Vera’s first role at the NMS was in 2012 when her daughter Lilli joined the school. As a parent she was already an active member of the school community, helping out wherever she could. At the beginning of 2015 she became a member of the Madiba Choir and it wasn’t long before she joined the NMS social pedagogue team. Her arrival was like a breath of fresh air and she soon became a highly valued member of staff. When she joined the team she brought a great deal of experience with her.Having studied social pedagogy, Vera later trained as a mediator. She had worked in both the private and public sector and had spent five years in San Diego where she worked with young offenders.

Dear Parents and Guardians, it's class list time.

Sign up to get all the vital information you need for your kids in the new academic year.  

Please use this link to sign up for the class email list: 

https://forms.gle/mbDUMDzhN3rUFytXA

I would like to offer a help desk for new parents at the P30 again during the month of August:

• Thursday, Aug 8
• Thursday, Aug 15
• Thursday, Aug 22
• Thursday, Aug 29

I will be in the Cafeteria from 8.00 to 9.35 am on those dates waiting for any parents with questions.

Florentine Baumann
Head of Art Department
Coordination of Elective Courses (Lower Secondary)

New for 2019/20: Free lunch in Primary

From the school year 2019/20 lunch will be free of charge. We encourage all parents to sign up their children for lunch, so that our students can enjoy a warm meal in school together.

Hello parents please find the dates for the first parent evenings for the NMS primary and secondary sites.

Please be aware that these parent evening and invitations start in early August for the primary and middle of August for the secondary, so please do take a look.

Parent evenings all sites

Hello parents, teachers and students of the NMS Secondary, grades 7-Abitur/IB 

Welcome back to school. We hope you had a great summer.

Here are details of the organisation of the first school day, including where students should initially go on the morning of the 5th of August 2019.

Click on the link for a word document

First school day/1.Schultag

Junge Tüftler are one of our school’s favourite cooperation partners. Also this summer they invite our students to an exciting workshop at the brandnew Berlin Futurium! 

Am 5. September 2019 eröffnet das Futurium im Herzen Berlins nahe dem Hauptbahnhof. Unter einem Dach beherbergt es ein Zukunftsmuseum mit lebendigen Szenarien, ein Zukunftslab zum Ausprobieren, ein Zukunftsforum für den gemeinschaftlichen Dialog und künstlerische Projekte - und Junge Tüftler ist mittenmang dabei! Im Zukunftslab werden wir in regelmäßigen Workshops die Bildungsmaterialien des Futuriums mit den Maker Methoden von Junge Tüftler verbinden.

Address to the graduating class by Arun Sharma; on behalf of the parents and guardians

3 minutes, 3 points

Good afternoon.  Congratulations to the graduating class, the parents, the school administration, the support staff and the teachers.  Congratulations for this big step forward into each of your lives.  Your heads are full of ideas, accomplishments, dreams, fears, maybe even a sip of champagne. 

Liebe Schulgemeinde,
zum Ende des Schuljahres werde ich –wie schon länger angekündigt- die Nelson-Mandela-Schule verlassen und mich noch einmal einer neuen spannenden Herausforderung stellen. Ich übernehme die Deutsche Schule Kiew, eine noch recht junge deutsche Auslandsschule, die sich im Aufbau befindet und an der noch eine Menge „Pionierarbeit“ anliegt.

Ich gehe mit einem „lachenden und einem weinenden Auge“, denn eine solche Aufbauaufgabe zum Ende meines Berufslebens ist natürlich sehr motivierend und wie gesagt spannend, andererseits hatte ich auch an der Nelson-Mandela-Schule eine sehr abwechslungsreiche und lebendige Zeit, die ich nicht vermissen möchte.

Ich wünsche Ihnen und Ihren Familien und natürlich der Nelson-Mandela-Schule alles Gute für die Zukunft!

Gerald Miebs

In May, around 60 sixth-graders participated in the NMS Media Literacy Assessment trial. The school devised this mobile assessment, creating an interactive quiz on the Berlin platform Actionbound, to assess our sixth-graders’ knowledge of the Internet and of social media, as well as online creation and data processing. 

Nelson Mandela School’s second ever student led career day took place on Thursday the 6th of June 2019.

The students that attended were able to listen to a variety of career presentations and talks by parents and friends. Students got to hear about life at the British Embassy, working at the Charité, working in costume and films, politics, and much more!

On Ubuntu Day the school was visited by the notable journalist John Battersby and the school received a very warm write up in the Daily Maverick after welcoming him to the community.

The article, 'Ubuntu: Getting to know ourselves through others in the shadow of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela' talks at length about the day. 

A visit to the Nelson Mandela International School in Berlin on its annual Ubuntu Day celebration on 21 May 2019 will stay with me for a long time.

It was a humbling and uplifting experience to see the Mandela values of inclusivity, diversity and community service being lived and shared on a daily basis by some 1,500 students from more than 60 countries including some students and teachers from South Africa.

It was a kaleidoscope of colour and activity with a rich tapestry of passion and culture that gives the school the feel of a youthful United Nations.

The bilingual — German and English — state school was founded in 2000 to attract more nationalities to Berlin in line with the German capital’s policy of openness and cultural inclusion.

A facade with larger-than-life images of Mandela’s smiling face spread across the top leads one into a courtyard where on a battery of sewing machines students were creating new patchwork clothes from their own discarded clothes.

The full article can be read in the Daily Maverick here.