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The Caucasus University Football Tournament
12 Dec 2018Students of the European School are participating in a football tournament, which is organized by the Caucasus University. Within the tournament, teams from public and private schools of Tbilisi are competing against each other for the trophy. Despite fierce competition, our school's team successfully qualified for the finals and made it to the Top 8.

Educational Conference About Technologies
10 Dec 2018On December 8-9, a 2-day educational conference about technologies was held at Teacher's House. Teachers of the European School were actively participating in this event. Shorena Abesadze, Head of the Department of Information Technologies and Innovations at the European School, spoke about teaching programming using computer games, and David Nozadze, our ICT and robotics teacher, gave a presentation about "Teaching Robotics at School". Within this event, an exhibition was organized where our pupils proudly displayed achievements of their robotics club to a wider audience.

School Fair 2018
09 Dec 2018On December 7-8, European School participated in School Fair 2018, which was held at Expo Georgia. The exhibition, the first of its kind in Georgia, was designed to provide a single platform medium for the education sector in one dedicated space and create a venue where all participants in the industry could come together.

Field Trip to Art Palace
07 Dec 2018On Friday, November 7, our Grade 3A and Grade 3B students from the Georgian Program went on a field trip to the Art Palace. Children saw an exhibition of sketches about various movies and theatrical plays and attended a presentation about new year traditions. In the end, the pupils created and decorated their own ornaments for a christmas tree.

Project “The European School-Athens-The European School”
04 Dec 2018Starting from 2012, the European School is actively involved in an educational festival “Golden Fleece” to celebrate Georgian-Greek relations. The festival is supported by TSU Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, The Embassy of Greece in Georgia and National Archives of Georgia. Over the course of the years, the European School students have been participating in different activities, in particular: During the academic year 2012-2013, Grade 6A students (team leader: Irakli Bezhuashvili) were awarded the first prize in an intellectual tournament “What, When, Where.”

Ambassador of Estonia at the European School
01 Dec 2018On November 30, 2018, the European School had the honor to welcome the Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia to Georgia, Ms. Kai Kaarelson. The ambassador met with the students of our school and discussed digital capabilities and services that have helped Estonia become a world leader in digital innovation. The pupils of the European School organized a school tour for the guest and showed her around our FabLab, an innovative Digital Fabrication Laboratory, which promises unprecedented educational opportunities in the Georgian education system. At FabLab, our students have access to the most advanced technologies and hands-on STEM education even in the early school years. The ambassador emphasized the importance of educating students for innovation and introducing them to the latest technologies. The European School would like to thank Ms. Kai Kaarelson. We hope that this visit will strengthen the bond between the school and the Estonian community in Georgia.

Meeting with Ambassador of Georgia to the Hellenic Republic
01 Dec 2018On November 30, Ambassador of Georgia to the Hellenic Republic Ioseb Nanobashvili met with European School pupils from Georgian Program, who visited Athens to conduct a conference and various presentations. Students inquired into Georgia-Greece’s and Georgia-Serbia’s bilateral relations and received information about the Georgian community in Greece. Pupils asked questions about foreign affairs and foreign policy of Georgia. Our pupils actively and successfully participate in the cultural festival "Golden Fleece", which is held with the support of the Embassy of Greece in Georgia, National Archives of Georgia and Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.

Charity Event to Help the Library of Akhtakli Village
22 Nov 2018Our Georgian Program students from 10th and 12th grades and their head teachers decided to organize a charity event in order to help a school in need of creating a library and to supply it with a collection of books. Books and stationery goods were being collected throughout a week and we were happy to see that the whole school got involved in the event. Georgia has several regions that are populated with minorities and we decided to help a school from these regions.

Summative Assessment of Transdisciplinary Themes
21 Nov 2018The importance of the disciplines is well-acknowledged, but disciplines alone are not enough. Students need to learn the concepts and skills that transcend the disciplines and must be able to put their knowledge into practice. This was the main purpose of summative assessment of transdisciplinary themes for our Georgian Program. Pupils from all the four classes held an exhibition of their works, showcasing the transdisciplinary skills acquired while learning unit topics. In addition, students discussed activities that have been carried out by them within this learning process.