Grade 11 DP students will soon showcase their work at an EE Symposium, offering them the opportunity to present their research, receive constructive feedback from the audience, and inspire the last round of writing and editing before their final draft is due. Our students will be presenting on various panels based on the research focus and students, faculty, and Grade 11 parents will be part of the audience. Congratulations to our students!
Our resident artists and musicians are gearing up for another fabulous display of musicianship and artistic skills at the annual BMS Secondary School Concert on March24th. Over 20 acts will take to the stage, playing pop, jazz, classical, as well as R&B songs. Stay tuned for tickets reservations, which will open for our community very soon!
Congrats to our BMS Chess Team who took home 4 outstanding canter victories, taking home silver in the round-robin tournament played with 8 other teams. A job well done to Matti, Maximilian, Milan, Sara, and David. Thank you also to Coach Fietz for encouraging our students to achieve their best!
We would like to congratulate our students for an incredible Math Week and an engaging Math Day at BMS! The theme of how mathematicians are creative problem solvers was alive and well on campus and the activities planned brought out the mathematicians in our students across the school. A special congrats to our estimation jar winners in the Primary School!
As part our BMS Scholars Program, students recently finished Vargas Llosa's acclaimed novel The Feast of the Goat. Together with their advisors from the Secondary Faculty, students reflected on topics such as the character traits of a dictator, the common conditions that contribute to the rise of totalitarian regimes, the type of damage caused to the social fabric under these regimes, as well as the specific ways in which literature and art shed light on historical truth. Well done to our scholars!
We would like to thank our entire school community for a wonderful and engaging Festival of Learning in our Primary School, celebrating the skills and knowledge of our PYP learners. It was wonderful to see our students in action, guiding and explaining their learning progress and achievement to parents. Well done!
Our Grade 12 students will soon open our annual IBDP Visual Art & Film Exhibition, featuring the artistry, craft, and talent of our resident artists in Grade 12. We look forward to congratulating the students on their works in our upcoming Vernissage on March 16th at BMS.
Watch this space for a digital slideshow of their art next week!
A group of compassionate Grade 12 students recently volunteered at a farm animal Sanctuary in Brandenburg, braving the cold temperatures and sporadic freezing rain to clear away the barns, lay fresh hay, and improve the overall living environment of the animals. Our students were also able to test their farm skills, chasing away some rather cheeky ponies! A massive thank you to Mr. Huet and all our kind-hearted students who volunteered their time!
We look forward to starting our annual celebration of poetry in Primary School during the month of March, offering our students with the opportunity to expand their skills in literacy, expression, and the arts. Primary School students will battle for the top spot as they deliver their poetry performance amongst their peers. Stay tuned for the outcomes!
We look forward to welcoming top national and international universities on the BMS Campus on March 13th, joining with our partner schools in AGIS for a University Fair. Students will have the opportunity to meet with the reps, posing questions on academic programs and campus life.
Our dedicated Model UN students had an amazing and highly engaging experience at the Berlin Model United Nations conference. With a total team of 18 students and 6 junior model UN students from Gr. 7&8 in the team, this experience was an opportunity to show their skills in diplomacy, negotiation, and leadership.
We look forward to welcoming our Primary School parent community on March 10th, providing both students and parents with the opportunity to see PYP learning in action. Students will share their individual learning success and progress with parents directly and parents will see how Primary School students learn important skills like communication, self-management, and research. A few other surprises in celebrating learning are in store for our community as well!
Our Gr. 10 & 11 students had a fun time exercising their math skills in the annual competition, testing their logical thinking and creative problem-solving skills together with their classmates. Thousands of students worldwide participate in the competition each year and 34 Gr. 10 &11 students represented BMS.
Our model UN team is ready to attend the first Model United Nations Simulation of 2023 at JFK Berlin in collaboration with the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung on February 23rd-25th, featuring the theme of responsible resource consumption & the just distribution of resources in our global world. Our youngest BMS MUN members will also be able to attend the Berlin-based conference, participating in the junior delegation.
BMS students in ELC and Primary school are ready for the start of carnival and our dedicated team is preparing the festivities with music, games, and costumes. Stay tuned for a few impressions!
