Welcome back to school!

Congratulations! The summer is over and we are back at the beginning of another nine-month academic race. I am happy to have the same students this academic year. I hope we'll manage to avoid flu quarantines this time, which might enable us to achieve better results... unless they don't cheat, miss classes, ignore recommendations etc.



Aristotle said: "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."



B.B.King added a couple of milleniums later: "The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

I can't but agree with both of them. May this year strengthen the foundations of the castles of your unique personalities!

Exciting Summer

‘How did you spend your summer holidays?’ is a traditional question for the first class of every next academic year or a topic for the first essay written by ESL students. I spent my summer in the most exciting way, in the forest, running ARGO Camp Program as its Chief Supervisor (director), drawing What’s on? bulletins, painting posters, hiding in the bushes (see below), diving in the swimming pool, rowing boats and teaching some English.





This time I got employed by Impuls-Plus Tour Operator who has introduced the program to the holiday market.



The ancient ARGO crew members were not just average sailors: each of them was famous for some unique gifts, talents, abilities or a social position. Just to mention the most prominent of them: Argus (the shipbuilder), Asclepius (the doctor), Heracles (the strongman), Orpheus (the singer and musician)… The name ARGO suggests that every participant is seen as a unique personality whose abilities are appreciated and developed.





We obviously did our best to implement this noble idea and make it work. For this purpose we created numerous situations that demanded various skills: intellectual, physical, artistic, hunting, managerial, surviving, performing, and what not…













In these photos you can see Naukova Zmina students at different ARGO events. Do you recognize Vlad Garanko, Yuri Ischenko, Andriy Komyshev, Kate Bondarenko, Myroslava Ostapenko, Serhiy Kazaryan, Ivan Kovtun, Andriy Rustamov and Alisa Kuznetsova?
I have to admit that participation of Naukova Zmina students in the program made me proud of the educational establishment I have a privilege to work at. Our students are bright, definitely not average, and their presence cannot remain unnoticed.I hope to see even more of our NZ guys participating in the next ARGO Camp Programs!

MORE "ARGO" CAMP PHOTOS

Get acquainted with "Argo" Camp Program, its activities, its surroundings, its facilities and some faces.

Sometimes Chief Supervisor has all our attention. Especially when he is a DJ.


Sometimes Chief Supervisor is hard to be detected. Especially when he plays Foxhunt.













We prefer practical training with REAL things.

The program starts and finishes with a campfire.

Campfires are always popular.

Nature is really fantastic out there.

There is a nice lake.

If the weather isn't warm enough, there is a fine swimming pool.

Campers enjoy playing waterball there. But you ought to wear a rubber cap.

SPECIAL SUMMER OFFER! "ARGO" Camp Programme is back!

I have a rare priviledge to invite my students to my holiday camp. English camp programs has been my job since 1998. My last full-scale "Argo" Camp Program was held in 2005. After a 5-year break it is back and shining, bigger than ever. Together with IMPULS-PLUS travel agency we plan to have 6 programs this summer. The dates are:
June 7 - June 18; June 20 - July 1; July 3 - July 14; July 16 - July 27; July 29 - August 9; August 11 - August 22. During these programs some of the finest Kyiv teachers will help you to do projects on PIRATES (!), NATIVE AMERICANS (!) and DINOSAURS (!!). Plenty of video is guaranteed. Swimming pool and/or lake - every day. Discos are inevitable. Comfortable accomodation in rooms for 2 or 3 (take a friend with you!). Place: Puscha-Vodytsya, MoD Sanatorium. Price: UAH 3 200 (quite competitive, isn't it?). Contact me personally, you-know-where.

WARNING: Campers tend to get addicted to the program. They would just keep coming.

International Express-2010

On April 16, 2010, the lycee witnessed an impressive turmoil. 12 teams competed at 7 stations of the INTERNATIONAL EXPRESS. As the initiator of the game I was quite proud with its becoming a tradition, and happy that it still brings some excitement. The results were the following:
1st Place: Class 7-B, Groups 15-H & 22-E
2nd Place: Class 7-A, Groups 11-M, 24-H & 21-M
3rd Place: Class 7-C, Groups 12-E, 13-E, 14-E & 23-E.
Special thanks to the individual members of the teams, who were the most active when competing at the International Express-2010 Linguistic Contest and contributed significantly to their teams’ scores:
Olga Melnikova (7-A)
Danylo Novikov (7-B)
Tetyana Shmanai (7-B)
Violetta Grygoryan (7-B)
Tetyana Ponomarenko (7-B)
Daria Kozubska (7-C)
Andriy Ivanyuk (7-C)
Anastasia Chigareva (11-M)
Artem Ogarkov (11-M)
Tetyana Grygoryeva (12-E)
Oleg Kosyak (13-E)
Mykyta Salikhov (14-E)
Yuri Tolochko (21-M)
Viktoria Balioz (22-E)
Olena Kachurina (23-E)
Dmytro Stadnyk (23-E)
Yelizabeta Koval (24-H)
Vadym Gromadskyi (24-H)
Good job,ladies and gentlemen! Well done!

Humour Collection-2010

The students of Groups 32-E and 33-E contributed their jokes and anecdotes long ago. The collection had been waiting for the right time for months until it finally was published in the Hyde Park bulletin in the last days of March. I really enjoyed supervising the project. If you are to lazy to come to the bulletin, you can enjoy reading our collection right HERE . I personally like this photo very much.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Again.

Halliluyah! The 17th of March has come again. Again EVERYBODY IS IRISH ON ST.PATRICK'S DAY! When I think about the Irish , I feel that we, Ukrainians, and they have quite a lot in common. Of course, it's only one of the reasons why I like the holiday. I'd like to share some Irish wit with you.

An Irishman's Philosophy:

In life, there are only two things to worry about: Either you are well or you are sick. If you are well, there is nothing to worry about.

But if you are sick, there are only two things to worry about: Either you will get well or you will die. If you get well, there is nothing to worry about.

But if you die, there are only two things to worry about: Either you will go to heaven or hell. If you go to heaven, there is nothing to worry about.

And if you go to hell, you’ll be so busy shaking hands with all your friends that you won’t have time to worry!