My son dreamed of entering biochemistry at this lyceum for 2 years. He went to classes in biological circles at the Palace of Pioneers and was looking forward to reaching the 8th grade, so that he could finally find himself in the coveted Lyceum.

And suddenly, in the summer of 2013, I saw a message on the Lyceum website that they were recruiting for the 7th grade of general education (without specialization). We were very happy and immediately applied for admission. We arrived. The son flew as if on wings and was absolutely happy. He likes everything about the Lyceum: teachers, programs, extra classes, the opportunity to go to his favorite club after school, to a meeting of one of the clubs, and Palace events. My family and I looked at his happy face and were glad that we had a Lyceum on Vorobyovy Gory.

Why in the past tense? Because there is more Lyceum 1525 " Sparrow Hills" No. Lyceum 1525 separately, educational complex "Vorobyovy Gory" separately, because Lyceum team under the leadership of director Tregubova E.P. At a meeting of the labor collective, he decided to refuse to join the educational complex.The Vorobyovy Gory educational complex was created on the basis of the Palace of Pioneers. It includes GBOU secondary school No. 22, GBOU secondary school No. 1260, GBOU kindergarten No. 2041, GBOU CDO "Dialogue of Sciences", GBOU TSUNTT "Istok", GBOU TsRR - kindergarten No. 2042, Moscow College of Professional Technologies, Palace with A.A. Shashkov at the head.The lyceum was provided with a building on the Krasnoselskaya metro station, where it will begin to function in September 2014. It will, of course, lose the name “Sparrow Hills”.

I will not speculate on the reasons for this sad event or make any assessment of the actions of the parties. I’ll just start posting a chronicle of events on my blog.

27.02 Parent meeting of class 7A

On the agenda: Results of certification of 7th grade students in the 3rd quarter. Organization of leisure time during the holidays. Interim certification in 7th grade. We discussed pressing problems, worried about the transition exams to the 8th grade. There was no talk about moving the Lyceum. But those who have not yet submitted the “entry fee” in the form of a “voluntary” donation in the amount of 25,000 rubles were reminded of the need to do so. We were also informed that the Lyceum would have 3 departments instead of 5 - this is supposedly the requirement of the Palace.

28.02 A letter arrives in Elzhur from director E.P. Tregubova.

Dear parents! Today in the Palace, in my opinion, the conditions for the development of the lyceum in the capital’s educational space are deteriorating. I ask you to speak out on this issue, since our conditions and subsequent renovations in the buildings of the Moscow State University of Children and Youth and Youth Education complicate the classroom and laboratory system and training according to individual curricula at the senior level in accordance with with the Federal State Educational Standard. Parents' meeting tomorrow (March 1) at 12:00 at 4:36. All interested parties are also invited.

01.03 Asset meeting with director Tregubova

It was announced that the teaching staff was no longer satisfied with the working conditions at the Palace. That the Lyceum is actually being evicted to premises unsuitable for conducting the educational process and that the Lyceum will definitely find a way out of this situation.

After this there was a period of calm in our class.

1) The Lyceum has 2 ways of development: join the educational complex with the Palace or move. There is no third.

2) The lyceum wants to move to Krasnoselskaya.

3) If the Lyceum moves, then EVERYONE must also decide this issue for themselves.

4) On the basis of the remaining students, lyceum classes are opened within the walls of the Palace together with educational institutions participating in the association.

5) During the spring-summer, A.A. Shashkov recruits the missing teachers, and classes at the Palace continue. But Lyceum 1525 ceases to exist in the Palace.

6) A.A. Shashkov strives to support and help the Lyceum in every possible way. However, the Lyceum administration does not try to solve the problems that arise (lack of classrooms, conflicts with services, etc.).

7) At the new location, the Lyceum intends to closely cooperate with only one university - the Higher School of Economics, which does not support, in particular, the biological and chemical direction.

If the Lyceum moves, then on the basis of the Palace there will be another (organizationally) lyceum, but a lyceum that continues the traditions laid down by the teachers and associates of Lyceum 1525.

