Feature Stories
Feature Stories
Environmental protection and sustainability play a major role at BIS. This great commitment has now led to two further awards: At the "Climate Heroes Award", two student groups - the BIS Blooms and the Giving Greens - took first and second place among 80 participants. In the competition, both teams won a total of 20,000 euros in prize money.
Owen Murphy will be taking over the Principal position at Bavarian International School (BIS) at the City Campus in Munich-Schwabing, which is attended by approximately 280 students from more than 30 nations, in August 2022.
Clara de la Fuente Carmona from Spain has achieved what many students around the globe dream of: an offer to study at the University of Cambridge. In this interview, the 17-year-old student at Bavarian International School (BIS) tells us how she managed to get a place at one of the world's most prestigious universities,
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.
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.
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?
- Special Events
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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- Student Role Model
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.
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Interview with Marc Aghili, BIS Parent and Chair of the Supervisory Board of Bavarian International School gAG (BIS)
- Graduation
BIS once again proved its reputation as one of the leading international schools in Germany and top 15 in Europe. The current graduating class of 2021 of 80 students achieved an IB Diploma (DP) average grade of 37 points, which is well above the global average of 33 points.
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The Personal Project is the challenging highlight for all Grade 10 students at Bavarian International School (BIS) - and a significant completion of the Middle Years Programme (MYP), which runs from Grade 6 to 10
- Arts
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This week, despite significant challenges due to the Corona pandemic, eight Bavarian International School (BIS) students presented a curated exhibition covering two years of artistic exploration and creation.
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Bavarian International School (BIS) from 1991 – 2021: From the first class of five students to a leading international school with 1.150 students
- Duke University
Two recent Bavarian International School (BIS) alumni are fulfilling their dream: Maya Yelle and Max Holsman (class of 2020) are studying at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Founded in 1838, the private university with 13,000 students and around 2,500 professors is consistently ranked among the most elite US universities.
- Graduation
91 students from 25 different nations received their diplomas from Bavarian International School in June 2020.
- We are an Eco School
The Green Team of BIS as a Dream Team: " The planet's future is in our hands." Around 50 students across all grades at Bavarian International School (BIS) are committed to climate change and sustainability.
- Student Role Model
To gain experience for life and her profession in the future, Paula Wein, BIS 2020, made a conscious decision to challenge herself with an opportunity to grow as an individual and make her gap year truly worthwhile. The newly graduated BIS Alumna will spend a year working in an HIV hospice in the Kingdom of Lesotho (Africa).
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The paths graduates take after BIS are as diverse as the school itself. Some decide to take a voluntary gap year, others set up their first start-up and still others, like Henri van Wasen, go to University to study. Beginning in October, Henri will study Human Sciences at Oxford, one of the best universities in the world. Van Wasen describes Oxford as a university "surrounded by a palpable atmosphere of intellectual wealth, tradition, and zealousness."