(KZN.RU,
April 11, Mikhail Chentsov). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, visited the
preschool department of the educational center “Galaxy” (Lyceum №35) in the
Privolzhsky district of the city on the eve of Cosmonautics Day, celebrated in
Russia on April 12. 16 groups for 340 children work in full mode in a new
kindergarten with an aerospace direction, which opened in November 2016. The
Mayor got acquainted with the methodology of bringing up kids who are already
learning to fly an aircraft.
Elena
Glukhareva, the director of the “Galaxy”, told that there are several
institutions in the structure of the educational center. “School №35, which
last year received the status of a lyceum, the school for children in treatment
at the Children's Republican Clinical Hospital, the Center for Aerospace
Education, as well as the preschool, in which we are now”, she noted. There is
a three-story, modern building at the disposal of the kids, in which there is a
bilingual room, an environmental cabinet, the “Nature-love alphabet”, the
computer class “Infoznaika”, a music room, and a sports hall with children's
equipment.
The Mayor
of Kazan spoke with the teachers of the kindergarten. One of them, Radik
Tuikin, an additional education teacher who is an active pilot and who teaches
in the “Galaxy”, told the Mayor about his work with preschool children.
According to him, they are studying the basics of computer science, different
engineering sciences, and also trying to control an airplane on a glider
simulator. “It is important to start since kindergarten age. The children still
have instincts and often thirty seconds are enough for the child to begin
operating the simulator, felt the flight itself. Even if they do not all become
pilots, they will forever fall in love with the sky. Kazan has very good
traditions in the production of aircraft, and children will be able to become
popular specialists in the labor market in the future”, R. Tuikin shared his
opinion.
The
director of the educational center noted that the children of the preparatory
group automatically become students of the first classes in the lyceum №35. “Of
course, parents like this, and our concept, too. Since the age of three, we are
already trying to lay in children what will be waiting for them in the first
grade. And for us – teachers - this merger is also convenient”, noted E.
Glukhareva.
From 10 to
24 April, the decade of aviation and cosmonautics is held in the educational
center “Galaxy”. According to the director, this is an annual event, which
children are waiting for. The program of the decade includes excursions to the
airfield “Vishnevka”, the planetarium of the KFU, master classes in gliding, an
open class on 3D-modeling, and much more.
At the end
of the event, the pupils of the educational center arranged a small creative
concert for the Mayor of Kazan, the main theme of which was flights into space
and the upcoming Victory Day.
Andrei
Lobov, the head of the Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky districts’ administration,
Ilsur Hadiullin, the head of the Education Department, and others also took
part in the examination of the kindergarten.