Debating Matters Berlin Championship 2019
This year too on 28th February our Nelson Mandela Debating Group made up of four teams participated in the Berlin Championship in partnership with Freiblickinstitut e.V.
The spirit with which all schools took part, created a great day for debating which we all enjoyed at The University of Applied Sciences Europe last Thursday. It really was the students who made it such a memorable and inspiring event. Berlin was also showing itself from its best side, with a beautiful late winter sunny day.
11 April 2019 - NMS Sports Day for Primary
On Thursday, 11th of April 2019, the Nelson Mandela School will be having “NMS Sports Day for Primary” (Flex - Grade 6) (Bundesjugendspiele).
The event will be held at the Wilmersdorf Stadium (Fritz-Wildung-Straße 9, 14199 Berlin).
There will be no “regular lessons“ on that day. Your child’s attendance at the sports event is still compulsory.
Don't know much about world heritage…
In November 2018 we, Ruby and Jamie from 10b, took part in the anual UNESCO international student seminar about world heritage. Apart from the 10 students from Berlin there were 13 further students from European countries including the UK, Spain, France, Poland, Estonia, Sweden and Denmark. For one week we lived in the guest accommodations of the UFA-Fabrik which is a culture center in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
Minecraft Project on Jerusalem's ancient Jewish Temple
The Religion class of year 6 was doing a Minecraft Project on Jerusalem's ancient Jewish Temple. The story of the Jewish Temple, destroyed and (re)built twice, reflects the entire history of ancient Israel and deciphers major concepts of Jewish faith. The remaining Western Wall of the last Temple complex, also known as the Wailing Wall, is the holiest site of today's Judaism and is located close to the Dome of Rocks, one of the holiest sites of Islam.
THE FIRST NMS PUB QUIZ - A ‚STORMY' SUCCESS!
Thunder, Lightning and Rain didn´t keep quiz loving members of our school community from joining the fun last Monday evening.
10 tables with motivated parents and teachers attempted to answer questions in six very diverse catagories. Competitive contemplation as well as lots of laughter made for an excellent mood. Thanks Tim Lockwood for sponsoring the prizes - Australian Blundstone boots and sandals as well as wine and a bottle of bubbly.
To John Chambers - the artist of the invitation - be ready to draw up more. Successful fun raising calls for a repeat.
Slammin' Poetry mit Bas Böttcher
Lyrik im Deutschunterricht ... Gähn! Was aber, wenn man mal die Sache etwas anders angeht und selbst zum Dichter wird - jenseits von Ballade, Sonetten und Elegien:
Ein Poetry Slam ist ein Dichterwettstreit, bei dem jeder auftreten und selbstverfasste Texte vortragen kann. Die einzige Vorgabe: ein Zeitlimit von 5 min und keine Requisiten. Eine Jury vergibt Punkte und der Dichter mit den meisten Punkten gewinnt.
It’s Yearbook Time!
Help make the NMS 2018-19 Yearbook the best it can be. Mail us or hand in your yearbook consent forms. Volunteer to be your class contact to help coordinate pictures for your page. And dig into your photo archive and send us moving pics of school events. We look forward to hearing from you!
Consent form download here.
Guidelines here.
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Jewish Puppet Theatre bubales at NMS
The Berlin based Jewish Puppet Theatre bubales was performing for year 3 with the play "Isaac and the Elephant Abul Abbas".
The play tells the true story of the medieval jewish merchant Isaac whom the King of Bagdad asked to bring a white Elelphant as a gift for Charlemagne to Aachen. The bilingual play (german/arabic) is a co-production of jewish and arab artists, who fled the war in Syria. The story about this exeptional friendship and its adventurous journey also processes the artist's own experience of flight in a child-friendly manner.
The event was organised by the Religion & Ethics Department in cooperation with the class teachers of Year 3.
THANK YOU to everybody involved for helping realise this! www.bubales.de
(G. Subotic)
