GISS Nachrichten

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...

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...

Nach erfolgreichem Abschluss der "Bund-Länder-Inspektion" (BLI) erhielt die German International School Sydney erneut das Gütesiegel "Exzellente Deutsche Auslandsschule". Deutscher Generalkonsul, Lother Freischlader, überreichte das Gütesiegel, welches vom Deutschen Bundespräsidenten, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, unterzeichnet ist, in einer feierlichen Assembly vor der gesamten Schulgemeinschaft.

Alle 12 Schüler (100%) haben ihr IB Diplom bestanden (Weltdurchschnitt 2013: 78.54%) und liegen mit einem IB Durchschnitt von 35.8 Punkten deutlich über dem Weltdurchschnitt von 28.81 Punkten (2013) und 0.2 Punkte vor der bisher besten Gruppe von IB Schülern im Jahr 2013. Wir sind im Moment dabei einige Prüfungen...

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...