Social responsibility is an essential value for the European School. There are numerous avenues the school takes to impact society positively. This time, we visited the school in Mereti - the village adjacent to the occupation line and delivered a projector, whiteboards, and books to make the learning process more effective and engaging for the local students. Recently, the European School sent a projector to Abkhazia public school #7 in Senaki. These charity activities are conducted within the National Library project Equilibrium with the support of the writer Giorgi Kekelidze.

The European School received a generous donation of face masks from a parent for students of different ages. “I wanted to serve the school community,” said Xueping Wu, who made the donation. 12500 pieces of masks will be distributed across the different programs of the ES and will come in handy when students leave masks at home. Primary Program students enjoyed wearing new masks which are not only safe for kids but are all very colorful and creative!

This year, the European School annual event TEDxIBEuropeanSchool was about Moving Forward. The Pandemic flipped the world upside-down. It affected all: adults, children, and youth. Our speakers – the ES students believe, our reality is about to be reconsidered, taken into our hands, and reclaimed. They suggest how to navigate through difficulties, avoid stagnation, explore new opportunities, achieve new accomplishments, and attain happiness.

Within Astrid Lindgren Week, the European School held several literary, enlightening, festive activities. One day, students dressed in Pippi’s, Karlsson’s, Emil’s costumes; children’s writer Vaso Guleuri from Writers' House came to meet our students; the school hosted Giorgi Kekelidze from the National Library; students displayed their paintings; the publisher's house sent its mobile library and shop – Walking Budrugana to the ES; Ylva Festin- First Secretary at the Embassy of Sweden in Georgia addressed our students virtually; a hybrid meeting Astrid’s World in Unibaken was held with the writer Irma Malacidze – the nominee of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award; guests from Sweden read Astrid Lindgren’s stories and conducted an online literary quiz show;  The week aims to raise the literacy level of students and promote book reading.

Student Wellbeing Service staff, teachers, and students in the European School community are passionate about helping children prevent bullying by talking about it and building a safe school environment. Within the anti-bullying campaign #GoodTogether, the ES students displayed posters, played flash mob, held assemblies. They engaged in various anti-bullying activities to change the attitudes, behavior, and culture of bullying, addressed different situations, and said no to violence.

Student Parliament Chairman Elections took place at the European School today, November 5th. This event enabled the ES community to bring democracy alive in the school. The election empowered students to experience the voting process firsthand and cast ballots for the official candidates running in the election. Students from grades 6-12 of all three programs (Georgian, IB, and AHS) participated in the voting process. Voting procedures that started at 9:30 a.m. and continued up until 2:00 p.m., went smoothly and no complications were recorded. In a transparent vote-counting process, the members of the administrative team of the school and chair candidates’ trustees were involved. The final results were declared at the Main Conference Hall. The student body joined the event online on the Zoom platform. The former chairman Anamaria Iakobidze addressed the candidates and wished for successful participation in the Parliament. Sophio Bazadze, the School Director announced the results and congratulated the winner. The Chairperson-elect is Giorgi Geladze.

On Wednesday, November 3rd, the European School hosted debates for the Student Parliament Chairman Elections. The debates began with presenting campaign videos. Later, the candidates introduced themselves and addressed their campaign platforms to the student body. The debate was held over Zoom, and each candidate had 10 minutes to answer questions submitted by those attending the event. The candidates debated topics including student concerns, how best to address student needs, which clubs and activities to offer to make student life more interesting. 

On June 8th, 2021, Sophio Bazadze, the Director of the European School, and Zurab Oshkhneli, the Director of the College of Media and Television Arts, signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the European School and LEPL - Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University College of Media and Television Arts. The memorandum aims to implement student collaborative projects and support the development of quality education and cooperation between parties. Under this memorandum, joint projects will be developed and presented at international festivals, conferences, and forums. The memorandum also envisages cooperation in conducting public lectures, seminars/ trainings, master classes, and other activities.

On May 18th, the European School held the second session of the Student Academic Conference which allowed attendees to step into the STEAM world, the world of risk-taking, experimentation, ingenuity, and creativity. Participants presented science topics related to daily life, found solutions to plastic pollution in agricultural fields, demonstrated attempts for engineering and created matrix displays, discussed works of famous artists, and calculated magical number pi, etc. The ES strives to provide a space for students to create. The STEAM conference with its physical venue and virtual environments was one more opportunity for our students to produce new ideas and innovations.