I taught maths for a term at this school, and on two other occasions spent a couple of weeks…read moreteaching physics and then chemistry. I thoroughly enjoyed my time here, with good colleagues and great kids. And the setting is wonderful too. This is a happy school to both teach and learn in.

From the owner: Die Berlin British School (BBS) ist eine internationale Schule, welche eine hervorragende…read moreSchulbildung nach dem britischen Modell, für Schüler im Alter von 3-18 Jahren, anbietet. Zurzeit werden Schüler aus einer Vielzahl von verschiedenen Nationen an der BBS unterrichtet. In unserer Gemeinschaft der Denker gibt diese Vielfalt den Schülern die Möglichkeit, jegliche Art von Situationen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven zu betrachten. Zudem können sie sich somit bestmöglich auf die Herausforderung, der sich ständig verändernden und wettbewerbsorientierten Welt vorbereiten. Wir bieten Ihnen: -Kleine Klassenstärken mit max. 18-20 Schülern -Hohe Standards der individuelle Betreuung -Interaktives Lehren und Lernen -Unterrichtssprache Englisch -Hoch qualifiziertes Lehrpersonal -Motivierte und internationale Studenten-Community -Konsequente akademische Standards -Deutschunterricht für alle Schüler (native und nicht-native Klassen) -Fürsorglicher aber respektvoller Umgang

I would never recomend this nursery school , if you are thinking your child will be really safe and…read morehappy. When we gave our son to this nursery school , we expected something will be really good and different , because of thought its an private nursery. First of all Standarts are really poor. Their management and style completely old fashioned! Owners are really old probably they are waiting to keep this school until their retirement. Therefore didnt noticed any modernisation inside! Two times our son injured. And when we ask , their reply is always We didnt see really , whats happened They never inform you , what kind of schedule and food they are giving to your child. Only if you are asking they show one of the wall , which you can informed. But i checked its not refreshing weekly. One time there was an big control for this nursery , and our son teacher pleased from us pls dont bring your child at that day.Probably we were under stress , therefore we wont care your child (Really amazing management!) There is no private garden. Imagine Germany is almost dark , grey and rainy country. And your child will stay for 8 hours in between this cold walls. I am an Animation Film Director therefore , i know what really makes child creative! This nursery school inside is really cold and bad designed. Your child will sleep bad conditioned none orthapedic matratzen! One time they organised Family meeting and only 6 families attanted from all groups in total , you can imagine what kind of families are sending their child to this Nursery. Probably they are spending their most time behind money then their child. I dont think that they are really care their child conditions! When you are trying to register , they are telling you that good educated people sending their childs to here.(Doctors , Diplomats , Pilots etc) But it doesnt mean anything to me , as an experienced guy who passed this family steps and conditions on his life. Usually rich people send their child private schools but they never care their childs. Main mistake is ; they are thinking money will take care their child! But from Child side is always terrible results happens. When i was a child , i also went a private school at Turkey! Many people can think and complain Europe standarts are better but when i compare this nursery school standarts with my 25 years old private school in Turkey. I can say Turkey private school was 100 times better then this one. http://www.buyukkolej.k12.tr/pub3/page/english/world_standards_in_education I was paying 430 euro per month to this nursery. But it was just waste my money and waste my child good times. If you dont want to waste your money and if you want to grow your child in a good atmosphere ,My personal advice , never send your child to this Nursery. i personaly reject my child another to nursery school.

I would not recommend this Kita to any parents looking for anything resembling the…read moreAmerican/Anglo-style of education. If you expect to be informed about what the children are doing, get regular feedback on their progress, and perhaps even have some input into the process, this is not the place for you. If you feel comfortable blindly trusting the Kita and just waiting patiently for some information to make its way out, usually very inaccurate at that, you might be happy here. There are so many groups and teachers and assistants, with all of them constantly shifting from room to room, and group to group that hardly anyone seems to have a clear picture of what is going on. The children have no chance of knowing all the staff names and they are often interacting with people they barely know. They can't even know all of the children they play with since they are constantly mixing groups and to make some extra cash the Kita welcomes outside children for short-term stays, so there is an extremely high turnover of faces which is clearly quite confusing for the children. The Kita is structured with 6 groups of about 15 children each and they explained to us after much probing on our part that it's like one big family with 6 separate rooms. They seemed quite offended when we were curious to know exactly what our child's daily routine was, where he ate and slept, which group he played with, which teachers he learned from, etc. They were offended that we didn't just trust them to do the best for our child. Some of the German parents seemed to be fine with this system, but absolutely none of the foreign parents seemed happy with this at all and they all seemed eager to leave (like we did) as soon as they found other alternatives. The issue of prices is also quite complicated, as they keep sneaking in unexpected extra costs, and are very unclear as to who pays what apparently, by law they have to give some free spaces to families, and if you can't afford the asking fee they can't really turn you down, but they never mention any of this, they just say that everyone pays the same 273 Euro monthly fee, which is simply not true. There are a lot of strange financial issues with this Kita, but those were by far the least of our concerns. The price you pay covers a lot of art supplies which means that your children will bring home many art projects usually done by their frightened, barely audible army of interns rather than by the children themselves. They also have no playground and often go to a polluted playground right in between two highways and several underpasses (ask them for all of their playground locations to confirm this). They do have some upscale amenities and there was a first impression of kindness and sweetness, but that all turned on a dime as soon as we decided to leave and the overall experience left us with the impression of a 4-star horror hotel. We had our child there for about a year and a half and things were always cordial and fine, but once we told them we were leaving things became so horrific to the point that we literally started fearing for the well-being of our child. The week after we cancelled our contract (fully within the time allotted by the contract) our son came home twice with dog-poo on his clothes (!), even though that never happened to him before in the entire 18 months he was there. Coincidence? Perhaps. But read on. A few days later we picked him up and he was extremely weak with high fever, the highest he ever had there, and when we asked why they didn't call us to pick him up earlier, they said they didn't notice Coincidence? They even started interfering with other parents at the Kita and trying to stop them from having contact with us, twice 'accidentally losing' invitations to birthday parties which other parents gave them to give us. And then on our final day of the Kita the owner actually suggested that we not invite any of 'their' children to birthday parties, or attend their parties since it could be confusing for the children. Both we and the other parents obviously found this to be absurd and have stayed in touch until today, but the fact that this Kita would try to actively interfere with what 'their' children were doing outside of school was quite shocking for the German parents as well. The teachers who also seem quite afraid of the their bosses (some of them literally shiver when they have to read their little speeches at the parent-teacher evenings) are also not allowed to tell you their personal opinions and direct any questions about your child to the head teacher (we were informed of this rule by our son's favorite teacher). The Kita didn't even tell any of the teachers that we were leaving until the very last day, so none of them had any chance to say goodbye. We just assumed that they knew we were leaving but the Kita kept is absolutely secret. In any other Kita, when a child

