8 pupils from different classes wished to participate in the new exchange project, the idea of which is that the project participants will spend a few days at the desks of their partner schools. So, on October 13, a group of FCG pupils will live several days the lives of Crimean pupils. The agreement on cooperation with the Crimeans was signed a year ago.
Shvydenko V. V., a vice-principal, will coordinate the project.
This year the gymnasia center of the international organization People to People International is looking forward to an outstanding event. Karina Liashenko, a Form 11 A pupil, has received a grant to participate in the World Youth Forum that will be held from 6 to 10 November in Washington, DC, USA. Young people from all over the world will gather at the event to attend seminars devoted to the development of education in different countries, meet with the leaders of the UNICEF and other international organizations, get acquainted with historical places and monuments of Washington. We are particularly proud that Karina is one of the few who were chosen to be a speaker at this forum. There she will represent Ukraine, the life of the youth in our country and the gymnasia’s activities.
Yesterday, in the late evening, representatives of American Councils issued the results of the FLEX testing round 1. Among those admitted to the second round were 22 FCG pupils. Relatively speaking, we’d like to mention that Gymnasia No. 31 and secondary school No. 17 got 8 pupils each among the participants of the second round, and the HHL got 5.
Today, a hundred of participants did the tasks of the second round of the project. The works will be checked in Kyiv, and those acknowledged the best will be invited to the capital for participation in the third round.
The site editorial board will monitor the course of events and inform its visitors about the results.
Applications for 2014-2015 Chevening Scholarships in Ukraine are now open and will close on 1 November 2013.
The Scholarships not only offer financial support to study for a Master’s degree at the UK’s leading universities, but the opportunity to become part of an influential and highly regarded global network.
We aim to attract talented professionals who are potential future leaders, decision-makers and opinion formers. We accept applications from a wide range of subject areas, however, we particularly welcome applications in the following fields:
Administrative, electoral, constitutional and judicial reform within the framework of closer integration with the EU
Economic reform improvement of the business climate
Energy sector reform, including energy efficiency and environmental management
Yesterday officially came to an end the Ukrainian part of the international project RYLA, which allowed 12 students from 4 Israeli cities and such a lot of our pupils to get knowledge of leadership, volunteerism, to visit different cities of Ukraine, to strike up a friendship.
On September 21, the project participants, local Rotarians, parents of the pupils who hosted the visitors met in a city restaurant where a grand final party was held. The participants discussed the results of their participation in the project, exchanged gifts and had much fun. The Gymnasia principal and the Israeli team leader made long speeches to the participants.
It is expected that the second part of the project will be launched outside the boundaries of Ukraine in the spring of 2014.
In the picture you can see the project participants after recording the TV program ‘Without Barriers" at the ROS’ TV channel.You can watch it on Tuesday.
Our site reported that RYLA, an international project, would be implemented on September, 16. 12 high school students from different cities of Israel will visit us. They will participate in interactive training, attend the FCG, and have trips about Cherkasy Region and Ukraine.
Currently, 12 families are actively preparing to receive guests (staying with families is a No. 1 condition), and just now they can communicate through FACEBOOK.
Let’s recall that the project will last from September 15 to September 22, 2013.
Last summer, a group of the FCG pupils under the guidance of Kirsanovs E. V., a teacher-methodologist of English, visited the town of Rabka Zdroj, Poland, where they took part in the international English language project "English Point" Language Center.
This is the fourth group of the FCG pupils that has attended the training in Poland this year. The result of such study visits is 46 international certificates and signing a formal agreement on international cooperation between Cherkasy First City Gymnasia and "English Point" Language Center, Rabka Zdroj, Poland.
All classes with the FCG pupils were conducted by English native speakers. The pupils had an opportunity to improve their pronunciation, enrich their vocabulary, and improve their conversational level. Interesting and exciting were various presentations, interactive games, group work forms. All tours were conducted entirely in English, but the pupils got most of impressions of the quest in a small town in Slovakia Kezmarok, done in English. Tests of different levels were offered. By the way, the FCG pupils had an opportunity to try their hand at pottery and decorative painting on glass. Visiting Auschwitz, they also had a chance to see what hardships the concentration camp prisoners experienced during World War II. Overall, the trip was interesting, educational and informative.
Another ABC-book was added to the FCG mini-museum’s collection. This time, it is an ABC from Finland. KATERYNA LOTOTS’KA, a Form 6A pupil, brought it this time from her trip to this country. It is interesting to note that this ABC-book has been reprinted from the 1937 edition, being only slightly updated. Isn’t that why the Finnish system of education is the best in the world?
No longer than the next week, the ABC-book will be added to the museum collection.
Recently, the gymnasia was attended by the brothers Alexander and Sergey Saiko, its former graduates, who graduated from our institution in 1970 and 1973, and who found themselves as far as the distant Kuril Islands and the Yamal Peninsula, the Russian Federation. From our site they learned that the Japanese language is taught at the gymnasia, so when one of the brothers traveled to Japan, he did not forget about his alma mater. He bought several Japanese textbooks and, being in Cherkassy, presented them to our pupils. At the principal’s office, they cordially recalled of the years spent at gymnasia.
It's so nice that the gymnasia graduates have been valuing the First for so many years after they left it.
Recently, another exhibit was added to our ABC-Book mini-museum. The first student textbook from far Cambodia has occupied its place in the exhibition thanks to J. P. Gritsenko, a former gymnasia graduate, who left the gymnasia in 1988. Now, she successful works for the U.S. Peace Corps in the program of volunteers’ further service.
