On Monday, December 11, American High School students from Grades 8, 9, 10, 11 attended and participated in a discussion and presentation organized by Georgian teachers Ms. Ketevan Gardapkhadze and Dr. Eka Kobakhidze in the Prague Conference Room. Dr. Manana Pkhakadze, a lecturer at Tbilisi State University explained the significance regarding antiquity and its relation to contemporary life. She further explained the origins of antique words that we use today, the role of mythology, and how historic concepts relate to modern life and the role they play in our current everyday lives.

On Wednesday, December 6, AHS students from grades 8 and 9 with their homeroom teachers attended Tbilisi 18th International Film Festival. Students watched several prize-winning Georgian short films. Event was closed by the speech of the director of the Festival. One of the eight-graders, Luka Katamadze said - “Even though main idea of some of the movies was hard to understand, I really liked most of the short films, because of the style, music, and beautiful scenes of the movie.

On December 11, Head of Laboratory of atmospheric air, water and soil analysis laboratory Elene Bakradze delivered the lecture-seminar for 10th and 11th graders at European School. She spoke about the work of the Environmental Pollution Monitoring Service in Georgia: Introduced the projects implemented by the laboratory;

PYP 4th graders are inquiring into the unit about the environment. During the unit the students carried out various types of projects, such as testing biodegradable items in indoor compost, planting flowers, investigating cafeteria waste, testing the level of air pollution, making compost ingredients, collecting paper for the recycling center, making art pieces from recyclable materials, etc. Another project was to collaborate with 9th graders, who shared their experience and taught our class how to make paper by reusing the old paper. Later our 4th graders shared their newly acquired knowledge to their peers in the other class.

On December 5, Giorgi Chitidze-Human Rights Coordinator at ”Open Society Georgia” delivered a lecture about human rights for seventh graders. The students asked questions, expressed their opinions.

On Tuesday, December 12, nine American High School Grade 10 European History students with their teacher Mr. Joseph Blake, and Homeroom Teacher Mr. Giorgi Tchumburidze toured the Fine Arts Museum near Liberty Square.

Under the auspices of Georgian Academy of Pediatrics, the representatives of the Czech Pharmaceutical Company “Walmark,” conduct informational and preventive campaign “Importance of physical and intellectual development in school children.

Georgian Program and PYP students from grade2 and grade3 participated in a project “Lego City”, initiated by MYP student Zuka Kevanishvili. Within the project 8 groups created cities with Lego breaks during Robotics classes. The project was supervised by Robotics teachers: Irina Kochlamazashvili, Irma Marghania and Marianne Mosaad. On December 12, all Lego cities were exhibited at London Avenue.

On December 11, within an integrated lesson, Georgian program students from grade 5 met film director Nana Janelidze. The lesson was dedicated to comparison of fiction writing and movie, correspondingly “What did Iavnana do?” by Iakob Gogebashvili and a movie with the same title by Nana Janelidze.