We have received Order No. 25 "On carrying out the experimental work based on the school network", issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on January 17, 2015. The Order’s point is that experimental work on "Didactic support of the variable component of the instructional content of foreign languages at primary and basic school" is to be done in 2015-2020.Our gymnasia, Ivankiv lyceum, Kyiv region, Novovolynsk specialized school No. 1, Kyiv School No. 176, and Lviv School-kindergarten"Sofia" were made core ones.
All schools were granted the status of experimental schools of nationwide level.Science-methodological support and assistance in the implementation of the project will be done by the Institute of Innovative Technology and Education Content and the Department of Education and Science of Cherkasy Regional Administration and their structural units.
This year our gymnasia has completed work in another experimental pilot project, which was highly appreciated by the MES and the APS of Ukraine.
The gymnasia is beginning to participate in the Ukrainian-Swedish project "Energy efficient lighting." It will be held as part of the UNDP in Ukraine called "market transformation towards energy-efficient lighting".The issue of energy conservation and efficiency is becoming more urgent every year. They are important not only for the state and business, but also for ordinary citizens.
The project will be implemented during the educational classes and at Physics and Natural science lessons.Our gymnasia has received methodological and video materials from the charitable organization "Teachers for Democracy and Partnership" for younger pupils, basic and senior school pupils: magnets, stickers, bookmarks, transformers, posters for informational showcases, brochures with informational materials for pupils and teachers.
The project cartoon has been shown on the screen of the gymnasia IC since January 19.
The project coordinators are Vynogradova S. O., a vice principal and Yakovenko L. M., a Physics teacher.
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NOTE: In the gymnasia glow lamps are no longer used; fluorescent and energy saving lamps make 80%, LED lamps make 20%.
For many years running friendly partnership links exist between the gymnasia and P. Thouar school (Principal Ivanna Ottonello) in Genoa, Italy. Students and teachers correspond by regular mail and e-mail, take part in the International Program E-twinning, participate in educational exchanges. The proof of deep interest of the Italian school in the development of friendly relationship is the photos which we have recently received. The students of the primary classes (teacher of English Giovanna Gorziglia) are writing letters to their penpals, painting pictures and making handmade things. We are looking forward to your letters, dear friends!
At the end of the last year, the city held the first municipal contest of posters and slogans on energy saving and rational utilization of resources. We received the order of the Municipal Department of Education and Humanitarian Policy with the contest results. MAKHARYNKA Valeria (Form 10) won the FIRST place in the category of "advertising poster-appeal", BROWN Veronika and KOLISNYK Daryna (Form 6) were the THIRD.KAYUK Vasyl’ and KRASIUK Roman from Form10 were the second in the category of "Slogan".
The project was coordinated by Yakovenko L. M., a Physics teacher, who is in charge of the energy saving study. Let's remind you that a modern energy saving study was created in the Physics lab last year. Our gymnasia had impressive results in energy saving in 2014, especially in saving heat and water.
24 schools and 109 pupils from Cherkasy took part in the contest.
The first winners of the gymnasia contest according to the results of the first semester were determined. They are determined by Vynogradova S. O., a vice-principal, that collects the class teachers’reports and summarizes the information.
GYMNASIA PUPIL OF THE YEAR-YEAR 2014-2015:
Among Forms 1-4 — Myronenko Kyryl, a Form 4-B pupil, with an average performance for the semester – 11, 4 points;
Among Forms 5-9 — Oleksandr Zaporozhets, a Form 5-B pupil, with an average performance for the semester – 11, 3 points;
Among Forms 10-11 — Hanenko Yulia, a Form 11-B pupil, with an average performance for the semester – 11, 4 points.
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).
Today, the traditional holiday of Christmas was held for the 5th-formers. The holiday was organized as a great show as a professional director, the father of a fifth former, Illyashenko Anatoliy, foreign language teachers and parents were involved in its preparation. Each class also presented a 1. 5-hour show, retelling the entire story of Christmas. The event was extremely bright thanks to the light and noise effects, the rich decoration of the hall.
The presence of the English Ella Bewsey at the festival added to the special charm and elegance of the language. Momot V. Y., an English teacher, engaged in several parts, successfully helped her. The TV Channel "Ros" made a film about the holiday; the telecast will be shown in the news section tomorrow.
