Primary and Secondary School
At our bilingual school, your child can learn with us from Grade 1 through Grade 13. In the 2024/25 school year, we began establishing our upper secondary school, enabling students to continue their bilingual education through to the Abitur. Please note that the recognition of our upper secondary school is currently still undergoing the official approval process.
Bright and attractively designed classrooms, small class sizes with generally no more than 25 students, modern facilities, and a dedicated, international team create a welcoming and inspiring learning environment. Our school campus combines the historic listed post office building in Berlin-Pankow with modern additional buildings, providing a diverse range of spaces for learning and community life.
Pedagogical Concept
The fundamental idea behind our Gemeinschaftsschule is that all our students learn together from the beginning of their school journey through to the school-leaving qualification that best matches their individual abilities and strengths. This gives all our students the opportunity to remain together as part of our school community throughout their entire school life, while also giving them the freedom to shape their own educational pathway in line with their personal development and individual abilities.
The goal of our Gemeinschaftsschule is to create greater equal opportunities for all students, regardless of their individual learning needs or family background. We achieve this in particular through a wide range of individual learning opportunities and a learning environment that takes different talents, interests and developmental pathways into account. Our diverse and differentiated educational programme includes cross-curricular and project-based teaching and learning, giving every student the opportunity to be appropriately challenged and supported according to their individual abilities and strengths.
We follow a holistic and consistent educational approach based on scientifically grounded and proven teaching and learning methods – free from pedagogical or denominational dogma. At the same time, we place great importance on an open and reflective school culture. We continuously evaluate and develop the quality of our teaching and all-day school programme through both internal and external evaluation.
Find out more about our concept here.
Bilingual Program
At our bilingual Gemeinschaftsschule, we regard German and English as equally important languages of education. To support sustainable language acquisition, we follow the principle of immersion: our students encounter both languages regularly and naturally throughout their school day and learn to use them as languages of learning and communication. Over the course of their primary and secondary education, they develop a high level of proficiency in both languages. They are not only able to communicate confidently in everyday situations, but also to read and understand textbooks and subject-specific texts, express themselves convincingly and constructively in discussions and presentations, and write structured and linguistically accurate texts.
Find out more about our bilingual program here.
Mathematics and Science
Our primary goal is to inspire boys and girls alike through mathematics and science and to develop their confidence within these areas without creating aversion towards these subjects, which are traditionally seen as complex. We therefore choose the method of addressing everyday questions from the pupils and answer them in a practical, experimental manner. Find out more here.
Teaching
In accordance with the specific profile of our school, we place the subject and pedagogical focus of our lessons on bilingual education in German and English as well as broadening mathematical and scientific topics, and their use in questions and areas relating to careers and everyday life.
In our school, we teach using the Berlin Curriculum Framework and plan our teaching based on the Berlin timetable. Subject teaching is spread across the primary school years as well as the secondary school years and is taught equally in both English and in German. The ratio of teaching in German/English can vary between individual year levels. Find out more here.
Co-Curricular Enrichment Program
Our Erzieher*innen are responsible for the Co-Curricular Enrichment Program at our school. They take care of our early/late care supervision, our immersion activities throughout the school day, as well as the program during the school holidays. In the afternoons, our Erzieher*innen, teachers and external club leaders offer a variety of clubs for the children. Find out more here.
Project Days
During our project days, students work on interesting and current topics that are focused on the real world and the world of the students. These topics focus on bilinguality/languages, intercultural learning, and mathematics/science. The project days are conducted in German and/or English depending on the subject teacher, class Erzieher*in and class teacher. Find out more about our project days here.
Work & Travel
We are convinced that the development of an independent and confident personality is greatly supported by personal experiences, challenging tasks, shared experiences and practical learning – both within and beyond the school environment. To prepare our students for the world of work and their future careers at an early stage and in a hands-on way, we have developed our “Work & Travel” program starting in Grade 5. Step by step, the program introduces students to increasingly demanding personal challenges, strengthens their independence, courage and self-confidence, and provides them with a wide range of opportunities to discover their own interests and strengths. In this way, we lay the foundation for students to shape their future educational and career pathways with confidence and in line with their own ideas, interests and aspirations.