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GISS now has four officially recognised Gym Wheel trainers. Wolfgang Bientzle, multiple former world champion and leader of the USA Gym Wheel Team held an intensive Gym Wheel training course and showed our trainers Silke Bethke, Kathi Brassington, Karen Pfitzer [Certificate 1] and Abby Duruz (Certificate 2) many new exercises...

Over 7,000 visitors enjoyed the magic of the 2018 German International School Sydney’s (GISS) annual Winter Christmas Market last weekend. Thanks to the generous support of the Christmas Market’s main sponsor Audi Australia, many parent and student volunteers, GISS staff, local community and other gold sponsors including The Belrose Hotel, Top 3 by...

On Monday the 20th of August, Kindergarten – Year 4 celebrated Book Week. Each year across Australia, the CBCA (the Children's Book Council of Australia) brings children and books together celebrating CBCA Book Week. This is a wonderful opportunity to bring children's literature to the forefront of our minds and celebrate and appreciate...

It is with great pleasure that I welcome on behalf of the Board of Directors Dr Lorenz Metzger as our new Principal of the German International School Sydney. The process to find the right candidate commenced in June 2017 and Dr Metzger presented as the stand-out leader among an exceptional...

GISS has been awarded Australia’s highest honour for design and innovation, for its pioneering shipping container classroom build. At last night’s 60th Annual Good Design Awards ceremony the school’s Art Village project was recognised for its innovation and outstanding design in the Architectural Design category. GISS was commended by The Good...

Recently, we reported on the project "Enterprise German", an Australia-wide ideas competition that aims at promoting the collaboration between schools where German is taught and German companies. In the first two programs with the students, which you can still find on our website, we found out that the students...

We are proud to announce that GISS has again been awarded the title of ‘Excellent German School Abroad’. The German Consul, Mr Lothar Freischlader, officially presented GISS with the seal of approval during a morning assembly in front of the whole school community. This Gütesiegel (seal of approval), which was...

Our best ever  The 2014 GISS IB Diploma results are our best ever since we introduced the IB Diploma Programme in 2002. Our students achieved a 100% pass rate (world average is 79%) with an average passing grade of 35.8; significantly above the global average of 29.81 and 0.2 points better...

The 2013 cohort has posted our school’s best IB results since introduction of the IB diploma programme in 2002. Our students achieved a 100% pass rate (world average 78.54%) with an average passing grade of 35.6, significantly above the global average of 28.81 and 0.9 points better than our previous...