School Students' Conference ACROSS BRITAIN And UKRAINE

    On February 26, 2013 4th Annual Students' Conference ACROSS BRITAIN And UKRAINE was held at Secondary School #38, Sevastopol,  Ukraine. The topic for the discussion was British and Ukrainian Heritages are Great

   The students of  Year 5a, Year 6a, Year 7a, Year 8b, Year 9a and their teachers and project  coordinators Shurupov V.V., Chernaya K.A., Kurilenko D.A. and Stepanenko L.Yu.   intoduced their  project results and investigations and traced the links between the British and  Ukrainian heritages

We are very grateful to our iERAN and Connecting Classrooms partners for their warm greetings to the Conference

"Britain is GREAT" Competition Award Ceremony

We were very happy to get to know the results of the GREAT Campaing Competition which  was organised jointly with the British Council Ukraine within Connecting classrooms project. 

The jury selected the winners in 3 categories: best publication, best video and best photo.

The winners in the best photo category:

1st place – Kalush gymnasium,
2nd place – Shchors district gymnasium,
3rd place – Sevastopol secondary school No.38.

On 20 December British Ambassador hosted the winners of "Britain is GREAT" competition in his residence.

Two most active project participants  from our school (Dima Pechenka and Yulia Sivryuk, Year 8b) and project coordinator (Stepanenko L.Yu.) were invited to Kyiv to the Award Ceremony

http://ukinukraine.fco.gov.uk/uk/news/?view=News&id=846017682
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Our project team shared the project results on December 3 with the classmates  and now is  busy summarising  the material  for the reports on the School Students' Conference "British and Ukrainian Heritage" in February 2013.

The "GREAT" Campaign Competition

The students  of  Year7a, Year 8b, Year 9a and their teachers  Stepanenko L.Yu. and Kurilenko D.A. joined the "GREAT" Campaign Competition organised by the British Council (Kyiv) and supported by the British Embassy(Kyiv).
  We have chosen  " Heritage is  Great" topic. 
The nomination is Best Photos.

We decided to present Our Project Photo Diary.

 

          Here are the photos we have chosen for the competition

We began our own discovering of the British heritage with the visit to Panorama “The Siege of Sevastopol (1854-1855)”
 

We learnt about the reasons and peculiarities of the War

The Battle of Inkerman, the Battle at the Great Redan,  the Charge of the Light Brigade depicted by  David Rowlands,  Robert Hillingford and Richard Caton  Woodville Jr

We admired the unique relics of the British soldiers kept in Panorama

A repot about heroism of the British and Russian nurses during the Crimean War

Ukrainians take care of the Crimean War Memorials to the British soldiers.

(School Students’ Conference, December 3,2012)

Tennyson’s Poem “The Charge of the Light Brigade” helped us realise the importance of peace and mutual understanding

 

BRITISH PARKS WITH OUR OWN EYES

                             HERITAGE IS  GREAT

    The students of Year 3, 4, 5 and 7 were invited to make virtual travels to famous British parks during the lessons of Economics and English.
  The impressions they got inspired the teachers  Kucherenko N.V and Nikolenlo N.M.   to introduce the school project "British Parks with Our Own Eyes". 
    The students studied the world famous British parks   and some parks in the south of Crimea that were designed by the outstanding British architects and created their own parks in miniatures.
   The exhibition was displayed on November 30 in the school hall.  It was a great success!  A lot of the miniatures were sold out at the charity sale. The money will be spent on classroom needs.
    All the participants and creators of the parks got the Certificates from the charity organization “Shkilna Yednist”.
The photos were taken by Svetlana Pechenka,  a member of the School Parents' Committee.

GREAT is Great Britain

We are so enthusiastic about participating in GREAT is Great Britain project.

 As we live in Sevastopol, the town which is famous for its historical places all around the world, we have chosen Heritage is Great project.

We have already explored some British historical attractions, gone on virtual excursions to the three of the top five museums and galleries in the world and learnt a lot of interesting facts from the British history. But there is much more to be discovered.

 


 So the students of Year 5 a (teacher Shurupov V.V.), Year 7a and  8b (teacher Stepanenko L.Yu) and  Year 9a (teacher Kurilenko D.A.)  joined into groups to get to know more about British heritage and  find out the connections between British and Ukrainian heritages. 

                 We have a lot ot be proud of!
   


You can see these  menhirs  not far from our native town Sevastopol!


The students are making their group reseaches as a part of the GREAT  is Great Britain project and are going to present them  in our blog Connecting Classrooms Project Diary and at  our annual school conference 
" Across Britain". 
 

   London and Sevastopol Sights

We compared some places of interest   of the British capital and oud our native town Sevastopol and found out some similar  sights:

          Monuments to famous admirals in central squares

Admiral Nelson Column (Trafalgar  Square, 
 London)
                                                                                           

 

Monument to Admiral Nakhimov (Nakhimov Square, Sevastopol)

Clock Towers

Big Ben( Westminster, London)

The Clock Tower ( The Lavrenev Theatre, Sevastopol)

Big  Wheels 

Sevastopol

London Eye

 

Balaklava Street

Sevastopol

                        Balaclava Road, London

Bermondsey, London Borough of Southwark, London SE1,