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Thermi, Greece · Private
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Fox in the Pine is a private bilingual school in Thessaloniki for children aged 2.5 to 12: nursery, kindergarten and primary. It is not only a kindergarten: the elementary school teaches children aged 6-12. The school is IB-authorised for the Primary Years Programme and teaches the Greek national curriculum within the PYP framework. The languages of instruction are Greek and English equally: in the elementary school, in the school's words, "Students engage in 40 educational hours per week of which half are in Greek and the other half are in English"; the early years groups have native-speaking teachers. The school emphasises learning through play, inquiry and nature: young children spend most of the day in a large yard, and the elementary school regularly goes out to explore the city. The School Director is Vera O.
Key facts
Programmes
IB · PYP · National programme
Admits from
2.5 years · Pre-School
Languages of instruction
English, Greek
Admissions The school admits children from 2.5 years to the nursery and kindergarten and children aged 6-12 to the elementary school; for the early years, in the school's words, "We accept children with all levels of English language ability." Families can enquire or reserve a seat by phone or through the contact form. The school says nothing about citizenship, documents or entrance tests.
Stages and year groups Grades Early Years - Elementary (Grade 6). Nursery (Early Years, 2.5-4 years), kindergarten (Kindergarten, 4-6 years) and elementary school (Elementary, 6-12 years, six years of study). All levels follow the Greek national curriculum within the IB Primary Years Programme: six transdisciplinary themes, with early years children completing four units a year; language and mathematics are taught in separate lessons where needed. Parents see assessment through report cards, the Seesaw app and conferences.
Address A. Kougiami, Thermi 57001, Thessaloniki; Prasakaki 103, Pylea 55535, Thessaloniki
Accreditations and programmes verified against official registries
IB · PYP · authorised programmeThe IB register lists the Primary Years Programme at the school (recorded as Fox In The Pine). Nursery and primary school, up to age 12.
school is in an official registryconfirmed by a school document, by membership or by taking part in a networkclaimed by the school, no confirmation, not counted in the scoreGuide to all organisations → What stands behind each entry
IBInternational Baccalaureate
A Swiss non-profit, working since 1968. Its programmes are among the most widely recognised school programmes in the world. Authorisation is granted stage by stage, so a school with the final stage does not necessarily run the younger ones; which stages this school holds is set out in the line below.
What the badge means for this school. The school is allowed to run this programme and to award its certificate. This is a confirmation of the programme, not a judgement on the school as a whole. The entry stands in the organisation's public register - anyone can check it. At this school: PYP (ages 3-12). PYP is the primary stage, ages 3 to 12. It is not a set of subjects but a frame for the whole school: learning is built around lines of inquiry, and there are no exams at the end.
Register to check for yourself, and the full guide →National programme
The state school programme of the country the school stands in: it is set by that country's ministry of education, which also licenses the school and awards the leaving certificate. That certificate is used for entry to local universities, and abroad it is matched to the local one.
What this means for this school. This entry does not count towards the score, and that is deliberate. Every lawful school in a country works to the national programme, so on its own it tells one school apart from no other - unlike the French, German or Russian programmes, which are carried abroad and confirmed by the register of their organisation. We show it because a parent needs to know what programme their child is taught and what certificate the child will get. Counting it would lift the whole ranking at once and still tell nobody apart.
Exams and destinations from the school's official website
The school publishes nothing about where its leavers go: no share going on to university, no exam results, no list of universities.
Facilities from the school's official website
·Swimming poolnot stated on the website
·Sports hallnot stated on the website
·Laboratoriesnot stated on the website
·Theatre or assembly hallnot stated on the website
·Librarynot stated on the website
·Cateringnot stated on the website
✓School transportschool bus for arrival and departure
·Boardingnot stated on the website
Also on site: Playground
Campus: two campuses in Pylea and Thermi
Clubs and activities: English Clubs
Teaching staff from the school's official website
·Teachers listed by namenot published
·Teacher qualificationsnot stated
·Number of teachersthe school does not say
·Students per teacher or class sizenot stated
The early years groups have native-speaking teachers; the student-teacher ratio is 6-8 to 1 in the nursery and 8-10 to 1 in the kindergarten. Art, music and physical education are taught by specialist teachers. There is a PYP coordinator. The number of teachers is not published.
Safety and wellbeing from the school's official website
The school says nothing on its website about security, medical care or pupil support.
Reviews
No reviews yet. The community rating counts towards the score once a school has five verified reviews - until then we do not show a zero, so as not to mislead.
Criteria breakdown criterion weight in brackets
Academics and programmes (16%)72 Community rating (16%)no dataparent reviews are needed: the criterion switches on at the fifth verified one Exams and destinations (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Safety and wellbeing (12%) scored on disclosed data55 Accreditation and verifiability (10%)85 Teaching staff (10%) scored on disclosed data55 Facilities (10%) scored on disclosed data65 Clubs and activities (8%) scored on disclosed data61 Value for money (6%) scored at the median73 "Scored on disclosed data" stands where we count only what the school has written about itself on its own site: exams and destinations, safety and wellbeing, teaching staff, facilities, clubs and activities. A low score here means the school does not write about this, not that the school does not have it: a school with good security and a sparse site will score low. A school can fill in its profile, and the score will be counted again.
The score is counted from 7 of the 9 criteria.Only those with checkable data count: programmes and accreditations from official registers, the fee from a published price list. Where it says "scored on the median", the school has no data and the middle of the list is put in its place, so that a gap gives no advantage. Admissions, teaching staff and reviews come in as their data arrives.
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