Sustainability
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Munich International School has a long standing tradition of environmentally and climate-related projects. Students and staff, who are part of the Eco-Committee, meet regularly in order to evaluate and discuss ideas for improvement.
In early 2019, MIS signed a contract with a local energy contractor in order to convert to using renewable energy. By taking this step, the school will reduce its emissions by almost half and will significantly reduce the amount of energy use such as electric power, heating, ventilation etc.
The five building phases of the energy contracting concept involve the following actions:
Press
Updates & Awards
The school reduced its carbon footprint by 26% within two years…
As we regularly update our digital devices, we started partnering with AfB Group Social & Green IT, a company that helps us to recycle and refurbish…
In October 2020, MIS received the Three-Star Eco-School designation "Umweltschule in Europa / Internationale Nachhaltigkeitsschule (International Sustainability School)"…
It's official: Munich International School will be using renewable energy from 2020!
In August 2019, MIS received the Three-Star Eco-School designation for the second time...
On Monday, 22 October 2018, the European Eco-School Awards were presented to regional schools (83 schools, in all) at MIS. Students, teachers and administrators from those schools travelled to our campus to receive their awards...
Student Work
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Grade 3 students, who recently joined MIS and were beginning to learn English, found purpose in building bird feeders. The students learned to work together to support local birds species on our campus and they improved their English at the same time...
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SY 2018/19: As part of the Grade 1 unit How We Organise Ourselves, the grade responded to the request to help local insects and build an herb garden. To start the unit, Mr. Martin presented to all of Grade 1 classes. The parents were invited and helped begin the herb garden project by moving rocks...
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Several groups of students in Grade 4 wanted to help local endangered animals as part of their PYP Exhibition project. Clara Lukowicz was the exception as she started to learn about hedgehogs prior to exhibition and to build a hedgehog home...
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A Bavarian report cited that there were 50% less birds in Bavaria since the 1980's. One of the reasons for this was the lack of suitable bird houses. MIS has been leaving more large tree stumps for birds to nest...
Buildings
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Over the past year a lot has changed and so did the lights in many classrooms here at MIS…
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The Books in a Box container building, constructed in Summer 2019, provides temporary, expanded library facilities for Middle and Senior School whilst internal building work can be taken forward. This new space also includes a silent indoor learning space...
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Equipping the LADC with solar panels in April 2019 marked the first phase of migrating to a more sustainable school. More panels will be installed upon completion of the new quadruple Gym.