Berlin Bilingual School

Grade 5 creative art work in progress for their Distorted Hybrid Creatures project - the students created designs inspired by real animals and then distorted these, through merging features inspired by artists such as Daniel Hopfer and Maurice Sendak ( of Where the Wild Things Are) Their 3D work is so playful and imaginative where students followed their curiosity with materials, so excited to see the next steps with papier-mâché and building surface skin textures out of the recycling bin.

Instead of class trips like their older friends in the higher grades, our grade 1&2 students had just as much fun with having a sleepover in school last night! Look at all these cozy cuddly toys 🧸😴🤩 sheer bliss 😇

You might have notice that the primary students can now once again play under the biggest tree in our yard. The tree and the surrounding area were fenced off for quite some months, but now everything is sorted out and the area is safe for the children again. Wondering what happened? Read the story - Save The Tree - on the community website, a story about four girls who tried to save the biggest tree in the yard.

A big thank you to the parent who wrote this wonderful story and for sharing it with the BBS community 🥰

Celebrating PRIDE MONTH at the secondary school 🏳️‍🌈
Our school (parent) librarian teamed up with our students decorating our cozy library together and put out some book recommendations written by diverse authors for our staff and students alike. What a wonderful job they did!! 😍

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Get ready to our Summer Art Show in the secondary school. Stay tuned 🙂

We’re playing Catan again in the secondary school — but this time, with strategy!
Last time we played, we tracked our dice rolls and used the data to learn about probability. Now, we’re using graphs to figure out which numbers are most likely to come up — and using that to our advantage!
Who knew math could make you better at board games?
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One of the BBS Diversity Weeks - Amazing Asia has come to an end last Friday, the past week was filled with Asian cultural activities and of course we couldn’t call it whole without some yummy Asian food and drinks🤪 and we celebrated the final day with lots of snacks and Karaoke 🎤 everyone had lots of fun and left school with happy tummies 😋
A huge thank you to the DEI parent group and all the parents who spent time to organise this whole event! We are grateful for your contribution to the community 💜

The DEI group warmly invites the BBS families to join the grand finale of the Amazing Asia Week, there will be delicious regional Asian food, drinks and KARAOKE 🎤 come and join the party today from 2pm at the Cafeteria. Food and drink are donation-based, so bring some €€€ 🥳 🍙🥟🍡🍵🧋

Throw back to the beginning of April, our secondary school football team achieved their best result in years on that one match day, coming in second.

They won two out of three games! We are so proud of them 🏆

The Garden Group at Granitz Str. was busy last Saturday and did a great job. They planted new flowers, herbs and have created a footpath. They also planted some tomatoes on the terrace.
Meanwhile our colourful radishes are ready. We harvested a bunch of radishes this morning for the students🫜🫜. We appreciate the parents’ dedication to our school yard - an eco haven, thank you! 🤩

In Humanity class, grade 4 students have been leaning about the history of Egypt. Working in groups, they chose their favourite topic and then learn how to do research and to made various objects/models which demonstrate their understanding of their chosen topic. From mummies, canopic jars to pyramid and Sphinx. Look at all these stunning cool models they made!! It’s such an interesting and also important piece of history for our students to learn! A wonderful opportunity for them to not only learn about the history, but also how to carry out a project in a group setting.

Orchestra100 (O100) is an initiative to bring students from grade 4 to 13 from schools and refugee communities in and around Berlin together to perform in an orchestra. The concert will take place in the WABE Theater Berlin on the 3rd of July, which seats an audience of over 100 guests. Putting on an event of this size is going to necessitate some funds to be made possible. The links for Fundraiser and ticket (free) are on the profile page.

Every euro counts and I hope you will help us to make this meaningful event possible!🙏