At this point, all the parents of our 7A class were alarmed and began to find out the details and think about options for the development of events. It turned out that some classes decided to remain in full force in the Palace. The teachers of the biological and chemical department, led by Tinatin Davidovna Egnatashvili, who has worked at the Palace for more than 35 years and is the head of the biological and chemical department of Lyceum 1525, remain in full force at the Palace. The biological and chemical department will be preserved!

14.03 Correspondence
Concerned parents exchanged news by email, each trying to find out at least some details through their own channels. They wrote that on March 15 a meeting is planned in the new building on Krasnoselskaya for teachers, to which activist parents can come. The meeting was scheduled at the Vorobyov Palace.

15.03 Meeting on Krasnoselskaya
By 11.30 the parents were already near the monument to Malchish Kibalchish in the Palace. They waited for an hour for at least some news from the Lyceum administration, but they never received it, standing on the street for an hour. Was the meeting canceled or did they simply “forget” about the parents?

15.03 Post in Eljur
Dear parents!
On March 20 (Thursday) at 18:00 there will be a meeting between the parents of our 7th grade and the management of the Palace on the issue of moving the Lyceum. Please prepare your questions and suggestions regarding the current situation. Meeting at 17:40-17:45 in the hall of the main entrance, then we will all go together to the Center for Environmental Education, where an office will be determined.

The information received was the most contradictory. The administration and some teachers of the Lyceum said that the Lyceum Palace was expelling them, that there would be no Lyceum classes in the Palace, that the entire teaching staff of the Lyceum was moving to Krasnoselskaya and all classes too.

16.03 Letter from the Lyceum teacher
Unfortunately, neither the Lyceum nor the Faculty of Humanities remain in the Palace next year. We were faced with a very difficult choice. The palace management cannot accommodate the entire lyceum class on its territory. It was proposed to reduce the number of faculties to three. At the same time, the third building is given over entirely to administration. After renovation, the theater studio, the Penguin preschool education group, and the art studio are moving into the fifth building after renovation. We are offered several classrooms in building 8, where it is impossible to study. The building requires major repairs, does not have a normal ventilation system and the classrooms are poorly equipped for conducting classes. We are deprived of the opportunity to conduct elective courses and electives in the afternoon, which has always been an integral part of the educational process at the lyceum level.

Our 7th grade has the most difficult time: we have no specialization, no curator. It was planned that after 7th grade our children would go to 8th grades with their chosen specialization. Those. We can’t even go as a whole class to study at the Palace, because some of the children planned to study in the biology and chemistry department, some in the humanities, a few in physics, mathematics and socio-economics. I am creating a group on FB so that parents can exchange information more quickly. We invite Olga Achkasova, a member of the Palace’s parent committee, to the group. We are preparing for the meeting on March 20: discussing issues for the administration, agenda and news.

17.03 Meeting with A.A. Shashkov
Taking into account the concerns of the parents, the director of the Palace agreed to meet our numerous requests and agreed to a meeting in the evening, at 17.45. Andrey Anatolyevich answered some questions. It was impossible to answer some of them due to a complete lack of information: it is unclear how many children want to stay to study at the Palace, how many are ready to move to Krasnoselskaya, which teachers are staying and which are leaving. Only the biochemist had clarity with the teachers - they all remain. Nevertheless, the director tried to reassure the parents and promised that all our requests would be considered and the Palace administration would make every effort to ensure that the children who wished to stay in the Palace could continue their studies in the lyceum programs.

Everyone who wants to stay from our class unanimously writes applications. Information has been received that an 8th grade biochemistry class will be created from children in our class who entered on a competitive basis. Those wishing to study biochemistry at the Palace should contact Tinatin Davidovna Egnatashvili directly. Many children who attend clubs at the Palace want to enter the Lyceum.

A message appeared on the Lyceum 1525 website about holding an Open Day on March 22. No address yet. There is no information on the lyceum’s website about moving or reducing the number of departments; there are schedules for admission exams and interviews for five departments, and not three, as we were told at the meeting on February 27.

