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10 Dec

New Year Party at Azbuka

В воскресенье 18 декабря в 16:00

Русско-английская школа АЗБУКА – Vernon Road, London, SW14 8NH, United Kingdom (карта)

Рекомендовано для детей с 3 до 13 лет + взрослые.

И вновь пришло время самого главного праздника для членов Клуба АЗБУКА!

Нам очень приятно, что каждый год это мероприятие пользуется такой популярностью, и не только дети, но и взрослые получают удовольствие от волшебства этого праздника. Это мероприятие отличается творческой атмосферой: домашнее угощение (его приносят с собой все члены Клуба), развлекательная программа, включая выступление фольклорной группы «Изба», традиционные игры и колядки, зимние игры и хороводы, Дед Мороз, лотерея и многое другое!

Новый Год в Клубе АЗБУКA – одно из самых популярных мероприятий, заказывайте билеты прямо сейчас, их очень мало! Билеты в продаже только для членов Клуба Азбука. Вступить в Клуб можно до праздника за символическую цену.

Билеты:
£12.00 за человека
£6.00 дети младше 4 лет
До 1 года – бесплатно

Заказ и оплата билетов:
Bank Transfer: Account: SANTANDER Business
Russian Language Nursery School
Account number 40416634
Sort code 09-06-66
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(!) Обязательно сообщите нам Ваше имя, количество билетов и контактный телефонный номер по адресу office@azbukafoundation.org.

07810013042 (телефон для справок)

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19 Oct

Welcome to YEAR 1 at AZBUKA Russian-English Bilingual School!

Year 1 class begins at AZBUKA! This September AZBUKA Russian-English Bilingual School welcomed their first Year 1 to the school.

The children follow a special bilingual programme, which has been developed over many years, based on international in depth research. In the Reception Class the children have lessons in English once a week (10% of all lessons). In Year 1 the lessons are split equally between Russian and English.

We have two wonderful primary school teachers leading the children in the curriculum in Year 1: Sasha Williams (teaching lessons in English); and Elena Rozenberg (teaching lessons in Russian).

New at AZBUKA bilingual school for 2016/17

Starting from this year we have introduced school uniform for the Reception the Year 1 classes.

Also from the 1st November we are able to offer a school canteen service at AZBUKA where children can enjoy hot school dinners. The meals are varied with carefully selected dishes of Russian and European cuisines cooked daily on the school premises!

Visit us

Azbuka will run an Open Evening at the school on the 25th November. Please follow the link to register your interest.

Follow our news on facebook.

Photos by Alisia Zelenska

13 Oct

News chess club – coach Augustin Madan

news13-10-2016We are happy to share the news that one of our students, Andrew MacLeod, took part in the British
Chess Championship and finished 11 th in his Under 8 years old category. The event was held last July
in Bournemouth. More than 70 children from all parts of the UK participated in the tournament.
This result is a great achievement by Andrew and it was accomplished after just 60 lessons at
AZBUKKA Chess Club.
Andrew played well in Hampshire Chess tournament last month and qualified for the London Junior
Chess Finals in the Under 10 years old group.
We wish the best of luck to all our young chess players! Our coach, International Master, Augustin
Madan, would like to invite more children over the age of 5 to join his chess club and learn this
wonderful game (timetable).

25 Sep

Six AZBUKA children had roles in Opera Holland Park’s ambitious Queen of Spades this August 2016

Six AZBUKA children had roles in Opera Holland Park’s ambitious Queen of Spades in August, experiencing the thrill of taking part in top quality opera, learning how to work with professional performers – and even teaching the singers a few things about Russian pronunciation!

Opera Holland Park asked the AZBUKA Foundation to provide help for its new Russian language production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece at Holland Park in Kensington, recognising our skill in bilingual teaching including through the use of the performing arts.

It offered a valuable partnership of our different skills, with the chance to bring together friends, parents and supporters of the Foundation in the prestigious west London venue.

The children who volunteered showed great interest in Pushkin’s version, reading or hearing the story and watching film versions to prepare. They took part in six rehearsals, becoming particularly engaged when the dress rehearsals began with music and props. Friends and family attended, and they were given stage mums and nannies.

They enjoyed teaching the cast pronunciation of some Russian words, and loved their costumes, their parts and the life backstage.

Then, they took part in 8 performances during early to mid August in the canopied open air venue in front of Holland Park mansion, including a VIP evening that helped introduce AZBUKA to guests including the current Russian ambassador to the UK and the former British ambassador to Moscow.

