On May 11-12, Kornienko G. L., a vice-principal, had the opportunity to participate in the Ukrainian-German seminar on "Effective forms and methods of civil participation of children and youth", which took place in Kyiv. The project "We can do more! Promoting civil participation of youth in Ukraine, Russia and Georgia" is implemented in Ukraine in partnership with the public organization "Agency of educational policy development", Ukraine and DRA "Deutsch-RussischerAustausch", Germany with the support of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Germany.
During the seminar, German and Ukrainian trainers acquainted its participants with the experience of implementing the M18 project, progressive tools to attract youth, active methods of creating and implementing the project in cooperation with local stakeholders. A German expert will also share their experience of participation of children and young people in Germany.
Now, the gymnasia has to initiate, manage and advise on the children's project. At the end of September, an online voting for the best initiative will start, and the teams that will prepare and implement the best social projects will have the opportunity to see the principles participat in action in Germany. The project envisages a fully funded trip for the representatives of the teams of the three best projects to Berlin in December 2016 (10 people altogether). Besides, on October 29 2016, the team members will have the opportunity to present their projects in Kyiv at the youth forum, which will be held at Kyiv State Administration.
If you have ideas and are interested in the project, contact Kornienko G. L., its coordinator.
On April 17-19, 2016 the AUYBL final among boys born in 2000 was held in the town of Yuzhniy. Our gymnasia pupils, Oleksandr Lichevetzky, Form 9A, and Andriy Korobko, Form 9B, became bronze winners at the championship of Ukraine as players of the team "Cherkasy monkeys – 2000, KDYUSSH-1". Let us congratulate the winners and wish them new victories in the next season.
On May 6, 2016 the games of II stage (regional) of the Ukrainian Basketball Championship in the format of 3x3 among teams of secondary schoolboys and -girls were held in the gym of Cherkasy educational complex "General Educational School of I-III stages – Lyceum of athletic profile No. 34". The FCG team of Andriy Korobko, Andriy Krasnoshchokov and Daniil Semko became regional champions of Year 2015-2016 in the age group of the pupils born in 2001 and later.
According to order No. 379 "About holding the final stage of all-Ukrainian student tournaments in 2015/2016 academic year" issued by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on 04. 04. 2016, the final stage of all-Ukrainian tournament of young philosophers and theologians will be held in Poltava region on May 4-7, 2016.
The gymnasia team, which is going to participate in the tournament, consists of four Form 10A pupils: Masiuk Polina, Kudiy Anna, Orel Yelyzaveta and Shandra Victor.
The team leader is Duka Olha Anatoliivna.
The team coach is Sylenko Valeriy Anatoliyovych.
The tournament's venue is the Municipal enterprise "Horyzont" children's sport and health centre" of Kremenchuh district.
The tournaments are similar to the all-Ukrainian Olympiads, but participation in them is paid. Gymnasia students haven't participated in such tournaments for long, now the practice of participation in them is being restored.
We wish our students a good performance and victory!
Before the May holidays, the American councils in Ukraine announced the national winners of their right to annual training in the United States. Among those in "seventh heaven" were two girls from our gymnasia, Masiuk Polina and Paliy Anastasia.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE GIRLS!!!!!
According to the unconfirmed reports, 5 finalists from Cherkasy will study in the United States this year.
In a month, three gymnasia pupils, whose time of training is running out, will return from the US.
The gymnasia pupils Strilets'ka Polina, Tsykunova Daria, Lagutin Ilya and Chuhay Oleksiy participated in XVI Open City Conference of senior students "UN Model. Ukraine. Kryvyi Rih – 2016", which was held on April 21-23 on the basis of Kriviy Rih Comprehensive secondary School No. 68.The subject of the conference was "Role of international community in combating terrorism". For getting high awards, Illya, who read out the text of the resolution of his Committee, lacked a little experience, as well as Polina, who put forward arguments FOR and AGAINST the resolution of the Committee in which she worked. Summarizing, we can confidently say that it was a good start…
It was a good rehearsal for such events in the future.
On April 21, representatives of the Cherkassy police came to the lesson to our 9th-10th formers to give them a talk about the rules of the road regulations for cyclists. In addition, the law enforcement officers told the children about their work, their internal beliefs and how to act in extreme situations: if lost, robbed or saw offences.
The pupils put the policemen a lot of questions, most of them were interested in how modern policemen worked, what they were armed and equipped with, how fast they reacted to the messages about committing offences.
Such meetings are very useful as the children understand better the work of the police and perceive them as protectors and helpers, not as harsh "punishers". Besides, the information, received during the meeting, will allow them to anticipate unpleasant situations and to avoid law violation.
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.
