Our Identity
The Nelson Mandela School is an international bilingual state school for students from grade 1 to 13. Students can graduate with either the bilingual Abitur or the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma. They can also obtain all Berlin school-leaving qualifications (BBR and EBBR and MSA – middle school certificate) and language certificates in two levels.
We have a story. We named our school after Nelson Mandela because his life serves as a guide for mutual respect among all members of our school community and as a base of all social interaction. What started as a bilingual school has become an international community with families from all parts of the world.
For all of us –- students, teachers, social pedagogues, educators, all who work for the school and parents – the name Nelson Mandela has evolved into a symbol of internationality, democracy, tolerance, openness, critical thinking, and social responsibility.
Our school is diverse. We promote friendly, positive, and creative interactions and welcome the many backgrounds and perspectives our school brings together. We support and appreciate everyone’s unique qualities.
Tolerance and respect are foundations of our school. These values are supported and continually expanded by democratic structures and processes.
Our school is a place for lifelong learners. All members of our community contribute to the variety of learning mirrored in all curricular and extracurricular activities. As part of our school program, we develop objectives and standards, which are continuously discussed, evaluated, and reviewed to adapt to our ever-changing needs.
In keeping with Nelson Mandela School goals, this identity statement is based on contributions from all members of the school community.
Confirmed by GK12/17, SV, 2/18, GEV, 6/18, SK 10/18.
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School Inspection
- School Inspection Report 2013 (in German)
- School Inspection Report 2013 Summary Presentation (in German)
- School Inspection Report 2006 (in German)
School programme
Links
- Informationen about Lernbüro
- Medienkonzept
- Internal school curriculum/English department (overview)
- Child protection
- School rules
- Class-Trip Resolution
DS Temuco, Chile NMS, Berlin
STUDENT EXCHANGE
Would you like to participate in an exchange with students from the German School Temuco, Chile?
Do you want to improve your Spanish skills in authentic everyday situations?
Are you in year 9, 10 or 11?
Is your family willing to host a student from the DS Temuco for about 6 weeks?
Then contact your Spanish teacher or
The Chilean students will come during their summer vacation from 18.12.24-31.1.25 (time may change by a few days), live with your family and attend NMS during school time. Thereafter you can attend DS Temuco during your summer vacation, but you don't have to if you don't want to.
Would you like to take a closer look at DS Temuco? Look here: www.dstemuco.cl 
Looking forward to receiving many applications (max. of 20 families)!
Your Spanish Department
Planting campaign at the NMS
Everyone shares responsibility for climate protection. Under this motto, the students of the Geo- LKes Q2 with Mrs Müller and the Bio- GKes Q2 with Mrs Lichtenstein have been busy planting the overgrown boats, raised beds and flower boxes in the schoolyard P30. With financial support from the school, soil and a few plants were purchased, some plants and seeds were provided free of charge by the Charlottenburg gardening school and seed bombs from the ‘climate package’ were used. A big thank you goes to Mrs Baumann, who helped with the transport of the necessary gardening utensils.
Our schoolyard has once again become a blooming oasis. 4 balcony boxes were apparently so beautifully planted that they were stolen by
thieves and had to be replaced again.
We are calling on all classes to start a climate protection campaign! Further climate packs with ideas on the topics of energy, buildings, transport, industry, agriculture and forestry can be borrowed from the geography department.
LK Geo Q2 & A. Müller/ L. Lichtenstein
APPEAL FOR DONATIONS OVAHEREO GENOCIDE FOUNDATION
The Ovaherero Genocide Foundation in Namibia is the central commemoration and documentation center of the Ovaherero people of the colonial German genocide of 1904-1908, the first genocide of the 20th century. To commemorate the victims of the genocide, the Foundation is developing memorials along the sites of Ovaherero and Nama resistance to the German Empire. One such site is Ozombou-Zovindimba near the village of Otjinene, where the first extermination order against the Ovaherero was announced. Near this place there is a tree on which Ovaherero prisoners were hanged during the genocide. It was given the name: Omuti-ngauzepo maumana otjiwaņa tjetu (The tree must be removed because otherwise it will destroy our community).
https://ogfnamibia.org/
The Ovaherero Genocide Foundation would like to open up this site as a memorial and is organizing a commemorative event from October 6-8, 2023.
