On May 6, Certificates of Achievement were awarded to the ES students by Giorgi Tkemaladze- Chairman of Tbilisi City Municipal Assembly and Tamar Taliashvili-Head of Education and Culture Commission of Tbilisi City Assembly. Sophio Bazadze- Academic Director of the ES and Rita Prokopenko-Chairman of the Association of Young Diplomats delivered speeches and congratulated the students who returned recently from Strasburg and Brussels after having official visits in the European Parliament and the Euro Commission. For leading the international project, the Academic Director Sophio Bazadze, and the Coordinator Linda Tsitskishvili were awarded as well. At the same day, paintings of one of the participants of the project, young diplomat Mishiko Gabaidze were exhibited at Tbilisi City Assembly’s historic hall named after King Tamar.

On May 6, the premiere performance of a new work created by the drama studio students was held at the Main Hall. The students played musical -Place for Two in English and surprised audience with their artistic skills. The performance directed by the head of studio Davit Nadirashvili and the choreographer Beka Kurashvili had a huge success and is planned to be performed in Baku.

On May 1st, MYP students from grades 6-7 held another campaign dedicated to Earth Day. They cleaned the school territory and drew planets in the school yard with colorful chalks. With this activity the students showed to others that it’s everybody’s responsibility to take care of our home-Earth.

MYP student Saba Kutelia presented his personal project in the school library. Saba created a movie about Georgia’s history of recent years, conflict resolution and peace-building processes. After showcasing the movie, Saba answered the questions of attendees. The project received very positive feedback.

PYP students continued investigations and approached the Exhibition 2018-2019 with another huge step – creating the logo. Each exhibition group and any 5th graders had a chance to create a logo for the Exhibition. The PYP community: 4th graders, PYP principal, security and our housekeepers helped us to choose the best one. According to our team the best logo was Alexandra Chuprina’s, where she has demonstrated the unity and international mindedness of our students. Another important event that happened this week was the trip to Vake Park - our students raised the awareness about their exhibition projects. They have distributed the flyers, interviewed people and filled in the surveys. The feedback received from the people was extremely positive and almost every interviewee mentioned how proud they were about the actions done by PYP students. The 4th graders Bilge Ucar and Meryem Huseynova were very supportive while the trip as their transdisciplinary theme was ‘How We Organize Ourselves’ and they have been working on the different types advertisements for 5 weeks, and knew the purpose of the advertisements so they helped to promote our school and the exhibition projects.

DP students held a presentation of their CAS projects. Creativity and Service are integral parts of these projects. DP students focused on creating modern agricultural systems, organizing events for charity reasons, cleaning the environment, raising awareness about the importance of protecting the environment, supporting disabled people, decorating Tbilisi theaters and organizing European Parliament sessions for youth.

On April 24, PYP students visited the European Kindergarten and presented their own fairy tale book to children from two different groups. The young writers liked communicating with little kids and reading books in English. They gained important experience in this activity.

PYP programme held an assembly in the Main Hall. Students from grade 2 finished transdisciplinary unit How the World Works and presented their projects at the assembly. Kids talked about the water cycle and states of water. They reminded the attendees about their responsibility in saving water and presented water-related problems through different videos. They held a charity campaign and collected money to support countries where kids have no access to clean drinking water. The goal of the projects was to save the environment and clean water.

Certificates of participation were awarded to the European School students who recently returned from Brussels after an official visit to the European Parliament, European Commission and other EU institutions. After signing the memorandum, the European School received a letter of recognition from the European Parliament, showing readiness to support ES students’ participation in cultural and educational exchange programs. After the awarding ceremony, presentations on various interesting topics, made by the awarded students in Brussels, were shown to the ES students’ body.