In the last few days, the ES community launched a collection drive to help people affected by the massive earthquake along the Turkey and Syria border. A call out for priority items has led to donations of warm clothing along with sleeping bags, pillows, and blankets. Essentials such as baby food, diapers, and sanitary products have also been received. Transportation of humanitarian aid was ensured by the Turkish Embassy.

Students summarized the unit about migrations they have been exploring during the transdisciplinary theme “Where we are in place and time”.  Students made a lot of connections during this unit and shared multiple stories with their peers. They explored push and pull factors of migration and defined the ways of assimilation to the new places.  For the summative project, they cooperated with their family members to prepare the projects and came up with different ways of presenting their stories - interviews with family members, Google Slides, PPT, Canva presentations or posters. They also brought their traditional food to share with their peers and teachers.

The ES, committed to ensuring a safer digital environment for its students, celebrated Safer Internet day 2023. Students and teachers from IB, AHS, and Georgian Programs came together for better internet and held awareness sessions on topics such as Cyber Hygiene, Internet and Safety, Cyberbullying, and Cybersecurity. They discussed the online issues that matter to everyone, created E-book, conducted activities in the Bookcreator app, etc.

IB DP hosted the director of Social Enterprise Alliance of Georgia on 27th of January. Ms.Salome kvisiani, through interactive communication and entertaining trivia game,  managed to help students deepen their knowledge in terms of importance of social responsibility and the role of social enterprises in the society. The discussions covered how students can contribute to development of social enterprises as well. Developing social responsibility represents one of the main goals of IB DP. 

On January 7-13, the European School students participated in the international program: Georgian Youth in Global Affairs, organized by Young Diplomats of Georgia and the European Alliance for Georgia. Attending a seminar on Georgia’s EU membership prospects with Mr. Romain Strasser (Head of Intercultural Dialogue at the European Parliament, the Board Member of EAFG), making presentations on world issues at European Commission, meeting with the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and the senior decision-makers of the European Committee of Regions, visiting the Belgian Federal Parliament, the Belgian Senate, the Parlamentarium, the visitors' center of the European Parliament, and the House of European History was a great insightful opportunity to step into the EU institutions to witness from the inside how they operate.

Take some time and enjoy the events held at the European School during this festive time of the year. Christmas Celebrations where Santa Claus greeted students, drama performances, New Year Ball, Winter Dance 2022…  And that's just half of the amazing events hosted at the ES recently.

The European School two teams became the first place winners of the competition organized by the Media Development Foundation (MDF) with the support of the Public Diplomacy Office at NATO. The  Most Literate School prize, laptop and tablet was awarded to our teams. The ES winning projects - online game  SmartOwl2023 and the board game Night of Trolls will support the development of student media literacy and information literacy skills. The winning teams are: American High School grade 12 students’ team(Ekaterine Gorgadze, Aleksandre Shonia, Sina Abdolahzade, Nikoloz Paniashvili) supervised by the Computer Science teacher Shorena Abesadze and MYP grade 10 students’ team ( Ana Gelenidze, Elene Gamkrelidze, Mariam Bezhuashvili) supervised by the Design teachers Guranda Gogaladze and Neli Bobokhidze.

Students' initiative to celebrate the final week of 2022 with a spirit week was followed up by the celebration of the holiday season at the PYP. Students were engaged in different musical group and individual performances including singing New Year’s themed songs in different languages and performances with body percussion instruments. Students had parties with animators afterwards.  Happy upcoming 2023 Year from the IB PYP students of the European School. 

Great news from the European School's University Counseling Office - our student admitted early to an Ivy League university. Mishiko Gabaidze from the IB Diploma Programme will continue his studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Congratulations, Mishiko! We are extremely proud of you!