Our exchange students from Seville arrived on September 18, 2023! We all are so excited to have them! A mother wrote: "It was wonderful to see our kids full of excitement, waiting for them with all their signs at the airport. We, of course we’re very nervous, but as soon as the children came through the security, hugs were exchanged and everyone was sooo happy."
 

On the 29th of August set off on our trial expedition to Grünheide Mark. We mapped out 28km route ourselves and used only our compass and homemade maps to guide us. We carried our clothes, cookers and tents ourselves on our backs which was definitely taxing. Despite some challenges, like having only brought pasta and having it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Or struggling through rainy weather. In the end we persevered and successfully made it back to the station, we would definitely recommend the program to others - just make sure you're up to the hike! Now that we've done this we all feel much more prepared for the much more challenging real expedition ahead of us.

Amelia, 11d

For the first time ever our school’s students' zines have been displayed during the Zine
Festival!
Queer Zine Fest Berlin is a yearly celebration of zine culture, community, and diversity. This
year’s festival took place on Saturday 10th September at the Jugendclub Schloßstraße and
featured our students' work. The whole chill area was dedicated to zines made by our
students. The festival itself featured not only many zinisters selling their work, but many
workshops about zine history, screen-printing, zine crafting table and Berlin Mobile Zine
Library.
Visitors of the festival truly enjoyed discovering zines made by NMS students and learned a
lot from their unique perspective.

ALSO FOR YEARS 5 AND 6 IN THE PRIMARY

The competition is aimed at all students in grades 5 to 13.
For years 7-13, there will be a voluntary short information on Thursday 14th th September from 13:05 until 13.25 in room N 1.8.

One year ago, in May 2022, Nelson-Mandela-Schule joined the "Schule der Vielfalt" network to publicly commit itself to being a school where people of all genders and sexual orientations can feel comfortable and welcome. On 10 July 2023, Lisa Paus (Member of the German Bundestag and Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth), Laura Neugebauer (Member of the Berlin House of Representatives and spokesperson for queer issues), and Corinna Balkow (Member of the Bezirksverordnetenversammlung Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf) visited us to get to know the "Schule der Vielfalt" network and to get an impression of what it means when a school is committed to increasing acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people.