On April 24, the PYP students from grade 5b visited the exhibition of the famous Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico at the National Museum. The lesson held within the unit- Sharing the Planet, was a good example of giving students knowledge about art concepts based on global contexts.

The PYP students from grade 5c painted unfinished buildings in the streets. The students were supervised by Arts teacher Bacho Gogolashvili. This lesson gave the students an opportunity to enjoy an interesting lesson and spend some time outdoors. The typical lessons will be planned in the future again.

On May 3, the PYP students from grade 4a and 4b went to Tbilisi Sea and created stone installations inspired by contemporary artist Michael Grab. The theme of the lesson was Energy.  The students observed gravitation force and understood its nature by creating sculptures using only balanced stones. The students were supervised by Arts teacher Bacho Gogolashvili.

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.

Self -governance Day at the ES is scheduled for May 22th. Students will assume the role of teachers for the day so that they will plan and conduct lessons independently. They will take roles of academic director, coordinators, counselor, doctor, PR manager, custodial staff and security guards.

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.