A NEW PROJECT HAS STARTED IN THE GYMNASIA - "JOLLYPHONICS"*

The English courses "JollyPhonics" for 5-6 year olds started their work at our gymnasia. The children learn the language in a relaxed atmosphere using games, songs and stories.  This merry approach, focused on children, is multisensory, and it is based on teaching reading and writing by the method of synthetic phonics. The classes are held every Saturday. The gymnasia project coordinator and the course instructor is Pais, Y. V., a teacher of English. Our gymnasia has become a participant of the joint Anglo-Spanish-Ukrainian project of early learning of the English language and begun piloting the education and methodological support of Jolly Phonics.

 The aim of this course is to provide teachers with the knowledge and skills to become real professionals in teaching children by the method of Jolly Phonics. This April, fourteen teachers have joined the online study course of the method of JollyPhonics that functions on the basis of CPD College in Ireland. We wish good luck to the gymnasia English teachers, who are improving their skills by studying distantly for 3 months (April - June) and will be able to obtain Jolly Phonics international certificates in July 2016. Among the participants of the courses are Basysta L. M., Belyaeva, T. S., Brovchenko Y. S., Duka, O. A., Erdman, L. M., Kaleva, A. O., Kornienko. I. V., Momot Y. V., Omelyanenko O. M., Pais J. V., Rabenco Y. K., Teslenko O. A., Khvorostanceva N. V., Yakovenko N. V.