During the celebration of the 135th anniversary, Cherkasy First City Gymnasia was awarded an Honorary Diploma of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine for successes in polulingual education, multicultural upbringing of pupils, implementation of international cooperation, signed by its President Kremen’ V. H.
For considerable personal contribution in teaching, upbringing and development of the younger generation, research and experimental activities Sayenko S. I., the FCG principal, was awarded the medal "Academician N. D. Yarmachenko" and Ananyeva N. V., Ph. D., a vice principal, was awarded the medal of K. D. Ushinsky.
They were congratulated and awarded by Topuzov O. M., doctor of pedagogical sciences, Professor, the Director of the Institute of Pedagogy of the NAPS of Ukraine and V. H. Red'ko, Ph.D., the Head of the Training Department of foreign languages of the Institute of Pedagogy.
On November 9, VI All-Ukrainian student conference "Linguistic Image of the Modern Ukrainian" was held within the celebration of the Day of the Ukrainian written language at Cherkasy specialized school No. 28 named after T. G. Shevchenko.
During the final meeting, the participants (teachers and students) received certificates for qualitative preparation. A lot of students, among them were our two gymnasia students-sisters: Daryna Strilet’ska and Polina Strilet’ska (teacher Korytan N. I.), were nominated as best speakers.
The All-Ukrainian student conference "Linguistic Image of the Modern Ukrainian" has been organized by School No. 28 for several years on end.It was initiated by the School’s principal Skoryk T. A., a teacher of Ukrainian language.
On 23 October, 2015 the gymnasia's Center for children's diplomacy held the action "Reading in foreign languages" during long breaks. The CCD members (Forms 5-8) offered the pupils books and magazines in foreign languages, which before this action had been kept in the reception room. A lot of teachers and pupils, coming to the tables on which literature in various languages was put, got interested in separate editions and took them for reading. The next event of the Center for children's diplomacy is the presentation in court of credentials to the President CCD by ambassadors of different countries, members of the organization. The speech should be announced in four languages: Ukrainian, Russian, English and the second foreign one.
Mykhailyk Frol, a gymnasia 9B former, has become the champion of Ukraine in combat sambo among young men born in 2001-2002 in the weight category of 39 kg. The competition was held in Irpin, Kyiv region.
And last week he returned from Kirovograd where he won the first place at the Kirovograd region’s open championship in Pankration-FULL Grappling, Pankration-tradyshn in NOU-GI section, among young men born in 2000-2001 in the weight category of 43 kg.
Our congratulations to Frol. He often appears on our website with high sporting achievements.
On October 19, 2015 Potiomkina Olha Vasylivna, the head of the gymnasia methodological association of teachers of foreign languages, visited the British Ambassador’s residence in Kyiv, where she participated in a reception organized by the British Embassy for the representatives of the official centers of taking Cambridge English Language Assessment international examinations. The Reception was visited by Mrs. Judith Ghosh, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain to Ukraine, Mr. Arek Jaworski, the Head of Marketing in Northern Europe, Oksana Kovalenko, a chief specialist of the sector of language policy at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, other officials. They congratulated those present on the occasion and stressed the importance of increasing the popularity of learning English for further of Ukraine’s integration to the world community and focused on the fact that obtaining international language certificates is the open door to European education for Ukrainian students.
Tetiana Hnatenko has been living and studying in one of the US schools on the international program Rotary’s Youth Exchanges for the second month in a row.
Tanya lives in a Rotary family, attending an American public school.The Rotarians have taken all the care of the participating member of the program.
Tanya's stay in the US, according to her, is full of a lot of extraordinary events and meetings. The last "discovery" for the gymnasia pupil was the visit of the participants of the Rotary exchanges to New York.
Tanya promises to write more about her stay in the USA in the December issue of the newsletter “Himnazyst” (Gymnasia pupil).
On October 15, 2015 a sitting of the Debate club "Dialogue of cultures", to which Lydia Didkivs’ka, an employee of the University responsible for work with students, was invited, took place. More than six years, there has been an agreement between LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania, and the gymnasia. Several of our gymnasia graduates study at this private University where all subjects are taught in English and which is fully accredited. Among the gymnasia graduates who successfully study at the University, one can mention Denys Andrushchenko and Taras Bielecki. Lydia Didkivs’ka showed a multimedia presentation about the university to the 10th and 11th formers. The pupils listened with interest about the benefits of studying at the University, watched the slides of its comfortable classrooms and dorms, got acquainted with traditional cultural and sporting events and were eager to watch the movie about the University. The guest gladly answered numerous questions asked by the pupils. In November 2015, all the interested pupils will take an English test and will be interviewed.
Everybody who studies German in Forms 5-11 came to a special lesson today.
