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!

The competition is aimed at all students in grades 7 to 13.

The problems can be downloaded here.

Solutions can be handed in until 11.10.2024. Contact person is Ms Figueiras (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Participants will receive the result on 18.10.2024.

Successful participants qualify for the 2nd round of the Mathematics Olympiad, which will take place on 13.11.2024 as a district round in Berlin.

The discussion of the problems in internet forums is not permitted. For further questions please contact Ms Figueiras by email.

n September 16th, our students participated again in a "Terry-Fox-Run" at NMS.

We named this run after Terry Fox, a Canadian, who was diagnosed with cancer when he was 19 years old. Despite his diagnosis, Terry Fox ran all across Canada in order to raise donations for cancer research.

In order to honor his legacy and continue to raise donations, schools in Canada have a "Terry-Fox-Run" each year.

On June 14, 2024, we, the French course Q2, spent a day learning about French history and culture. Our day began  at 9:50 a.m. in high spirits, enjoying authentic French pastries (Merci, Aux délices normands!). The first item on our agenda was a visit to the Ambassade de France. We were warmly welcomed there after passing through a security check. During the tour, we explored the outstanding architecture and art. We also learned a lot about working in an embassy and about the special role of the French embassy in Berlin in preserving and strengthening the Franco-German friendship. Afterwards, we quickly made our way to the Federal Foreign Office, where we were given an insight into the historical importance of the French language in everyday diplomatic business.

On June the 18th, 2024, the traditional soccer tournament of the Berlin UNESCO Project Schools took place on the sports field of the M.-Planck-Gymnasium.
In pleasant summer temperatures, 9 schools took part this year. The NMS team consisted of Hannah-Marie, Mia, Hannah, Samuel, Rehan and Jakob.
As always, the matches were played according to fair play rules. Mixed teams of girls and boys from different schools played against each other in teams of four without referees. Fairness, victories and goals were counted for the ranking. The teams were newly mixed in each round. After the tournament, the award ceremony was held as part of a collective lunch. This year's Cup was won by the team from the Königin Luise Foundation.