School Registration Process

Please fill out the online registration form here.

The most important admission criterion at our school is that all students can speak either German OR English at a native level. This applies to all Year levels. It is also important that the parents speak German or English at least well enough for us to communicate without any problems.

In Years 5 and 6, at least some prior knowledge of the other language is desirable and increases the chance of admission.

From Year 7 onwards, it is necessary for English-speaking students to be able to speak German at least at B1 level in order to be able to successfully complete the Mittlerer Schulabschluss (intermediate school leaving certificate) after Year 10. German-speaking students should at least have studied English at school and have prior knowledge appropriate to their Year level, as well as good grades in English.

Bilingual learning can be an additional challenge for students with special learning needs, especially if they already have a diagnosis that makes it difficult for them to learn a language, such as a reading and spelling disability.

Exceptions to the above requirements are only made in the case of very high-achieving, highly motivated students with very good reports and good work and social behaviour.

Basically, it is important that the students are motivated and looking forward to learning German and English at a bilingual school.

If you have any questions, please contact our admission team, Ms Ameti or Ms Prüske-Strutz.

The enrolment period for the new school year always begins on the 1st of September of the preceding year.

There are still a few places in specific classes in the current school year. We will gladly advise you if it is possible to accept your child. Please first fill out our online registration form.

We will confirm receipt of your online registration by e-mail and send you our application form as an attachment if we can offer a school place. Please return the completed application form and the required documents to us preferably scanned as a PDF by e-mail. As soon as we have received the complete application documents, we will check whether we can offer your child either a trial week or an appointment to a get to know each other.

• For new 1st grades in the 2024/25 school year: Since September 1, you have the opportunity to register your child using the registration form on the website. We will then send you an application form. After receiving the application forms, we will make a preliminary selection and, if suitable, invite you to get-to-know appointments in November. Following these appointments, we allocate the 48 school places. The application and admission process will be completed by February 2024 at the latest. All parents who have sent application documents will also receive feedback from us. We kindly ask you to refrain from individual enquiries about the status of your application in the meantime.
• For the new 7th grades in the school year 2024/25: Since September 1, you have the opportunity to register your child via the registration form. We will then send you an application form. We will make a preliminary selection after receiving the application documents and invite your child to our school for a trial week or a get-to-know-you session at the end of the 6th grade year. The number of places allocated varies from year to year and depends on how many of our students leave the school after the 6th grade. Please note that we only accept high-achieving students with a Gymnasium recommendation into our secondary school.
• For the current 1st to 10th grades in the 2023/24 school year: Please register your child via the application form. If we have free places, you will be sent an application form. After reviewing the application documents received, we will make a preliminary selection and, if suitable, invite your child to at least three trial days or to a trial week or an appointment to get to know each other. We will then decide whether your child will be admitted.

If we can offer you a school place, the last step is to sign the school contract with us.

In order to be admitted to our school, it is always necessary for us to get to know the student beforehand.

For our ” Firsties” in the coming school year, we organise a get-to-know-you appointment. Your child will spend a morning with teachers and educators from our school in a group with about 11 other children. Of course, our team is prepared for the fact that some children are shy or reserved with unfamiliar people and in unfamiliar surroundings. With patience and attention, we make the children feel comfortable and playfully carry out various individual and group activities. We are particularly interested in the physical and cognitive development, the social interaction in a group and the language level of your child. In the meantime, our school leadership and admissions team will hold a meeting with parents to discuss mutual expectations and wishes as well as to clarify any questions regarding admission and our concept. For the trial period, we charge a fee of 25 EUR per day. During this time, your child is insured at our school and can of course take part in lunch. For trial periods, absence from the school the student is currently attending will also be excused.

For applications for a school place in the classes already in progress, it is necessary for the children to complete trial days or, in most cases, a whole trial week with us. During this time, they visit our school like our own students and will also take short one-time tests on their current learning level in Mathematics, German and English. At the end of the week, we collect feedback from all teachers and educators on your child’s academic performance as well as her/his work and social behaviour.

For admission to Year 7, we also offer trial days/a trial weeks or a get-to-know-you appointment. During this trial visit, we spend time together with the applicants to gain a personal impression and also test their learning level in mathematics, German and English. We also invite parents to a get-to-know-you appointment for a joint conversation.

After the get-to-know appointment or at the end of the trial week, the head of school of the respective Year decides on admission.

The costs for the primary school (Years 1 to 6) consist of the tuition fee, the costs for the full-day care (only for Years 3 to 6), the joint fund and other costs such as school trips.

The costs for the secondary school (grades 7 to 10) are made up of the school fees, the lunch costs (optional), joint fund, teaching materials and other costs such as school trips.

Further information as well as a tuition calculator can be found here: Costs for the Gemeinschaftsschule.

We look forward to your online registration and are happy to answer any further questions you may have:

Platanus Schule Berlin

Frau Silke Ameti
Berliner Straße 12
13187 Berlin

Tel. +49 (0)30 / 49 00 48 80
Fax. +49 (0)30 / 49 00 48 829

E-Mail: vasb@cyngnahf-fpuhyr.qr