Gymnasia: Day by Day
FCE PRELIMINARY RESULTS ARE IMPRESSIVE. *
Yesterday, former students of the course of preparation and taking University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations began to receive their results on-line. And, at once, we got a nice surprise. FOUR schoolgirls got Level C1. Let us remind you that 34 students of the course were examined by the British Council professionals on January 21. The Examination Center was established at the Gymnasia in 2010. The students were prepared by the teachers Vakulenko O.O. and Padalko O.F., Honoured Teacher of Ukraine.
http://fcg.ck.ua/fce.html
PUPILS HAVING MAYOR’S SCHOLARSHIP MADE A BOLD PUSH FOR GETTING THE SCHOLARSHIP NEXT IN TURN...*
After a very strict selection at the training camp in Kyiv, NIKITA VOYEVODA and SVIATOSLAV MYKHAYLYUK, the Gymnasia ninth-graders, having the Mayor’s scholarship in 2012, have entered an international tournament as members of Ukraine’s Cadet basketball team (U-16). Among other participants are teams from France, Germany, Montenegro, Bulgaria, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine and Turkey, the hosts. The tournament began on January 28 and lasts till February 5 in Sakarya on the coast of the Sea of Marmara, 100 km from Istanbul.
Let them win!
CHERVONA SLOBODA DESCENT LANDED ON OUR TERRITORY .*
Yesterday, 20 senior graders and 4 teachers from our Chervona Sloboda partner school, Cherkasy district, were our guests for the first time. The meeting started with handing in the Gymnasia President Kyrylenko Danilo a big and aromatic loaf of bread. All the partner school pupils wore their unique school uniform, which pleasantly surprised the Gymnasia pupils. A small excursion was organized for the project participants. They were also told a story about the history and traditions of the institution and had a joint tea party.
Those present were addressed to by the Gymnasia principal and Ananieva N.V., a vice-principal. Teachers of English talked for a long time in a familiar way with Tkachenko L.D., the Head of the Methodological Commission, and developed plans for future cooperation.
The children, in turn, agreed upon a joint meeting in Chervona Sloboda in February already.
Let us remember that the cooperation agreement between our schools was signed on February 18, 2012.
AN EXHIBITION OF CHILDREN'S WORKS IS BEING HELD IN CHICAGO.*
18 works by our Gymnasia pupils are being exhibited at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago, USA. The international project “LITERATURE ART”, directed by Liuba Markevych and Yaroslav Kuchma, is being implemented there. The exhibition began its work on December 11, 2011 and will last till February 12, 2012 inclusively. Pictures by children from Lviv, Donetsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava and Cherkasy are being presented at the exhibition of children's art works. The organizers have sent us a colour catalog, which contains the reproductions of works by Antonov Arthur and Zaporozhets Oleksandr, our junior Gymnasia pupils.
A year ago we announced the holding of this exhibition. The condition on which it was possible to participate in the exhibition was that children's works had to be done on the subject of Ukrainian fairy tales or literary works by famous Ukrainian writers.
http://uima-chicago.org/index.php?cat=1
ONE MORE AGREEMENT ON COOPERATION WAS SIGNED.*
On January 18, 2012 a delegation including Sayenko S.I., the Gymnasia principal, Vynogradova S.O, a vice-principal, Ukhan A. O., the union deputy head, Burlachenko V.O., a psychologist, and Myroslava Savis’ko, the president of the Center for Children's Diplomacy, signed an agreement on cooperation with School No. 2 from Chervona Sloboda, Cherkasy region. The agreement was signed in the presence of all 11th formers of this school and a lot of teachers. On the part of Chervona Sloboda School the document was signed by its principal Zavalko T. A.
Short-term talks were carried on between the negotiators. It was agreed that on January 25 a small delegation of the new partner school’s teachers and pupils will visit our school.
TODAY WE RECEIVED A DISTINGUISHED GUEST.*
On January 13 the Gymnasia was once again visited by Vic Jackopson, the ex-president of Hope Now International Charitable Christian Fund. He gave a lecture to our pupils on the life and work of Charles Dickens, had a talk with the administration about establishing partnership relations with schools in the UK. Next time Vic plans to visit us on January 19.
We’d like to remind you that the Queen recently awarded Vic an Order for his charitable activity. In November, Vic was received by our graduate Volodymyr Khandogiy, the Ambassador of Ukraine to the UK.
THE EUROCLUB HAS GOT A NEW PRESIDENT.*
At the Gymnasia EuroClub’s regular meeting its president was re-elected. Arapova Polina, (arapova_polina@mail.ru), a pupil of 9A Form, became a new president.
http://fcg.ck.ua/euroclub.html
PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS. EASTERN VECTOR.*
Our Gymnasia is actively working with its sister- schools, and our website regularly informs its visitors about that. These are mainly metropolitan schools, but there are also new types of institutions in the Crimea and in Volyn. There are several such schools in foreign countries. In December we started active negotiations with one of the kind in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Now we are discussing the directions for future cooperation, examining opportunities and prospects. We will obligatory inform our visitors about the results of the negotiations.
WE SEND AND RECEIVE GREETINGS.*
The Gymnasia has sent and received many New Year greetings. Thus, we congratulated staffs of all our partner schools, both in Ukraine and abroad. We also congratulated our colleagues in Cherkasy, Kyiv and Lviv.
