The PYP parent educational workshop took place on of February 25th, 2019. The aim of the workshop was to enhance parental involvement at the school life and increase their understanding of IB PYP teaching and learning process. The workshop was organized into five different stations lead by PYP teachers and the PYP Coordinator. The first station focused on “International Mindedness”- here parents had a chance to see the central role of the learner in PYP interpretation of international mindedness. The second station presented the idea of a “Concept-Based Curriculum” – here PYP key concepts were presented as integral parts of the learning process, which help to drive teacher and student inquiries, which lie at the heart of the PYP curriculum. At the next station- “Approaches to Teaching and Learning”, parents had an opportunity to see how transdisciplinary skills are used in action. The “Inquiry” station took visitors through the steps of the inquiry cycle, which is used by students and teachers throughout each six-week unit of inquiry. PYP guiding documents were also available at the workshop, and parents had the opportunity to ask the PYP coordinator questions regarding the policies, the Student-Parent Handbook, and other school documents of interest.

On February 27, students from primary school celebrated the International Family Day. During the first period parents and grandparents generously shared their experiences with children. Later, the photo session was arranged for families at the specially designed banner. The event ended with a friendly football match between fathers. 

Admissions at the European School are open for the 2018-2019 academic year in the following programs: ● Georgian Program Grades 1-12 ● International Baccalaureate (IB) Programmes Primary Years Programme (PYP); Grades 1-5 Middle Years Programme (MYP); Grades 6-10 Diploma Programme (DP); Grades 11-12 ● American High School (AHS); Grades 8-12 ● European Kindergarten. Parents are invited to attend an open house on March 29, 2019, at 3 p.m.

The European School celebrated International Mother Language Day on February 21st. Different activities were planned throughout the day to give an opportunity to culturally and linguistically diverse ES community to promote different languages and cultures: lecture on the importance of mother tongue by Giorgi Kekelidze, presentations, language corners, 15-minute language courses promoted awareness of languages, fostered tolerance and respect for others.

How we express ourselves? - This is the trans-disciplinary theme which gives freedom to students to express emotions, develop fantasy, and creativity and makes them think deeply how infinite imaginations can be… For grade 3 ‘Communication’, for grade 4 ‘Signs and Symbols’, for grade 5 ‘Migration’ – all these themes were united in a play along with jazz music “What a wonderful world” performed by the actors of the Shadow Theatre. Despite having different cultures, relations, dispositions or adventures, the students understood that life is beautiful, and can be expressed by light, shadow, shape or sound…The rhythm of jazz born in Africa and developed in America, mostly created by migrants, was presented to our international students by Georgian musicians who proved that true art does not have borders. In most cases, migration appeared to be the best way of expressing yourself.

PYP grade 4 students went to Tbilisi Airport on February 15th. Currently, students cover the unit Signs and Symbols. At the airport, they were able to see how signs and symbols are used in everyday life for different purposes. The students accurately recorded various signs and symbols seen around the building. After returning to school they wrote a summary about the excursion and held a discussion at class.

On February 14th -16th basketball teams from international schools of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia competed at SRAA Tbilisi Basketball Classic 2019, organized by QSI Tbilisi. The European School team became the second place winner after the final match where the New School team scored just 1 point more than our team.

Within the memorandum of understanding, signed between NGO "Multinational Georgia for Strengthening Democratic Values" and the European School, our students attend an international conference at the UN Headquarters. On February 18, several ES students engaged in above-mentioned conference through videoconference bridging system from the Main Conference Hall of the ES. They actively participated in discussions and resolution writing process. The conference focusing on “Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for all” started at 7 pm and finished at 12pm. Similar opportunities to interact at MUN conferences “virtually” will be offered to the ES students in the future as well.

Today, ES kindergarten kids hosted the Director of Tbilisi Zoo Zurab Gurielidze. As children cover the theme “HOW THE WORLD WORKS”, they are curious about animals and want to know: Why does the elephant have big years, giraffe long neck and tiger stripped skin? How does giraffe sleep? Why dolphin is human’s friend? Children received very interesting answers on all above-mentioned questions.