Willkommen in der BBS

Every year we have a week run dedicated to an ecological topic. This year’s focus was „the bee“. Especially in our primary school, our students learned about making honey, insects and bees as well as the week included many fun outings, like to the Naturkundemuseum of Berlin. However, this did not stop grade 8a who used the packaging of UHT milk cartons from the staff kitchen to learn about drypoint etching technique.

The Alba-Oberschulliga Basketball tournaments are back underway for school year 2019/20 and once again BBS will be represented by 3 teams. Our WK III girls who travelled to the Albert Schweizer Gymnasium on Wednesday the 23rd of October to take on the aforementioned school as well as the Alfred Nobel Schule in first round action.

BBS staff run 2019! What a gorgeous day. Each BBS runner ran 7km along the Teltow canal. How momentous, as this is where part of the wall once divided East and West Germany 30 years ago.

"Fridays For Future": Berlin Bilingual School (BBS) schließt am 20. September, um Klimastreik zu unterstützen.

Das gesamte Kollegium der Sekundarschule wird an diesem Tag an der Demonstration teilnehmen, die Schule bleibt geschlossen und der Unterricht fällt aus. Den Schüler*innen und den Eltern bleibt es derweil freigestellt, ob sie am Klimastreik teilnehmen möchten oder nicht.

Dear BBS students,

We wish you all a good start into the new school year. Surely you are just as excited as your teachers and educators. It will be a great year with many new discoveries, excursions, projects and friendships.

This week we welcome all new and old BBS students and our 1st grade has its introductory week, with parents still accompanying their children.  In 7th grade the workshop "How to BBS" will take place on Thursday and Friday.

Enjoy!

The Leadership Team

From 29th to 2nd of August, BBS staff members will be returning to school in preparation for the forthcoming school year. We have a number of new staff members joining this year and we will also be welcoming back members of staff who have been on leave.

On Monday, we will give new staff members a brief history of BBS. The founders, the concept, its evolution and finally its future of which they will be part of.

On Tuesday, we welcome everybody back and begin the day with some coffee, croissants and catch up on each others summer adventure. Then it is down to business!

Dear parents

Due to the extraordinary heat we regret to inform you that we will have to adapt the offer of our Hort programme; i.e. the trips for tomorrow are cancelled and we will watch movies with chilled fruit spritzers, smoothies and fans in the cafeteria and play with water in the shady parts of the garden.

Please, provide appropriate clothing for the water and sun protection, such as light hats, UV-protective clothing and sun cream.

The Berliner newspapers have published the Abitur grades and we can proudly announce that BBS has come second best of Berlin - with an average of 1.6. A huge success for our first Abiturient*innen!

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/…/abiturnoten-im-…/24481906.html

We are now officially a "School without Racism - School with Courage"

Apart from the fact that as a school we have been living "Diversity" every day for many years, we now officially carry the title "School without Racism".

Great news! On 21st May Berlin Bilingual School - primary and secondary - will be awarded with Schule ohne Rassismus - Schule mit Courage. Our students collected enough signatures to join the EU - wide network.

Herewith the German press release:

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Vielfalt feiern – Diversity leben: Berlin Bilingual School (BBS) erhält Titel "Schule ohne Rassismus – Schule mit Courage"
Rapper NANA und Schauspielerin Isabell Polak unterstützen das Projekt als Paten.

More than 10 years ago, a small group of young enterprising parents embarked on the adventure to found a school for their children, because they wanted them to learn in both German and English, the languages they were speaking at home.