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Established
  
1999

Phone
  
+41 61 683 71 40

Enrollment
  
> 3,000 (2016)

Founded
  
1999

SIS Swiss International School

Website
  
www.swissinternationalschool.ch, www.swissinternationalschool.de, www.swissinternationalschool.com.br

Address
  
Erlenstrasse 15, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

Motto
  
"International Education - Local Insight"

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The SIS Swiss International Schools are a group of 16 private day schools in Switzerland, Germany and Brazil offering continuous education from kindergarten through to college. As of 2016, more than 3,000 students are enrolled with the SIS.

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SIS has been operating schools in Switzerland since 1999, in Germany since 2008, and in Brazil since 2011. It is a joint venture of Kalaidos Education Group (Switzerland) and Klett Group (Germany).

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Education

Designed to fulfill the educational goals of local as well as internationally mobile families, the SIS programme is centred on a consistently bilingual classroom instruction and peer experience in the national language and English, culminating in a diploma with national and international university entrance qualifications.

The day schools, whose slogan is “International Education – Local Insight”, aim to foster their students’ development into “global citizens” through the following pillars:

  • Core Values: SIS has no ideological, political, or religious affiliations. It states “honesty, respect, personal responsibility, and keeping one’s word” as its core values.
  • Language: English and German (Portuguese in the case of the Brazilian school) play equal roles in school communication – in the classroom and in all parts of day-to-day school life. As a result, children learn to express themselves naturally and confidently in both languages.
  • Curriculum and Qualifications: Each SIS school’s curriculum is based on the regulations of that school’s state, supplemented by elements of international curricula. In addition, SIS students have the opportunity to complete their school’s state high school diploma and/or the International Baccalaureate (IB). The SIS branches that offer high school education (SIS Basel, SIS Zürich, SIS Rio de Janeiro, SIS Brasília, SIS Ingolstadt, SIS Regensburg and SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach) are accredited IB World Schools.
  • Transition between levels and branches: With kindergarten, primary schools and secondary schools in one institution, SIS claims to ensure a smooth transition from each level to the next, as well as from one branch to another.

    • History

    In 1999, the Minerva School in Basel opened up a bilingual branch, which subsequently became the SIS Swiss International School. The pioneering class of SIS Basel consisted of four students. Shortly thereafter, the first bilingual institutes in Zürich and Winterthur were founded, and in 2008, SIS Stuttgart-Fellbach opened as SIS’ first school in Germany. In the time since then, additional branches have been added, and as of 2016 more than 3,000 students are enrolled in the 14 schools that are operating in Switzerland and Germany. Furthermore, SIS Brazil opened its first campus in Brasilia in 2011. Currently, 130 students are attending SIS Brasilia.

    References

    SIS Swiss International School Wikipedia
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