On FEB the 24th our DP/CP students had a Spanish workshop at BCN Hispañia with their Spanish teacher, Tamara Guliashvili. Before the workshop, they had already studied Spanish culture and cusine related topics and prepared typical Spanish food for class presentations. As a culmination, they visited the Spanish restaurant in the heart of Tbilisi, BCN Hispañia and tasted typical Spanish food in a friendly and cosy atmosphere.

On 23rd of February IB DP hosted the successful entrepreneur and the founder of the social enterprise TENE,  Mr.Sandro Liluashvili. Through interactive communication and presentation,  the guest speaker managed to help students deepen their knowledge in terms of key success and failure factors of startups and how social responsibility can be transformed into a competitive advantage. The discussions covered how students can contribute to the development of social enterprises as well. Developing social responsibility represents one of the main goals of IB DP.

Grade 5's current unit of inquiry falls under the transdisciplinary theme of 'Sharing the Planet'.  In this unit, students are learning about the causes and effects of global conflicts on people and the environment. Students watched an animated Japanese movie “The Grave of the Fireflies” that tells the story of two siblings and war orphans, and their desperate struggle to survive during the final months of the Second World War. After watching the movie, students reflected by creating a series of paintings under the title ‘War and Children’. Through their paintings, they expressed how global conflicts affect our planet, especially children. They were reflective and caring. Students’ paintings were exhibited in the hall for all school community members.

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To mark International Mother Language Day on February 21st, the European School hosted various events.  MYP students met the Famous author Nodar Dumbadze’s daughter and learned unknown details about his books. PYP students, inspired by Lela Tsutskiridze’s book Alphabet Angels, created their alphabet letters.    To promote linguistic and cultural diversity as well as multilingualism, MYP students held an assembly where they expressed deserved respect to mother tongues in seven different languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Ukrainian and made the day memorable.

There was a huge stirring in PYP under the Third Graders! We had a  Masterclass on our calendar with Ms. Nino Kurashvili! In our Unit: "How we express ourselves" we explored many avenues: sign language, braille, Codes, and of course, hobbies. The emphasis was on the power of having a hobby and how it benefits a child's well-being. Ms. Nino entered our class with huge baskets full of these cotton candy-looking, colorful and soft felt. The felt was locally made by hand. Each student received a sponge to work on, a needle, and a square of felt. We were going to make brooches!! Colorful colors were handed out. Ms. Nino demonstrated the steps and each student started needling the colors onto the felt. Once a student was done, Ms. Nino added the pin with hot glue on the back! Our students proudly wore their own, hand-created brooch! What a fun and relaxing experience! 

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.

On February 3, 2023, the AHS community: students, teachers, administration, and parents, attended the Iliad Competition. The AHS's four teams, each consisting of a captain and four participants, competed in this activity. The jury of the competition announced the winners in the following categories: the Best Team, the Best Participant, and the Best Warrior, and awarded special prizes. 

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.