February 15th saw the culmination of all the hard work put in by Year 10 MYP students with their Personal Projects Exhibition. Once again, we saw an amazing array of varying ideas generated almost six months of work. Projects ranged from educational resources, computer games and applications, Neurobiological projects, startups, online shops, travel guides, tours, photo albums, and many more. 21 MYP students presented their diverse projects to fellow students, parents, staff, and other guests virtually, using Google meets. The Personal Project Exhibition was well attended. The personal project is a yearlong project in which students follow their interests, use their talents, and apply the skills they learned in the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP). Project topics may be creative or community need-based and ideally, they should reflect a student’s personal interest. The students gain valuable experience while developing their personal projects an becoming IB learners.

PYP Grade 3 students had an online meeting with Nicolas Chinchaladze, Head Of Mars Society Georgia.  Mr. Nicolas delivered a presentation about the Solar System and provoked students' interest in the new transdisciplinary theme ``How the world works".

On January 26-28, National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement held its annual conference online, via the Zoom platform. Ministry of Education and Science of Georgia, various educational institutions, local and international partner organizations participated at the conference.

Collaboration in PYP is key to success of every classroom. Pathways school’s students asked questions about subjects, lunches, and even how long our lessons are. Ms. Elizabeth mentioned that Georgian is one of the oldest languages in the world today. Our students showed them their Georgian Textbooks, to show how unique the written letters in Georgian are. Ms. Eka demonstrated the sounds of the letters and a few facts about the Georgian alphabet. The meeting lasted 40 minutes and there were 82 students online from India. It was impossible for everyone to ask their questions. Our next meeting will in in early February. Our Second Graders experienced a whole new culture and made their first International, friends as representatives of European school. We are honored to forge a new friendship and to collaborate and build strong bonds for the future.

On December 16th, the European School hosted Mr. Gábor Mikecz - Commercial Counsellor at the Embassy of Hungary to Georgia and Mr Dávid Sazbó - Member of the Hungarian Delegation.

A conference entitled “Experiential Learning” has been organized by the Caucasus and Central Asia Association of IB World Schools (CCAAIBWS). The Board members of the associations are the European School (Georgia), European Azerbaijan School (Azerbaijan), and the Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (Kazakhstan).

On December 21st MYP 8C/8B classes students: Ilia Berbichashvili, Elene Ratiani, Sandro Ratiani, Lasha Tsurtsumia, Mariam Khurodze, Giorgi Salaridze, and Ninia Dzneladze had the initiative, to participate in the project “Students for Students”. They conducted an online webinar focused on “ Creator Womens’ Role in Society”. They shared their presentations and posters based on the different resources learnt. Students shared their knowledge with the innovations centre “STREAM-World”. Participants were from different regions in Georgia - Svaneti, Samegrelo, Kakheti, and Qvemo Qartli. Webinars organizers were “European Schools” Georgian language and literature teacher Ia Ghadua, and the Georgian language and literature teacher Ekaterine Tsulukidze within the public school located in Pari. Drama Teacher Guram Ghonghadze of the European school also participated in the online webinar. 

Within the unit Creator Women students from MYP 8B/8C grades, studied different creator women and their works. At the end of the unit, during reflection, it appeared that the favorite author for the majority of students was Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili. Students liked her friendly style of writing.

Grade 5 C students initiated a New Year's play and have written the script collaboratively. They connected the story line to the transdisciplinary theme - "Where we are in place and time" and made the play characters migrate from different countries to the North Pole. They faced many challenges on the way since the main character Grinch was trying to ruin the trip, though holiday spirit and kindness of people around him saved the day because kindness always wins.