Co-Curricular Enrichment Program

For students in Years 1 to 6, we offer early supervision from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. Children can arrive calmly, play or simply relax before the school day begins. Regular lessons start at 8:10 a.m. for Years 1 to 6 and at 8:30 a.m. for Years 7 to 13. Class and subject teachers are present in the classrooms ten minutes before lessons begin to ensure a calm and well-organised start to the day.

Depending on the year group and day of the week, the compulsory school day ends between 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Daily schedules and break times vary between year groups to ensure calm lunch breaks, relaxed outdoor breaks and optimal use of our specialist rooms. Each class receives its individual timetable and daily schedule at the beginning of the school year.

From 1:30–3:30 p.m. until 6:00 p.m., we offer a varied, mixed-age afternoon programme with German- and English-language clubs and activities for students of all year groups.

For students in Years 1 to 6, we also offer extended afternoon supervision until 4:00 or 6:00 p.m., depending on their care voucher. Children can enjoy free play, use the school library or complete their homework in the Homework Room, which is available two afternoons a week.

A structured rhythm to the school day means creating a balanced alternation between phases of focused learning and periods of movement and relaxation. Lessons and extended-day activities can last between 40 and 120 minutes, depending on the content. Short movement or relaxation breaks are incorporated according to the students’ age, development and energy levels, helping to maintain concentration and wellbeing.

Learning formats also vary throughout the day: individual, partner, group and station work, as well as other teaching methods, provide variety and keep students actively engaged. In this way, the school day follows the natural rhythm of children and young people and creates optimal conditions for successful and sustainable learning.

For us, the extended-day programme is a bridge between lessons, learning and playful exploration. In Years 1 to 4, extended-day activities are an integral part of the timetable alongside subject lessons, study periods, breaks and class meetings.

During this time, the class educator leads a variety of activities that strengthen teamwork and class cohesion and respond to the children’s interests, questions and current topics. Together, the children explore situations arising in everyday class life, social and cultural issues, as well as seasonal and current events.

The extended-day programme therefore provides space for shared learning, discussion and personal and social development, complementing academic lessons with important experiences of learning and living together.

In Years 1 to 6, the students eat both lunch and snack at a table, as a class group, with their Class Erzieher*innen. It is important to us that all children have the chance to eat their lunch in peace. For this reason, we organise lunch breaks and snack times in different shifts, depending on the year level. Every child can take the time they need to eat and those who are finished eating are allowed to go and play in the schoolyard.

Lunch is prepared according to nutritional principles and delivered by the catering company Löwenzahn. Parents provide children with a healthy breakfast, an afternoon snack, and a water bottle with water or sugar-free tea. Students can fill up their water bottles at our water dispenser during the school day. Morning breakfast is served in the classroom before or after schoolyard break.

Our extracurricular clubs (AGs) are developed by our teachers and educators in collaboration with the Club Coordinator and our Head of Ganztag. They reflect the strengths and interests of our staff as well as the ideas and wishes of our students. The range of clubs is regularly expanded and updated.

As part of our bilingual immersion approach, clubs are offered in German, English or, in some cases, bilingually. In a relaxed atmosphere and smaller groups, students have a natural opportunity to develop their language skills in the other language.

At the beginning of the school year, there is an approximately two-week trial period. Afterwards, students generally attend their chosen club for at least one school year. Group sizes are determined according to the needs of each activity to ensure optimal collaboration and support. For example, the Science Club has only a limited number of places to provide sufficient space for experiments, while a choir benefits from a larger number of participants. If there are more applications than available places, participation is decided by lottery.

Each club has its own focus and also helps students develop a wide range of additional skills – including teamwork, creativity, gross or fine motor skills, logical thinking, independence and social skills, to name just a few.

If you have any questions about our clubs or would like advice on choosing a suitable activity for your child, please contact us at nt@cyngnahf-fpuhyr.qr.

We generally follow the Berlin school calendar and have holidays at the same times as other Berlin schools. All holiday and school closure dates, as well as any exceptions, can be found in our document “Holidays and Closing Times” in the download section and on our internal school platform, SWOP. Parents are, of course, informed of all dates well in advance.

For students in Years 1 to 6, we offer a varied holiday programme from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., with exciting projects, trips and plenty of time for relaxed free play.

The school is closed for two weeks during the summer holidays, with emergency childcare available for one of these weeks from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Registration is required by 30 April. Further school closure periods include the final week of the summer holidays, the Christmas holidays including the three days before the Christmas break, bridge days, and three days following the winter holidays during our staff training days.

For holiday programme registrations or any questions, please contact us at srevra@cyngnahf-fpuhyr.qr.

In the 1st and 2nd grade our students use open cloakrooms.

Every student from grade 3 onwards gets his or her own locker free of charge. Here the children can lock up school books, exercise books, sports bags, bicycle helmets and other personal belongings. For children in grades 1 and 2, a locker is optional.

Our learning space concept supports the structured rhythm of the school day and creates different environments for focused learning, collaboration and relaxation.

Up to and including Year 4, each class has two connected rooms: a traditional classroom with tables and chairs and a more flexible Ganztag room with open spaces, relaxation areas and spaces for arts, crafts and construction. The children can help shape and personalise the Ganztag room and move between the two spaces depending on the learning activity and their individual needs.

For Years 5 to 10, additional group rooms are available alongside the regular classrooms. These spaces are particularly useful for Team Teaching and working with smaller, differentiated learning groups.

In this way, we create a learning environment that supports different ways of working, individual needs and the natural rhythm of the school day.

We invite you to visit our school and experience our learning spaces for yourself or take a look around here, if you would like to get an impression of our premises!

Yes. We call our weekly class meeting the Class Council, and it is a fixed part of the timetable in every class. The class teacher and class educator use this time together to discuss topics that concern individual students or the whole class and to support positive social dynamics within the class.

The Class Council is ideally moderated by the class representatives, with support from the class leadership team when needed. It gives all students the opportunity to raise concerns, wishes and ideas, work together on solutions, and express appreciation and recognition.

The Class Council is therefore also an important democratic forum where students learn to take responsibility, listen to others, make decisions together and actively shape their class community.