Latest GISS News

The Sustainability team is still hard at work to find ways to reduce the environmental footprint of our community. Here is our next Sustainability Holiday Challenge.  Take our Palm Oil Survey  and complete the Palm Oil Home Hunt Checklist (download here)

Our friends at Tech Explorations have been working on a new virtual summit dedicated to STEM Education and our Preschool Educators Silke Bethke, John Nyagah and Catherine Squire Blatti will be presenting on how to support families of young children through STEM education. The Summit will go "live" on Saturday,...

Northern beaches NAPLAN 2020: How your high school rates New NAPLAN data shows four public schools have made it into the northern beaches’ top 10 this year. See where your secondary school came in the full list of 1 to 21 and where they are placed in the NSW league...

GISS Principal, Dr Lorenz Metzger, was interviewed by Trudi Latour from SBS German about our approach to off-campus learning. Click here to listen to the Interview in German.

We would like to announce a NEW sustainability initiative for the whole GISS community – students, teachers, families and more. This focus reflects our commitment to become a more sustainable school and to do our bit to help save the planet.  Thanks (for nothing!) to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will...

Dear parents and school community, We were very much looking forward to inviting you to view our wonderful GISS artworks when you came to the parent/teachers evenings this year. Unfortunately, our K-10 art exhibition has unavoidably become a virtual exhibition now. Whilst it is always much better to see the real thing and view art...

After starting our off-campus learning we wanted to share this video message from our GISS Principal, Lorenz Metzger, with our community.

Our annual GISS swimming carnivals took place during February and early March and were a great success despite the weather not always being kind to us.  The students had a wonderful time cheering on participants from their Houses, and enthusiastically gained victory points in the pool as well as in...

Our Year 11 and 12 Students had a special history lesson last week with the visit of contemporary witness of Divided Germany Peter Keup, a former citizen of the GDR who failed his attempted escape to the ‘west’. Born in 1958, Mr Keup worked as a successful ballroom dancer and...