Middle School

Grades 5 - 8

A significant step for all students

As an international, bilingual full-time school, it is our goal to make the English language accessible to our students on the level of a mother tongue and to educate our students to become enlightened and comprehensively educated youths, providing them with a canon of stable values that is oriented towards a humanistic world picture.

To open up diverse opportunities to our children in their selection of a continuative education, our students can complete the internationally recognized “Abitur” certification at BMS in the form of the international Baccalaureate. The goal of middle school is to comprehensively prepare the students for this last step in their education, namely high school.

Our school currently includes the Preschool and the Primary school. In September 2008, the Berlin Metropolitan School will open its Middle School (5th to 8th grade). Entering Middle School is a significant step in a student’s transition from childhood to adolescence. In many countries and in most international schools, experience has demonstrated that students from 10 to 14 years of age succeed best in an educational environment that is distinctly different from either the primary or high  school models. In this phase of development, physical and intellectual growth initiates important emotional and social changes to which a school must respond, among them the urge for more independence and autonomy and the desire to make decisions and take risks. At this age, boys and girls develop passionate interests and experience friendships intensely.
In this phase of self-discovery, it is important that young adolescents are given both choices and support, that they are challenged and guided. Learning to set and live with limits is particularly crucial at this stage of development.

The Middle School supports adolescents with a program that is tailored to their needs. Our Middle School teachers have both the educational background and specific experience to work with this age group. They understand that mutual respect and trust are the basis for successful relationships with adolescents. They also know that guidelines, structure and organization are the keys to effective teaching and learning.

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