Karnaukhova N. K., a teacher of German, conducted an interesting and informative lesson, instructed on holding an experiment at home, checked the present pupils’ knowledge of saving electricity, heat and water. The participants watched and discussed German films with great interest.
On Thursday and Friday, the project participants will visit Secondary school No. 28, call our residents for saving energy resources in transport, analyze the results of the experiments at home, meet with the German organizers of the project, will conduct an energy audit in the Mayor's office.
The authors of the site have created a special section where everyone can read about the project, look over interesting information.
The Warsaw Judo Open tournament, which was held in Warsaw, gathered about 1200 young athletes from 25 countries of Europe. Several sportmen from Cherkasy won their medals at the prestigious European tournament too, among them was our gymnasia pupil Ivan Prudius.
Three age groups – U-15, U-17 and U-20 participated in the competition. It is interesting to note that Cherkasy region was represented at the tournament by two athletes and both of them managed to win individual prizes.
Our Ivan Prudius (trained by Alla Nazarenko) became the champion in the weight category of 42 kg. In general, the Ukrainians brought 6 awards from the Polish tournament.
Ivan's candidacy was proposed for winning the Mayor's grant in 2015-2016 school year.
On October 9, Cherkasy audience was entertained at the Central stadium by two well-known Ukrainian groups "Boombox" and "Pianoboy". The musicians were invited to create the largest fan zone in support of Ukraine’s national football team, which played yesterday in Macedonia.
We are pleased that Andriy Khlyvniuk, the leader of the BOOMBOX, is our former graduate.
During the celebration of the gymnasia’s 130th anniversary he sent a video greeting, so his visit to Cherkasy became an original gift to our current anniversary.
The other day the Center of children’s and youth's creativity gathered over thirty young taekwondists from Cherkasy and Smila. All of them are representatives of the sports club "Cherkasy Tigers" (managed by Yevheniy Grytsai). The match was named "The Battle of Champions" and was a dress rehearsal before the regional championship, and its main prize was the challenge gold cup.
Among the taekwondists were not only brave boys but also girls that can be admired. It was the young sportswomen that were an example of a combination of tenderness, courage and steadfastness in single combats. One of them is eleven-year-old Mariya Murnik, our young gymnasia Form 6A pupil, who has been attending the club for four years, and has high achievements at her age. The girl is the champion of the region and Ukraine, a green belt holder in taekwondo, so she is not sorry for choosing this sport.
From February to May, 2015 Form 8A pupils from the First City Gymnasia, led by Belyaeva T. S., an English teacher, participated in the eTwinning project called “Hello, who's there?”, which was initiated by teachers from Poland and Romania.
Pupils and teachers from such countries as Poland, Greece, Portugal, Lithuania and Romania participated in this project. The main goal of the project was the creation of presentations on different subjects and the exchange of electronic messages among students. In the course of implementing the project the pupils learned a lot about the traditions, way of life, culture and hobbies of children from around the world. They exchanged photos and emails in which they wrote about themselves and their country, put a variety of questions to pupils from other countries and created presentations on such topics as "My city", "My school" and "The System of Education in Ukraine" and uploaded them on Twinspace where pupils and teachers from other countries had the opportunity to look them over and leave their comments.
On the last day of September it became known that the "X International festival of amateur, student and non-commercial professional films "KINOKIMMERIA 2015", which takes place in Kherson, Anton Yakovenko’s work Dурман received the Grand Prix.
Anton has been making films not for long, but his works have never remained without a prize. This is his first Grand Prix he has ever received.
The story is about a writer who meets a swindler in search of a story for his book. In order to make the work more truthful, the main character decides to participate in a real swindle.
The film starred the director’s gymnasia classmates Arseniy Ugorchuk, Kristian Voloshchenko, Oleksiy Chygyryk, Oleksandr Shvets, Denys Kulyk, a last year graduate, and the author himself.
Until quite recently, Anton was successfully engaged in art, some of his paintings are in the gymnasia and private collections of our citizens, he is the Interact current President.
A three-day seminar organized by the Goethe-Institute for German language teachers and teachers of natural sciences ends up in Kyiv. Vynohradova S. O. and Karnaukhova N. K. are representing our gymnasia at the seminar.
The project is called "Save energy"; it will be conducted in collaboration with the Association "Energy-efficient Cities of Ukraine".The goal of the future project, in which our gymnasia students will participate, is to take part in energy saving projects, be motivated for learning German, etc.
To join to the project, contact Vynohradova S. O. starting with September 24.
