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The Gingerbread Workshop on the 1st and 2nd of December was a huge success again this year. Children and parents had lots of fun creating beautiful gingerbread houses and people. Thankfully there were plenty of lollies, as some of the tasty decorations ended up in small mouths instead of on the great...

On Sunday, 18th of November, the GISS Rhönrad group held a Rhönrad (wheel gymnastics) competition, which was the first to be held in Australia since 2012.All participants were required to do the prescribed routines (depending on ability, either L5, L6 or L7. More experienced gymnasts also developed and performed their own unique freestyle routines which differed...

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Our first GISS Family Tennis Open took place at Wyatt Park Tennis Centre- Evolve Tennis over the 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 to the well organised raffle...

Congratulations to our Year 10 students Nora, Saskia, Ivy and Nelli who won the Goethe Institute's 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 impressed the...

Over 100 goals were scored at our International Football Tournament last weekend coincided with our Open Day. We warmly welcomed many visitors and our opponents from the Scuola Italiana Bilingue-Italian Bilingual School, the Sydney Japanese International School, the Armenian Alexander School, the International French School of Sydney and the John...

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...

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...