BMS Vacation Program
Our summer vacation program is hot off the press, featuring many excursions, workshops, tournaments, and other fun activities for our students! We look forward to welcoming students to our vacation program!
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BMS Quarterly Newsletter
The latest edition of our BMS Quarterly Newsletter is hot off the press, highlighting important school developments and examples of student achievement and community events.
BMS Secondary School Concert
We are happy to release the BMS Secondary Concert video, featuring our incredibly talented young artists performing at our annual BMS Secondary School Concert. We hope you enjoy seeing them in action on stage!
Sports Day @BMS Secondary
Our Secondary students enjoyed our annual BMS Sports Day, competing in races, games, and other fun competitions with our dedicated Gym teachers Mr. Murphy and Mr. Johnstone. The day was filled with fun, laughter and lots of BMS House Spirit! Congratulations to Fire House for winning the House Cup!
Academic Year 2021/22
We would like to thank our entire community for a wonderful school year, shaped by many events, initiatives, projects, and most of all, student learning! We hope that our school community enjoys the summer break with family & friends, and we look forward to welcoming everyone back for the first day of school on August 22, 2022!
Primary School: Einschulung
We look forward to celebrating an important milestone with 88 Grade 1 students at our annual Einschulung celebration on August 27th. BMS will welcome our Grade 1 students with a formal ceremony here at BMS, followed by a reception in our school courtyard. Stay tuned for a few impressions!
Grade 4 Twelfth Night Performances
We would like to thank our youngest thespians in Grade 4 for a wonderful production of Twelfth Night, showcasing their command of the stage in recent performances held in our BMS Auditorium.
Primary School Grade 5 Musical
Our Grade 5 students showcased their talent with this year´s musical performance of “Change the World Together”, hosted in our auditorium. We would like to thank all Grade 5 participants who made this show an entertaining and engaging event for our community. Bravo to our students and Arts Team!
Primary School: Grade 6 Graduation
With the PYP exhibition successfully completed, our Grade 6 students will soon reach an important milestone as they graduate from our Primary School. We look forward to welcoming parents for this important event and will celebrate our students as they conclude their Primary years and join our Secondary school next year! Stay tuned for a few impressions of the day´s celebrations!
BMS Alumni Stories
Our Alumni and their professional pathways are a strong testament to the character and intellect we strive to nurture in our all BMS students. Read more on their individual stories and find out what they value most from their time as BMS students. Their individual career and university pathways are inspiring!
BMS Berlingual: Summer Edition Hot of the Press!
Hats off to the editorial team @theberlingual for producing a fantastic summer edition of the much-acclaimed BMS school magazine. Our students included some fantastic suggestions for summer reading, a review of the Secondary school concert, and much more
Induction Lessons @BMS Secondary
Our Secondary faculty has been busy facilitating transition lessons for both the IBDP and Gr. 6 induction weeks, describing our curriculum programs and approaches to learning in our Secondary classrooms. Students were able to pose questions to the teachers about assignments and gain a practical experience as they take this next important step at BMS.
Basketball Tournament Update from Coach Tom: GO HAWKS!
Before we close the academic year, we wanted to provide a long-awaited update from the HAWKS team via Coach Tom. It has been a pleasure to watch our HAWKS back in action after a series of interruptions! We would like to thank the entire team for a good season and wish Coach Tom and our HAWKS a great summer!
Project Learning: Enrichment Program @BMS Primary
We would like to thank our young scientists for an interesting expo last week, displaying their budding scientific skills and excitement for critical thinking. Well done to the team and our students!
BMS Graduation Ceremony: Class of 2022
We would like to thank our entire community for a wonderful commencement ceremony last week, where we celebrated the accomplishments of 58 Grade 12 students and the completion of their time as students at BMS. Touching tributes through speeches, video and gifts were shared by guests during the evening´s celebrations. We would like to bid the Class of 2022 a fond farewell!
Grade 5 Musical in the BMS Auditorium
Our Grade 5 students are ready to hit the stage for this year´s annual musical event! Join Ms. Karen and the Grade 5 students with their performance of “Change the World Together”. We look forward to sharing a few impressions of the event!
Waterloo University Mathematics Competition
We would like to congratulate our Secondary students on the excellent outcomes of the Gauss Mathematics Competition, receiving distinction awards and accolades from the university for their achievements! A special congratulations to both Scott and Feliks who were awarded the Outstanding Achievement Award for achieving the highest mark from the BMS Cohort. Well done to our mathematicians!