Our Grade 9 students are set to participate in the annual University of Waterloo Math Competition, providing students with an engaging opportunity to test logical thinking and creative problem solving. Thousands of students across the globe will participate and our students look forward to it each year. Stay tuned for the results & challenge highlights!
Our Primary School librarians have compiled an entire program celebrating Black History Month in the library, with presentations, discussions, videos, inspirational book titles of notable figures, and much more. Visit the library to discover more!
We would like to thank our amazing students for an incredible talent show on the BMS Stage! Dance, song, instrumentals, and much more were part of the evening´s program and it was a wonderful opportunity to see the talent and engagement from our young artists. A big thank you to our judges!
Find a few impressions here and stay tuned for the video clip!
BMS Secondary students recently enjoyed a lecture and Q&A discussion with Mr. Dubnov, Professor of History & Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at The George Washington University and current fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Students discussed partition politics and examined case studies for impacts and future perspectives. Well done to Ron from Gr. 12 for leading the discussion rounds!
Semester 1 on the BMS Campus is slowly coming to a close and with it comes the Primary and Secondary Report Cards as well as the start of a well-deserved winter break! Reminder: students will be dismissed at 12 noon on February 10th! Enjoy the break with family & friends!
Our winter vacation program for Februrary 13th-Feburary 17th has just been published by our CCEP Team, featuring workshops, excursions, and engagement activities for our students during Winter Break. Join us for a dynamic program of learning and having fun when formal classes are not in session!
Our 16 finalists are ready to perform in the BMS Auditorium beginning at 15:30, showcasing their amazing acts of song, dance, instrumental, and more at our annual CCEP Talent Show. Our 6 Primary School student hosts will guide our audience through the evening´s program and jury members will announce the awards in the days following the performance. We look forward to sharing a few impressions of the evening! Best of luck to our students!
Our Fine Arts and Music Faculty @BMS Primary are preparing for the Upper Primary Creative Arts Showcase, featuring the artistic and musical talents of our resident artists in Grades 3-6. Join us on February 2, 2023 from 3:30pm-5:00pm at BMS and celebrate the artwork, artistic demonstrations, and performances from our amazing students! Stay tuned for the program and showcase layout!
Our DP students in Global Politics took part in a lecture and discussion round with Mr. Dubberley from the Digital Investigations Lab at Human Rights Watch and learned how HRW uses technology and open-source information to research and expose war crimes. Drawing on case-study examples form his work, Mr. Dubberly provided students will current examples and answered student queries on what he studied and how he became involved in human rights advocacy. A big thank you to Mr. Dubberly & the HRW team for providing our students with this opportunity.
We would like to thank our Gr. 10 & 12 parents for meeting with our Secondary faculty, discussing student progress thus far and the upcoming final exminations in DP & IGCSE in Spring. These checkpoints are important for discussing academic achievement and final goals for our students as the complete Gr. 10 & 12.
Congratulations to Ms. Malinowski for her comments, insights, and perspectives recently published in the Eine-Welt-Presse of the United Nations Association of Germany! Ms. Malinowski was recently interviewed on SDGs and their innovative role in education.
We would like to thank our entire community for the monetary contributions to the charity initiative tied to the BMS Cookbook for Peace. Based on your donations, we were able to raise a total of 2,935 Euros for the Ukraine Hilfe Berlin Charity. An amazing outcome and an inspiring example of how powerful our community can be when working together for change!
A job well done to our Grade 10 and Grade 12 students on completing their last mock examinations before for the real thing in a few weeks! Over the last 2 weeks, our students have completed over 30 exams, providing them with the opportunity for feedback from their teachers before the final IGCSE and DP exams in Spring 2023.
Students from Grade 3-6 are cordially invited to join the IRIS Book Talks beginning on January 19th after school in the BMS Primary Library, to discuss the book collection, upcoming literature reviews, and much more! Register today with our librarians and enjoy!
Before 2022 comes to an end, we are happy to unveil our annual Extended Essay (EE) publication, featuring the academic excellence of selected graduates from the Class of 2022. The selected essays represent two years of scientific research, the highest standards of academic writing, as well as the realization of a specific and student-led research question.
