On Wednesday, November 3rd, the European School hosted debates for the Student Parliament Chairman Elections. The debates began with presenting campaign videos. Later, the candidates introduced themselves and addressed their campaign platforms to the student body. The debate was held over Zoom, and each candidate had 10 minutes to answer questions submitted by those attending the event. The candidates debated topics including student concerns, how best to address student needs, which clubs and activities to offer to make student life more interesting. 

Today, the European School students celebrated Halloween. Candies, pumpkins, spiders, fun games, watching movies and other traditional decorations and activities raised the spirit of our students. What's a Halloween Party without costumes? The celebration sparked students’ creativity and imagination. They dressed up in all sorts of costumes and spread Halloween cheer all around the campus.

In the framework of the U.S. President’s Education Awards Program, the AHS students Anna Davitashvili, Anna Danelia and Nikoloz Khaduri got the U.S. President’s Award. On October 22, 2021, these students received certificates and pins for their outstanding academic excellence in middle school.

As part of their unit “Who We Are,” grade 5 students are inquiring into the changesn humans undergo throughout their lives and the elements of our identity. In the Georgian lessons the students had the amazing opportunity to be the first to read the book “My African grandmother” by Mariam Tsiklauri as it is yet unpublished. After reading the book, students reflected and illustrated the characters from the book and expressed the main idea in a form of a comic.

Promoting academic integrity in the learning environment is one of the main priorities of the European School. Contract cheating, best described as the “outsourcing of student work to third parties”, undermines learning, damages learning relationships, and increases the tendency among students to engage in dishonest behavior in their professional careers. To mark the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating, created by the International Center for Academic Integrity and celebrated on October 20, the American High School hosted the White Board Declaration Campaign on October 21, 2021. The AHS students demonstrated negative attitudes toward academic dishonesty. They are against plagiarism, express their ideas creatively and freely, enjoy learning and believe honesty is the key to success.

On October 20th, 2021, within the Global Ethics Day created by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, the American High School held a hybrid poster presentation conference – Education Empowers Future Leaders: Thinking Ethically, Acting Globally. The AHS students presented themes addressing global ethical issues. The conference marked the American High School on a world map of organizations celebrating Global Ethics Day.

As part of their Who We Are unit, grade 4 students are learning about global citizenship and how to respect others despite the differences. While investigating their second line of inquiry students learned about cultures and different countries. They inquired into different languages, religions, holidays, traditions and food. For their formative assessment project students were asked to share their culture with the class. Students prepared presentations about food, holidays and famous people from their countries; they brought videos about traditional songs and dances and learned more about each other. Students not only had fun but once more understood that their differences make them unique and that being respectful is the main trait of a true IB leaner.

October 15 is Global Handwashing Day, a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness and understanding about the importance of handwashing with soap as an effective and affordable way to prevent diseases and save lives. Grade 3 learners celebrated this event by creating posters, activities, presentations for our PYP students. 

On October 15, we celebrated Global Handwashing Day at the European Kindergarten. The teachers talked about the rules of proper hand washing. The kids learned about importance of maintaining hygiene norms for our health.