In Secondary our online learning continues to move forward as students and teachers engage in a full schedule of online classes. This includes our usual tutorials and weekly meetings as well as continuing with our mentor programme which provides additional support to students facing academic challenges.  In addition to helpful feedback, we have received a very positive response from students and parents for our efforts from last week's online survey. Nevertheless, we continue to make ...

Dear BCS Kindergarten & Preschool Parents and Carers, It is our sincerest wish that all of our Kindergarten & Preschool children, you and your families as well as beloved ones feel safe, healthy and connected. In addition to keeping your child physically safe during this time of closure, it is also important to care for their emotional health. Below, we summarise recommendations for promoting the emotional well-being of your child in the face of these types of ...

check out this BCSNBC documentary about the efforts of Cosmo for Future (March 2020): https://web.microsoftstream.com/video/b93c1cb5-d4c8-46cc-b2b9-2af284c55064

Hello friends, family and students of BCS! We are missing you here at school and have been doing our best to ensure that it is not all work and no play for you while you enjoy at home learning!  We hope you have been enjoying our daily free play and club videos with different arts and crafts, recipes, sports and other activities. Have you sang along with Mr. White on Music Monday? How are your ...

Although COVID-19 has closed schools around the world, school at BCS still goes on at home. BCS Primary was able to respond in a very short period of time to set up a digital learning community for our students and parents as they found themselves asked to practice social distancing through self-isolation. We were able to connect all our students and parents to the classroom teachers, who were able to set up virtual classrooms across ...

“…We just wanted to thank the school for all they have been doing during these surprising and ‘unplanned for’ times. It can’t be easy for you all. What we forget as parents is that, like us, you teachers have lives, loved ones to take care of and worry about, routines and responsibilities which need thinking – and rethinking. We just wanted to wish you, the school, all the teachers our very best and to say ...

Dear BCS Kindergarten & Preschool Parents and Carers, We as your kindergarten heads will be writing to you all each week to share an update during this closing time.  Our update will be sharing two aspects of what is occurring at this time during the closing period.  We will share information about what our teachers are currently doing to support you as families as well as what our teachers are currently doing for professional development ...

Since last Wednesday (18 March), BCS teachers have been teaching online. As lessons are taught according to the regular timetable, attendance is checked at the beginning of the lesson, after which lessons begin via chat, uploaded work instructions, video or audio recording. The feedback from parents, students and teachers has been very positive so far. Colleagues advise each other in a separate team group and learn about new ways of organising lessons online every day. ...

During our school closure, BCS has successfully transitioned to a fully digital learning format. During these times we want to maintain as much normalcy as possible while being sensitive to our students’ individual emotional and academic needs.   We are using Teams, from our usual Office 365 learning platform, which is part of our established digital learning toolkit. Our students are engaging in regular online lessons as scheduled in their usual timetable. Teachers are taking ...

We, like all kindergartens and schools in Germany, are closed as of March 17. All applicant families, who may have questions, are welcome to submit these via our online application platform “OpenApply”. All BCS teachers will be providing work for their children and students on a daily basis. BCS parents and students should stay in touch with their teachers, heads of departments and/or our office via email. We will answer any incoming inquiries and questions ...