"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
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukinukraine/sets/72157632298312515/





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