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Bavarian International School appoints John Barker as its next School Director, effective 1 August 2026. He succeeds Dr Chrissie Sorenson, who has led the school since 2014.
Smart kids vs. smartphones was the title of the 7th BIS City Talk of Bavarian International School (BIS) at Munich City Campus. A high-calibre panel of experts discussed ”Overprotection in the real world and underprotection in the digital world” (Jonathan Haidt) and involved the audience in an exciting Q&A.
The Bavarian International School celebrated the groundbreaking for the Creativity & Innovation Center (CIC). The future heart of the Haimhausen Campus will provide space for around 750 students to grow and flourish.
The BIS City Campus team can proudly claim to be one of only 25 Positive Discipline Lab Schools - such schools act as role models for others worldwide! This achievement has been made possible because of the excellent work of the team, supported by a visit from Joy Marchese, founder of Positive Discipline UK, as well as in-depth training for the whole staff and courses for parents.
BIS Alumni Victoria Dellas is working on a career to predict storms and hurricanes in the USA. "This incredibly important and life-essential in the USA!” She is currently studying Meteorology and Aviation Management in Florida.
With 34.9 points, the average score of BIS graduates in the IB Diploma (DP) is once again almost five points above the global median (30.32). 18% of the Class of 2024 achieved 40 points (out of 45) or more (40 points is equal to an Abitur grade of 1.3), with one BIS student scoring the top grade of 45.
In the era of digitalization, social media, and smartphones, a significant issue known to all parents is the excessive screen time for children and the prevalence of mindless entertainment. TEDx speaker Dino Ambrosi from University of California, Berkeley, visited BIS to to delve into this area of concern.
Anyone visiting the Haimhausen Campus of BIS will immediately notice signs of significant transformation: the old sports hall is being dismantled to pave the path for the forthcoming Creativity & Innovation Centre (CIC).
BIS is opening its doors at Schloss Haimhausen and invites all interested guests to the BIS Arts Exhibition on 10 April 2024. 19 Grade 12 students from ten nations will be showing more than 130 art works in the genres of painting, sculpture, mixed media, photography, film and installation.
The BIS City Talk focussed on a highly exciting topic: "AI in education: empowering tomorrow's digital citizens". With Tristan Post (AI Founders & TUM), Dr Diana Knodel (fobizz & App Camps), Isabell Fries (Future Work) and Dr Chrissie Sorenson (BIS Head of School), the panel was top-class.
BIS has attracted a sponsor for the third scholarship - and is therefore the first international school in Germany with such a support programme. Aligned with the school slogan, the non-profit private school launches the "Believe", "Inspire" and "Succeed" scholarships.
With an average score of 35 points in the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP), the 82 students of the Class of 2023 at BIS are almost five points above the global average (30.24). More than one in five BIS students (22%) graduated with more than 40 points, which corresponds to a 1.3 Abitur grade in the German state system.
Since the school year 2021-22, Isabella is the first awardee of the first scholarship in the more than 30-year history of the Bavarian International School. The German-American was chosen to receive the full scholarship for grades 9-12, which was donated by DEUTSCHE FINANCE GROUP.
For the fourth year in a row, the Bavarian International School hosted the BIS Sustainability Summit. The event brings nearly 100 secondary school students together with external experts in topics related to climate protection and sustainable living. Students are then asked to develop their own innovative solutions to living sustainably, and to pitch their ideas to a panel of judges. The winning team receives support from the school to bring their idea to life.
At the BIS City Talk at the Schwabing campus of the Bavarian International School (BIS), speakers and the nearly 100 guests agreed that values and life skills must be decisive factors in today's school education. This is the only way to prepare our children for an unknown, rapidly changing future. At the Bavarian International School in Munich and Haimhausen (approx. 1,150 students from over 60 nations), developing the moral compass of children and young people is part of the academic DNA.
The Bavarian International School hosted its Visual Art Exhibition on Wednesday, 30 March 2022 on its Haimhausen Campus, welcoming guests to view artworks by 13 students, as part of their grade 12 fine arts assessment of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IB DP). The student group represented nine different nationalities and prepared creative works in the genres of painting, mixed media, photography, film, installation, sculpture, and fashion.
The 11th Careers Day of Bavarian International School (BIS) attracted 16 top-class personalities from a wide variety of industries to give students an authentic insight into professions, career paths and future trends. Around 180 BIS students in grades 10 and 11 experienced a total of 38 panels of 30 minutes each at the Haimhausen Campus. The event featured speakers from Microsoft, Facebook, SAP, Airbus, Texas Instruments, Linde, The LEGO® Group, Klinikum Dritter Orden, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Motel a Miio and many more. BIS welcomed U.S. Consul General Timothy E. Liston as a guest of honor.
A special guest visited BIS: Mustaquem Ali, Senior Liaison & Recruitment Officer at University College London (UCL), one of the top 20 universities in the world. He gave more than 40 students from grades 9-12 an excellent overview of the academic programmes and student life at UCL, as well as some helpful tips on how to write a successful application.
“If I put my heart and soul into a project, I can be very successful.” This is what 13-year-old BIS student Kiki Tifase thinks of winning an international essay competition organised by "Immerse Education", an institution for academic enrichment programmes in Oxford and Cambridge.
You could have heard a pin drop while Natalie Amiri, ARD foreign correspondent, book author and TV presenter ("Weltspiegel"), spoke in the BIS auditorium on Wednesday. More than 80 grade 7 students were fascinated by Miss Amiri’s talk, as she shared the realities of the current situation in Afghanistan, the Taliban's takeover of power and the dramatic emergency situation there, all based on her own experiences visiting the highly destabilized country recently.
Emma Morris is getting more phone calls these days from other international schools. They’ve heard about what is happening at BIS in terms of sustainability and student engagement, and they want to know: How is BIS doing it?
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Sara Read (born Sara Talbot) has a special relationship with Bavarian International School. The Canadian was one of 17 students in the first graduating class in 1997.
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Most Grade 11 students don’t run After School Activities (ASAs). Teachers usually do that. But Giulia doesn’t exactly fit the mold of your typical student.
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Experts in driving diversity and inclusion to improve innovation gathered at the "Diversity Rocks! 30 Years of BIS" anniversary event to share perspectives with the international school community.
Nearly 100 Bavarian International School (BIS) students gathered on Thursday morning in the school’s auditorium in Haimhausen with the clear understanding that today would be different from any other school day.