FIRST LEGO LEAGUE

First LEGO League Explore ve Challenge etkinlikleri ile öğrencilerin problem çözme, takım çalışması ve inovatif düşünme becerileri desteklenir. STEM odaklı projeler ve yarışmalar öğrencilerin öğrenme sürecine somut kazanımlar sağlar. 

Okulumuzun FLL (First Lego League Explore) festivaline ev sahipliği yapması, öğrencilerimize akademik, sosyal ve kişisel gelişim alanlarında çok yönlü kazanımlar sağlar.

Öğrenciler, etkinliğin planlanması ve yürütülmesi süreçlerinde aktif görev alarak sorumluluk bilinci, liderlik ve takım çalışması becerilerini geliştirir. Görev dağılımı, zaman yönetimi ve organizasyon sürecinin gerektirdiği koordinasyon sayesinde problem çözme ve karar verme yetkinlikleri güçlenir.

FIELD TRIPS

Cultural and scientific trips are organized in parallel with the subjects and themes we cover in our Preschool and Primary School classes. During these trips, our students make observations and develop their research skills. They reinforce classroom learning and have the chance to apply and adapt.

PORTFOLIO PRESENTATIONS

Portfolio days are organized by the Department of Foreign Languages at our school each year. Portfolio days are organized in both English and the second foreign language. During the portfolio days, teachers, students and parents come together and the works of students throughout the year are presented. Thanks to the Portfolio days by the Department of Foreign Languages, students have the opportunity to exhibit their language skills and share their work with their families.

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

On September 26 each year, events to celebrate the European Day of Languages are organized by the Department of Foreign Languages at our school. During the day, students carry out research and try to find answers to questions prepared in English, German, French and Spanish, the languages taught at our school. At the end of the day, the correct answers are announced and the winning students receive small gifts. Students spend a pleasant time all day long during these events held in order to raise awareness on the importance of learning languages.

WELCOMING THE NEW YEAR

Each year, all works by our primary school students under the theme "New Year” from Ceramic, Technology and Design and Visual Arts courses are exhibited along the school corridors and on school boards in accordance with the spirit and importance of the day. Our students display dancing, singing and acting performances. New year's cookies are distributed and new year wishes are shared.

END of YEAR EXHIBITION OF PLASTIC ARTS

In our Culture and Arts week organized by our school, works of Plastic Arts are exhibited at our school in June. Our exhibition turns into a visual feast thanks to painting, ceramic and sculpture works by our students. For the exhibition, paintings are made using different painting techniques such as gouache, dry paint and crayons. Based on matters and objects, still-life, portrait, landscape and reproduction works are produced. Clip art is also practiced using waste materials such as waste newspapers, wrapping paper, twine ropes and so on. The works of our little students are mainly composed of gouache and watercolor as well as different painting techniques using crepe paper. We use waste materials in most of these art works and teach our students how to use such waste materials (recycling). As part of the Visual Arts course, our students select parts from paintings and work on these parts by applying relief, embossing and three-dimensional sculpture techniques in the ceramics and sculpture classes. The works of our students who use waste materials such as copper plate and wires in their ceramic and sculpture works are glued on chip boards for Relief works and then exhibited. In addition, in our Sculpture course, our students interpret mask works by sculpting mud masses in blocks with modeling pencils. We invite contemporary Turkish painters to our exhibition every year. They honor us when they attend the opening ceremony for our exhibition. As our exhibition transforms into a visual feast thanks to our students who live and love art, concerts by our students who are devoted to music provide a time well-spent for the audience.

SPELLING BEE CONTEST

Spelling Bee activities aim to improve students' pronunciation by using websites and visual materials. The "Spelling Bee" contest is held at the end of each academic year. Students qualify for the contest as a result of the dictation exams in English courses. The aim of the contest is to enable our students to learn and develop the words they will use throughout their lives in addition to improving their ability to spell a word correctly and quickly. Furthermore, it aims to improve students' self-confidence and their public speaking and public communication ability.

DESTINATION IMAGINATION TOURNAMENT

Destination Imagination (DI) is an educational club where teams of students perform tasks involving an effort to solve open-ended problems and present their solutions in tournaments. DI is a program based on problem solving tasks and process. Teams that work to complete their tasks develop key life skills such as management, collaboration, problem solving, creative and critical thinking. Our teams that prepare for the competition represent our school in national or international tournaments to which the school administration and club teachers apply.

MUSIC CONCERTS

In line with the passion for art and in parallel with a student-centered educational understanding, our students who play musical instruments receive full support. Music concerts are organized in order to strengthen children's ties with art, ensure they spend time with music and art and familiarize them with classical music especially at an early age. In addition to collective music activities, our students are given opportunities to deliver individual performances. In addition to academic programs, music activities and concerts held throughout the year enrich our educational philosophy, thus feeding our students with arts.

