Good German schools open to non-German speakers

I've heard some questionable things about St. Anna's. We're looking for an alternative to International school, but our kids only know a little bit of German. Are there schools other than Phorms or St. Anna's that accept kids who don't speak German? We would hire a tutor, but we need a school that has a good track record.

Specifically, we're looking in Bogenhausen, Haidhausen, Lehel, Schwabing, Au (central).

Thanks -

I think you are pretty much stuck with the local schools (and they can be great, it's luck of the draw with the teachers and the school and how the kids fit in), however kids pick up the language quickly. If the school decides they can't / won't deal with the language issue, then you may be required to send them to "language school" - and, from what I gather, that seems to be St. Anna's. (I'll snoop around some more later on today).
The other alternatives are private "religious" German schools with excellent reputations. I only know of two - the Lukas Schule (somewhere near Grosshadern) and the Reinhard Wallbrecher Schule (in Solln). The Lukas Schule is apparently much more affordable, the Wallbrecher Schule is about half the price of the local international schools. These are also "all day" schools - so you don't have to worry about finding a hort place or suddenly having a kid home at 11:00 am because a teacher was sick or something. Both offer bus services as well.
Another major advantage is that they are both "genehmigt" and not just "anerkannt" like the international schools, montessori, anton, waldorf, etc. "Genehmigt" means the children transfer seamlessly into the realschule or gymnasium systems if the school decides the kid is suited for it. The other schools don't count in that regard and the kids have to take tests to get into the realschule or gymnasium if they don't want to go to the hauptschule. (Well, except for the international schools, it's very difficult to slip back into the German system from there).

I take it they don´t have substitute teachers in Germany? My father was a primary school principal for most of his teaching career, no way would he have sent a class home because a teacher was sick! In fact, he would take over himself if he couldn´t find someone!

Actually, in grade school the divide the class amongst the other teachers and give them worksheets. (At least that's what they do here.)
There is a shortage (or lack of emphasis on the importance of) "mobile reserve teachers" in Munich. If a teacher is sick for a longer period of time (a week or more) then that school has a better chance of getting a substitute for that time.
Yeah - it sounds pretty bad, but if the teacher is good then it doesn't seem to affect the kids much when it happens.

Unless the school is a so-called Verlässliche Grundschule where you are guaranteed that your child will be looked after during school hours (but not necessarily by a teacher - it might be a parent or the school secretary or someone), they can cancel classes and send the kids home any time if a teacher is not available. They do have substitute teachers, called Feuerwehrkraft who can take over if a teacher becomes ill long term, but it often takes days or weeks to get one in place. The concept of having a list of substitute teachers available to call at 7 a.m. seems to be foreign here.

Yep, my Dad had a list of teachers by the phone, that he would call around when he received the sick call early in the morning.

Not in the area you have specified, but I heard it's quite good too.
http://www.erzbistum-muenchen.de/ths-pullach

DDBug, I really don't mean to be pedantic, but you've got "genehmigt" and "anerkannt" mixed up. At a school that is "staatlich genehmigt," the students who want to go on to Gymnasium and Realschule have to do an exam. If a school is "staatlich anerkannt," then no exam is necessary. It's a good point to bring up, though -- who wants to put their child through the stress of "Probeunterricht?"

Doh ! Yup, got them backwards! Thanks for catching that!
_{That's me posting between phone calls, emails and without coffee!!!}

And the probeunterricht is a bitch (the suspicion is that it is designed to keep kids out of gymnasium/realschule).
You can download the tests in the internet, it covers things not even taught in 4th grade. Very few kids pass it.