Ioannides, wishing to stress the difficulties the children were facing, mentions that “many of the children, because of poverty of the time were shoeless and walked the distance separating the two villages barefoot. When the teacher wanted to punish them, he asked them to raise their feet and beat them with a stick”. It must be noted that Ioannides raised this information by talking to people who went to Pera Pedi School around the 1920’s, such as Antonis Ioannou and Nicolas Charalambous.

The first primary school in Moniatis operated in 1925. It was built on the eastern part of the village, at the location named “Laoni tou Charalambou”. The land was donated by Panayis Pourgouris, a quiet man who “often talked about the concepts of fatherland, religion and the regaining of Constantinople”.

A new school was built at the end of the 1970’s on the peak of “Laoni tis Marous” Mountain, located on the north part of the village. Then, the old building was sold in an auction. Savvas Odysseos bought it and turned it into a house. The latter primary school is today the district kindergarten.

Moniatis does not have a primary school nowadays, and that is the reason why the children go to school in the neighboring school of Trimiklini.

Source:
Nicos Christou Ioannides, Moniatis, p.85