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Festival of Nations 2018 - What a success! Thank you!

In-between setting up the stands in a storm on Friday afternoon and Sunday’s downpour, we were fortunate to have the sun shine on our fabulous 2018 Festival of Nations. And what a day it was! We are proud to be able to say that it was a big success. The atmosphere was amazing, and the stands were incredible. Sure, there were some hiccups along the way at times, but the end result was raising a HUGE sum of money for the school – over €21,000 was raised on the day!! And there was a real party feeling that meant it truly felt like we were celebrating our unique community.

…There are A LOT of Thank Yous…

Lernmittelfond / IT & Library Support / Additional Educational Materials 2018-2019

Dear NMS Community,

In preparation for the coming school year, we’re asking for your contributions to the IT & Library funds, as well as for Lernmittelfond (secondary school only) and additional educational materials. For the 2018-2019 school year, requested contributions (also agreed on by the Schulkonferenz) are:

Primary (Flex - Grade 6 in 2018/19) - 95 EUR. This is 65 EUR for IT & Library Support + 30 EUR for additional educational materials
Secondary (Grade 7 - IB/ABI in 2018/19) - 155 EUR. This is 65 EUR for IT & Library Support + 90EUR for the Lernmittelfond.

NMS is a special school, and our IT and Library departments, 100% supported by parents, play an essential role in this, benefiting all students equally. NMS was recently recognized as an excellent digital school.

We ask you to transfer 95 EUR (Primary) or 155 EUR (Secondary) by June 30th, 2018 to the following account:

Account Holder: Friends of the Nelson Mandela School
Account Number: 1020232036
IBAN: DE88100900001020232036
BIC: BEVODEBB
Bank code/BLZ 100 900 00 (Berliner Volksbank)
Purpose: Name of the student + current class (for example Maxine Musterkind Flex C)

Further details and FAQs (EN + DE) available here:

Sincerely,
Friends of NMS on behalf of our school community

Die NMS bei der Berliner Team-Staffel

Am 7. Juni startete unser Schulsportverein SCI-NMS e.V. mit 3 Teams bei der Berliner Team-Staffel über 5 x 5 km im Tiergarten. In der Tageswertung starteten über 1.900 Teams.

Unser Jugendteam mit Isabel Zander Zeidam, Elias Dorner, Justus und Ben Schubert und Pepijn Akkermans gewannen in ihrer Altersklasse Platz 2. In den anderen beiden Teams starteten gemeinsam Eltern, Kolleginnen und Kollegen und Schüler. Hier wurden in der Wertung die Plätze 339 und 354, knapp 10 Minuten langsamer als unser Jugendteam belegt. Vielen Dank an Alexis Figeac, Jonah Spiller, Isaac Brown, Franziska Wandtke, Stefanie Preidl, Florentine Baumann, Marco Cwielong, Charles Spiller und Jörg Fraikin.

The IB Programme at NMS

Recently, some of our IB Diploma Visual Arts students painted the 10 Learner Profile attributes around the IB Office which livens up the corner on the first floor of the new building at P30. The IB Learner Profile is a list of ten attributes valued by all IB World Schools and by the NMS community as a whole as characteristics which we believe all students at NMS strive to have. All IB courses use the Learner Profile as the basis for learning and support the idea that “by helping create people who believe in these attributes we can help create responsible members of local, national and global communities.” (IBO website). All learners at NMS strive to meet these attributes and are: inquirers, thinkers, carers, open-minded, knowledgeable, risk-takers, communicators, balanced, principled and reflective.