The Opera was widely reviewed as a critical success by the Guardian, the Times, the FT, the Telegraph and others.

The children said afterwards that they missed their time in the opera, and have kept singing the music and the songs afterwards. They will keep their memories of Queen of Spades for a long time.

Andrew Jack
Photography: Robert Workman
The Queen of Spades, Opera Holland Park 2016

01 Sep

Welcome back to AZBUKA!

Here is some important dates for your information:
6th September – back to school for AZBUKA Russian-English School and Nursery
17th September – back to school for AZBUKA Saturday School.

AZBUKA AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES open for all!

TUESDAY

Mortlake, West London

KARATE 17.30 – beginners, 18.30 – advanced (in Russian and English)

CHESS 18.00 -19.30  6+ years old

DANCE for children and adults – NEW! From October 2016 (in Russian and English)

SATURDAY

Kew, West London

ILLUSTRATION 14.45 – 11+  years old, 15.30 – 5 to 7 years old, 16.15 – 8 to 10 years old (in Russian)

DANCE 14.45 – 5 to 7 years old, 15.30 – 8 to 10 years old, 16.15 – 11+ (in Russian)

KARATE 14.45 – beginners, 15.30 – advanced (in Russian)

CHESS 15.30 – 16.30 6+ years old (in Russian)

FRENCH 14.45 – 17.00 one to one sessions

VIA (music band) 14.30 – 15.30 6+ (in Russian)

To request a place and for all the additional information please write to

office@azbukafoundation.org

04 Jul

AZBUKA School and Nursery is now closed for summer holidays. Important dates

 

Here is some important dates for your information:
29th August – School office reopens for the new school year.
6th September – back to school for AZBUKA Russian-English School and Nursery
17th September – back to school for AZBUKA Saturday School.

We wishing you all a very pleasant summer and looking forward to seeing you soon!

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03 Jul

Well here we are, already at the end of another successful year of our AZBUKA Saturday School. As is our tradition, we rounded off our final term with a theatre production

This time our Saturday School children delighted our audience with a highly original staging of Meterlink’s play ‘The Bluebird’ – a first for us.

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As usual, our students made everything for the performance with their own fair hands, from the unusual stage-set and props to the costumes, programmes and tickets. We are particularly endebted to Yelena Dubinskaya for her wonderfully atmospheric stage design and to Svetlana Malinina for her excellent adaptation of the original script. An artistic triumph beyond all expectation!

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Sincere thanks to all our teachers, volunteers and parents, for their inspired support and practical assistance. We look forward to seeing you all again next year.

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Theatrical productions form part of our wider arts programme. Language immersion through the arts is a vitally important element of our AZBUKA programme. At the AZBUKA School children learn the Russian language through a combination of structured lessons, art and theatre.

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We create and learn in Russian – Творим и учимся на Русском!

Photography:  Alisia Zelenska

29 Jun

News from the AZBUKA Bilingual School and Nursery – Trip to the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew

Once again, our children have landed on their feet!  This time it was having their lessons not in their school building but in the Royal Botanical Gardens!

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The trip began with a tour of the Pagoda and the Japanese Garden and continued with a walk to Queen Charlotte’s Cottage.

Along the way children gathered twigs, cones, dry grass and leaves and used them to build a little den for the insects next to the Cottage.

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The highlight of the day, though, was the badgers’ sett.  The children climbed inside, following the walkways, some using torches to light their way.  Some of the mothers even summoned up the courage to step into the dark!

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Lunch was a right royal treat.  Children and adults took their seats at the table from the famous tale of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ and admired the beautiful view of a splendid cedar-tree surrounded by peacocks.  After lunch the children settled down on the grass for an hour of peace and quiet.  They listened to the story of Tsokotukha the Fly and tried to solve the riddles.

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But there was more to come for our intrepid travellers – the tree-top walk adventure! They took the rocket lift right up to the highest point and walked among the tops of the trees where they marvelled at the view of the entire Botanical Gardens.

In the warm sunshine the children continued their walk along the mysterious path that leads to the Serpentine Bridge and Lake. Along the way they gazed at the ducks and swans and explored the tiny island at the centre of the lake with the little Japanese ‘Minka’ house set among the bamboo thicket. The house, brought here from Japan, is 100 years old!

Sincere thanks go to all the teachers and carers who organised such a wonderful outing for our children.