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Looking Sharp!
Grade 12 students have been shifting their focus toward graduation and today they celebrated with a photo shoot. They sure clean up well. They didn’t get too tired of masking up again after every pose... so proud of their good attitude and high spirits. Under the...
Looking Sharp!
Grade 12 students have been shifting their focus toward graduation and today they celebrated with a photo shoot. They sure clean up well. They didn’t get too tired of masking up again after every pose... so proud of their good attitude and high spirits. Under the...
In our Inquiry unit field to plate, we looked at the journey of food to plate. We created info graphs to display interesting information about our chosen products. We then used our math knowledge of measurement, shapes and nets to make our own packaging for our...
Grade 2 Online
Student Led Conferences Brain Gym Maths - Fractions UOI - Classifying Animals - our class list
A week online
Dear parents, Ramadan Mubarak! We have completed our first full week online. The technology has worked much better this week and the shortened timetable is also proving to be successful. The student led conferences this week were the highlight for students and...
K3 created puppets
The children were very excited to make their own story characters. We are using these characters to write stories.
A busy, successful week
Dear Families, I would like to thank all of you who attended the student led conferences this week. We had an amazing turnout and there were excellent conversations held about learning across all grades. Students developed stronger communication skills as they found...
Arabic G5/G6 :
During this week, students completed a formative assessment that includes an oral presentation of topics from the student’s research, where they excelled in the choices of different topics, and supported them with evidence from Qur’anic verses, or poetic verses,
Leading our Conferences Confidently
This week students in Grade 3 put a great deal of thought, effort and time into preparing a slideshow of their learning to present to their parents for their conference on Tuesday or Wednesday. Making the slideshow was a new experience and presenting it in the...
Wowee! What a Great Job You Did At Your Conferences!
Congratulations boys and girls. I am sure your mums and dads were very impressed by your hard work and presenting your learning. You have worked hard this week, especially to get organized for online learning and to get your resources ready. Well done! It was lovely...
Student Led Conferences – A celebration of success
It was wonderful to see and hear about how the students have reflected on their learning and how they can use those elections to plan for their futures. This is especially true for the Grade 12's as they will soon embark on the next phase of their lives as they leave...
Third week of online learning and student led conferences…completed successfully!!
Working online in grade 2. Telling our moms about grade2 in our student led conferences. We shared our habitat research.
Shark Tank – Industrial Revolution Edition
Grade 9 students have started a unit looking at the Industrial Revolution and how this event created social, political, and environmental change. Students are currently researching an invention from the era and preparing a pitch to potential investors. They are to...
Pinwheels in STEAM
Grade 4 students made pinwheels in STEAM as a lead-in for our next unit of inquiry on energy. If our pinwheels were wind turbines, we could turn wind energy into electrical energy!
Student Led Conferences
This week families were invited to come online so their learners could share their work with them. While it was very different this year, the students still enjoyed explaining their work to parents and relatives. The students talked about why they did the work, what...
Learner led – and ‘nailed’!
Grade 1 faced a big challenge this week . . . leading their own conferences, and doing this online! The learners were amazing! I sat back and relaxed as the children managed their own materials and confidently talked about their learning. Great job to all the children...
Bananas, Boxes and Student Led Conferences
Hi everyone, Ramadan Kareem to all the families in G5 who are celebrating. May this be a special time for you and your families. Our first full week online has been a busy one - we have been finishing up our work on 3D Shape and Volume, photographing a scavenger hunt...
Ramadan Kareem from Grade 6!
Our first full week back on line is complete! This week we split into Maths groups as we tackled addition and subtraction of decimal numbers and we also started our online reading rotations in groups too! Students have been practicing their self-management skills by...
K1 and K2’s first week of online learning
K1 and K2 have completed their first full week of online learning and what an exciting interesting learning experience it was for all. We went on shape hunts, made natural art, read stories, explored phonics, danced, enjoyed yoga and explored numbers up to five. The...
In these turbulent times
It is important to note that back-to-online learning has again brought about disruptive change. However, we have been through this before and hopefully have learnt how to work through this. This is about being resilient. We have a short time left to finish the school...
Inquiry and Analysis
The art of scientific communication
A Desperate Plight!
