Thema: Extracurricular

Last Friday, May 27 at the Max-Schmeling-Halle our girls (age group 1999-2002) won the final ALBA Basketball tournament with four wins against the John-Lennon- and the Scharfenberg-Gymnasium. The BCS coach Mr. Wehrmeyer said it was an amazing team performance and each girl has improved a lot. The matches have been ...

A highlight not to be missed: Winners meet the Cosmos – Wednesday, April 27 at 5 pm in the BCS Music & Concert Hall In collaboration with the Landesmusikrat Berlin we present - for the third time - winners of the "Jugend Musiziert" competition. It's always been an inspiration for our ...

Our very first Berlin Cosmopolitan School Talent Show took place on Sunday, April 17 at Grüner Salon in Berlin-Mitte. Students from grades 1 to 11 presented their talents in music, dance and acrobatics to a full house. It was amazing to see so many unbelievable talents on stage. We are very ...

On April 13th, Berlin Cosmopolitan School had the extraordinary pleasure to host a group of about 50 students and teachers from the St. Andrews Cathedral School in Sydney, Australia. The day started with getting to know each other and a variety of music workshops. The school hallways were filled with ...

A fantastic international half-field football tournament took place on Saturday, April 9th, with students from Berlin Metropolitan School, Prague British School and Berlin Cosmopolitan School. Although our sporty students were the youngest team, they put up a good fight. All matches were fair and highly exciting. Congratulations to the winners ...

During the class unit on signs, pupils were encouraged to think about shapes and colours used on signs that they see in everyday life before creating their own imaginary signs that express their own rules and preferences. We looked at the hieroglyphs of Ancient Egypt and asked pupils to try ...

For the unit on Groups, we started the year in art with each pupil trying to draw a self portrait then mix and add paint. They then used coloured card cut out and collaged together to make themselves a body. All the portraits were exhibited together and illustrated well how ...

For the unit on explorers, we looked at painted portraits of famous explorers, paying attention to the pose, facial expression, clothes, objects and backgrounds chosen and what they communicated about the kind of exploration undertaken. Pupils were then asked to draw and colour a portrait of themselves as an explorer, ...

For the architecture unit, we looked at architectural drawings, paying attention to the symbolic conventions and scale used. Constrained by a fixed floor size, pupils were asked to draw plans for a house they'd like to live in.  They then measured and cut cardboard to make floors, walls, stairs and ...

For the food webs unit, we first all looked at animal camouflage. Pupils were given a color copy of a landscape photograph and asked to draw the outline of a suitable animal for that environment, cut it out then with colored pencils, use appropriate texture, tone and color to help ...