The students of the First City Gymnasia celebrated the international day of peace with a parade. They walked along Shevchenko Boulevard from their school to the building of the city Council, reminding Cherkasy dwellers about this holiday. This holiday was established by the United Nations in 1982 as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence. All countries and peoples are encouraged to respect the cessation of hostilities during this day. This day in 1986 at the initiative of the philosopher and peacemaker Sri Chinmoy the symbolic Peace Walk took place for the first time. Now people in more than 100 countries take part in the Peace March every year on the UN International Day of Peace. The gymnasia students that have been participating annually in this march for several years finished it with a solemn meeting near the city Council. They were greeted by the Principal of the First City Gymnasia Serhiy Sayenko and Cherkasy Mayor Serhiy Odarych. The students greeted everybody in six languages, as their school is famous for studying languages extensively. And then, remembering that the event was taking place for the first time during the country’s waging a war, the gymnasia student Anna Babenko read a poem of her own, and her schoolmate – a prayer for Ukraine. At the end of the meeting, the children set free white doves into the sky and floated balloons of the same color as the universal symbol of peace.
Taken from http://www.rada.cherkasy.ua/ua/newsread.php?view=10057&s=1&s1=17
The Educational-Scientific Institute of Foreign Languages of Bogdan Khmelnitsky National University, Cherkasy, has just published the collected articles under the title "National Philology: theoretical and methodological aspects of the study" (National Philology: theoretical and methodological aspects of the study. Collected scientific works. Issue 5. – Cherkassy: ed. Chabanenko Y. A., 2015. – 284 p.)
The collection includes scientific publications on the problems of literature, linguistics and methodology. Among the publications there is a scientific work by Zemka Olena, a Form 10-A pupil (co-author Shvydka L. M., a PhD, an Associate Professor of German Philology of the Educational-Scientific Institute of Foreign Languages) on the subject "Lexical innovations in political discourse" (based on the materials of the German-language press).
Congratulations to the gymnasia pupil on the first step in science!
On September 14-15, the gymnasia principal is participating in the international conference on the subject: “Ukrainian education reform in European perspective. Change begins in schools”.
The conference is attended by Eva Dudek, a Deputy Minister of the National Education of Poland, Inna Sovsun and Pavlo Polyanskiy, Deputies of the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, Lilia Hrynevych, the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on science and education, Jan Herczynski, a chief expert of the Swedish-Ukrainian project, etc.
The event is held on the initiative of the Ministry of National Education of Poland, the Centre for Citizenship Education (Warsaw), the Association "Nova Doba" and the Swedish organization SKL International.
These days the principal's duties will be performed by Vynohradova S. O., a vice principal.
At the beginning of September, all the secondary educational establishments of Ukraine traditionally report to the education authorities on the employment of their graduates. We did it too.
Last academic year 48 eleventh formers graduated from our gymnasia. 100% of them will continue education at Ukraine’s higher educational establishments of the 4th accreditation level and at higher educational establishments abroad. 5 graduates entered Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, 11 ones – other universities in Kyiv, 11 graduates – Bohdan Khmelnitsky National University, Cherkasy, 2 graduates entered Cherkasy State Technical University, 13 ones will study at higher educational establishments abroad (in Poland, mainly in Warsaw and Krakow - 7, Israel - 1, Canada - 1, the Czech Republic - 1, Ireland - 1, the USA - 1, Denmark - 1). Some other graduates of ours entered higher educational establishments in Lviv, Poltava and Odesa.
The vast majority of them will study on the budget or by grants; a lot of them will study in English. The graduates’ studying priorities are linguistics, law, history, economics, information and business.
97% of the gymnasia’s last year 9th formers continued studying at the 10th forms of the gymnasia.
Our long-time friend Cindy Knight, the President of an affiliation of the International Christian Charitable Fund “HopeNow”, USA, spent two days in the gymnasia. She met with the gymnasia’s administration, and also conducted a few lessons with Brovchenko Y. S., an English teacher. By the way, Cindy Knight is a former French teacher. She was also a welcome visitor at the lessons of such teachers of English as Svitlychniy P. M., Tkachenko L. D., and Potiomkin V. M. in Grades 10-11. The students had an opportunity to communicate with the interesting person, to learn more about volunteer and charity work of Americans, to ask about the level of teaching of foreign languages in American schools at their English lessons. The gymnasia’s administration is going to sign an agreement with the affiliation of the Charitable Fund and to plan joint activities, as well as to invite Zoe Knight, Cindy’s daughter, to teach in the gymnasia after her graduation from university.
In August, national winners of the FLEX program are traditionally off to schooling. In the academic year of 2015-2016, three gymnasia seniors will spend a year in the US schools, so Voznyuk Ivan and Odokiyenko Lisa are already there, spending their first days in the USA. From day to day, will Samoilenko Polina board a transcontinental plane. On Independence Day of Ukraine, Hnatenko Tetyana, who will spend a year in the USA on the Rotary exchange program, is flying across the ocean. On August 18, Tatiana met with Cherkasy Rotary club members (in the photo), who provided the last briefing for her before the departure.
