Merab Dzuliashvili, PYP 4a student became the PYP library assistant for one day. At that particular day, students worked on presentations about their transdisciplinary themes (grade 4 - How the World Works and grade 5 - Sharing the Planet). They were asked to cite the resources used while researching the topic. Together with Nino Ramishvili, the PYP librarian, Merab explained what is academic honesty, what is plagiarizing and reminded students how to cite resources. Students made another step to digital citizenship through this activity. “It was a really interesting experience, but it was hard helping 5th graders, and I really liked it”, - Merab Dzuliashvili.

PYP students spent two weeks on Mother Language project. Within the project, they worked in pairs and groups, searched the biographic information about Georgian writers, prepared presentations, learned poems and mastered in the art of reading aloud poetry.  On April 16, the students visited the Mtatsminda Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures, where the children paid respect to their ancestors, put flowers on their graves, recited poems and finally visited Mama Daviti Church. 

Georgian Language teachers Lika Vekua and Eka Berdzenishvili presented a new book “33 Emotions” to 2nd-3rd graders at the library. The students learned about the diversity of letterforms, letter shapes, and alphabets. They also read quotes from famous authors about the Georgian alphabet.

On April 12th, Grade 5a students visited the Experimentorium - Museum of Entertaining Science. This trip was planned to support the unit -Sharing the Planet, the ending unit followed by the PYP Exhibition. Students dived into the world of science and were able to visualize Physics laws. Students participated in the experiments with Nitrogen. They have tested different exhibits and activities: sitting on the nails and lifting a friend into the air, drawing on the sand, playing instruments in the music room and etc. Ecrin Yagmur: " It was fun, I had a great experience. When I grow up I want to be a scientist!" Meryem Meredova: " It was a very interesting trip. I have learned a lot of new things. It was full of fun activities. I loved observing and testing all the exhibits by myself. The Nitrogen show was great!"

On April 11, the PYP students from grade 4 held the European School advertising campaign in Vake Park. For two months the students have been learning how to create an advertisement and influence consumer behavior. They filmed a promo video about the school, created posters, flyers and later, presented them to people resting in the park. The students applied theoretical knowledge in practice and gained a huge experience. This project was fun and meaningful at the same time for the kids.

The ES students from grade 8 of the MYP programme held an exhibition of their artworks. Money collected after selling the students’ handcrafts was spent on purchasing Easter eggs and stationery items and was delivered to the beneficiaries of the Social Enterprise Babale.

On April 1-5, PYP programme held Book Week. Throughout the week students worked on developing reading skills through trans-disciplinary units; they received information about favorite books, authors and characters; during Mathematics classes processed data about reading statistics; in the library read poems in English, French, German and Russian languages and participated in a literary quiz-show; created posters, newspapers and journals. At the end of the week PYP students, dressed as favorite literary characters participated in a costume parade. All the activities planned throughout the week aimed at promoting literacy and fostering interest in books.

The European School hosted Norwegian musicians a few days ago. The guests conducted music lessons for PYP students from grades 3-5 using modern teaching methods. Music Academy of Norway is a leader in teaching music. The musicians arrived to Georgia within the Tbilisi Music Conservatory project and were invited to our school By the ES music teacher Nino Chalisuri, who visited Oslo Music Academy in February. She was introduced to innovative teaching methods during her visit and already applies them in practice at the ES. The Norwegian musicians held a concert after classes. Our guests and ES teachers are planning to continue collaboration in the future.

On April 3rd , personal exhibition of PYP student from grade 5c Alina Spanova was held at London Avenue. Organizers of South Korean art festival Dream Summit visited the exhibition and became impressed by paintings of a young artist. The guests gave her a very positive feedback.