IRIS Book Award Results
We are happy to feature the 2022 IRIS Book Awards! The IRIS book competition aims to promote a love of reading and to provide a shared reading experience across BMS Primary. The outcome represents the preferences of students via a Europe-wide poll. Many thanks to our Primary School librarians for supporting this creative and engaging competition this year!
Meet the Scientist Event @BMS
Our Grade 7 & 8 students will soon participate in our first-ever Meet the Scientist event on June 20th & June 21st. Volunteers from our parent community who are professional scientists, will present to students a brief outline of their work, their inspiration in becoming a scientist, and show examples from the field. Students will pose questions and participate in a discussion round with the scientist over Microsoft teams. In the following week, students will present these “Scientist Profiles” during our Science Expo on July 1st.
Primary School Enrichment Program: BMS Project Learning Expo
Join our Grade 5 & 6 students and Teaching Teams for an Expo at BMS on Monday, June 20th at 3:45pm! The enrichment program in Primary school seeks to give students an opportunity to develop and extend their ability at an advanced level and provide a way to explore and create. As an outcome of this newly implemented program, our students will demonstrate scientific phenomena at the Expo and present their ideas and the connections they made, inviting us to extend our thinking into the realm of "what if".
IGCSE and MSA Awards Ceremony @BMS
Our students received their MSA and IGCSE awards in a special ceremony on June 3rd, celebrating their achievements with invited guests and faculty members. Congratulations to our MSA& IGCSE students!
PYP Exhibition: Action Starts with Us!
Congratulations to our Grade 6 students & Grade 6 Teaching & CCEP Teams for their outstanding success with this year´s PYP Exhibition, offering our students and invited guests the opportunity to see the many actions and ideas they presented to improve the world around us! A job well done to our independent learners and thinkers in Grade 6!
Calling all treasure hunters!
Our Secondary school library is hosting their very own treasure hunt during the week of June 13th-June 17th, inviting all students to participate in this mystery of islands, clues, and locks with one treasure waiting for the smartest sleuth!
Grade 11 Mini Art Exhibition: Reclaiming the Mask
By exploring the mask as a means of role play and identity, our Grade 11 students recently constructed mask pieces. The journey began by observing the role of the mask in cultural and historical contexts and was expanded upon by engaging with tools and processes used by artists n the field, leading finally to some very creative outcomes.
IGCSE and DP Digital Art Exhibition
We are excited to unveil the tremendous artwork from our Secondary students, spanning from our IGCSE & DP courses over the last year. It represents the inspiration, planning, execution, and creativity expressed by our engaging students.
Click here to view the digital artwork exhibition and enjoy!
Theory of Knowledge (ToK) Activity for Grade 7&8
A group of our Grade 7 & 8 students recently had their first experience with a ToK-style lesson, enjoying a philosophical question and prompt to examine and discuss in their tutor groups. Led by Secondary tutors, students will analyze these questions over the course of the next 2 weeks, and will give a small presentation on their findings for their peers.
Gr. 11 DP Theatre Workshop: AMDC Guest
Our DP Theatre students recently participated in a performing arts workshop run by Sam Harvey from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDC), sharing his skills and expertise from Broadway and other global stages with our aspiring actors.
Summer Readathon 2022
Our Secondary students are collecting their book lists for summer readings, this time to raise funds for the International Book Aid. Students from Grade 7-Grade 12 will collect book sponsors for each magazine, graphic novel, or book they complete over the summer break. Stay tuned for the results in the Academic Year 2022/23!
BMS Secondary Student receives British Embassy Award
Congratulations to Anne from Gr. 11 who was recently awarded the “Ambassador for a Day” title, as part of a competition hosted by the British Embassy in Berlin. By submitting an essay on the competition prompt of what issue they would change on the world stage, Anne wrote about resource management and its importance for world governments. Well done, Anne!
BMS Primary Student Shortlisted for Comic Invasion Berlin
Chadha from Grade 6 has been placed on the short list of candidates for the Comic Invasion Awards hosted by the Museum for Communications in Berlin for her cartooning work as part of our CCEP Afterschool Club. Out of a pool of over 100 participants, Chadha is now under the top 10 and will attend an awards ceremony with her fellow nominees on May 15th , where the top 3 winners will be announced. We look forward to updating our community on the results and want to congratulate Chadha on this amazing achievement!