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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...

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...