18.03 Events are developing
Information about the Lyceum's move began to spread among parents like wildfire. Representatives of 9 classes are planning to come to our meeting on March 20. Parents decide to start a survey and collect signatures among students to understand how many people plan to stay to study at the Palace. The Lyceum administration has not yet made any official announcements about the move to parents. Everyone is very worried because they are in limbo: all specialized schools are enrolling children for the next school year in March-April.

In the afternoon, parents took a letter to the Lyceum secretariat inviting the Lyceum administration to a meeting on March 20 at 18.00. In the evening we all received a newsletter from Tregubova via Elzhur:
Dear parents! In connection with your appeals to DogM and SWOUO on the issue of relocating the lyceum and in order to ensure the continuity of the educational process, I ask you to send two representatives led by the chairman (attendance is required) of the parent committee of the class of 03/20/2014 at 18.00. Gathering place - Winter Garden of MGDD(Yu)T.

She scheduled her meeting at the same time as ours!

19.03 Collection of signatures
From the very morning, parents began to be on duty at the Palace. They collected applications and signatures from those who would like to stay in the Palace. It turned out that some class teachers told parents that the move of the Lyceum was a done deal and no one would be able to stay in the Palace, as there would be no classes, lyceums, etc. in the Palace. During lessons, teachers showed children presentations of the new Lyceum building and told them what a good education the children would receive there, and what a sad future awaited them in the Palace.

The Lyceum administration began to prevent parents from entering the Palace. They tried to force those who collected signatures and told other parents about the current situation to leave the Palace. But the Lyceum administration cannot prohibit parents from being in the Palace. Director of the Palace on behalf of Kalina I.I. took control of the situation: the parents had already managed to write to the Department and visit it.

Parents continue to prepare for the meeting: we discuss the agenda, find out how many people will be present. But this is precisely the most difficult thing to find out - news spreads quickly and it may turn out that many people who are hungry for information will come.

The chronicle will definitely be updated with new events!

At the Vorobyovy Gory Lyceum at the intermediate level general education profiles are implemented:
technological;
natural science;
humanitarian;
socio-economic;
universal.

Technological profile
By choosing a technology profile, a child can gain advanced knowledge in mathematics, physics, and computer science.
At the Vorobyovy Gory Lyceum, early profiling is carried out at the level of primary general education through the introduction of variable courses, the purpose of which is the development of mathematical thinking. The implementation of federal state educational standards makes it possible, through extracurricular activities courses such as “Visual Programming”, “Small MechMat”, “Chess”, to increase interest in technical sciences and help identify and develop children’s talents.
As part of additional education, students in grades 1-4 are offered programs “Elementary technical modeling”, “Fascinating science”, “Robotics”.
At the level of basic general education, classes are formed with a developmental mathematical block (grades 5-7), pre-profile classes (grades 8-9), where courses of choice for students in class activities include workshops in mathematics, physics, and computer science, which allows prepare students for an informed choice of specialized training; in extracurricular activities, courses such as “Programming” (2-3 languages), “Special Physics”, “Special Mathematics”, “Technical English” allow you to navigate the world of professions and choose a specialization. As part of additional education, students in grades 5-6 are offered programming courses in Scratch, technical modeling and robotics. As part of additional education, schoolchildren in grades 7-9 study high-level programming languages ​​(C++, C#, Python), web design, engineering 3D modeling, the basics of analog and digital electronics, digital manufacturing technologies, and robotics. In classes, high school students learn to independently create websites, develop mobile applications, program Arduino microprocessor devices. Students are also offered programs to study 2D and 3D computer graphics, animation and digital media creativity using modern computer programs and systems. Classes are taught by qualified teachers - graduates of leading universities in Russia.
Upon completion of basic general education, students of the Vorobyovy Gory State Budgetary Educational Institution continue their studies at the level of secondary general education in technological classes. Since the 2016-2017 academic year, the educational organization has been implementing the project “Academic (scientific and technological) class in a Moscow school”, within the framework of which the State Budgetary Educational Institution “Sparrow Hills” collaborates with the A.V. Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the A.M. Institute of General Physics .Prokhorov RAS.