This might be a good place for children older than 12 months, but I definitely do NOT recommend…read morethis for younger babies. Since the ratio of care takers to babies was unacceptable for me and my 6 month old at public childcare places, we were happy that Villa Luna had just opened in Berlin. A little less than three weeks later, we decided that we would not bring him to Villa Luna again and looked for an Au Pair instead. I felt sorry for my son and regretted being a working mom during the days at Villa Luna for the first time and luckily for the last time so far. We are now very happy but want to share our experience to save others the pain of reliving them. Trying to keep this within the maximum yelp-length, I will just list some concerns here: - On the first day, I was told that my baby's key caregiver was only starting in two weeks and that he would be with other childcare workers until then. When I voiced my concerns about the timing and maybe better starting later then, I was told not to worry so I tried not to. I did, however, insist that I did not want my baby to go through a lot of crying only to get used to a person who will not even be his key caregiver. - I was told that my baby would not drink from a bottle only to find out days later that they had given him a bottle with a different child's nipple. In addition, they had given him the milk straight from the fridge. (My baby boy was still exclusively breastfed.) Even after two weeks, this place did not even own a milk warmer! - When he was grumpy on another day, I again said he must be hungry. I was then told that this was impossible because he had just eaten. Only after he did not stop crying I asked how much he ate to learn that he had 20 ml (next to nothing). - None of the caregivers could get him to sleep without excessive crying. (All of our nannies could). When I put him to sleep in his assigned place, a spider fell on us one day. I caught the spider in a glass only to find the glass with the spider in the same spot (next to his bed) the next day. Only after I explicitly asked someone to take it away, this was taken care of. - His diaper was changed by childcare workers only once in the first two weeks. - My boy's assigned sleeping place was 3 rooms away from the room with the other children and caregivers. Because I doubted that anyone could hear him waking up this way, I usually sat close to him at first. Only when I explained the problem to the hands-off supervisor, they figured that buying a baby monitor might be a good idea. There was still no baby monitor the last time we visited. - I repeated multiple times that I wanted to be called from work whenever my boy was crying to the point of tears. When I was told to leave the building for one hour the very first time, I came back to hear him crying frantically with tears. No one had called me. I rushed to him but the caregiver even asked me to step back so that he could keep trying to calm him down. - When the key caregiver started, we brought a box of candy to show how happy we were that she joined. When my baby was eating the cardboard box sitting on her lap, she was amused. At some point, I reached over to take a chunk of red cardboard out of his mouth. I know it is unavoidable that babies eat stuff they should not eat. But watching it and laughing about it is a different thing. (This was repeated the next day with sand.) - On the first full day with the key caregiver, I gave the instruction to have my baby sleep no later than 11 am. When the caregiver passed by with him at 11:10am, he cried. I was told that he was probably missing me. Since she seemed stressed, I offered to hold him to calm him down. When I wanted to return him to her at 11:15 and reminded her that he really needed to sleep, I was told that she would be with us in a moment. After standing in the hallway with a sleepy and grumpy baby for 15 minutes, we left. - During a meeting with the supervisor and the key caregiver, the supervisor seemed understanding at first but left 30 minutes into the meeting to see an architect and never returned. - The key nursery worker seemed overwhelmed watching 2 babies. E.g., she opened the door to ask me to hold my son while she was changing the diapers of the other boy. She did not know what to do with mine in the meantime. - One day, I heard my boy screaming loudly. I was told that he fell. After inquiring multiple times how a boy who can neither turn himself nor pull himself into a standing position, could fall, I was told that they had put him into a standing position while they were dressing the other kids. We tried to have him calm down for an hour. Since the caregivers insisted that it could not be from the fall and that he must be getting sick (to explain his bad mood), we left early yet again.