Thema: Learning

Pictures of the Analogue Photography project - making a pinhole camera and developing the emulsion paper using wet chemical processing. This was a collaborative grade 8 project between Art (Ms Zarins) and Physics. The theme for Art is currently "portraiture" and for Physics it is "optical devices". The students developed ...

Musikefterskolen from Humble in Denmark has been playing concerts at the Berlin Cosmopolitan School for 7 years now. Every year this event is one of the musical highlights at BCS. On December 13 not only did our Primary and Secondary students see our guest from Denmark "rock the house”, we ...

On December 6 the annual football tournament of the project "Alle kicken mit!" took place. Two BCS girls teams took part. For the grade 1-2 team it was the second tournament and for the second time in a row the girls took second place. For the grade 3-4 team it ...

After learning the mathematical principles of surface area-to-volume ratios, students were asked to apply this knowledge to how cells carry out the vital functions of taking in nutrients and getting rid of wastes. Since the relatively low surface area-to-volume ratio of large objects presents a challenge to living things, students ...

The school's internal reading competition took place today (December 10). Two class winners each from 6a and 6b took part. One own and one foreign text was read. Two 7th graders, Lotte and Eva, were also on the jury. The two winners Luna (1.) and Julina (2.) won book vouchers ...

Basketball coach and BCS sports teacher Mr. Wehrmeyer reports: "A new team is born! Our youngest team and first appearance ever at this age group at the ALBA-Grundschuliga has won all their 3 games, ranking No 1!" Congratulations to the team, Mr Wehrmeyer, and coach Mr Glaser. Well done!

Although the 9th of November was somewhat overshadowed this year by the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War (Nov 11), we still took the opportunity to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Students could receive some extra credit by visiting a spot where ...

The first BCS Girls Basketball Tournament of this school year at the ALBA Berlin Oberschulliga took place this week. The young team lost two matches against very talented schools and won one match vs. Phorms School with 9:1, said Mr. BCS Basketball coach, Mr. Sven Wehrmeyer. “It was a great ...

The BCS-Gründerwoche starts at 2:30 pm today with the IHK kickoff talk: "How to be self-employed". The Gründerwoche is a Germany-wide series of events organised by the Ministry of Economics. The purpose is to inspire people to consider entrepreneurship and to encourage them to pursue their entrepreneurial aspirations. As part ...

Short report from our students: Taiwan was a very fun and interesting trip, much different than trips done before. Taipei is not like many other places that you can visit. We got to experience not just the tourist attractions of Taipei, but the actual experience from someone around our age. ...