In the framework of the Year of the English language in Ukraine, the public organization GoGlobal has joined the initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and together with Microsoft and partners have developed a new format of children's school camps – camps with profound studying of English.
The project was named "GoCamps". The main task of the project team is to show children that learning languages is easy and simple. A summer camp can also be fun, entertaining and bright.
The selection of the schools participating in the project GoCamps has been completed! According to the results of the selection 119 schools out of 20 regions will receive the status of "GoCamp". In general, more than 7, 000 children will be able to relax in the camps of a new generation - camps with profound studying of English.
This was announced by the organizers of the project today. Our gymnasia is also among those who received the right to organize such a summer camp. Besides us, School No. 28 will participate in the project too. 7 more schools will represent Cherkasy region.To look at the full list of the schools please visit http://gocamps.com.ua/
This action will be held as part of the year 2016, announced the Year of the English language in Ukraine.
Exchange students always told me that going on a conference with other exchange students is the best time of your staying in the US. Now I understand why. These 5 days were the best in my life. I found so many interesting and awesome people, whom I will remember the rest of my life. This conference helped me to understand our world, other countries, cultures, religions, and people much better. It inspired me to something in my own country using new information that we learned there. Thanks everybody who organized Better Understanding for the Better World a lot. I will never forget these 5 days.
His penetrating, magic voice made the four chairs of the star trainers of the project "The Country's Voice" turn round. He is a tenor of the world famous Ukrainian vocal sextet ManSound. At the native Cherkasy First City Gymnasia Vilen Kil'chenko is still remembered as a diligent pupil and sociable boy who couldn't imagine his life without music.
Valentyna Klimova, Vilen Kil'chenko's former class tutor and Math teacher, believes in his possible victory in the project, too. Although the singer lives in Kyiv nowadays, he lived in Cherkasy for many years.Vilen is well-remembered at his native Cherkasy First City Gymnasia, where he studied from the 2nd to the 8th Form.
According to Valentyna Klimova, Vilen Kilchenko was a diligent pupil and a sociable child.
"It was a strong and friendly class. Vilen was a very well-mannered boy. He somehow managed to be on friendly terms with everbody. I know Vilen has saved that friendship with the classmates up to now. The boys meet with him in Kyiv", says Valentyna Volodymyrivna.
It has become a good gymnasia's tradition to take care of and fix attention on our retired teachers. On April 7, this year, a group of the gymnasia students and teachers visited Uvarova Natalia Ivanivna, who devoted lots of years of her life to teaching at our gymnasia, and congratulated her on the 89th birth anniversary. I hope that this tradition of kindness and humanity will continue in the future. It will also become a good example for future generations of our students.
On 17 March a group of students, pupils schools of the city and region took the International Cambridge exam in English FCE. All the students, without exception, successfully completed the test tasks. The received results once again showed a high level of readiness of the FCG pupils for passing such a complex test. The 11th formers Pecheniy Stas, Stanczuk Mikhailo Zhuravel Artem and Vakulenko Bogdan passed the test at Level B2, Kotenko Zakhar – B1. For the first time in the history of the gymnasia, Anton Potemkin, a 10th former, passed the FCE and even got the highest score of all the participants of the trial. The gymnasia administration and the FCE Centre hope for high achievements of our students in the future.
From 21 to 26 March the week of Francophonie is held at the gymnasia.
La Francophonie (FR. The Francophonie) is a Francophone space of the country, where French is spoken.
The International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF) was founded on March 20, 1970 in Nigeria, uniting its participants around a common language – French. Moreover, the initiators of the movement were not the French but African countries – former France's colonies. Over the years of the OIF’s existence, 70 countries have become its members, 56 of them are full members and 14 observers. At the 2006 summit of La Francophonie in Bucharest, the status of observer was given to the Ukraine.
The Coordinator of the Week at the gymnasia is T. G. Mokrushina, a French teacher.
From now on, several of our gymnasia pupils together with the teacher of the English language Kirsanova E. V. are in Ireland, where they are going to learn English and get acquainted with the history and culture of this country. The project has been implemented under the agreement with the Polish language center English point, which was signed on June 26, 2013. Every day, the project participants from 9 a.m to 2 p.m. study English, and after lunch implement various projects, travel, visit museums and theaters.
On March 17, the English-speaking world celebrated St. Patrick's Day. St. Patrick's Day was proclaimed a Christian holiday in the early seventeenth century. This day symbolizes adoption of Christianity in Ireland, and is a holiday of Ireland’s cultural heritage. On St. Patrick's Day, mass celebrations, parades and festivals take place, ceili, traditional Irish dances, are performed, and everybody puts on green clothes and adorn themselves with a shamrock.
