Welcome to Munich International School! Let us show you around from a bird's eye view.
Easily accessible from Munich, MIS takes full advantage of its 55-acre campus in an idyllic nature preserve near the city of Starnberg and the Bavarian Lake District.
Families and faculty pass safely from the parking and drop off area through the iconic 'rainbow tunnel', emerging to an expansive view of the Alps on the right, the impressive facade of the Schloss to the left, and a series of adventurous play areas to the front. Shaded pathways meander through the campus, leading to multiple organic gardens, communal seating and relaxation areas, al fresco cafe seating, outdoor basketball and tennis courts, a regulation track & field, the recess meadow, the outdoor Makers' space and fort-building area, and five different age-appropriate playgrounds.
Our interior spaces are as vast as the outdoor areas. MIS is fortunate to have just opened a triple-level quadruple gymnasium called the Fitness and Athletics Building (FAB). The FAB also houses a dance studio, fitness centre, a canteen, and multiple locker rooms.
The Primary School (Grades 1 - 4) is comprised of an interconnected network of structures including an arena-style auditorium, encircled by classroom spaces primarily for 1st and 2nd grades. Each classroom is intentionally designed with a cozy loft space to provide students with a separate environment for quiet reading and focused work.
Primary students have easy access to the nurses' office, the cafeteria, the Primary School library, nearby play areas, and gardens. A highlight of the primary school is the 80qm Makers' space. This is a co-teaching space with high-tech and low-tech materials for basic coding, robotics, woodworking, and prototyping. Designed to apply transdisciplinary learning, the Makers' space is where concepts become realities.
Middle Schoolers (Grades 5 - 8) find themselves all over the campus in a normal day. The main Middle School building houses an auditorium, food design kitchen, multiple science labs, and classroom spaces.
Across the path is the entrance to the Senior School (Grades 9 -12) and Performing Arts Center, a theatre and performance space with an audience capacity of 325. The lower floors provide choir and music spaces.
The main Senior School building includes classrooms, laboratories, and two black box theatres for Middle and Senior School drama class and rehearsal space.
The Language Arts & Design Center (LADC) is a separate building that houses woodworking and design classrooms, art studios, as well as an expansive Middle & Senior School Makers' Laboratory, featuring a media production studio used for live-streaming, podcasting, and student-produced audio and visual production. The Lab also includes a bike repair station, an outdoor area for gardening and habitat-building, electronics, robotics, multiple 3D printers, 3D pens, sewing machines, looms and materials for textile creation, pottery wheels, a kiln, laser-cutters, wood working tools, and much more. Middle and Senior School students have access to the Makers' Lab for class projects, clubs, and after-school-activities.
Situated at the heart of the campus and scheduled to open at the end of the 2023/24 school year is the Learning NeXus. Modelled after innovation studios and co-working spaces, Middle and Senior School students will be able to practice transdiciplinary studies in a flexible working environment with the added convenience of having IT support, library facilities, and research assistance in the same space.
Pioneering education requires vision and intentionally-designed learning spaces. MIS will continue to evolve and renovate in order to meet the needs of our learners, our community, and our environment.
10 апр 2024
