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TEDxIBEuropeanSchool

03 Dec 2021

This year, the European School annual event TEDxIBEuropeanSchool was about Moving Forward. The Pandemic flipped the world upside-down. It affected all: adults, children, and youth. Our speakers – the ES students believe, our reality is about to be reconsidered, taken into our hands, and reclaimed. They suggest how to navigate through difficulties, avoid stagnation, explore new opportunities, achieve new accomplishments, and attain happiness.

Corporate Social Responsibility

27 Nov 2021

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has moved from being a philosophy to business function and modern companies have created the position of CSR manager, whose goal is to make sure that the company balances its own and society's interests. The researches confirm that the ethical image and social responsibility of the company become increasingly important for customers, employees, and other stakeholders.

Nitsa Skvitaridze was awarded Gold Level Certificate from US Ambassy

19 Nov 2021

American High School 8th grade student Nitsa Skvitaridze has reviewed four books of great American novelist Robert Beatty. She was awarded Gold Level Certificate from US Ambassy, supported by American Corner and most fascinatingly Robert Beatty appreciated her reviews and cheered up Nitsa by congratulating her 13th birthday on his official FB page.

Astrid Lindgren Week

16 Nov 2021

Within Astrid Lindgren Week, the European School held several literary, enlightening, festive activities. One day, students dressed in Pippi’s, Karlsson’s, Emil’s costumes; children’s writer Vaso Guleuri from Writers' House came to meet our students; the school hosted Giorgi Kekelidze from the National Library; students displayed their paintings; the publisher's house sent its mobile library and shop – Walking Budrugana to the ES; Ylva Festin- First Secretary at the Embassy of Sweden in Georgia addressed our students virtually; a hybrid meeting Astrid’s World in Unibaken was held with the writer Irma Malacidze – the nominee of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award; guests from Sweden read Astrid Lindgren’s stories and conducted an online literary quiz show;  The week aims to raise the literacy level of students and promote book reading.

Anniversary of Ilia Chavchavadze

10 Nov 2021

In connection with the anniversary of Ilia Chavchavadze, Esma Mania, Doctor of Philology, Senior Researcher of the Funds Protection, Registration and Exposition Department of the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts, Guardian of the Ilia's Foundation visited European School. Esma Mania has met the students of MYP 8B and 8C grades and talked about Ilia as an aristocrat and democrat, a man who managed to protect national values and at the same time, was the initiator of many innovations. She introduced Ilia's work style, and displayed Ilia's autographs preserved in the Manuscript Center. The students were especially interested in his notepads and records, through which they saw and evaluated Ilia Chavchavadze's personality and merits in a completely different way.

Anti-bullying Campaign #GoodTogether

10 Nov 2021

Student Wellbeing Service staff, teachers, and students in the European School community are passionate about helping children prevent bullying by talking about it and building a safe school environment. Within the anti-bullying campaign #GoodTogether, the ES students displayed posters, played flash mob, held assemblies. They engaged in various anti-bullying activities to change the attitudes, behavior, and culture of bullying, addressed different situations, and said no to violence.

The exhibition “The forms of interpretation”

10 Nov 2021

The exhibition is created by the works of 6 and 7 Graders. In the end of the first unit: 7 Graders presented the works inspired by van Gogh “Starry night” and also they created T shirts using the pointillism technique. 6 graders presented the portraits of Frida Kahlo and also interpretation works by of Edvard Munchs “scream”.

First Friday Forum

10 Nov 2021

On November 5, 2021, in the framework of the First Friday Forum, AHS hosted an American speaker Tina Maglakelidze, co-founder of The Female Ambassador Project. Visiting speaker delivered an online presentation on the topic "Women in Diplomacy". The presentation provided a broad survey of women’s role and impact in the career field of international diplomacy. It outlined some general challenges faced as well as achievements reached throughout the 20th and 21st century. The meeting ended with a Q & A session.

Student Parliament Chairman became Giorgi Geladze

08 Nov 2021

Student Parliament Chairman Elections took place at the European School today, November 5th. This event enabled the ES community to bring democracy alive in the school. The election empowered students to experience the voting process firsthand and cast ballots for the official candidates running in the election. Students from grades 6-12 of all three programs (Georgian, IB, and AHS) participated in the voting process. Voting procedures that started at 9:30 a.m. and continued up until 2:00 p.m., went smoothly and no complications were recorded. In a transparent vote-counting process, the members of the administrative team of the school and chair candidates’ trustees were involved. The final results were declared at the Main Conference Hall. The student body joined the event online on the Zoom platform. The former chairman Anamaria Iakobidze addressed the candidates and wished for successful participation in the Parliament. Sophio Bazadze, the School Director announced the results and congratulated the winner. The Chairperson-elect is Giorgi Geladze.