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,

 

 

 

Big Dance 2012

 It is great to have a good family and true friends. The students  and teachers of Secondary school #38, Sevastopol are lucky to be a part of Connecting Classrooms family and have true friends in and around Ukraine.

 On 18 May, 200 pupils from 15 Ukrainian schools took part in the Big Dance festival, which is a global initiative of the Cultural Olympiad in the lead-up to the London 2012 Games.

When the Olympic Torch arrived to Britain on 18 May, thousands of school students performed 5 min dance routine in more than 100 countries around the world in an attempt to break a new Guinness World Record.

  Dmitry Pechenka, Veronika Smey, Lisa Hovracheva, Vadim Komogaev, Yulia Komarnitskaya,  Yulia Mitroshina with their teachers Kurilenko D.A. and Stepanenko L.Yu. represented  Secondary School # 38 at this international event at P.Tychyna Gymnasia  in Kyiv.

 











 There is a coverage of our Big Dance event on the site of the British Embassy 
 http://ukinukraine.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=766994982

and on the British Council Ukraine Facebook page: 
 

 http://www.facebook.com/britishcouncilukraine

 The students  danced with great enthusiasm and you can see it on


 http://youtu.be/JxJZKNQiQnU

 

The film about this event can be found on

http://narod.ru/disk/50515703001.397f73559c39bb4cac446c4123fb9484/BIG%20DANCE%20ALL.mp4.html

All the participants  enjoyed taking part in the Olympic Quest prepared by the host school.

 We made new friends

 and are looking forward to further project collaboration!

Enjoy English Honouring Ceremony

             In our school the students’ and teachers’ motto is “Enjoy English!”

 Every year a special ceremony of honouring students who enjoy studying  English and have contributed to various extracurricular activities  connected with  the English language and crosscultural communication is held at our school at the end of school year.

 This year the ceremony took place on April27 at our Assembly Hall.

    The BBC News school reporters  were given certificates for their  contribution to the project.

At the ceremony our Connecting Classrooms Project  coordinator Larysa Stepanenko  shared her impressions about  International Coordinators Course in Malta with the teachers, students, their parents and guests.

Mrs Stepanenko also introduced  Big Dance  to the  audience and told about the school willingness  to participate  with the thousands of others around the world.

Daria Kurilenko informed  about the process of preparation for this international event. 


 

On behalf of the school PTC Natalia Kucherenko, the director of Charity organization “ Shilna Ednist”, wished our Big Dance team good luck and  a new world record.

 

International Coordinator's Course in Malta

 March 26-28, 2012

Connecting Classroom Project Coordinators from Cyprus, Wales, Ukraine  and Malta were  warmly greeted by Ingrid Eomis (British Council Malta)  at the Chamber of Commerce.

 

 

Mr Raymound Camilleri, Director at the Directorate for Quality and Standards in Education, Curriculum, Management and  eLearning Department, introduced Maltese educational system.

 The Community Engagement   session was given by Ms Martha Gauci.

The Project Management session  was  held by  Mr Alan Caruana.

Maria Zakharova (British Council Ukraine) introduced Schools Online and British Council Programmes for London Olympics.

 

The participants had the opportunity to discuss their project plans and activities with colleagues, made friends   and   enjoyed communication.






We were warmly invited to the Opening of the Connecting Classroom photo exhibition “The Beauty of Diversity” at St James Cavalier Center for Creativity and  were present at the ceremony of honouring   Maltese students, the winners and participants of the  Connecting Classroom photo competition.

 

    

Visits to Schools

St Aloysius Colleague

Maria Regina College Girls' Secondary School

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Planting Friendship Trees

Home Economics lesson

Lunch served by the students

 

Ukrainian handmade souvenirs for Maltese students 

 SIGHTSEEING

 Birgu- the oldest maritime city in Malta

Hagar Qim Archeological Park- the worlds oldest freestanding structures

Free Time in Valletta

 













 

 

Good bye, Malta!
Thanks for  sharing  your knowledge and experience, your hospitality and  friendship.
Looking forward to visiting your again!