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.

Student Projects presentation was held at the Georgian Program of the European School. History teacher -Marine Melikidze’s students from grade 6 presented their individual and group, 2-month projects to the teachers and parents. Themes of the projects were selected by students according to their interests: Calendar of my class; Are computer games good or bad?; My family history; Books yesterday, today, tomorrow; Me and my body; Korean culture; Healthy lifestyle; Don’t litter!; Western Georgian national cloths; Tour to Kakheti; My Megrelia. The projects presentation was held at the school library and was attended by coordinator Inga Toloraia and invited teachers: Maia Melikishvili, Maia Tsenguashvili.

European School announces annual competition "ES STEAM CHALLENGE", which can be attended by both teachers and students. Interesting prizes will be awarded to winners, there also will be revealed the STEAM Teacher of the Year.

On February 7, during the homeroom class and the following Russian language lesson, grade 3b homeroom teacher Marika Mchedlidze introduced a new topic- Bacteria. Later, the theme was summarized in Biology Lab together with colleagues Manana Jhamurashvili and Asmat Akhvlediani. During the lesson, teachers showed a video about bacteria, conducted different activities, and provided insight into the functions of helpful and harmful microbes. They informed students about the importance of hygiene measures in avoiding bacterial diseases. In the end, kids examined bacteria through microscopes.

The focus of the Parent – Teacher Conferences on 31 January was mainly made on discussing with parents students’ progress in the first semester. The conference was organized in the school main hall. The format of the conference allowed all PYP teachers and parents to meet and discuss the achievements of the students from grades 1-5. At the meeting following teachers were available: homeroom teachers; single subject teachers of ART, Music, Physical Education, ICT, Georgian language, French, Russian, German; speech therapists.

Einstein School, opened last year by Kant’s Academy, started the new season with interesting news and new modules. This year, in partnership with “Future laboratory” and the European School, Einstein School offers programs based on innovations to students aged 8-12 years. Within the program children will be given an opportunity to learn future professions, like: creating digital products and algorithms, basics of programming and digital logic, 3D modeling, 3D printing, programming robots and etc.