The second (city) stage of the All-Ukrainian subject olympiads is coming to an end. The most generous “crop reaped” was received in foreign languages: 17 winners in English, 10 - in French and 5 – in German. There are prize winners in almost all subjects. The names of winners will soon be published on the website in the appropriate section.
This year the Olympics were not held in Law, Russian, Spanish, Technology and Physical Education.
The third (regional) stage of the All-Ukrainian subject olympiads will be held in January next year.
On December 19 the finale of the city school youth basketball championship was held in the Palace of Sports “BUILDER”. Our team played an extremely complicated game with the team of the Collegium “BEREGINYA”. Unfortunately, it was the bitterest defeat of our team - 47 : 75. The advantage of the Collegium players was known in advance, they had clearly beaten everyone in their zone, and in the semi-final and final. Still, previously won matches, allowed our team to get the second place city championship.
The high level of the final is worth noting.
Congratulations to our basketball players! Congratulations to the coach Oleksandr Molchanov!
On St. Nicholas day of a small group of our Interact members welcomed pupils from special school №37 on the holiday. The Club president Ivan Lementovskiy and Dariya Alexandrova congratulated the school pupils and expressed their wish to promote cooperation of the Interact with the school collectives. The Interact members presented the school pupils with volley-balls and two sets for playing tennis.
This is the second visit of the Interact to the special school where children with hearing impairments are educated.
On December 13, 2014 the third stage of XV Petro Yatsyk International Contest of Ukrainian Language was held. 95 talented participants - pupils from Forms 3 - 11 - winners of the 2nd (district / city) phase took part in it.
The contest participants demonstrated a good theoretical command, the ability to use the means of their native language, its styles as well as the knowledge of the phonetic, lexical, word-formation, grammar and spelling system of the Ukrainian language.
The creative works of the winners stood out for deep meaning, a perfect form, independence of conclusions, active stand in the authors’ life.
Among the winners is our gymnasia fifth former - Zaporozhets Oleksandr, who won the first prize.
This piece of information is given by the site of the Regional Institute of Retraining Pedagogical Workers.
On December 6 students of the 9th grades took an international exam PET for Schools (Preliminary English Test) for the first time in the history of First City Gymnasia. It is an English language examination provided by Cambridge English Language Assessment (previously known as University of Cambridge ESOL). Cambridge English Preliminary is an intermediate level qualification which demonstrates the ability to communicate using English for everyday purposes. From 2009, in response to increased use of Cambridge English exams within schools, Cambridge English Language Assessment introduced versions of some of its exams designed for school-age students — PET for Schools. Both versions of the exam lead to the same qualification. Both versions have the same exam format (three exam papers: reading and writing, listening and speaking) – the only difference is that the topics in the ‘for Schools’ version have been targeted at the interests and experiences of school-aged learners. According to the results the candidates get Level A2, B1, B1+ or B2 certificate.
Students of the 9th grades together with the teacher N.V. Khvorostantseva have been preparing for the exam for 2 months. Last Saturday 11 students tried their best and took the exam. They were assessed by three examiners fron Kyiv (2 Ukrainians and a British). The results will be known on January 26, 2015
Overfilled with positive impressions and a desire to start cooperation with Kyiv Scandinavian Gymnasia, our gymnasia pupils came back from VI Regional conference of senior pupils "Model UN: Scandium – 2014". It was the first experience of participating in the project for our pupils. The team from our gymnasia represented Germany at the conference. Kulyk Denys, Kravets Valya, Lementovskyy Ivan, Krasiuk Roman and Daria Mel'nyk worked in various committees and took part in the final ball. The gymnasia pupils were accompanied by Pomoinitskiy Maksym. In addition to the team from our gymnasia, Cherkasy were represented at the conference by pupils from School No. 28, Gymnasia No. 9 and a Specialized school of I - III Stages No. 17.
Kulyk Denys and Kravets Valya were acknowledged the best delegates.
All the project participants met yesterday with the gymnasia activists and emotionally told them about the participation at the conference.