We received greetings from our partners from Sevastopol (Specialized school No. 3), Lutsk (Gymnasia No. 18), Kyiv (Schools № 117, 51, 1), Cherkasy schools, Municipal Office of Teaching Methods. We were congratulated by the “Vidrodzhennya” Foundation, Rotarians from Poland, the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, teachers from Yekaterinburg (Russia), the Institute of Education of the NAPS of Ukraine, Ukraine's Ambassador to Iran Oleksandr Samarsky (our graduate), bankers from SB Delta Bank and others.
MAJOR EVENTS OF 2011 AT THE GYMNASIA.*
Life of the Gymnasia in 2011 was full of numerous great and minor events. Traditionally, on the last day of the year, we enumerate last year’s major events:
- January – the information was received, that we were among 100 best schools of Ukraine (37 place) according to the results of IST-2010.
- February – we were entitled to prepare and examine pupils for the FCE Cambridge ESOL examination.
- March – the Gymnasia received a silver medal for participating in the all-Ukrainian exhibition "Education Innovations in Ukraine"
- March - XVII visiting session of the University of Culture of Peace of the Ukrainian Movement "Educators for Peace and Mutual Understanding" was conducted here.
- March - the Gymnasia web-site was announced the best at the exhibition "Modern Education in Ukraine-2011"
- April - 11Gymnasia pupils became winners at IV stage of all-Ukrainian subject olympiads.
- April - holding Queen’s Ball was renewed.
- June – the Gymnasia became a winner of the all-Ukrainian action "LEADERS of EDUCATION-2011"
- July – two Gymnasia pupils received 200 points at the IST in English for the first time.
- August – our teacher Bereslavs’ka V.I. became the Honoured Teacher of Ukraine.
- September - the unique Gymnasia uniform was introduced.
- October – the local Interact visited the town of Jelenia Gora, Poland. In June we will host the group of Polish Interact
“YEAR-2011 BEST GYMNASIA PUPIL”. SEMESTER I RESULTS.*
The results of the “YEAR BEST GYMNASIA PUPIL” contest for semester I of 2011-2012 academic year have been summed up. Here are the names of its winners:
POZHAROVA MILENA, a Form 5B pupil, has become the best among pupils of Forms 1-4. Her average mark of success for the semester is11, 3.
HANENKO YULIA, a Form 8B pupil, has become the best among pupils of Forms 5-9. Her average mark of success is 11, 17.
BRATTSEV ANTON, a Form 6B pupil, has got the second best result. His mark of success is 11, 0.
BEHMENKO VITALIY, a Form 11B pupil, has become the best among pupils of Forms 10-11. His average mark of success is 11, 18.
Form 11B has been announced the “INTELLIGENCE-FORM”, having the average mark of success - 9, 69.
YULIA MOSHKOVSKA, a Form 11B pupil, has been announced the “PROMETHEUS OF SCIENCE”.
SAVISKO MYROSLAVA, a Form 9A pupil, the CCD president, has become the “LEADER OF SELF-GOVERNMENT”.
The pupils of Forms 7B and 8B have been announced “CREATIVE FORMS”.
VOIEVODA NIKITA and MYKHAILIUK SVIATOSLAV, both Form 9A pupils, have been announced the “OLYMPIC RESERVE”.
The pupils of Forms 5B and 6B have become the “ELEGANT FORMS”.
OUR CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!
CITY OLYMPIADS-2011. RATING CITY SCHOOLS .*
On December 28 the municipal office of teaching methods sent the rating of Cherkasy schools’ participation at the second (city) stage of the all-Ukrainian subject Olympiads in 2011-2012 academic year.
Our Gymnasia has the second place, PhyMLY has the first place. We have 71 city level winners (19 first, 19 – second and 33- third places), which is 10 more than the last year's figure.
Here are the results in various subjects: we have got first places in the Russian language competition, Law, History and Mathematics, second places in English, German, Spanish and French.
We did not take part in the competitions in Economics, Astronomy, Computer Science, technology, psychology and Home Economics.
Gymnasia No. 31 pupils are third and the HLL pupils are fourth in the overall ranking.
RECOGNITION: TKACHENKO L.D.
It has become known that the best teachers of Ukraine will be paid honours in the Assembly Hall of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports on December 29. Among them there will be also our English teacher Tkachenko Lyudmila Danylivna that will receive a Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Let’s congratulate Lyudmila Danylivna on receiving this well-deserved decoration!
OUR PUPILS RECEIVED THEIR FIRST STIPENDS YESTERDAY.*
On December 21, three of our Gymnasia pupils received certificates from the hands of Mayor Serhiy Odarych. Those verified eligibility for receiving the stipend from the mayor from October 2011 to May 2012. Let us remind you that this year's stipend holders from the FCG are Sukhobrus Ihor, Voyevoda Nikita and Mykhailiuk Sviatoslav (all of them are from Form 9A).
On behalf of the "chicken" stipend holders spoke Sukhobrus Ihor. The parents of stipend holders, class teachers, school principals were present in the committee room of the City Hall. Altogether 13 stipends were established.
WE WELCOMED A SPANISH GUEST-TEACHER.
On November 13, the FCG was visited by Javier Larrauri, a teacher from Spain, that is working temporarily at Kyiv National University. He spoke to Cherkasy teachers and pupils that study Spanish, and shared interesting information about his country.
Pupils from School No. 17 and Gymnasia No. 31 were also invited to attend the meeting,.
The FCG principal had a talk with Javier. It was agreed that at the beginning of 2012 the Spaniard would come to Cherkasy 1-2 times and hold a master class in Spanish Studies.
