Thema: Extracurricular

Alongside the class theme of food webs, pupils worked in groups each corresponding to a different diverse habitats e.g. desert, mountain, rivers, rainforest to create 3d dioramas illustrating essential elements of the food web for each environment. To help present the landscapes, animals and vegetation to best effect, pupils worked ...

We began the school year by working alongside with the class unit on stories. After some drawing exercises to help with drawing faces and representing emotions through various facial expressions, pupils created small cut out cardboard characters and various backgrounds as both aids to developing a story and props for ...

For the Architecture unit, pupils started with some drawing exercises to help differentiate important historic architectural styles. To help understand how architects 2d drawings can represent 3d buildings, simple 2d facades and plans were illustrated, cut out and folded to make small 3d houses. The floor plans developed by each ...

Berlin Cosmopolitan School invited members of the Berliner Symphoniker to visit our international Primary School to conduct class workshops introducing orchestra instruments: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn. On January 15, the students will be able to try the various instruments as well as enjoy excerpts from Tchaikovsky's 'Peter and ...

The BCS bands "Girlz " and "Machine Boys" rocking the house at Berlin Bilingual School Oct. 2014. [gallery link="file" columns="2" ids="2217,2218"]

For a cross-curricular project between the German and Art departments on design and advertising, Grade 7 visited and reviewed the 'Mucha, Manga, Mystery' exhibition at the Bröhan Museum.

This term, the class have looked at urban and contemporary art that steps out of the traditional gallery environment. To complement their work and highlight the power of cross-disciplinary arts, the class visited the stunning, multi-media David Bowie Exhibition. They experienced sound and vision in the form of GPS audio-guides ...

Grade 6 compared their high standards in art with those of famous artists when they were the students' age, with excellent gallery talks by Charlotte Esser and Charlotte von Thaden at Me Collectors Berlin for the current exhibitions 'Paperworlds'.

Grade 10 went on location for their Land Art Project taking the work of artists such as Richard Long and Andy Goldsworthy as inspiration and a starting-point, Grade 10 developed their own Land Art pieces.

Last week's "Winners meet the Cosmos" concert was a great success. All the young and talented musicians managed to impress the audience with stunning performances. Arman Kotchinian and the "BCS Souls Sessions" made sure that the BCS creative community was represented excellently. Hopefully we will be able to organize more ...