The new school year begins today, Thursday, the new school year, 2025-26 for the pupils and students of the elementary, high schools and high schools of the territory. The Minister of Education will be in Xanthi, where it will attend the sanctification of schools.

More specifically, the Minister will visit five schools of all levels of education, two of them publicly public schools. In addition, according to information from the Ministry of Education, Ms. Zacharaki He will also visit minority schools.

What the new school year brings to schools

It is worth noting that the new school year “finds” schools with additional 9.816 Appointments and complete the first phase of recruitment of alternates.

More specifically, last August took place 8.223 Permanent Teacher Appointments: 5,627 General Education Teachers and 3,196 Education and Education Teachers. At the same time they were appointed 993 Members of Special Education Personnel (SPA) and Specialist (EBP).

In addition, the first recruitment phase took place 18.566 Deputies Primary and Secondary Education Teachers, Special Education and Education and General Education. At the same time, the announced the Recruitment of 6,225 members of Special Education Personnel (SPA) andI Special Assistant Personnel (EBP).

It is also worth noting that the ministry had proceeded from the previous school year to the recommendation 600 new posts of psychologists and 600 new posts of social workersfor 3,000 schools.

In addition, during the new school year, 2025-26, the new plan will be implemented curriculum of all grades of elementary and high school. The material will be separated based on two categories of goals: the basic – compulsory (ensure fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for all students) and the additional – optional (enable the teacher to choose what will also teach and adapt teaching to interests and interests).

This new design of the curriculum is in harmony with the application of new curriculum and his multiple book system (expected to be implemented in 2026-27) and final announcements are expected to be made in the next period.

Although the multiple book will not be implemented during this year, it is expected to be delivered to teachers through the digital library by the end of September, through the digital library, the new textbooks for all classes up to the First High School. Thus, teachers will have the time needed to choose the books with which they will work in the context of the multiple book institution and to properly prepare their teaching. The purpose is, in the spring of 2026 to become The final selection of books they will use for each lesson. In print, the new books are expected to be distributed to schools in September 2026, replacing today.

Unique exception The above is the lesson of finances introduced from this year to the 3rd Gymnasium.

However, the “philosophy” of the multiple book will “come” closer to students, through books with integrated literary works in the lesson of literature, but also with the platform evivlio (https://evivlio.gov.gr/), where educational and literary books are available in digital format for Audiobooks.

From the Ministry of Education, special emphasis has been placed on the part of infrastructure as well as in 431 school units of the territory, the “first bell” will ring again, with modernized infrastructure through the program “Marietta Giannakou”. At the same time, ‘premiere’ will do the 12 Public Onassis Schools (Gymnasiums and High Schools) in Attica, Macedonia and Thrace.

It is worth noting, that the new school year will find The Primary School of Pserimos to work again after 27 years. In addition, for the first time it will ring the bell for the Drama Art Schoolbased with Petroussa and for the Daily General High School based in Kala Nera Magnesia, but also in first professional high school that will operate in an adult penitentiary shop, in the prisons of Larissa.

As far as the younger students are concerned, in selected kindergartens and elementary schools, the program will premiere the program ‘Vegetables in schools: With critical thinking and vision we work together, rejoice, create »with the aim of combining sustainable development with pedagogical practice.

Finally, the Digital tutorial It will work this year as well, as the Ministry of Education expresses satisfaction for accepting it during the first year of operation by the student community.