We are a 708-student international English-Language IB Day and Boarding School offering Early Education through Grade 12. Our campus is spacious and forested with over 360,000 sqm for growth and discovery. In 2020, we are celebrating our 30th Anniversary and are excited about what is to come. Working with purpose, vision and a detailed master plan we have committed ourselves to continued investment and upgrades to our school and campus.
BBIS is a leading international school, inspiring students in pursuit of lifelong learning and excellence. We celebrate diversity in a caring, internationally minded community. As an inclusive school we empower learners to fulfill their unique potential. We guide our students to become responsible, compassionate, global citizens.
We pride ourselves on our commitment to excel both in and out of the classroom.  Ensuring each student has the chance to fulfill their potential, irrespective of their talents or interests, we build confidence that fosters connections and community.
Growing up is not easy, but we understand the challenges and changes that occur. We support our 3 years olds to 19 year olds with dedicated, caring professionals at every step of the way. 24/7 security and a strong child-protection policy makes BBIS safe in all respects.

We offer comfortable student rooms with biweekly cleaning and linen service, full meal service, comprehensive pastoral care and homework support. The morning and evening routines are supervised as well as the weekend time which regularly includes outings and activities.

The Boarding School Guidelines provide the students with a general framework for their time in Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany. These guidelines outline our expectations regarding common values, acceptable behaviour and goal setting.

Weekday afternoons are filled with art, music, drama and sports activities offered at school and in boarding. Additionally, we have added extra language instruction for German, specifically for Boarding school students. The weekends provide time for more activities and excursions especially to experience Berlin’s diverse institutional, cultural and recreational offerings.

“Culture Night” takes place during four or five evenings of each school year to celebrate the different cultures represented in boarding school. Students from one country cook a typical national dish together with the other boarding school students and prepare a presentation and/or an activity for the boarding group. While the boarding group dines at decorated tables, music typical for that country contributes to the ambiance of the evening.

Overall, the BBIS boarding community gives students the professional and reliable support they need to feel comfortable and accepted at their “home away from home.”

Berlin is a world city of culture, politics, media and science. Its economy is based on high-tech firms and the service sector, encompassing a diverse range of creative industries, research facilities, media corporations and convention venues. Berlin serves as a continental hub for air and rail traffic and has a highly complex public transportation network. The metropolis is a popular tourist destination. Significant industries also include IT, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, clean tech, biotechnology, construction and electronics.

Berlin is home to world-renowned universities such as the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), the Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), the Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin), the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts, UdK), ESMT Berlin and the Berlin School of Economics and Law. Its Zoological Garden is the most visited zoo in Europe and one of the most popular worldwide. With the world's oldest large-scale movie studio complex, Berlin is an increasingly popular location for international film productions. The city is well known for its festivals, diverse architecture, nightlife, contemporary arts and a very high quality of living. Since the 2000s Berlin has seen the emergence of a cosmopolitan entrepreneurial scene.

Berlin contains three World Heritage Sites: Museum Island; the Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin; and the Berlin Modernism Housing Estates. Other landmarks include the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag building, Potsdamer Platz, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Berlin Wall Memorial, the East Side Gallery, the Berlin Victory Column, Berlin Cathedral and the Berlin Television Tower, the tallest structure in Germany. Berlin has numerous museums, galleries, libraries, orchestras and sporting events. These include the Old National Gallery, the Bode Museum, the Pergamon Museum, the German Historical Museum, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Natural History Museum, the Humboldt Forum, which is scheduled to open in late 2020, the Berlin State Library, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin Marathon.

Our boarding facility offers newly renovated single and double rooms including private showers. A comfortable dining room, two kitchens, a laundry room, a large recreation room, a fitness room and a private courtyard enable the boarding school students to truly feel at home and enjoy learning together.

The extensive recreational facilities at BBIS are available to the students after school and during the weekends. Adult mentors live in apartments adjacent to the students’ quarters and are responsible for the students’ well-being during their time at BBIS Boarding School.

Athletics
The athletics programme consists of competitive and recreational sports, which are offered over three seasons throughout the academic year. Each sport is offered once during these terms, which enables us to offer a wide variety of sports. Our programme is in line with the German International School Sports Tournament organization (GISST). We strongly encourage all students to engage themselves in this athletics and further develop or find a new passion. Since 2013-2014 season, we are now also involved in the European Sports Conference (ESC). This conference connects well to our aims that we have at BBIS. In this conference we work toward a common aim to achieve an efficient and well-balanced program that promotes healthy competition, sportsmanship, and full participation.

Extracurricular Activities (ECA) Programme
Athletics is part of the Extracurricular Activities (ECA) programme, which oversees the complete range of activities at BBIS. Most activities are offered through this programme which coordinates registration, scheduling, and information about each ECA. The athletics programme also sends out seasonal sign-ups for training and after school and weekend games.

Activities are organized into three terms (autumn, winter and spring) and take place in the afternoons or, in some cases, at lunchtime. Activities like sports, art, drama and music might have weekend activities as well. The programme changes from term to term, with some activities continuing and new ones begin. Between 50 and 60 ECAs are offered at BBIS each term, both sporting and non-sporting.

Communication/Information
Our Athletic Director, Wouter Allard, is in charge of creating a portal not only for our school, but also for GISST and ESC.

Staffing

BBIS staff members serve as coaches and chaperones on the athletics teams. We value and encourage staff members in working with the students outside the classroom, thus extending BBIS’s holistic philosophy and mission.

Philosophy
The athletics programme emphasizes participation, commitment, self-discipline, sportsmanship, effort and teamwork. Our competitive teams aim to play to the best of their ability and be successful in their games and tournaments. We teach our teams and players “to win and loose with grace”.

We would like to emphasize that we do not cut players from our teams. All players get the opportunity of training and playing some friendly games. Because of the limits in players allowed to go to GISST and ESC tournaments, we must limit our selection of players for those events only.

Travel Opportunities
Our students are involved in weekend and weekdays games and tournaments both in and outside of Berlin. We also travel within Europe and aim to provide students with an athletic as well as a cultural experience. We strongly believe that being part of a team helps our students to develop as considerate, disciplined, culturally aware and open-minded people who strive to get the best out themselves and their team.

Recreational Sports
Some of the recreational activities that are on offer throughout the year are (may vary from year to year) sailing, archery, football, basketball, climbing, golf, karate and softball.

From the Berlin Tegel Airport take the bus 109  and transfer to bus N10 at U Adenauerplatz. Then transfer again at the Zehlendorf Eiche to bus number 623 or N12. Then get off at Kleinmachnow, Rathausmarkt. From there it's only a 8 minutes work to the school.