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. 

On December 17, 2021, American High School students presented the Fall semester issue of the AHS newspaper “The American Times". The presentation was conducted in a hybrid format. It was broadcasted online and several students attended it in the European School library.

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.

On December 6-10, Human Rights Week, initiated and organized by the American High School student Anastasia Tskvitinidze, was conducted at the European School. Within the week, public lectures, discussions, meetings were held on actual themes: Violence Against Children, Importance of the Human Rights Day, Development of Human Rights, Human Rights in Literature, Gender Equality in Literature, Right to Education for Children from Occupied Territories of Georgia.

On November 18, 2021, in the framework of the cycle of lectures and seminars organized by the American High School, the teacher of Georgian Language and Literature Ketevan Gardapkhadze and American High School student Kato Gorgadze, 11B, held a lecture about world of antiquity in Galaktion Tabidze’s works as a celebration for his birthday anniversary. This lecture encompassed the analysis of traditions concerning antiquity recipitations during the 20th century in Georgian poetry (The Blue Horns) and also the depth, diversity, and originality of Galaktion’s antiquity symbols. On the basis of the principles of the use of antique symbolism, the speakers organized antique terms presented in Galaktion’s poetry into a couple of groups and discussed them in an interesting literary review.

On December 3, 2021, in the framework of the First Friday Forum, an education specialist from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (NY, US) delivered an online lecture for American High School students on the topic Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The speaker discussed the life and career of Mrs. Roosevelt and President Roosevelt’s efforts to create the United Nations. Speaker talked about the public life of Mrs. Roosevelt, her leadership position at the United Nations, and her instrumental role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The meeting ended with a Q & A session.