Building Bridges

Building Bridges

Building Bridges

Building Bridges

Building Bridges

Building Bridges

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Welcome to GISA

We welcome you to a virtual visit of our school. Founded in 1966, GISA is West Africa’s only officially recognized German school abroad. Located in Accra, Ghana, GISA offers a bilingual, holistic education from nursery to secondary level. It combines the Thuringian curriculum with Cambridge standards, emphasizing academic excellence, creativity, and intercultural learning. Around 130 students from 20+ nations are guided by a diverse international team. GISA promotes inc…

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Newsletter 16.10.2026

16 October 2026

As we reach the end of the final school week before the autumn break, the full variety of school life at GISA has once again been on display. Our students have been calculating, writing, experimenting, presenting, creating, discussing and taking responsibility together. At the same time, many proje…

Social Learning as Part of Our School Profile: Grade 7 Shapes the Partnership with Chance for Children

16 October 2026

Starting Point and Objectives Since the beginning of the 2026/27 school year, Grade 7 has been exploring social responsibility, social engagement and the question of how we ourselves can initiate change in Social Studies. At the heart of this work is our project workshop with the Ghanaian non-gove…

Responsibilty with Heart - a social project by class 8

16 October 2026

As our Secondary School continues to grow, the German International School Accra is not only expanding its academic offer. Step by step, we are also developing a school profile that combines academic learning with social responsibility, initiative and personal development. Following Grade 7, which…

A Night Full of Stories, Puzzles and Magic at GISA!

16 October 2026

Because last year’s event was such a great success, we are taking it one step further this school year: On Friday, 20 November 2026, we will combine the Long Night of Mathematics with Germany’s National Reading Aloud Day for a shared evening full of discovery – and, above all, full of stories! Whe…

Every History Lesson Is Also a German Lesson

16 October 2026

How can students not only understand historical developments, but also explain them clearly and precisely in German? This question has been a particular focus in Grade 9 History at the German International School Accra since the beginning of the school year. In language-sensitive subject teaching…

Final Countdown for the ESP Content Creator Contest – Vote Now!

14 October 2026

Five creative minds, five exciting entries – but only one can win! Our Content Creator Contest, part of the Excellence Scholarship Programme (ESP), is entering its final stage. The participants have demonstrated their creativity, originality, and talent through their videos. Now it's up to the GI…

Newsletter 09.10.2026

09 October 2026

Another eventful week at GISA is coming to an end: a successful fire drill showed how well our procedures work, the first Student Council meeting brought forward many ideas for shaping school life, and across the classes students were calculating, researching, writing, programming, cooking and gett…

Newsletter 02.10.2026

02 October 2026

An eventful week lies behind us: encounters with special guests, newly elected student and parent representatives, creative projects, exciting classroom experiences and many opportunities to take responsibility and learn from one another. Whether through football and financial education, programmi…

Faces of Football: Playing, Learning and Growing Together

02 October 2026

On 29 September 2026, GISA was all about football, teamwork and financial education. During the third edition of “Faces of Football”, girls from the German International School Accra, Chance for Children and the Universal Wonderful Street Academy came together for a special day of learning and acti…

In Search of Poetry

02 October 2026

In the German Club, a slightly different kind of German-as-a-Foreign-Language lesson for our Grade 9 learners, we also explore the beauty of words. Under the motto “Everything That Matters”, we collected words and reflected together on what is truly important to us. When reading our words aloud at…