International School of Hamburg
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The International School of Hamburg, known to students as ISH, is an independent, coeducational day school, founded in 1957. In early 2010 it moved into a new building in the Osdorf
quarter of Hamburg
Students from across the planet meet here for various reasons, parents' job relocations, or just an interest in cultural mixing or switching of schools to learn English or more.
ISH has been an IB world school since October 1978, and therefore offers the IB Diploma Programme
.
The school is in a sport program for international schools called NECIS. The students have choices of soccer, volleyball, basketball, softball, girls' soccer, rugby and swimming.
The students also have a choice of musical activities after school. In the Music Enrichment Program they can sign up for singing lessons, guitar lessons, piano lessons, drumming lessons, violin lessons and more. There are also a few choices of ballet and hip hop dancing available after school.
Osdorf, Hamburg
Osdorf is a quarter in the city of Hamburg, Germany. It belongs to the Altona borough. In 2006 the population was 25,206.-History:...
quarter of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
Students from across the planet meet here for various reasons, parents' job relocations, or just an interest in cultural mixing or switching of schools to learn English or more.
ISH has been an IB world school since October 1978, and therefore offers the IB Diploma Programme
IB Diploma Programme
The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme is a two-year educational programme for students aged 16–19that provides an internationally accepted qualification for entry into higher education, and is recognised by universities worldwide. It was developed in the early to mid-1960s in Geneva by...
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The school is in a sport program for international schools called NECIS. The students have choices of soccer, volleyball, basketball, softball, girls' soccer, rugby and swimming.
The students also have a choice of musical activities after school. In the Music Enrichment Program they can sign up for singing lessons, guitar lessons, piano lessons, drumming lessons, violin lessons and more. There are also a few choices of ballet and hip hop dancing available after school.