It’s an unusual situation: you marry someone behind your parents’ back, because you love him and you hope it will unite the two families. The next thing that happens is that your new husband kills your cousin in a fight and your dad tells you you’re going to be...
The cardboard box challenge!
Grade 8’s last activity before going online was to work in small groups to creatively photograph a cardboard box in as many ways as possible. There were no rules—the boxes could be held, moved around, suspended, painted, or even cut up and destroyed. At the end of...
We’re back online!
All transitions come with a few bumps and our transition back online was no different. Technology challenges were present, but the feedback from teachers is that students have done well with identifying and solving many problems on their own. As parents, if you hear...
K3 having fun with art
We have been learning about sharing resources ( water) with other living things. We did some research about turtles and made some sea animals.
We’re back online!
It was great to see Grade 3 students smiling faces on Wednesday morning. Thanks to being online, Mohammed was able to rejoin the class from India. It is was exciting to see him again. Here are some photos of our learning spaces and our thoughts about being online...
Go Grade 1!
Well done Grade 1! We can see that you have grown as learners and are being great self-managers. It is so good to see how you remembered online learning etiquette and showed respect to each other. We had fun making 3 different sized cones for the 3 Bears and popcorn,...
Online in Grade 2
It’s been a short week, but we had many show and tells, a reader of the week (Ali below), learnt how we can help bees and finally found out where BOB came from!!!!
A brief week online
Dear parents, I trust that everyone had a great long weekend. Our first week back with students learning online and students have made the transition with ease. While we would much prefer the students be at school, it is reassuring to know that students have been able...
G 5 :Arabic presentation
G5 students participated in some presentations, where each student chose a topic of his creativity and employed in it the skills of learning from research, thinking and perusal. They chose a variety of topics about choosing friends, and some of them chose about...
G8 Arabic MYP:
Completing the unit of wonders and oddities, the students activated the skills of learning, research and self-organization by presenting a presentation on one of the Seven Wonders of the World, taking into account the standard of organization and use of language,...
K1 and K2 go online
Welcome K1 and K2 to online learning. It has been a new experience for the students, teachers and some parents. We would like to thank you all for your support as this experience would not be possible without you. Congratulations to all our students for the great...
Spot the difference . . .
Grade 1 is back on line . . . and better than ever before. We’d all rather be face to face at school but ‘every cloud has a silver lining’ and Covid has certainly made our technology skills sky rocket! I finally figured out what teaching online reminds me of . . ....
Back to Online Learning
Dear Families; As you know, yesterday and today ABIS students and teachers returned to online learning. Teachers and students have been working through a few technical glitches and changes that have been made in Google Meet since January. It has been amazing to see...
New MYP Unit on Health and Medicine
This week Grade 10 students have started a new unit on the history and development of health and medicine. We will be tracking developments in the field from ancient times to the present and discovering what drove innovation. We will also take a look at health and...
Online again…Troubleshooting, Empathy & Participation
Hi everyone, Grade 5 have made a great start to our online learning. We have used the MoSCoW technique to work out a plan fro what we MUST do, SHOULD/COULD do and WON'T as online learners. Top of the list was troubleshooting, empathy and participation, as well as...
Back to Online Learning
The Grade 11's and 10's are back online and the general feeling is one of despondency. We can use this time to build or self-management and resilience skills even though we would all like to be face-to-face in school. Please reach out if you need help, family,...
Getting ready for Student Led Conferences
Student Led Conferences are just around the corner. Next Tuesday and Wednesday to be exact. Grade 4 students are excited about sharing their learning with their parents at this important event. They are compiling a portfolio of work as a slideshow to share. They will...
Faces.
It's funny how you can miss seeing faces while actually being able to see faces! While we miss having the students in the classroom, it is lovely to once again see their faces without masks! Congratulations to all students who made an extremely smooth transition back...
G10 done just in time.
It is never easy to transition from face-to-face to remote learning, but thankfully Grade 10 students were able to get their unit artworks done before the shift, even if they had been planning on making a more polished final version. Congratulations to them all for...
Statistics
Statistics is a tool used to make decisions that will impact on real-life choices, and where to spend our money and effort on activities - hopefully with some beneficial outcome. In Applications SL, the use of statistics covers about 50% of the course and is therefore...
