On February 14th -16th basketball teams from international schools of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia competed at SRAA Tbilisi Basketball Classic 2019, organized by QSI Tbilisi. The European School team became the second place winner after the final match where the New School team scored just 1 point more than our team.

Within the memorandum of understanding, signed between NGO "Multinational Georgia for Strengthening Democratic Values" and the European School, our students attend an international conference at the UN Headquarters. On February 18, several ES students engaged in above-mentioned conference through videoconference bridging system from the Main Conference Hall of the ES. They actively participated in discussions and resolution writing process. The conference focusing on “Sustainable Management of Water and Sanitation for all” started at 7 pm and finished at 12pm. Similar opportunities to interact at MUN conferences “virtually” will be offered to the ES students in the future as well.

Today, ES kindergarten kids hosted the Director of Tbilisi Zoo Zurab Gurielidze. As children cover the theme “HOW THE WORLD WORKS”, they are curious about animals and want to know: Why does the elephant have big years, giraffe long neck and tiger stripped skin? How does giraffe sleep? Why dolphin is human’s friend? Children received very interesting answers on all above-mentioned questions.

On February 18, PYP assembly was held at the European School. The assembly was mainly led by Student Council members. The first thing students shared was the meaning of “International Tree”, which can be found in the PYP hall area. The idea of the “International Tree” is to unite teachers and students from different countries and cultures presented at the school. Grade 5 students then informed attendees about the PYP Exhibition including the main goals and aims of this event. The most amazing part of the assembly was grade 4's performance about signs and symbols. They performed the song “Soon we’ll be found” both singing and using sign language which they learned during the unit- “How we express ourselves”. Later students had the opportunity to talk about the upcoming “International mother tongue day” which will be celebrated February 21st. At the end of the assembly, Mr. Bacho (Art teacher) invited students to participate in the CITYART world festival.

Last week, representatives of WeSki Georgia organized a team building game for the European School students from 6th grade. Participants of this activity learned how to use properly hiking equipment: setting a tent, using a sleeping bag, compass, and other necessary equipment.

On Friday, February 15, the European School was visited by the delegation from Royal Russell School (Great Britain). The visitors organized mathematics contest for students aged 14-16 years. Together with the ES students, groups from other international schools as New School, Givi Zaldastanishvili American Academy and British-Georgian Academy participated as well. First place winner became a group of 10th grade students from American Academy, second place winner-the ES DP team. Special prizes and certificates of participation were awarded to winners of the contest. At the same day, Royal Russell School organized a professional development session for teachers of participating schools. Later, for enhancing collaboration with the ES they also signed a memorandum of understanding with our school.

On February 11th to 13th, an international snow volleyball tournament was held in Bakuriani. Teams from different countries - Turkey, Lithuania, Armenia, Belgium and Italy participated in the tournament. The ES DP student from grade 12 Mohamadreza Marashi played in a team together with two Georgian players and became a winner of the tournament.

On February 14, Valentine’s Day spirit warmed the European School, made everyone smile and brought people together to read love poems, sing love songs, dance the most romantic dance- waltz. Flowers, Valentine cards, candies, heart shaped balloons-all red and pink transformed the school into a magic place where cupids welcomed everyone with love arrows.

On February 11, PYP Exhibition parent orientation session was held for all Grade 5 parents. The main goal of the meeting was to inform parents about the details of PYP Exhibition and discuss with them parents’ roles and responsibilities in students’ projects. The Exhibition is the culmination of the Primary Years Programme. Students synthesize the essential elements of the PYP and share them with the whole school community. It is an opportunity for students to exhibit the attributes of the IB Learner Profile that they have developed throughout years passed in the program. Students are given flexibility in their choice of real-life issues or problems to be explored and investigated. They explore the local and global issues, act to solve it and then prepare a presentation for the community to view.