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Am Sonntag dem 18.11.2018 fand der erste Rhönrad Wettkampf der GISS Rhönrad Gruppe statt, welcher der erste in Australien seit 2012 war. Alle Teilnehmer mussten zunächst ihre Pflichtübungen turnen (je nach Leistungstand L5, L6 oder L7) bevor sie ihre zusammengestellte Kür, welche je nach Fähigkeiten individuell unterschiedlich waren, turnen konnten. Trotz...

Bilingual schools teaching maths, science in a foreign languageBy Pallavi Singhal 18 November 2018 — 7:45pmAt his school in Sydney's northern suburbs, Felix Scholle, 12, is taught maths, biology, art, music and sport entirely in German. Felix's mother is German but he is still learning the language and does German as...

A group of tennis mad mothers and a tennis crazy father organised our first GISS Family Tennis Open which took place at Evolve Tennis at Wyatt Park last weekend. You didn't need to have any prior tennis experience to enjoy the kids’ fun court, the family tournament court and fitness area. There were many winners thanks...

Congratulations to our Year 10 students Nora, Saskia, Ivy and Nelli who won the Goethe Institute's  Australia wide school competition „Unternehmen Deutsch - Enterprise German‘ with their innovative project called “SBS Kids”. More than 300 students from 17 schools participated in the Australia-wide school project for professional orientation in 2018 and...

Am Samstag, 3. November 2018, fand abermals unser traditionelles Fußballturnier statt. In der ausverkauften GISS-Indoor Arena kämpften die Schüler und Schülerinnen der 3. und 4. Klassen um Punkte und Pokale, während auf unserem neuen Futsal Field bei strahlendem Sonnenschein die Talente aus den Klassen 5 und 6 ihr Können unter...

Many GISS students took part in the project Enterprise German (Unternehmen Deutsch) initiated by the Goethe-Institut Australien to promote the collaboration between schools and German companies / or Australian companies with a relationship to German speaking countries within the region. SBS German interviewed our students and Principal Dr Lorenz Metzger for their latest...

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 and...

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...