Spirit week… a fitting transition
We had a great week of fun as your children and their teachers came dressed in the various Spirit Week themes. Today was Pajama Day and which we do not want to be an ironic foreshadowing of the attire we can expect in the coming month of Distance Learning. In several...
Launching our Mini Business
As well as having fun dressing up each day for Spirit week, Grade 3 have worked together to produce a plan for our mini business. With some help from a few adults we found a shop that could print our products with the design we created in Oman Week. We had to do lots...
March Mammal Madness Bracket Competition
The Red Kangaroo managed to defeat the Harpy Eagle to be the 2021 MMM Champion. The students who entered the bracket challenge earned points as follows. 96 Points - Amanda, Amal 92 Points - Finley 92 Points - Tina 87 Points - Miyar* 85 Points - Reed*, Toby* 77 Points...
Online next week
Dear parents, Due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases, the Supreme Committee yesterday announced that all schools must close and students learn online from next Sunday. This was disappointing news given we have done so well in maintaining our safety and health...
Design
A busy week in the design classrooms. Most of the students have been building on their basic cooking skills by completing skills based activities. The cooking units in design offer students the opportunity to learn vital life skills of how to feed themselves through...
Online Learning Next Week
Dear Families, Students at ABIS had so much fun dressing up according to different themes each day this week. Children were very creative and really enjoyed planning their outfits together. Twins day turned into Octuplets in some cases! Some students built their...
Spirit Week in grade 3M
From casual to Disney to PJs, the students made a massive effort with their costumes. My favorite day of the week was 'Twin Day.' The students had carefully communicated with each other to find marching costumes. Here are some photos of the week to celebrate Spirit...
The volume of learning in Grade 5
In grade 5 we have been learning a lot about measurement. Our last part of this strand was volume, so we were able to have fun using the blocks to help us with our volume problem solving. We worked collaboratively on our debates relating to our Inquiry learning ‘Field...
A Full Week of School Spirit
Spirit Week Twin Day Disney / Cartoon Day Dance party Disney Inspired Money PJ Day Unit of Inquiry - Environment - Paper Craft Food Chains
The Head's Blog
A week online
Dear parents, Ramadan Mubarak! We have completed our first full week online. The technology has worked much better this week and the shortened timetable is also proving to be successful. The student led conferences this week were the highlight for students and...
A brief week online
Dear parents, I trust that everyone had a great long weekend. Our first week back with students learning online and students have made the transition with ease. While we would much prefer the students be at school, it is reassuring to know that students have been able...
Online next week
Dear parents, Due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases, the Supreme Committee yesterday announced that all schools must close and students learn online from next Sunday. This was disappointing news given we have done so well in maintaining our safety and health...
Spirit Week and more
Dear parents, As we finish another successful week there are some items of interest for you for the near future. On Sunday we will begin the new drop off system with primary students dropped off at the gate and secondary students at both front carparks. If you have...
Items to note
Dear parents, The weather is warming up and so we ask that your child brings a hat and a water bottle to school every day. We will remind our students that when they go outside they must wear a hat and bring their water bottle to stay hydrated. Since we started back...
Spring Break next week
Dear parents, We are now going on our annual Spring Break for a week, with students returning to school on Monday March 8. Teachers will return a day earlier for a professional development day. The school is operating smoothly and we are pleased that our safety and...
Walkathon and other news
Dear parents, I am very pleased that the student Walkathon held last week has raised 1946 OMR so far. This is a tremendous effort and all participants are to be congratulated for such an excellent result! This week I have had the opportunity to visit many classes and...
Oman week a success
Dear parents, We have just completed a highly successful Oman week. All grades engaged in activities which saw them out and about around the school campus, enjoying and having fun with their peers. A very big thanks to all our teachers who worked hard in both...
Oman week, exams, reports and a farewell.
Dear parents, We have a had a busy week leading up to Oman week which starts next Sunday and runs until next Thursday. During the week students will be engaged in all manner of activities on the school campus. We are looking forward to seeing the children engaged in...
Oman Week, Walkathon and Reports
Dear parents, Al Batinah International School welcomes His Majesty Sultan Haitham bin Tariq and his wife Sayyida Ahad bint Abdullah to Suhar, we wish them a safe and good stay. As another successful week draws to a close, we are very pleased that the traffic is...