A warm, welcoming school environment where students gain access to a world-leading International Baccalaureate education.
Welcome to BBIS Berlin Brandenburg International School, a place where students are empowered to reach their unique potential and thrive on a global stage.
As one of the world’s leading International Baccalaureate (IB) schools, BBIS proudly offers three IB programmes in the Primary, Middle and Diploma years of schooling to students from over 60 countries, as well as a huge range of extracurricular activities. Inclusive, diverse and expansive, we’re here to help each student discover and develop their passions in a warm and welcoming environment.
While English is our language of instruction, BBIS is a truly international school.
Our students hail from families who come from across the globe and share our values of humanity, tolerance and empathy. Together, we are building a caring, internationally minded community of students, teachers and alumni – people who truly have the potential to leave a positive mark on our world.
Every year, we welcome around 680 day students and around 70 boarding students, from 3 to 19 years of age. These students spend their days developing invaluable, life-long skills like critical thinking, languages and intercultural competencies across our early education, primary and secondary areas:
In all of these programmes, we encourage students to be courageous and explore new opportunities, fostering a pioneering spirit that will help them succeed, no matter what the future holds.
Our overarching goal at BBIS is to help students become happy, well-rounded humans.
Our classes are small – usually with fewer than 20 students – so that everyone receives individual attention and support. Beyond the classroom, collaboration and cooperation between staff, students, parents and the wider community is very important to us.
Growing up is not easy, but we understand the challenges and changes that occur. We support our students with dedicated, caring professionals at every step of the way. This nurturing approach – coupled with 24/7 security and a strong child-protection policy – makes BBIS a safe and supportive environment for your child.
Our mission is to inspire everyone in our learning community to be responsible, compassionate global citizens who make a difference through inclusion, innovation and action.
At BBIS, we aim to make a positive impact on a local and global scale. We believe we can achieve this by actively developing global citizenship. To this end, our attitudes, values and principles are informed by and support :
Principles we maintain are:
Global citizens are knowledgeable about the world. A global citizen is confident about their own identity and culture, and is motivated to learn about and understand the identities, cultures and languages of others. They are open-minded and welcome multiple perspectives. Global citizens have an understanding of global sustainability issues and challenges. They cooperate with others, and use their critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills to make a positive difference in their communities and in the world around them.
Learning is a lifelong and active process of inquiry in which the learner constructs new meaning about themselves and the world around them by connecting prior knowledge with new information and experiences. Learners’ knowledge, conceptual understanding, skills and attitudes develop and deepen over time. Learning is demonstrated when learners apply, transfer, and adapt their learning to new situations and problems in original ways.
At BBIS, we embed wellbeing into the school curriculum and culture. We believe that teaching our students how to deal with change, develop resilience, pursue meaning and purpose, and build healthy relationships is just as important as teaching Maths, Art or Science.
As such, our whole school is committed to fostering wellbeing. It’s not an add-on or a one-off. Rather, our pursuit of wellbeing – via the proven principles of Positive Education – is an ongoing process that everyone at BBIS is part of.
We are living in a time of rapid change, with a multitude of distractions competing for our attention. Now, more than ever before, students need the resilience and strength to overcome difficult situations.
Positive Education nurtures resilience, teaching us how to develop our inner strengths and be our best, as well as how to learn from setbacks to live a healthy and balanced life.
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The incredible dedication of the staff and the stimulating curriculum have not only fostered my child's love for learning but have also led to remarkable growth in their academic performance.
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