On April 11, the PYP students from grade 4 held the European School advertising campaign in Vake Park. For two months the students have been learning how to create an advertisement and influence consumer behavior. They filmed a promo video about the school, created posters, flyers and later, presented them to people resting in the park. The students applied theoretical knowledge in practice and gained a huge experience. This project was fun and meaningful at the same time for the kids.

The ES students from grade 8 of the MYP programme held an exhibition of their artworks. Money collected after selling the students’ handcrafts was spent on purchasing Easter eggs and stationery items and was delivered to the beneficiaries of the Social Enterprise Babale.

On April 1-5, PYP programme held Book Week. Throughout the week students worked on developing reading skills through trans-disciplinary units; they received information about favorite books, authors and characters; during Mathematics classes processed data about reading statistics; in the library read poems in English, French, German and Russian languages and participated in a literary quiz-show; created posters, newspapers and journals. At the end of the week PYP students, dressed as favorite literary characters participated in a costume parade. All the activities planned throughout the week aimed at promoting literacy and fostering interest in books.

The European School hosted Norwegian musicians a few days ago. The guests conducted music lessons for PYP students from grades 3-5 using modern teaching methods. Music Academy of Norway is a leader in teaching music. The musicians arrived to Georgia within the Tbilisi Music Conservatory project and were invited to our school By the ES music teacher Nino Chalisuri, who visited Oslo Music Academy in February. She was introduced to innovative teaching methods during her visit and already applies them in practice at the ES. The Norwegian musicians held a concert after classes. Our guests and ES teachers are planning to continue collaboration in the future.

On April 3rd , personal exhibition of PYP student from grade 5c Alina Spanova was held at London Avenue. Organizers of South Korean art festival Dream Summit visited the exhibition and became impressed by paintings of a young artist. The guests gave her a very positive feedback.

PYP Program held open lessons for parents. Parents were offered this opportunity to observe live lessons and receive information about innovative teaching methods and the quality of education of their kids.

PYP students have been working on a project about advertising for three days. They learned how should advertisement affect the behavior of clients and used an apple company for testing. The students created effective posters, videos and introduced the company product to the 5th graders. The winner team received special prizes from the school.

PYP students from grade 2 staged a performance according to Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani’s fable “Village Builders”. Different nationality students learned Georgian alphabet, reading, writing, simple phrases, poems, songs and surprised their parents.

Advertising company AdVan made a presentation for PYP students. The presenters showed several advertisements to students and gave tips for effective advertising.