This Christmas card was created in the art course. We think it is very impressive.

We wish all students and their parents, all colleagues a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

School management of the Nelson Mandela School

On 12 December 2024, the year 11 final of the Jugend debattiert competition took place in the assembly hall as part of the German subject. The finalists tackled the question: ‘Should the school have its own social media presence?’

They delivered an exciting and content-rich debate in front of the entire Year 11 class. The good atmosphere and the high standard of the arguments made the final a special event. The very competent jury (Shiraz, Hugo and Bendix from Year 12) ultimately declared Amon (11a) the winner ahead of Nouriel (11b). Congratulations!

Following this year's winter concert in P30 on 5 December 2024, the Leistungskurs Visual Arts (Q3) would like to invite you to the opening of the “pull a face” exhibition in the new building (ground floor and first floor). A total of around 60 drawn, painted and printed works on the subject of grimaces will be on display, which the students created as part of a project assessment substituting one of their exams. We look forward to seeing you.Q3LKKu (Baumann)

We would like to invite you to our music evening on 05.12. at 18:00 in the Aula (P30). On this evening, the NMS-PopChoir and the school orchestra will present a colorful program of classical and pop music, supported by the choir and the primary wind class. We look forward to spending a musical time together with you and getting into the winter mood. 

NMS-PopChoir and Orchestra

Ira Brauns, Axel Fischer, Elisabeth Baumann and Felix Theuner

As part of a cooperative project with the Department of Education for Sustainable Development of the District Office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Kalpitiya, District Councilor Oliver Schruoffeneger, district employee Christin Heda, Michael Böker, along with seven students from Friedensburg Secondary School, and Detlef Wingerath from Nelson Mandela School with students Marlene Rottkamp, Merit Opgen-Rhein, Ruby Belasco New, Leandra Ziche, Angelina Parchomenko Curvello, Lydia Martinelli, and Johannes Weckert, traveled to Sri Lanka from October 27 to November 8, 2024.

Dilsiri Welikala from Kite Surfing Lanka hosted us with impressive hospitality. Thakeisha de Silva coordinated and supervised the trip on site. We visited the Muslim School in Kandakuliya, the St. Sebastian School in Kandakuliya, St. Anne’s School in Thalawila, and the Sinhala Mune School. The aim was to initiate school partnership projects together with around 20 local students and four teachers.

One especially moving cultural exchange was the joint visit to Sigiriya, often called the “Lion Rock” – an important cultural monument in Sri Lanka and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The guided safari through Wilpattu National Park, led by Prof. Sampath Seneviratne from the University of Colombo, where animal tracks were documented, was an impressive experience for all.

Summer is coming to an end and the boats and flowerbeds in the NMS P30 schoolyard have been given a new autumn look. At the beginning of October, pupils from year 9a cleared the leaves from the back of the schoolyard and the flower beds. Thanks to a plant donation from the garden club ‘Zur freien Stunde’, perennials could be planted that will hopefully quickly contribute to the greening of our schoolyard in the coming year. A. Müller (KL 9a)

On Tuesday, 8.10.2024, the 10th graders of our school took part in the 25th Berlin Development Education Programme (benbi) as part of their geography lessons. The pupils were able to take part in the workshops coordinated by KATE e.V., which were offered by numerous non-governmental organisations and educational speakers at the FEZ. In the first round of workshops, which took place at class level, the pupils focussed, for example, on injustices in tourism. They made connections between privileges, discrimination and travelling to countries in the Global South and worked out connections to racism and colonial continuities. At the end, they developed approaches on how to act before, during and after travelling. In the second round of workshops, they worked with pupils from other Berlin schools on topics such as fast fashion and social media or climate change and displacement. The benbi was an ideal platform for our pupils to integrate education for sustainable development and to work together on solutions to global challenges that are difficult to develop in the weekly one-hour geography lesson. A. Müller (FB Geo)

The Mini-Marathon was held on Saturday, 28 September 2024. There were 55 students from the Primary who ran and all were able to finish the race. This was the most number of students who participated from P23. 

Thank you to Resham Mann and the parents who supported him for helping to organize this event for the Primary School.

Congratulations to all runners! The NMS Community is proud of your achievement!