The question of establishing 15 stipends from the Mayor for 2011-2012 academic year was examined at the collegium meeting of the Department of Education and Humanitarian Policy. Among them there are three Gymnasia pupils: SUKHOBRUS Ihor, VOYEVODA Nikita and MYKHAYLIUK Svyatoslav. Ihor received the stipend for the victory at the 4th stage of the nationwide subject competition, Nikita and Svyatoslav for their sporting achievements (three-time champions of Ukraine in basketball).
Long-standing friendly relations have existed between the Gymnasia and the P. Touara School, Genoa, Italy. For more than 5 years have the Gymnasia pupils and teachers been in correspondence by post, and in recent years also by e-mail. Belyaeva T.S, an English teacher, and her pupils were especially successful in correspondence. This summer the Gymnasia was visited by J. Horzihlia, an English teacher from Italy. Giovanna had a meeting with the Gymnasia administration, saw different classrooms and the library, and talked to teachers and pupils. Her acquaintance with historical and cultural monuments of Ukraine was especially interesting. The guest went home full of unforgettable impressions of the Gymnasia and this country. Numerous Ukrainian souvenirs are a wonderful memory of the visit. By the way, many of them are exhibited in Giovanna’s classroom.
On October 20 a winner of the All-Ukrainian Olympiad in German (1st place) Natalia Valeyeva will go to the capital to get a debit card for receiving the stipend from the President of Ukraine.
The festivities will be held at the National Technical University of Ukraine "Kyiv Polytechnic Institute", in the conference room of the Academic Council, in block No. 1.
Another Gymnasia pupil, the last year graduate Victoria Dyachenko, will also receive the stipend debit card. Now, she is a student of a Kyiv university.
This year 4 pupils from Cherkasy will receive the Presidential stipend, 2 of them are from the FCG and 2 are from the PHYMLY.
The Gymnasia has recently received the certificate «Addvantage Bronze» presented by the British Council in Ukraine, Kyiv. The Certificate ascertains the results of the FCE courses at the Gymnasia for the previous academic year.
This level of international partnership gives several advantages:
· a standard level of service
· the Certificate that the Gymnasia registers candidates for Cambridge ESOL exams;
· selections of promotional and advertising materials for classrooms;
· subscription to the examination bulletin;
· a desktop calendar with the dates of all examinations administered by the British Council.
Let’s remind you that on October 8 about 50 Gymnasia and other Cherkasy region schools’ graduates began to study at the FCE training courses here. The courses work on Saturdays.
Recently the issue of visiting Poland by the Interact members has beencompletely settled. After visiting the Polish Embassy onOctober 7, it was reported that there should not be problems with the visas. The visit will take place on October 22 - 30. 11 members of the delegation (8 children and 3 adults) will spend a week in the small town of Jelenia Gora, a resort town, near the city of Wroclaw. The Interact members will visit the unique miniature park in Poland, a school in Kovar, the ancient castle Ksiaz, Ksheshov Monastery, the world famous Shklarski Poreba, etc. On October 28, the delegation from Ukraine will participate in the All-Polish Interact meeting.
Let’s remind you that most members of the delegation are senior Gymnasia pupils, the Interact members.
The portal http://battle.comfy.ua/school/798 announced an action, the idea of which is to organize support of educational institutions in order to get the most advanced computer class. It is necessary to vote for this or another school from social networks and ... the expected class may "appear in here. However, we are still lagging behind. Let’s support our dear Gymnasia!
The Gymnasia Administration announces an admission of Form11 graduates from the city schools to groups in preparation for taking the International Cambridge exam in English FCE (First Certificate in English). The pupils, who will successfully complete the training course and pass the exam, will be exempted from taking the Final State Examination in English, receive a “12” in it and a "12" as their mark for the year into the certificate.
The Youth Club "SPIVDRUZHNIST’” (Commonwealth) in Berdyansk and the Ukrainian Youth public organization "Debate Academy" invited our Gymnasia team composed of Ozeran Mariya, Ocheretyanko Anastasiya and Soloviova Olga to participate in the International Debate Tournament for pupils "Berdyansk Ring-2011". It will be held on September 9-11, 2011 at the children’s camp "Chervona Hvozdyka” (Red carnation) (Berdyansk, Zaporizhzhya Region). Matlo Maksym Mykolayovych, a coach, will accompany the team on the trip. Theteam was prepared by Sylenko V.A.
The Gymnasia administration reports that on September 10-11, 2011 the selection of applicants for participation in the Future Leaders Exchange Program (FLEX) will be held. It is required that competitors must have the date of birth between 1. 01. 1995 and 15. 07. 1997, study at Forms 8-10, have Ukrainian citizenship.
The selection will begin on September 10 at 10. 00 a.m. at our Gymnasia.
The program coordinator at the Gymnasia is Ananieva N.V. (for the FCG pupils and their parents).
ATTENTION: The pupils-candidates must have their parents’ written consent to processing personal data. The form of such a certificate can be downloaded from http://www.americancouncils.org.ua/uk/pages/10
Attention! The certificate form will be available beginning with September 4.
