About Us

Message from the Headteacher

Welcome to the Berlin British School and its international community. We are providing an education for children at all school levels in a secure and caring family atmosphere that enables pupils to settle quickly, develop self-esteem and respect for each other. The school teaches children from nursery level through to the International Baccalaureate (IB), but it maintains a small-community feeling because its lower, middle, and senior schools occupy different sites. Each site provides facilities designed for the needs of its children.

Through a choice of the International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE), followed by the IB Diploma we offer internationally recognised qualifications allowing access to universities worldwide. We strive to enable pupils to achieve the highest standards of education and we are proud of the success of our pupils: the pass rate at IB is almost 100%, and at IGCSE, results are equally impressive.

Welcome to our school!
Sian Schutz

Foreword by the British Ambassador his Excellency Sir Michael Arthur

Berlin British School has a long and very successful tradition in this city.  I am delighted that Berlin British School can keep the strong traditions of British education going, and offer pupils from a pre-primary age right through to school graduation a full range of the British educational tradition and experience.  Parents in Berlin need that option.

Like so many leading schools in Britain now, Berlin British School offers both the International GCSE and the International Baccalaureate. These are a good passport nowadays to tertiary education both in Britain and of course across Europe – so important in the Europe of today.

I wish the school, parents and students, every success as you take forward your offer of the British tradition in education to a wide range of pupils from so many nationalities.

Sir Michael Arthur

Foreword from Mrs. Thiemen, Bezirksbürgermeisterin of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

I congratulate the Berlin British School on relaunching its website.

I am very pleased that this school has been "at home" in our Bezirk for 15 years now, where it started by taking over the buildings of the former "First Charlottenburg School" at Dickensweg, and where it is following the tradition of sharing as good neighbours the premises with the Charles-Dickens-Grundschule.

The success of the school can be seen from its steady growth not only in student numbers but also in the expansion of what it has to offer. Starting with just under 100 girls and boys in the nursery and primary range it has become an educational institution extending over three sites for some 400 children and young people of some 50 nationalities.

Its Lower School as well as its Senior School moved to Wilmersdorf at the turn of the millennium thus preceding the merger of Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf in 2001 into one Bezirk.

Furthermore, mastering tasks for the future is also on top of the agenda of the school, as can be seen in the building of a new Library and Science Centre, to provide the students, especially of the higher classes, from the year 2010 with the much needed space to give them full use of their library and science equipment.

I wish all concerned continued success in their task - not an easy one in this day and age – to prepare our children for a successful and self-determined life and I am confident that the newly designed website will help to introduce the school more closely to those in our city who are interested in education.

With kind regards
Monika Thiemen
Bezirksbürgermeisterin

Aims & Ethos

The Academic Programme of Berlin British School provides an education based on the ethos and philosophy of the British educational system, while taking due note of the international community which it serves and its geographical location at the heart of Germany.

Berlin British School believes that non-academic activities make a vital contribution to helping pupils build self-esteem, learn respect for other pupils, and of course forge lasting friendships. Pupils look forward to the annual ski trip and the annual adventure weekend. Regular school plays, musicals, and concerts introduce pupils to the rewards of performing for their parents and peers. Several dozen clubs meet weekly on different days after school, offering pupils an unparalleled range of extracurricular activities.