Celebrating a new academic year
10 September will mark the start of a new academic year at the Step Up Orphan Opportunity Centre More »
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socialisation through education
Graduate reunion
For the first time, the Step Up Orphan Opportunity Centre organised a reunion for graduates. We invited everyone who studied or taught at the Centre, as well as anyone who helped and supported our work. It was a very heart-warming event and we hope that it will become a new tradition for the future More »
Meeting Viktor Bochkanov: a “Prof” project
We met the submarine and ship design engineer as part of the “Prof” project More »
Ecology Camp
In August, another Step Up dream was realised: we held our first ecology camp at the house in Novopetrovsk. 11 Step Up students attended along with 5 students from the Absolute school. Step Up teachers organised a range of unique, educational activities centred around four laboratories: landscaping, botany, zoology and water ecology More »
Seminar for Belsky Ustye staff
On 27th and 28th June, Step Up staff held a seminar for our colleagues at the Belsky Ustye orphanage. It was dedicated to our programme for young adults with learning difficulties and was held with the support of the Presidential Grants Foundation More »
“Day to Day” programme launched for young adults with learning difficulties
On 19th June we held a seminar dedicated to peer mentoring and marking methods that can be applied to students with learning difficulties. A new “Day to Day” programme for young adults was developed and launched thanks to the Presidential Grant More »
Seminar on the correction of written and spoken language errors
On 21st April, 20 members of the Step Up team took part in a seminar which taught them a number of methods for working with students who are experiencing difficulties in education. The seminar was led by Olga Anatolyevna Ishimova, a well-known speech therapist and methodologist More »
Results of the first half-year period: an infographic
An infographic showing the results of the first half of the academic year, prepared by our friends at Design Bureau Verstak More »
An evening with Ekaterina Shulman
On 20th December, at the Hyundai Motorstudio, Step Up students and teachers spent an evening with Ekaterina Shulman. The evening was dedicated to a discussion of civil society; what is our understanding of it and what are the main questions it raises? More »
Enter our successful world…
In October, Step Up students completed a series of training sessions as part of the programme “Enter our successful world”. The programme is a joint venture, set up by the organisation “The Maltese Help Service” and the advertising company “Lapin Advertising” More »
