MIS+ comprises the following four key elements arising from the School’s Strategic Plan in order to transform the lives of current and future MIS students:
We had a small groundbreaking ceremony for our new quadruple Sportshall on 27 November 2020.
This past year has been one of the most challenging in the history of our school. We were forced to rethink our practices and to make decisions about teaching and learning with enhanced attention to matters of human health and wellbeing. Planning for how school and, indeed, our society will look on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic requires extraordinary imagination, vision, and careful consideration of a wide range of factors. We have certainly been reminded of the importance of a strong, supportive, and positive community in difficult times. Together we are able to achieve things that we could never achieve alone. That was true with regard to COVID-19, and it is true about the further growth and development of MIS, too.
Thanks to our many generous donors, the construction of our new quadruple Gym and Assembly Hall began in November 2020.We would especially like to say a big thank you to our many donors, both large and small, to the PTV, and the Sportverein, and to the fundraising committee and to its chairs, to the Board of Directors, the B&G Committee, the Finance Committee, and all of the people who have contributed time, energy for making this possible.
We had a small groundbreaking ceremony for our new quadruple Sportshall on 27 November 2020. We were honoured to welcome Patrick Janik, the First Mayor of Starnberg, and Stefan Frey, Chief Administrative Officer of the Starnberg Region (Landrat).
The new quadruple Gym, which is planned to be completed in 2022, will also serve as a “community building space” offering spaces for fitness, a tournament café and a whole-school assembly hall for up to 1.800 people.
Including sport in our lives, especially during these extraordinary times, helps us to keep a balanced lifestyle and improves our physical and mental health. We want to make sure our PE and Athletics programs keep our students healthy now and in the future.
As the school has grown, it has become more challenging to accommodate our PE classes in our current indoor facilities. The new quadruple gym, fitness room, dance studio and multipurpose room will enable us to provide outstanding facilities for all our PE classes and help us increase the activity levels of all our students.
The athletic department, with numerous basketball and volleyball teams, will now be able to train and compete in state-of-the-art facilities. We will be able to welcome other International schools to large indoor tournaments, offering two show courts in the sports of basketball and volleyball with bleachers for 100’s of supporters to cheer on our teams in comfort and really develop our wildcat spirit.
The MIS Sportverein are excited about their new Imbiss (Café) facilities which will be located in the centre of the new gymnasium. Large numbers of athletes can now be catered for during games and tournaments in the Wildcat Café.
During the last 55 years many parents, grandparents, alumni, teachers, staff, and friends have donated their time, their expertise, and their money to help MIS become an outstanding place for children and young people to learn and to grow. Without this generous support, important school resources, like the Languages, Arts, and Design Center and the Performing Arts Center simply would not exist.
We hope to involve every single member of our community in our drive to make MIS innovative, effective, and transformational for our students.
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At MIS, we understand that the future belongs to those who can innovate, create, design and lead.
Upon completion of the ‘New Sports Hall’, an ‘Innovation Hub’ would be housed within the existing structure of our current sports hall. The ‘Innovation Hub’ would significantly increase the amount of quiet study space, as well as facilities and equipment to support inquiry-based, collaborative learning.
We would increase the current MS/SrS Library space from around 270 sqm to 800 sqm, add information and media resources, and build scalable classrooms that can be subdivided and expanded. We would install telecommunications equipment to enable students to collaborate with students and partners at other locations. Finally, we would add informal meeting spaces where students and community members can book space for a range of projects and purposes.
The ‘Innovation Hub’ would significantly increase the amount of quiet study space, as well as facilities and equipment to support inquiry-based, collaborative learning.
Our expert and truly caring teachers continuously advance the world’s leading curriculum.
Launched in 2017, ‘Innovation Grants’ have further strengthened the quality of teaching and learning at Munich International School, including by helping to attract and retain the best teaching staff for MIS students.
Current examples include new, leading-edge classrooms in the Junior School and funding to support innovations, such as:
Mathematical Mindsets training for teachers (Stanford University)
Human Library Project (ToK)
Discovery Time (Grade 1)
Student Mindfulness Instruction (JS/MS)
Makeology Summit to promote engaging and real-world pedagogy
Language Acquisition Theatre Festival
Visible Thinking (Harvard Project Zero) Professional Learning Community
Additional philanthropic support in the form of Innovation Grants will enable yet more transformative teaching and learning experiences for MIS students.
Additional philanthropic support in the form of ‘Innovation Grants’ will enable yet more transformative teaching and learning experiences for MIS students.