To this end, the Ovaherero Genocide Foundation, together with the Society for Threatened Peoples, is asking for your generous donation. The official appeal for donations is attached. A donation receipt will be sent in February 2024. The donation can be transferred to the following donation account:
Account holder: Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker
Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
IBAN: DE07 2512 0510 0000 5060 70
BIC: BFSWDE33HAN
Verwendungszweck: Ovaherero Genocide Foundation
Nandi Mazeingo (Director Ovaherero Genocide Foundation) and Roman Kühn (Director Society for Threatened Peoples) with thanks for your generous donation.
Project Music Swap Lap
The students of 7a, 7b, 8a and 9c, together with their music teacher Mr Theuner, took part in the Music Swap Lab project for the first time in 2023 and played the Sleeping Beauty Waltz by P. I. Tchaikovsky digitally with the musicians of the Bremen Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. The project enabled us to get to know classical works in a practical way and at the same time to play together with a large professional orchestra, and all the students enjoyed it very much.
Perhaps you will recognise one or the other!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m_h1w0PU4k
Delegation trip to Kalpitiya / Sri Lanka
In the context of a cooperation project with the department of education for sustainable development of the district office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Kalpitiya traveled from 22.1.23 - 29.1. 23 the district councilor Oliver Schruoffeneger, Svenja Arenz from the staff office, Michael Böker as subject teacher for biology and chemistry from the Friedensburg-Oberschule, Tino Schott from the Gottfried-Keller-Gymnasium with the subjects history, PW, ethics and Detlef Wingerath from the Nelson-Mandela-Schule as teacher for fine arts and drama to Sri Lanka. Dilsiri Welikala from Kite Surfing Lanka supervised the trip on site. A meeting with the ambassador Holger Seubert in the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Colombo formed the prelude. We visited the Muslim School in Kandakuliya, St. Sebatiens School Kandakuliya, St. Annes School Thalawila, RCT School Kalpitiya, Mune School and the Muslim School Paliwasturai. The theme here, besides the impressive hospitality, was the EducationBox#2030 and a very moving exchange. This took place, for example, in exhibition rooms on the reuse of plastic waste, or after dance and mime performances on the topic of microplastics and marine protection. The delegation successfully organized a workshop with all teachers and representatives of the city administration in the city hall of Kalpitiya. We planted mangrove trees with the students of the participating schools and carried out a beach clean-up activity.
The next steps for further cooperation within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals were bundled and outlined in school cooperation projects.
THINKING OF ALL THE WOMEN IN THE WORLD WHOSE FREEDOM IS RESTRICTED
As teachers at the Nelson Mandela School, we want to share this video showing our solidarity with all women in the world whose rights are not respected.
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School Life
WannseeForum “Mitmischen Possible” 2023
In the week from 18.09.2023 to 22.09,2023 students from the Nelson Mandela Secondary School, accompanied by Ms. Reiß-Schmidt and Mr. Theuner, took part in the WannseeForum "Mitmischen Possible". This was a seminar that took place in cooperation with EPIZ. The Nelson Mandela School was one of four schools that took part in the seminar. The pupils took part in the workshops: Rap, theater, film and writing on creative projects and were able to exchange ideas with the pupils* from the other schools and make new friends. The results of the project work were very impressive and really successful. There was also a presentation on the work of the SV and student participation, and a discussion with two activists from BUND-Jugend. The WannseeFORUM was a great experience for everyone involved and we all had a lot of fun, we would like to thank the organizers from the WannseeFORUM Foundation and the participants from EPIZ. We hope that we will be able to integrate some of the findings from this exciting week into our everyday school life. (Report from a student)