Natural science profile
Children who choose a natural science major receive advanced knowledge in disciplines such as biology, chemistry, physics, and mathematics. The implementation of federal state educational standards makes it possible, through extracurricular activities courses such as “Astronomy”, “Microbiology”, “We and the Biosphere”, “Young Doctor”, to increase interest in the natural sciences and help identify and develop children’s talents.
The children have biological workshops and additional classes on studying subtropical nature, astronomy and astrophysics. Classes for students are held in a greenhouse, winter garden, living corner, zoological museum, botanical garden, in collection and experimental open ground areas, as well as in the planetarium and observatory of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers. Children go to laboratory work at the Polytechnic Museum, and also get acquainted with various interesting people- representatives of the natural science community.
As part of the implementation of the project “Academic (scientific and technological) class in a Moscow school,” GBPOU “Sparrow Hills” collaborates with the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry named after M.M. Shemyakin and Yu.A. Ovchinnikov of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of General Genetics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Microbiology named after S. N.Vinogradsky RAS.
Humanitarian profile
Children who choose this profile can gain in-depth knowledge in the humanities: Russian language, social studies, English language, second foreign language.
Particular attention is paid to foreign languages ​​in the study of humanities. In addition to English, children can choose to study French, German or Spanish. Extracurricular courses such as “Economics in English”, “Country Studies”, “Foreign Literature” allow not only to deepen knowledge of the language, teach how to operate with specialized terms and take part in international competitions and olympiads, but also broaden the horizons of students. There are courses “Traveling through English-speaking countries”, where during classes children can virtually visit various countries, go to a cafe, shop or ask for directions. In this way, they practice the practical application of the acquired skills, which increases interest in learning the language and also allows them to overcome the speech barrier. Theater in English (French, German, Spanish) allows you to show the full creative potential of the lyceum students, at the same time increasing the motivation of the students. Students demonstrate their knowledge of languages ​​from the big stage of the Palace of Pioneers, delighting with wonderful theatrical performances in a foreign language, defend various research projects in a foreign language, which develops their skills in scientific work, since any project is first and foremost a scientific research activities, and such work in a foreign language deserves special attention.

Socio-economic profile
The choice of this profile ensures that students develop new economic thinking, develop the ability to independently acquire and apply economic knowledge, and develop an active life position in students in relation to the economic processes taking place in society.
Particular attention within the socio-economic profile is given to social studies, mathematics and English. In addition to these disciplines, classes are held here in rhetoric, basic economics, and law.
Such extracurricular courses as “Economics in English”, “Consumer Economics”, “Mathematics in English”, “Basics of Financial Literacy” allow the student not only to expand his knowledge in economic disciplines, but also develop erudition and professional thinking skills, help understand the economic and political problems of our time, prepare well for entering the chosen university.
Continuing education is part of the educational program of socio-economic class and provides students with additional opportunities to develop special skills. Continuing education programs are aimed at preparing for olympiads in special subjects, organizing research and scientific-practical activities of students, and play an important role in the realization of entrepreneurial potential.
In teaching, along with traditional methods, visiting seminars, trainings, defense of creative projects, and participation in sociological research are used.

Participation in city projects of the Moscow Department of Education
In the 2016-2017 academic year, the Vorobyovy Gory State Budgetary Educational Institution began implementing the following city projects of the Moscow Department of Education:
"Moscow Electronic School";
“Academic class in a Moscow school”;
“Development of a convergent basic educational program for all levels of education.”
In the 2017-2018 academic year, it is planned to participate in the implementation of DogM programs:
“Cadet class at a Moscow school”;
"Medical class at a Moscow school."
The lyceum cooperates with leading universities: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, RANEPA, MAI, HSE, RUDN University and others.