Traditionally, the DELE exam is held at the FCG Centre in November. The exam was held on November 22. This time the exam was taken at the DELE center by 8 candidates who claimed to get the certificates of 4 levels: A1, A2, B1, C1. There were five pupils from our gymnasia among them.The candidates for receiving the international certificate showed a high level of proficiency in the oral round. The exam was set by the gymnasia teachers Bereslavs'ka V. I. and Yegorova Y. S., who are certified by Cervantes Institute for all levels. The candidate must score at least 70% of the total points in all kinds of speech activity. So, to get a DELE diploma is not an easy task.
Several weeks running at the request of Cherkasy volunteers, the gymnasia pupils, teachers and parents gathered food and warm clothing for the ATO participants in eastern Ukraine. We have already collected those two times and handed them to the ATO zone, for which were warmly thanked by Ukrainian soldiers from battalion CHERKASY.
Now, the third load for our soldiers is being ready. The project at gymnasia is coordinated by Vynogradova S. O., vice-principal, tel 540 572.
Please join this noble and much-needed deed.
Let us remember you that 8, 000 USD recently raised by the pupils were handed the ATO soldiers who were wounded during the fighting.
On November 13-15 the teacher of English Khvorostantseva N.V. attended the seminаr, the aim of which was to aquaint the participants with New York University in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates. A tour around the campus was very interesting. By the way, the tour guide was our countryman Roman Kohut from Stryi, FLEX alumnus. Meetings with the Vice Chancellor Mr. Bloom, the faculty members and students from Ukraine, Moldova, Korea, Taiwan and China were pretty informative. All the participants were impressed by an extraordinary approach to teaching which was demonstrated by the Dean of Science for NYU Abu Dhabi, professor David Scicchitano, who conducted a Biology lesson fragment. The impressions of the seminar are unforgettable. New York University in Aby Dhabi is waiting for the best representtives of students from all over the world.
On November 18 Khvorostantseva N.V. met with the students of the 10th-11th grades and told them about a wonderful opportunity of getting hidher education abroad.
Every day everybody who cares and wants operations to be completed is activating their help to fighters.
Activities connected with the help to the ATO participants united the Gymnazia pupils from Form 10-B led by their class teacher Bereslavs'ka V. I. "At one point we have all just understood that saving the lives of Ukrainian soldiers and the country itself depends to some extent on us indeed."
More than once have the fighters been saved with body armor and helmets, but these are not enough at the front, a lot of things are needed there – from clothes to materiel.
This time the pupils took an active part in weaving camouflage nets "spiders". It is extremely vital to ensure combat readiness of the forces, so helping the ATO participants helps us better understand that operating with joint efforts is always easier.
We welcome everybody who cares to join to useful activities and hope that our work will support and help the ATO participants.
Today, about ten members of the Interact visited pupils at special needs school No. 37, located in the D residential area of the regional center. Children from Cherkasy with the defect of hearing are brought up here. The Interact members were present at several lessons, saw how the children are taught the basics of science at a special needs school. Finally, the school pupils showed a small concert using voice and a language of gestures that really touched the Interact members.The guests were especially welcomed by the school principal Zhanyayko Iryna Frantsivna that told the club members in details about the specifics of this institution. The pupils of secondary school No. 37 welcomed the guests.
At the next Interact meeting its members will consider a question of the beginning of the project based on the visited institution.
On October 30, two American teachers form the-Lithuanian University of LCC are in the gymnasia. They will conduct three lessons- trainings for pupils of senior classes, will meet teachers of the city, who teach English and hold a seminar for them, and at 3 pm they will conduct preliminary interviews with all those comers from the city who want to check their proficiency in English, and probable entering the university. At present two former gymnasia leavers are students in Klaipeda, Lithuania, where the LCC is situated.
To the 135th anniversary of the gymnasia, which is decided to celebrate on November 20, 2015, the gymnasia administration announces a contest of videos I AM PROUD OF MY GYMNASIA, in which pupils, teachers and parents, former graduates can participoate.The video can be shot with a camcorder, cell phone or other devices. The time length of the video is 5 minutes. Any language that is studied at gymnasia may do.
The videos must be submitted to Tan’ko Oleksander, an electronics technician by March 1, 2015. The winners will be rewarded with cash prizes, the best work will be shown to the guests at the celebration of the anniversary.