ENGLISH DRAMA

Drama studies in English aim to enable our students to reinforce and demonstrate their English language skills by having fun and learning. Our goal is to instill in our students the love for stage acting and to strengthen their acting skills. Our main goal is to develop their co-working skills, render them happy and self-confident individuals, ensure they are self-confident in expressing themselves verbally, enable them to assume tasks and responsibilities within a group, develop their skills to use their body and voice correctly and teach them how to use their gestures and facial expressions as well as teaching them how to employ creative thinking methodologies. The English Drama Club teaches our children songs in their second foreign language as well and they sing these songs during their performances. At end of every year, our students perform their show before all parents and school members on a designated day.

SPRING FAIR

On the second Friday of every May, Büyük Kolej's Traditional Spring Fair is held. In addition to fair activities such as folk dances, dance performances and garden games, various participants can set up stalls and students can shop with their parents. Primary school student clubs, on the other hand, sell the products they have designed throughout the year or the books, toys, etc. they have collected for solidarity purposes. The revenues are donated to a school in need or to a charity as part of community service.

EXPERIMENT FESTIVAL

The traditional experiment festival held every year aims to teach and have fun simultaneously. The experiment festival encourages our students to succeed and to have new experiences. They learn by doing the experiments in the lab course and share their learning with others at the end of the year, thus enjoying science to the fullest. Our experiment festival hosts activities held anywhere in and out of our school including our classrooms and our garden.

POETRY PERFORMANCES

Okulumuzda öğrencilerimizin kitaplarla daha güçlü bağ kurmalarını sağlamak, okuma kültürünü geliştirmek ve kendilerini etkili biçimde ifade etme becerilerini desteklemek amacıyla yazar buluşmaları düzenlenir. Bu etkinlikler aracılığıyla öğrencilerimiz, yalnızca okur kimliği geliştirmekle kalmamakta; aynı zamanda düşünen, üreten ve sorgulayan bireyler olarak çok yönlü bir gelişim süreci yaşamaktadır.

Gerçekleştirilen yazar buluşmalarında yazarlarımız; yazarlık yolculuklarını, eserlerinin ortaya çıkış sürecini ve okumanın yaşamlarındaki yerini öğrencilerimizle paylaşır. Öğrencilerimiz bu sayede yazarlarla doğrudan iletişim kurma, merak ettikleri soruları yöneltme ve edebiyat dünyasını yakından tanıma fırsatı bulur. Yaratıcı yazma ve düşünme çalışmaları, söyleşi, yaratıcı drama ve soru-cevap bölümleriyle zenginleştirilen bu etkinlikler, öğrencilerimizin sosyal-duygusal gelişimlerine katkı sağlar; öğrenme süreçlerini daha kalıcı ve verimli hale getirir.

INTERNATIONAL DAYS

Büyük Kolej’de düzenlediğimiz International Days etkinlikleri ile öğrencilerimiz dünyanın farklı kültürlerini yakından tanıma fırsatı buluyor. Her etkinlikte bir ülkenin dili, sanatı, müziği, mutfağı ve gelenekleri öğrenilerek sınıflarımız zengin birer kültür köşesine dönüşüyor.

Bu süreç, öğrencilerimizin küresel bakış açısı geliştirmelerini, farklılıklara saygı duymalarını ve uluslararası bir öğrenme topluluğunun parçası olduklarını hissetmelerini sağlar. International Days, hem eğitici hem de keyifli bir kültür keşfi yolculuğu sunar.

OKULUN 100.GÜNÜ

Okul öncesi kademesinde her sabah öğrenciler, daire zamanında okulun kaçıncı gününde olduklarını bir tablo aracılığıyla belirler. Bu süreç, öğrencilerin ritmik sayma becerilerini geliştirmelerine, onluk ve beşlik basamakları tanımalarına katkı sağlar. Öğrencilerin okula yönelik motivasyonlarını artırmak amacıyla, 100. gün kutlamaları gerçekleştirilir. Bu kapsamda öğrenciler, çeşitli etkinlikler aracılığıyla hem keyifli vakit geçirir hem de öğrenme süreçlerini sürdürür.

Bu etkinlikler arasında, “100 adımla nereye gidebilirim?” sorusunun yanıtını deneyimleyerek keşfetmeleri yer alır. Ayrıca, 100. gün hatıra tacı yapımı ve 100. gün tişörtü tasarlama gibi sanatsal çalışmalarla, bu özel güne ilişkin anılarını kalıcı hâle getirirler.

Yüz günü büyük bir özveri ve istikrarla tamamlayan başta öğrenciler ve öğretmenler olmak üzere tüm paydaşlar, okul yemekhanesinde bir araya gelerek 100. Gün pastasını keser ve bu anlamlı günü birlikte kutlar. Gün boyunca 100 sayısı temalı çeşitli oyun ve dans etkinliklerine de yer verilir.