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Anniversary of Ilia Chavchavadze
10 Nov 2021In 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 2021Student 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 2021The 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 2021On 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 2021Student 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.

Election Debates
03 Nov 2021On 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.

Halloween
30 Oct 2021Today, 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.

U.S. President's Awards
25 Oct 2021In 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.

Who We Are
25 Oct 2021As 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.