The Website of the Regional Re-training Institute of Educators posted the summary of EST for 2011. One can get to know them at http://oipopp.ed-sp.net/content/category/26/171/89
We have good results in foreign languages, history and mathematics. Especially impressive is the best result in the city in English - 77% of the quality of knowledge! The results arealso great in Ukrainian- 67% of the quality of knowledge, History - 68% , Biology - 65%, Mathematics - 57%.
For personal contribution to the formation of Ukraine's independence, strengthening its sovereignty and international authority, services in the state, socio-economic, scientific, cultural and educational activities, conscientious and impeccable service to the Ukrainian people I decide:
To confer an honorary status:
“HONOURED TEACHER OF UKRAINE “ to
Bereslavs’ka Valentyna Ivanivna – a teacher of Cherkassy City Council First City Gymnasia.
Our congratulations to Valentyna Ivanivna on the well-deserved status!
According to preliminary information, 10% of our 2011 graduates have entered several universities in Europe and America. All of them have got international language certificates, studying without which would be impossible. Thus, Serhiy Drobysh, the FLEX-2010 finalist, entered the prestigious English University of St. Andrews http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk; Katheryna Rad’ko, will study in Warsaw.
There are students, the Gymnasia graduates, at universities in Poland, Italy and Latvia.
The administration has a plan of creating the Center for International Education at the Gymnasia in 2011.
Much attention is paid at the Gymnasia to broadening cooperation with other schools in the city, state, and abroad, higher educational establishments. In 2011 we only signed association agreement with the Lesya Ukrainka Gymnasia № 117, a Gymnasia in Genoa, Italy, the U.S. Peace Corps in Ukraine, etc.
On August 11the Gymnasia principal conducted talks with the Head of the Cherkassy Banking Institute Mykola Dmytrenko on the subject of prospective association agreement. There was a meaningful and substantive talk between the parties about the prospects of joint activities.
On August 10, two teams of the Gymnasia pupils registered to participate in the competition ALLIANTE - 2011. This team consists of 11th Form girls and the 9th Form boys. Much preparatory work had preceded the registration. The Project Leader is Sylenko V.A., a History teacher. The ALLIANTE contest is very popular in Europe and Ukraine. For various reasons, the competition was not held last year.
Besides this project, we participate in the School of Debate Movement Leaders.The training will be held in the Carpathians. On the Gymnasia’s part, Matlo Maxim, a new teacher, will participate in it.
Recently, the last Ukrainian participant of the Rotary exchange program, who spent one academic year in the U.S., arrived in Cherkassy. The Gymnasia pupil Bryk Victoria was the last who participated in this program. Unfortunately, Ukraine has no special certificate for carrying out such exchanges, and its receiving by Ukraine is a vague prospect.
Rotary exchange projects are similar to those of FLEX, but are simpler in execution.
Victoria and her parents were extremely pleased with her participation in the program. They plan to tell us about the course of learning in the Gymnasia media, as well as during the direct communication.
Recently, unknown Cherkasy residentsasked the principal for meeting.During the meeting, the former Cherkasy residents, living now in Zhukovsky, near Moscow, donated the Gymnasia a book by Anatoliy Pol’skiy, a former Gymnasia graduate. Such was the request ofthe former graduate, who recently celebrated his 90th anniversary.
Anatoliy Pol’skiy graduated from this schoolin 1938, rose to the rank of Major General of the Russian Air Force. In the book "70 years of serving to the Russian Air Force", the author mentions School No. 1, which he graduated with honors.
The book was handed over to the library. So, you can borrow it beginning with September.
On July 25, the visit of the Italians to our school ended. The teacher and her sister from Genoa stayed almost a week here, getting acquainted with the city, Ukraine and the Gymnasia. They traveled to Uman, Kyiv, met with many people. This is the first visit of Giovanna Gorziglia and her sister Paula to Ukraine.
On July 25, the guests met with the principal of the Gymnasia. The guests received suggestions for a possible expansion of cooperation, were awarded traditional guest certificates.
In the afternoon, the visitors left for the airport.
In May Gymnasia Seventh and Eighth form pupils took the A1 level examination for receiving the Certificate of Spanish as a foreign language at the DELE testing centre at Cherkasy First City Gymnasia. Our congratulations to the Gymnasia pupils Alina Bilan, Bohdan Kuzmenko, Amelia Kovalenko, Nastya Mekheda, Yulia Hanenko, Dasha Gavrikova, Valeriya Sluchyns’ka on the successful passing of the DELE international Spanish language exam. It should be noted that the Gymnasia pupils received high scores. Thus, Sluchynska V. - 94 points, Kovalenko A. - 88 points out of 100 possible.
We already reported that the exhibition "The world in paint", at which works by Honchar Aya, our Gymnasia Form 8A pupil,would be exhibited, would be opened in the city library named after LesyaUkrainkaon July, 15. The exhibition was solemnly opened at 3.00 p.m.Itsopening was attended by Vinogradov D.S., the president of Alliance Francaise,Luc Barry and Jonathan Tolyahen, teachers from France,young artists fromCherkasy.
The Gymnasia principal was also present at the opening of the exhibition. Aia promised that she would exhibit her works in the Gymnasia in autumn. In the picture: Aia is near her works.
