"Es war an einem Winterabend, an einem ganz besonderen Winterabend, dem Weihnachtsabend! Und es war die Stunde, in der überall im ganzen Land die Weihnachtsbäume geschmückt wurden. So war es auch bei der Familie Stahlbaum?" Thus begins the story of, "Nussknacker und Mäusekönig" by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822+, in Berlin) which the Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) set to music for a ballet production in St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater in 1892. The piece ...

Sunday was the third game of the season for our U9 talents from Central Hoops Cosmopolitan against Citybasket. The whole team played exceptionally well.  We won 35 - 8. Congratulations!

Did you ever climb through an eye of a needle eye or up the stairway to heaven? This year during our fall vacation programme, we are offering ...

Our regular "BCS Casual Concerts" continue Monday and Tuesday, November 28 & 29, featuring students of our music school on guitar, recorder, piano and vocals. 

During this one-day outdoor excursion, all of our secondary school students and their teachers had a chance to get to know eachother a little better in the beginning of ...

Our students will watch a plenary sitting of the German Bundestag “live” from the public gallery of the plenary chamber. They will spend an hour watching a Bundestag debate. Afterwards, students and teachers will have the opportunity to visit the dome.

Our youngest members of the Central Hoops Berlin Cosmopolitan basketball teams  showed their best regarding coordination, ball skills, catching, passing, dribbling and shooting, whilst laughing and having ...

This is a chance for all children, parents and teachers from your child's group to get together and celebrate the winter season's festivities. We use the term "winter celebrations" as an umbrella term for all of the wonderful festivals that happen at this time of year, such as Christmas and Channukah. Winter celebrations for Kindergarten Rückerstrasse: December 9: Ground floor groups December 16: First floor groups

On Saturday, November 5 the second game of the season took place in Lankwitz. Opponent was the basketball team of South Berlin. Even during warm-up it became clear that this would probably be a tough game. The opposing team put our  boys under pressure from the start. Tough strong man defense and hit rates did make our team's life difficult. Our guys however, were very brave. Ultimately, we lost the game but gained lots of ...

Our older Basketball school team (Years 95-98) will play their first game in the   Vattenfall School Cup in Franz-Mett Halle on November 22. We wish both teams good luck!