us. Because the Europe we dream of begins in our schools, with children who learn to collaborate, accept one another and care! TOGETHER, we connect classrooms, countri...

  On the occasion of European Code Week, the pupils of Class E2 at the 5th Primary School of Rhodes enthusiastically took part in the European eTwinning project “A Galaxy of Life Skills” and discovered the exciting world of robotics and coding! With the help of the educational robot Bee-Bot, they programmed movements, planned routes, and embarked on a special journey through the countries of their European partners, discovering famous monuments and landmarks. Each mission was a new opportunity for play, exploration, creativity, and experiential learning!

  Episkopi Primary School is taking part in CODE WEEK through the eTwinning project “A GALAXY OF LIFE SKILLS”! Our pupils are discovering the exciting world of coding by programming the PRO-BOT robot car ! Together with their project mascot, they travel to the partner countries, explore famous landmarks and raise awareness of environmental issues.  Through play, collaboration and creative learning, our pupils develop their digital skills and become little explorers and responsible global citizens!  #eTwinning #CodeWeek #Coding #Robotics #DigitalSkills #EnvironmentalAwareness

  The 5th Primary School of Rhodes enthusiastically participated in this year’s Erasmus Days celebration, promoting European cooperation, friendship, and cultural exchange. Students from classes C1 (teacher: E. Papazachariou) and E2 (teacher: A. Christou) organized creative activities celebrating Europe. They decorated the school corridors with colourful posters. The students also presented the new eTwinning project, “A Galaxy of Life Skills,” in which our school participates. Through this project, students will become mentors to little aliens arriving on Earth. They will help them develop essential life skills, including empathy, friendship, environmental awareness, and safe internet use. Younger and older students worked together, demonstrating the importance of teamwork and mutual support. Their collaboration highlighted the values of inclusion, solidarity, and multiculturalism. Erasmus Days offered a wonderful opportunity to celebrate unity, creativity, and European cooperatio...

  The students of Class G1 of the 5th Primary School of Rhodes participated in European Code Week 2026. The students took part in fun activities involving algorithms, programming, and robotics. The main goal is to help children develop their knowledge and skills in computational thinking, programming, and coding, while encouraging them to explore, communicate, collaborate with their classmates, and have fun. More specifically: This activity is part of European Code Week as well as the eTwinning project “A Galaxy of Life Skills.” Its aim is to introduce students to the basic concepts of programming and message decoding through a playful and hands-on learning approach. Schools from Greece, Spain, Jordan, Cyprus, and Slovenia are joining forces and working together to uncover the secret word that connects them! The objectives of the activity are for students to: Understand the concept of computational thinking. Become familiar with the concept of coding. Take their first steps in pro...

As part of the activities for the eTwinning project "A Galaxy of Life Skills," students from class Γ1 (Grade 3, Section 1) created a component of the project's logo. Initially, the students were divided into five groups and worked collaboratively using the AI ​​tool GEMINI. Each group incorporated a star—provided by the Episkopi Primary School in Cyprus—and then designed their own extraterrestrial characters to hold these stars. The final logo will be completed with the contribution of all the schools participating in the project. Additionally, the students of class Γ1 learned to identify the flags of the countries involved in the project.   https://animoto.com/play/RtyEw18kH3yEGWWmIHnmyw

EPISKOPI STUDENTS ARE PARTICIPATING IN CODE WEEK 2026   This EU Code Week event directly contributes to the dissemination of our eTwinning project "GALAXY OF LIFE SKILLS" by taking our collaborative activities beyond the classroom and onto an international educational platform. By registering and hosting the "Eco Explorers" Pro-Bot activity on the official Code Week portal, we actively promote our project's core goals—combining coding, life skills, and environmental awareness—to a wider European community of educators and schools. This initiative showcases how our partner schools (Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Poland, and Romania) collaborate using STEM and digital tools to address real-world environmental challenges, inspiring other classrooms and increasing the overall visibility and impact of our eTwinning project.

WE INTRODUCE OURSELVES TO OUR ALIENS  

  In this video, our talking avatars introduce the pupils of Class E2, sharing their names and some of their favourite activities. From hobbies to things they love doing in their free time, our young Earthlings are ready to help our extraterrestrial friends get to know them better.

  The pupils of Class E2 let their imagination run wild and created their own unique alien masks! 👽🎨 With great creativity and enthusiasm, they are getting ready for their next space adventure, during which they will introduce themselves to their European partners.

  On Monday, October 12, 2026, the students of class G1 attended an online seminar on the safe use of the internet, conducted by the Hellenic Safer Internet Center (SaferInternet4kids.gr). The seminar focused on the safe navigation of the internet by minors, covering the following specific topics:        Prevention and management of risks associated with new technologies,     Pitfalls lurking on social networking sites,     Online sexual coercion and extortion,     The phenomenon of cyberbullying,     Online gaming and addiction to it,     Protection against online falsehoods (fake news and deepfakes),     Respect for intellectual property rights online.