Phorms Education Campus Berlin

Our private school in Berlin-Zehlendorf is housed in a listed building in the quiet and green area in Southwestern Berlin. Our bilingual campus houses a nursery, primary and secondary school all under one roof. Here we offer a German-English community for approximately 500 children and young adults aged 1 to 18 years. We seek to maintain a cosmopolitan, warm and welcoming environment. Our children at the nursery, educators, students, teachers and parents very much enjoy the familiar atmosphere we have created.

We see our nursery as a place of learning with main focus on the children’s and parents’ needs. All children entrusted to PhorMinis learn to accept and appreciate the diversity of people. We encourage them to try out new things, respect themselves and others, be caring, tolerant and patient and to develop their own abilities in a self-confident manner.

Thereto, we provide the children with a safe, loving and stimulating environment. We familiarise them with the variety of cultures, languages and religions of the world and help them learn in a confident and curious way, express their own opinions and to develop personal skills and interests. At PhorMinis, the children take the first steps of their course of education. Accompanying them and their parents on this exciting journey is a great pleasure for us!

During the first 4 years of school, most of the teaching at our bilingual primary school takes place in English. We use the Cambridge International Primary Programme (CIPP), which enables us to provide our students with a good foundation to study or work abroad at later stages. Our teachers deliver their lessons at native speaker level, using the immersion method. At the same time, our programme is based on the framework curriculum of the Federal State of Berlin (Berliner Rahmenlehrplan) and we attach great importance to good quality teaching in German.

Our Campus combines the benefits of living amongst nature with those of an urban life. On the one hand, we use the unbeatable range of cultural attractions of Berlin for a variety of trips and excursions. On the other hand, our private school located in the greenery of Steglitz-Zehlendorf offers lots of space for playing outside and numerous possibilities for excursions in nature. At present, 45 educators teach a total of 272 girls and boys in our Primary School.

Bilingualism promotes cognitive development in such areas as awareness of language, creativity and flexible thinking. Students who have been learning in a bilingual environment for many years perform above average in foreign languages, in their own mother tongue and in other subjects. Our Secondary School continues the bilingual concept introduced in our nursery and Primary School. Teaching takes place in accordance with the immersion method, meaning that all content is delivered exclusively in either German or English.

All our students sit exams for the Intermediate Secondary School Certificate (MSA) at the end of Year 10 and the Upper Secondary School Certificate (Abitur) in Year 12. Students in their last two years at Phorms may enroll for the C1 level of English proficiency exam, the Cambridge Advanced English Certificate (CAE), to confirm professional level English for tertiary institutions or future employment.