Latest GISS News

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...

At the last PRC meeting on Tuesday, 3rd of March, the new Executives of the Parents Representative Council (PRC) were elected: Chairperson: Anne Lessle Deputy Chairperson: Julia Erben Treasurer: Mathias Boehme Secretary: Chris Nitzsche Deputy Secretary: Bryn Jeffries Congratulations to all and thank you for your commitment and taking over those important roles! ...

Vice-President of the German Federal Parliament, Wolfgang Kubicki, and German Consul-General Peter Silberberg, visited GISS today. After a tour of our GISS campus Mr. Kubicki engaged in a discussion with our students from Years 9, 10, 11 & 12 who asked many burning questions. The topics ranged from Climate Change,...

Dear GISS community, we would like to introduce the new team of students which will participate in the MMUN Conference in March 2020 in NYC. After a successful start with our first team in March 2019 these interested and committed students are in preparation for the conference which is structured...