Let us recall that we will gratefully accept as a gift or buy ABC-Books used in various countries the world.
Seven senior gymnasia pupils are preparing for training in Belgium this October. Currently they are busy with preparing documents for the visa and settling numerous problems.
It is the twelfth time that our gymnasia pupils will study for a month at the INDA school and stay with French-speaking Belgian families in the small town of Arlon.
Mokrushyna T. G., a teacher-methodologist, has been the project coordinator all these years. We should be thankful to her and Marie-France BARBIER-MATHIS, the president of the Association “Ukraine - Deux Luxembourgs” for the success of the project.
Our site often tells about our gymnasia pupils’ achievements, their tastes and interests.
Adults do not lag behind either. Recently it has become known that Anton Nemesh, our electronics engineer (this is his official job title), goes in for parachuting in his free time. One should be be brave and sober-minded to indulge in this extreme sport. See for yourself.
At his daily work, Anton maintains gymnasia’s computer networks.
The administration of the First City Gymnasia and the School Council will be very glad if you could give us financial help which will be spent on the refurbishment of the school facilities.
This summer a large amount of construction work is going on: we are having major repairs of the ground floor, building a new English Classroom and a Biology and Ecology Lab, renovating the school canteen and other facilities.
We will be very thankful for any material assistance you can give us.
These hot July days the gymnasia has received a certificate from the Embassy of Spain in Ukraine, testifying to the fact, that Yulia Yegorova, a Spanish teacher, has the right to administer exams of levels B1 and B2 at the DELE Center. This was preceded by complex online exams at the Instituto Cervantes in Warsaw. In the past several years, the DELE Centre has to ask the embassy staff to send their experts for administering the exam. From now on there won’t be such a problem. Let’s recall that the DELE Centre is the only one working at a general educational institution in Ukraine, and the exam, accrediting the degree of fluency of the Spanish Language, may be taken twice a year by everyone, learning this foreign language.
The Center’s Head is Bereslavs’ka Valentyna Ivanivna, an Honoured Teacher of Ukraine.
During the last week of July 2013 the Organization of Ukrainian Scouts (OUS) from Lviv and Cherkasy will gather for a six-day area-study Quest "Secrets of Lions." The organizer of the event is the 2nd Lviv Scout squad named after Princess Olga (OUS) and Lviv District (OUS).
Scouts from our gymnasia and all comers who want to learn about the probable participation in the quest should address to Anton Nemesh.
Beginning with Friday, June 14 learning the Korean language is being started at the gymnasia. A young Korean teacher (aged 21) will teach for FREE all comers Korean in room No. 15 from 3 pm to 5 pm every week. The courses will last at least until January 1, 2014.
For additional information, please, call tel. 063 7265907.
Le 5 juin 2013, dans la Maison de professeur de la ville de Kiev, le séminaire éducatif a eu lieu . Il a été organisé par les éditions françaises «DIDIER» et la compagnie «Linguiste» pour les professeurs des écoles secondaires et les enseignants des universités de l’Ukraine. Ce séminaire a été animé par Marguerite Bickel, diplômée d’une licence en langues ainsi que d’un Master en Fle, professeur de français puis responsable des cours dans différentes Alliances Françaises en Afrique et directrice de l’Alliance Française de Moncton au Canada. Le thème traité était : « Le pack numérique Premium Didier Fle avec labo de langue : une classe vivante, interactive et personnalisée ! »
According to the results of the contest "ENERGY HERO", declared by its jury, our former gymnasia pupil Andrushchenko Denys became a second place winner. He won in the contest nomination "The Best Coordinator of the Youth Campaign "SCHOOLS SAVE THE WORLD" and got 750 UAH in addition to a stylish Diploma.
Andrushchenko Denys, Solohor Anna and Paliy Maksym also got Diplomas of Honour as the finalists of the project in energetic audit in the nomination "PROPER SCHOOL". Chekh O.I., a Computer Math teacher, was the project coordinator.
On June 1, 2013 a number of festivities were held for this year school-leavers. Thus, a grand holiday of receiving certificates by the FCG school-leavers took place at the “Peoples’ Friendship” Palace of Culture at 12 a.m. The holiday turned out well, being cordial and dynamic. All the festivity participants talked about that without exception.
At 6 p.m. a column of Cherkasy school-leavers started to move from B. Khmelnitsky Square to Soborna Sqaure. This time our gymnasia moved in the column together with other schools of a new type. We wish the arrangement were a bit more successful. Nevertheless, while moving our school-leavers were not silent; they sang the gymnasia anthem, recited various slogans, etc. Even the sound of not a very high quality in Soborna Square could not spoil the school-leavers’ festive mood.
Till the morning lasted the holiday in the city restaurants where the school-leavers were offered an interesting scenario. In the morning, the school-leavers met the sunrise. LET SUCCESS ATTEND THEM! WE WISH THEM GOOD LUCK!
On May 16, Lienhard Legenhausen, a professor from Münster University, visited our Gymnasia. At first, he had a long conversation with the FCG principal, then he met with the Gymnasia senior pupils and teachers of English, finally he was at a lesson of German. The professor is a well-known expert in English. At the moment, he is staying at Cherkasy National University in Cherkasy, and he has wanted to meet with the FCG pupils.
The principal presented the guest with a gift and a selection of the FCG newsletter issues.
