August 2013

“Grandma (“Apai” in the Kazakh language), I want to Montessori!” employees of Kyzylorda Boarding School often heard this request from their fosterlings, because the unique atmosphere in The Montessori Center of Early Development, organized by Saby Charitable Foundation on the basis of social institution, invites children to daily trainings.

Little children are attracted by ideal selected playing and educational materials, which open the opportunity for the whole spectrum of simple, comprehensible and unusually entertaining lessons, which become the first source of environment cognition, introduce with useful domestic skills and fix such skills for the whole life.

Certainly, the qualification of educators, who direct children during lessons nonintrusively, has the significant importance. Professionals of Kyzylorda Boarding School with success mastered the teaching methods for children from birth till 3 year old age on this system during two stages of education with the lecturer of Eurasian Montessori Center of Pedagogics in Yekaterinburg, the organization and all expenditures of which took Saby Foundation. All listeners, who visited seminars, got original certificates of Eurasian Montessori Center of Pedagogics and now they shall undergo trainings during 9 months.

One more stage of training will be held in spring of the next year, which improves the qualification of teachers after which they can be called professional experts of Montessori system.

In advance of the autumn we start the regular calculation of our “chickens” – potential and new participants of the “Educational “ and “Alem” Projects, who became the possessors of grants from Saby Foundation for the education in higher and secondary educational institutions. Though the season of entrances to universities and colleges is still in full, some results can be presented already now.

It has become obvious once again, that preparatory courses of CNT (common national testing), organized by our Foundation every year from September till May for children from boarding schools of Almaty, showed good results. More than half of school leavers, attending lessons in 2012-2013, received either state educational grants or grants from Akim. We are, certainly, glad at both these school leavers’ personal successes and the fact that we can, thanks to the saved money, pay for the education of other children, who were not so lucky with state grants, but showed their best qualities and proved their perspective.

There is some information on the Alem Program. During the year we accepted the application forms from the school leavers who dream to become Alem Participants and to get financial assistance from Saby Foundation in acquisition of higher education in the most prestigious universities of Kazakhstan and the world. The young people were to face a serious selection and not all could pass it. Therefore the winners became the possessors of grants from Saby and currently they started their entrance to chosen universities. There are some persons among them, who won state educational grants parallely. We support the happiest and most talented persons and give them the right of choice. Some of them prefer state guarantees and grants, others choose prestige value and uniqueness, and they choose grants of Saby Foundation.

The hot weeks of entrances are still in future. In September we can count our students and summarize the results of their important struggle for their future.