Take some time and enjoy the events held at the European School during this festive time of the year. Christmas Celebrations where Santa Claus greeted students, drama performances, New Year Ball, Winter Dance 2022…  And that's just half of the amazing events hosted at the ES recently.

The European School two teams became the first place winners of the competition organized by the Media Development Foundation (MDF) with the support of the Public Diplomacy Office at NATO. The  Most Literate School prize, laptop and tablet was awarded to our teams. The ES winning projects - online game  SmartOwl2023 and the board game Night of Trolls will support the development of student media literacy and information literacy skills. The winning teams are: American High School grade 12 students’ team(Ekaterine Gorgadze, Aleksandre Shonia, Sina Abdolahzade, Nikoloz Paniashvili) supervised by the Computer Science teacher Shorena Abesadze and MYP grade 10 students’ team ( Ana Gelenidze, Elene Gamkrelidze, Mariam Bezhuashvili) supervised by the Design teachers Guranda Gogaladze and Neli Bobokhidze.

On November 30th, the European School hosted its 9th TEDx conference -   TEDxIBEuropeanSchool.   Nine speakers from Georgian, AHS, and IB programs shared their Ideas Worth Spreading. From environmental issues to healthy lifestyles, sustainable agricultural practices, translation difficulties, performing art, risk-taking, decision-making, expressing opinion freely, and appreciation for history, each area allowed us “Being More” of ourselves through self-development.

Literary Week brought students, books, authors, illustrators, and publishers together in the European School and enabled children to experience the magic of books.  Children met Lela Tsutskiridze - an author of Martico’s Apple Tree, and hung apples made in FabLab on the three showing their wish for peace. George Lapiashvili read small parts from Zaira Arsenishvili’s book Short Kato’s Adventure, conducted a workshop to inspire young imaginations, and thought how to make miniature books. On Astrid Lindgren’s birthday anniversary, students came dressed up as Pippy, Karlson, and Ronja. Students discovered latest books of their favorite and new authors displayed by Sulakauri Publishing, Diogene Publishers, English book, Karchkhadze Publishing at a book festival. Literary Week taught children how wonderful a good book can be and encouraged lifelong love of reading.

Diogene publishers recently published a series of children’s books, Mary Poppins and presented to the European School students during the literary week. Mary Poppins, written by the popular author Pamela Lyndon Travers was translated by Ia Koroshinadze. She met the European School students, talked about the magical world of Mary Poppins, introduced the main characters and explored their adventures. Children shared their impressions with the guest. Within the literary week, the ES students held an exhibition where they exposed paintings about the magical nanny, watched the film adaptation of Mary Poppins, and arranged discussion about it.

Thursday, November 10th, was much awaited by the European School students as it was the Student Parliament Chairman election day. The whole election campaign and election process was a lesson in democracy for our students. The entire process was observed by the support groups of each candidate, the ballot box was unlocked, and ballots were counted in front of them. Students waited with bated breath to know the winner. Chairman of the Student Parliament became Temur Tvauri.

On November 3rd, National Geographic Learning representatives: Alex Warren (Senior ELT Academic Consultant, National Geographic Learning), Beatrix Mellauner (ELT Head of Sales/Europe, National Geographic Learning) and Tim Pearse (Senior Sales Manager in EdTech /Publishing, National Geographic Learning, Central and Eastern Europe) conducted a training Teaching vocabulary in context for English language teachers of the European School. Teachers actively participated in the interactive training and gained new knowledge on modern teaching methods.

Partnership with Les Roshes expands opportunities for the European School students. Our students who choose hospitality in higher education can take advantage of the most exceptional and exclusive offer made by the Sommet Education group, which entails: membership of the UNWTO Students’ League and becoming an ambassador promoting Georgian hospitality and internship at InterContinental worldwide. Sommet Education representatives talked to students about the details of this offer, the international career, and prospects that exist in the hospitality field.

The Europe-Georgia Institute, in cooperation with the US Embassy and the Embassy of Sweden in Georgia, presented an educational game Electionville at the European School on November 2nd. The game is about local self-governance, democracy and youth civil engagement. At the presentation event the European School hosted Ambassador of Sweden to Georgia Ulrik Tideström,  Deputy Chief of Mission of the US Embassy in Georgia Rian Harker Harris and other honorable guests from the US Embassy.  The European School students, together with representatives and students of public schools who previously participated in the testing of the floor-game, received an amazing gift -Electionville at the end of the event.