School of English - AUTh

The 3rd Experimental Primary School of Evosmos was launched in 2011 by the Department of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.), and it is the only Experimental School in Greece supervised by a University Foreign Language Department . The choice of the region where the school is situated - Western Thessaloniki - was a conscious decision made by the Department, based on socio-economic, educational, and geographical criteria. To this day, the 3rd Experimental Primary School of Evosmos is the only Experimental Primary School in Western Thessaloniki.

The school is distinguished every year in various national and international competitions; some of its most recent achievements can be seen in the video below.

The Supervisory Committee of the School (EPES) was appointed in 2019 and consists of:

• Chair: Prof Marina Mattheoudakis, School of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Education Coordinator: Nikolaos Akritidis
• Head of School: Thomas Zapounidis
• Member: Panagiotis Koukourikos
• Member: Elena Sofroniadou

In 2016-2017, the 3rd Experimental Primary School of Evosmos was granted an Erasmus+ fund (272,730 euros) for CLILPrime Project. The duration of the project was 3 years.

The CLILPrime project (https://clilprime.enl.auth.gr/) brought together educators from five European schools and researchers from a Greek University Department in an effort to provide the educational community with further research data concerning CLIL implementation across several European countries and different educational contexts. It aimed at calibrating CLIL's implementation, following a bottom-up approach, and articulating the approaches of practitioners while adhering to current pedagogic theory.