The impressive short video that is presented below depicts life in Minoan Crete. It shows aspects of the Minoan culture that flourished as a maritime power from 27th century to the 15th century BC.

Particularly, it shows the naval power of the Minoans and exceptional representations of bull-leaping (also taurokathapsia, from Greek ταυροκαθάψια). It also explains the end of the Minoan civilization as an outcome of the eruption of the volcano in Thera (Santorini) about 1600 BC.

This video is an excerpt from the documentary of BBC, "Atlantis: The End of a world the Birth of a Legend".

To watch the video, click HERE or click the image below:

The Modern Greek Teachers’ Association of Victoria is organising a conference on Sunday 6 September and Monday 7 September 2015 at the Graduate House (University of Melbourne).

Topics of the conference will include:
E - learning and the flipped classroom
I pads in the Greek language classroom
Differentiation in the Languages classroom
Fun and games in the Greek language classroom

Displays from:
The bilingual bookshop
Grafos games
Education (Language) Perfect

The documents attached contain:

1. The Modern Greek Teachers’ Association of Victoria Membership Application and,
   
2. The Registration Form for the 2015 Conference

For more information please contact the Organising Committee 

Email: mgta.vic@gmail.com
Tel.:    0411 789 798 

Dear Teachers

The 2015 Languages Participation Years 7 to 9 Census collection website will be open from Monday 31 August to Friday 11 September 2015. The Census date is Monday 31 August.

This collection provides data about languages programs in Years 7 to 9 in NSW government schools. Data from this collection are used for planning by schools, areas and the Languages team in Learning and Leadership Directorate.

Your school will need to log on to the Online Data collection website at http://datacollections.det.nsw.edu.au to enter your Languages Participation 7 to 9 data.