For the current school year 2009/10 our GISSV Berkeley Campus has openings for boys and girls entering Kindergarten, First Grade or Second Grade.

The GISSV Berkeley Campus opened in August 2007 with its first Kindergarten Class. From there onward, an additional class will be added each year to build out to a complete K through grade 5. By 2012 we will have reached the first phase of our strategic expansion with classes from kindergarten through fifth grade.

With a low student-to teacher ratio, even as the school grows to capacity, there will be fewer than one hundred students, keeping the school a small and welcoming community for East Bay families. Possibilities to extend the school to grade 8 are under discussion. 

Play is the basis of all learning in GISSV’s kindergarten. We believe a child develops his/her cognitive, social, emotional abilities and his/her motor skills through intensive and undisturbed play. We offer age-appropriate educational projects. Children may apply acquired concepts in their play. Our goal is to develop creativity, cognitive skills, sense of responsibility, perception and awareness, language skills, independence, physical self-awareness, and social skills.

Our school opening hours are from 8:30am to 2:00pm. We also offer an afternoon program until 5:30pm.