25 MOST IMPORTANT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE FCG IN 2013.*

Traditionally, the last day of the passing year, we place 25 major achievements and events from the life of the gymnasia in 2014:

1. Mokrushyna T. G, a teacher of French, was awarded the title of Honored Teacher of Ukraine by the Decree of the President of Ukraine (January);

2. For the first time a group of the gymnasia pupils received SMRT certificates of Canadian College,  Vancouver (February);

3. 18 pupils took part in training in the American school Open Heart Language Academy (March);

4. 9 gymnasia pupils became prize winners of IV stage of the nationwide subject Olympiads and III stage of the MiAS;

5. On March 18, V International Exhibition ‘Modern Educational Establishments – 2014’ was held in ‘KyivExpoPlaza’ exhibition centre. The gymnasia was awarded a Gold Medal in the category "International activities at a general educational establishment";

6. 9 senior FCG pupils took part in the second international youth conference ROTARY - LEADERS TO PEACE, which began near Jerusalem, Israel on April 4, 2014. On its ending more than 12 participants took part in the project RYLA.

7. The gymnasia site was recognized as one of the best (out of 12 winners) in the competition, held by the Internet Association of Ukraine (April);

8. The gymnasia queen became SVITLANA CHUMAK (April);

9. The first city conference for pupils "The figure of Mykhailo Dray- Khmara and his work in the context of Ukrainian and world literature and culture" was held in our gymnasia (April);

10. Krasiuk Roman was elected the gymnasia president;

11. The American Councils in Ukraine reported the names of the finalists of the program FLEX.<0Among the 5 winners from Cherkasy oblast, three were our gymnasia pupils.

12. The agreement was signed between the the Institute of Pedagogy of the NAPS of Ukraine and the First City Gymnasia. Cherkasy (June);

13. Major repairs of the gymnasia’s second took place (July-August);

14. On September 5, the gymnasia was visited by our former graduate, now Ukraine's ambassador to Iran Oleksandr Serhiyovych  Samars'ky;

15. The seminar for school principals of the regional center, "Trends and prospects for the formation of peacekeeping and multicultural activities of a general educational establishment" was held at the gymnasia (September);

16. On October 8, our gymnasia was visited by Mayor Serhiy Odarych. He was interested by the energy savings performance and the progress of the major repairings of the gymnasia façade;

17. The jubilee (5 years) exhibitions "I am a collector" and "My furry friend" were held (October);

18. Ella Bewsey, a volunteer teacher from the UK, began her work (October); 19. A new discussion club "Dialogue of Cultures" was created (October);

20. Yelyzaveta Smirnova, Anton Yakovenko and Ivan Prudius won the city mayor’s scholarships in 2014-2015 academic year;

21. On November 13-15, Khvorostantseva N. V., English teacher,  attended a seminar in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, and became a new Project Coordinator;

22. On November 28-29, the gymnasia participated in XVI All-Ukrainian Conference of the UNESCO Associated Schools;

23. Our gymnasia won (among 100 participants from Ukraine) in the new international project "Open Poland" (December);

24. The gymnasia scouts received and distributed the Bethlehem Light of Peace to several educational establishments in Cherkasy (December);

25. The combined basketball team of the FCG schoolboys became a silver medallist at the city championship (December).