This year, our gymnasia joined the mass festive celebrations for the first time at the initiative of Rabenko Yulia Kostiantynivna and Pais Yulia Valentynivna, teachers of English. On the eve of the holiday, our 5th-6th formers made shamrocks, distributed on March 17 by 10-b formers on duty to students and teachers who didn't come in green clothing.
During the day, one could see presentations about the celebration of St. Patrick's Day in the world and listen to the traditional Irish music on the gymnasia's main monitor. However, the main action expanded during a long break after the 3rd lesson. At first, Potiomkin Anton, a 10-B former, held a parade, in which 5th-6th formers participated. During the march the pupils declaimed in English rhymed greetings on St. Patrick's Day.
After the green parade, everyone present could pull holiday wishes out of a magical green pot. Besides, a master-class of traditional Irish dancing was held for the pupils, who wanted to feel like real Irish people. Our pupils became apparent incendiary dancers of ceili. That day, junior gymnasia pupils met the most active participants of the parade with merry wishes on St. Patrick's Day.
Hence, as the Irish say, "May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you morning and night!"
On February 29, the boys from our gymnasia basketball team received Diplomas for the THIRD place at the city championship, which ended last week. They deservedly won a bronze medal, although the players did everything in their power to climb to the highest step of the championship. Taking into consideration that all the players are now mostly 9th and 10th graders, they are still having a chance. Oleksandr Molchanov, the team’s coach, firmly believes this.
That day the pupils enjoyed eating a specially made cake with a basketball ball... and volleyball net. Apparently, the confectioners hinted that we also needed to develop volleyball at the gymnasia.
On February 8 and 9 2016, the workshop Jolly Phonics was held at Cherkasy Regional Institute of Advanced Training of Pedagogical workers. It was conducted by Coral George, a teacher from the UK, a certified trainer of the program of early teaching English to young children.
Teaching kids, Coral uses Jolly Phonics and explains that children have an interest in learning the language right after the first lesson. Coral works with various teachers, universities and language schools in the world. She is currently working with her team of trainers to help teachers from Cherkasy region to master the latest methods of teaching reading and other speech skills.
6 schools in Cherkasy region have become the first participants in Ukraine of the joint English-Spanish-Ukrainian project of early teaching of the English language and begin to pilot training and methodological support of Jolly Phonics.
10 teachers from our gymnasia (Belyaeva T. S. Basysta L. M., Pais Y. V., Brovchenko Y. S., Rabenko Y. K., Momot Y. V., Teslenko O. A., Duka O. A., Kaleva A. O., Kornienko I. V.) participated in the workshop.
On February 8, a formal application was filed to participate in the annual conference of the UNESCO Associated schools, which will be held on March 29-30 in Kyiv. The team consists of Ohadzhanyan Arsen and Krasiuk Roman, both are 11th graders and have experience in such events. Arsen was a finalist of the FLEX program, Roman was a gymnasia president and an active participant of the project "Model UN".
Kornienko G. L., a vice-principal, was appointed the team leader.
The principal issued an order, assigning people responsible for preparing the team for the conference.
All participation costs will be paid for by the charitable trust "To Ukraine through Education".
During the enforced vacations, international certificates of Spanish came to the address of the gymnasia from Cervantes Institute, Spain.
At the end of the previous year, several gymnasia students and students from Oleksandria (Kirovograd region) took an exam in Spanish at the DELE centre, which operates on the basis of our gymnasia. The certificates usually arrive in a few weeks.
On February 8, the students will be awarded the certificates.
Let us call to mind that the DELE Centre is the only one working at a general educational institution in Ukraine.The center employees are Bereslavs'ka V. I. and Yehorova Y. S.
At the end of the previous year in Ukraine was announced the launch of the national Go Global program for English teachers. The project is going to be implemented in the framework of the announced year of learning English. We have received the confirmation that two gymnasia teachers Momot Y. V. and Basysta L. M. were selected to participate in the second round and at the end of February will go to participate in the next qualifying round.
Go Global is a non-party and non-governmental initiative, managed by the Coordination office, which facilitates the operation of the initiative, coordinates and provides communications support, and is supported by the National Council of Reforms of Ukraine.
Its key points include: - a joint initiative of social activists, governments, international and national partners, aimed at strengthening an obligation to learn foreign languages and improve knowledge through educational programs and trainings; - improvement of the level of knowledge of all foreign languages is on the agenda: this year’s priority is learning and using English.
It has become a good gymnasia's tradition to take care of and fix attention on our retired teachers. On April 7, this year, a group of the gymnasia students and teachers visited Uvarova Natalia Ivanivna, who devoted lots of years of her life to teaching at our gymnasia, and congratulated her on the 89th birth anniversary. I hope that this tradition of kindness and humanity will continue in the future. It will also become a good example for future generations of our students.
