On May 16, Butsiko Chkhartishvili held a lecture on the Importance of Sleep for the Georgian Program students from grades 8-9. The students received information about sleep disorders, sleep cycle, and all the sleep-related topics. This interactive lecture was very informative for the students.

On May 11, the exhibition of the ES students paintings and awarding ceremony was held in the Museum of Fine Arts. 21 students from the ES, together with 680 participants from all regions of Georgia competed in the visual arts competition organized by RIAF – Georgia World Youth Art Summit. 5 students from our school became winners in different age categories. Grandprix was awarded to Michael Jonas Overly, Golden Prize - Elene Kurdiani and Alina Spanova, Silver Prize-Danil Evstfiev, Bronze Prize-Iagmur Kurt. In the future, paintings of winner students will be exhibited in South Korea and will be published in the calendar 2020.

On May 15, Georgian Program students from grade 3a visited the social enterprise Babale, where they painted handmade pencil cases. The students created some preliminary sketches first and later,  produced colorful paintings. The joyful learning environment and activities made kids happy. 

On May 14, the ES hosted Tamar Sirbiladze-Drug Addiction Therapist and representative of NGO BEMON. BEMON has 20 years of experience in drug use prevention among youth. The doctor talked to students about drugs, different psychotropic substances, drug addiction, its consequences, and behavioral disorders. Discussing this problematic issue with the doctor was very interesting for students.

On May, 14 the Classical Music Festival was held at the Main Hall. Participants competed in piano, violin and voice categories. Special certificates were awarded to the winners of different nominations. The best performers were announced by juries: composer Rusudan Sebiskveradze, music teacher Guliko Jomardidze, music teacher Nino Chalisuri and the Program coordinator Kato Bakradze. The audience reacted positively and rewarded all performers with applause.

The representatives of five European universities visited the European School on May 13. EHL – Swiss Hospitality Management School in Lausanne, Switzerland IE University, Madrid, Spain Bocconi University, Milan, Italy Modul University, Vienna, Austria Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany Our guests discussed the advantages of studying in Europe, delivered presentations about university programs and answered students’ questions.

On May 11-12, within the collaboration between the European School and the British Council, experienced expert in English language teaching- Scott Thornbury conducted training sessions for the ES teachers. Scott Thornbury is a teacher and teacher educator with over 30 years’ experience. His previous experience includes successful teaching and teacher training in various countries. He published several books for teachers on language and methodology, as well as on language and language teaching.

As part of the unit on transportation, grade 1 students took a trip to the Fire Station Museum. Prior to visiting the museum, students learned about the function and purpose of service vehicles. The field trip helped to enhance their knowledge on the history of fire trucks, the importance of their development through time and the change they have brought within our communities. During their tour of the museum, students were able to see the time progression of how communities used to deal with fire prior to the creation of efficient transportation systems, as well as the development of fire trucks. In the end, the students were given the opportunity to speak to firefighters and also to open up all the doors and compartments on the fire trucks and see what's inside.