--- title: Honk & Wave 2026 description: All you need to know to prepare and enjoy Honk & Wave 2026. image: https://www.mis-munich.de/hubfs/Landing%20Pages%20Assets/Graduation%202026/honk%20and%20wave%20close%20up-1.png --- [![](https://www.mis-munich.de/hubfs/Logo%20Assets/MIS_Primary_RGB-digital.png)](https://www.mis-munich.de) ** ![](https://www.mis-munich.de/hubfs/Logo%20Assets/MIS_Primary_RGB-digital.png) [**](https://www.mis-munich.de) [![Munich International School Logo](https://www.mis-munich.de/hubfs/Logo%20Assets/MIS_Primary_RGB-digital.png)](https://www.mis-munich.de) x ** - - - Join us to celebrate the last day of in-school attendance of the Class of 2026 on Thursday, **April 2****nd, ** through a ‘Honk and Wave’. This will be the beginning of our 12th graders weeks before their final IB exams. This page will hopefully have all the details you would need to know about this special tradition at MIS. ![drone carpark](https://www.mis-munich.de/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20Pages%20Assets/Graduation%202026/drone%20carpark.jpg?width=1384&height=562&name=drone%20carpark.jpg) **Arrival**** ** Please arrive to school at **earliest ****11:00**** ****and not later th****a****n 11:45 **to park and decorate your vehicle.   Parents will be guided by parent volunteers to the designated Honk and Wave car park area. Please listen and adhere to instructions from parking officials. Parents would need to park close to one another, no large gaps in between cars. After you have decorated your car, we will invite you to wait by the bus stop by 11:50, ie 30 minutes before students are released from the school.  The students will arrive from the tunnel and celebrate in the carpark. A MIS photography backdrop will be available for photos, which will be later possible to download on this website.   ![drone carpark 2](https://www.mis-munich.de/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20Pages%20Assets/Graduation%202026/drone%20carpark%202.png?width=1384&height=568&name=drone%20carpark%202.png) **Departure** At 13:00 there will be a loud signal (loud horn) for cars to leave the car park. The FIRST car will be leaving first, followed by the other cars. When leaving make sure all windows are clear and you are able to drive safely. ![drone carpark 3](https://www.mis-munich.de/hs-fs/hubfs/Landing%20Pages%20Assets/Graduation%202026/drone%20carpark%203.png?width=904&height=644&name=drone%20carpark%203.png) **Approx. timings of the event:** **From 11:00 –** Parents arrive at the MIS carpark to decorate their car before the Grade 12 students come through the tunnel. **From 11:50 ** **–**  Parents gather around the tunnel.  **12:00 –** Final assembly will conclude, and Ms. Favre will dismiss the students. The Senior, Middle and Junior school students will set up a ‘clap out’ to applaud Grade 12 from the MIS campus. **12:20**** ****(approx.) –** the Grade 12 students will emerge from the tunnel into the MIS carpark; parents will clap and cheer   **12:20-12:50 (****approx.****)**** ****–** Final goodbyes, photos. The students will pick up their gift and mingle in the car park with their families. Photos taken by our photographers will be made available to all later on this website. **12:50 (****approx.****) –** Signal for ALL parents and Grade 12 students to return to their cars and be ready to leave campus.  **13:00 (****approx.****)**** ****–** Signal (loud horn) for Grade 12 students to leave.  **Cars’ decoration** Each family car can be decorated as creatively as you like, with balloons, photographs, etc.  For environmental reasons, **no confetti/glitter please****!** If you wish, you can un-decorate the entire car once you leave the parking lot. [Click here](https://lightroom.adobe.com/shares/8924f02692b445ca847926607057ba34) for some inspirational photos from previous Honk & Waves. 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