European School IB DP organized 3 days CAS trip to beautiful resort of Georgia, Bakuriani. During which students participated in CAS (Creativity, Activity, Service)workshop, such as multicultural team-building, first-aid training, environmental cleaning, intellectual games. As the result, students had opportunity to meet CAS learning outcomes, such as sharing experiences, identifying personal strengths and weaknesses, engaging in globally significant issues and developing teamwork and collaboration skills. Taking into consideration the effectiveness and usefulness of the trip, based on the positive feedback of the students, decision was made to organize such workshop trips regularly.

On March 3rd -10th, with the initiative of American High School, 19 students from the European School, accompanied by ICT teacher Davit Nozadze and FabLab teacher Guranda Gogoladze, visited Astro Camp in Clover, Virginia. Through STEM based activities offered at the Camp student’s broadened their knowledge in Physics, Chemistry, Robotics and Astronomy and developed essential skills for the jobs of the future. Astro Camp staff and the ES teachers developed strategy for future collaboration. Sharing of information received at the Camp with the rest of ES STEAM team will support developing joint innovative projects.

Within the non-formal education project, WeSkiGeorgia conducted First Aid training courses for the European School students. The goal of the training course is to instruct students on how to preserve life by carrying out series of emergency first aid procedures. Trainees learned basic first aid steps, treatment of injuries, rescue breathing and characteristic traits of shock.

On March1, two educational websites- Khan Academy (http://ka.khanacademy.org/) and Code.org (http://code.org/) were presented to the European School students. These sites are useful resources both for students and teachers as well.

The ES students from grade1 celebrated the arrival of spring and Mother’s day on March 1st . Kids sang songs, danced and shared Mother quotes with their moms to make them feel special.

On March 1-3, QSI Tbilisi organized a football championship TIFA Cup. The European School team consisting of students from Georgian Program and PYP became a first place winner at a group stage of the championship.

On February 23, the European Kindergarten teachers attended training-Basics of Positive Communication. The main objective of the training was developing effective communication skills of participants.

The European School students together with the Director of National Library Giorgi Kekeklidze visited students from the villages adjacent to the occupation line: Mereti and Koshki. The ES students arranged a charity market few weeks ago. Money collected from selling handcrafts and cakes was spent on purchasing computers and books for children from the border neighboring villages visited yesterday.