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Welcome to Ms Lougher, Ms Baier and Ms Brady!
Thank you to our community for understanding the need to be online again for these two weeks. Teachers and families who travelled over the holiday have returned and nearly all have completed quarantine. So now that we are ready to open our doors again, we have a few...
Arabic additional language ( food – vegetables ) in Arabic 🥐🍎🥕🥬🥦🍕🥗🌽🍔
Grade 5 * The students studied the food names ( healthy & unhealthy food ) in Arabic. * The students studied the vegetables names, colors, writing vegetables names, giving examples of vegetables names in Arabic. [video...
We Did It!
Grade 3 have worked hard these past two weeks to complete their first Science Fair Projects. It was an extra challenge having to work individually because of being online, but with fabulous support from families, each student has posed and investigated a question,...
Arabic additional language ( food – vegetables ) in Arabic 🥐🍎🥕🥬🥦🍕🥗🌽🍔
Grade 4 * The students studied the food names ( healthy & unhealthy food ) in Arabic. * The students studied the vegetables names, colors, writing vegetables names, giving examples of vegetables names in Arabic. [video...
Digital Citizenship
Grade 7 has investigated different aspects of Digital Citizenship over the past two weeks online. Topics have included media balance and well-being, privacy and security, digital footprint and identity, relationships and communication, cyberbullying and digital drama...
Welcome back to school
Dear parents, We welcome back all our students after the winter break followed by two weeks online learning. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday over the winter break. Everyone is excited to see the students returning to school! Next week marks the return of our KG...
Getting back to school on Sunday!!!!
I am looking forward to seeing everyone face to face next week. It has been a long two weeks online. When we get back remember to wear your PE Kit to class, a hat, proper sports shoes, and a water bottle. We are still keeping our mask on in class and keeping social...
Last Offical Online Week
What a great fortnight we've had online, but we have now come to both the end of this era of learning and of our Unit of Inquiry on weather. Next week we are back face to face and with a new Unit of Inquiry on the agenda. Please find details below of some of the...
Arabic additional language ( food – vegetables ) in Arabic 🥐🍎🥕🥬🥦🍕🥗🌽🍔
Grade 3 * The students studied the food names ( healthy & unhealthy food ) in Arabic. * The students studied the vegetables names, colors, writing vegetables names, giving examples of vegetables names in Arabic. [video...
IDU Summative Assessment for Grade 9
Grade 9 students have begun the summative assessment for their IDU which has explored traumatic events and how people and communities respond to them. We will be creating an exhibition of student writing as well as videos that highlight different events and how the...
Last week online!
We did it! We completed what is hopefully our last week of online learning. We learned to tell time to the half and quarter hours, we read a fiction and nonfiction book together, we learned about different types of wild weather and some of us created a masterpiece!...
Creativity Activity Service (CAS) Project
CAS project is at least one month long, collaborative project which gives students a chance to follow all of the CAS stages. This includes investigation, preparation, action, demonstration and reflection. Historically, ABIS students have aimed to complete these...
Holy Quran competition
Today our school received an honor from the Ministry of Education where our students won three first position at the North Al Batinah level. Congratulations to the winning students.
Arabic additional language ( food – vegetables ) in Arabic 🥐🍎🥕🥬🥦🍕🥗🌽🍔
Grade 2 * The students studied the food names ( healthy & unhealthy food ) in Arabic. * The students studied the vegetables names, colors, writing vegetables names, giving examples of vegetables names in Arabic. [video...
Arabic additional language ( food – vegetables ) in Arabic 🥐🍎🥕🥬🥦🍕🥗🌽🍔
Grade 1 * The students studied the food names ( healthy & unhealthy food ) in Arabic. * The students studied the vegetables names, colors, writing vegetables names, giving examples of vegetables names in Arabic. [video...
G5 Creative Maths Thinking, Character Descriptions and Astronomy.
Hello everyone, We have had a busy week exploring our maths inquiry into time, multi sensory word study, language inquiry into characters (where we wrote descriptions, asked friends to draw from them and then improved our writing based on their feedback) and unit...
Science Fair is Coming!!
Grade 4 students have been working very hard on their Science Fair presentations and they have found out a great deal about physical and chemical changes. They know that freezing water is a physical change. It is still water, it's just solid water. One of the...
Narrative Writing in Grade 4
This week, the Grade 4 students worked on a creative writing piece. They started with a “See Think Wonder” about the carrot picture for inspiration, and then planned and wrote their stories. There was also a mini lesson on punctuating dialogue to help students with...
عمربن الخطاب (رضي الله عنه ) قدوتنا كشخصية قيادية فذة في تاريخ الأمة الإسلامية
تابع طلاب الصف الرابع في مادة التربيةالإسلامية دراسة درس ( سيدنا عمر بن الخطاب رضي الله عنه )خلال هذا الأسبوع وتعرفوا على هذة الشخصية العظيمة الفذة في تاريخ الأمة الإسلامية التي يشار إليها بالبنان واقتربوا كثيرا من صفاتها التي تمنوا أن يتصفوا بها ويجعلوها قدوة عظيمة...
Explosive Canons
As mentioned in the broadcaster last week, MYP classes have been involved in composing musical canons over these past two weeks. We learned what exactly a canon was by watching the following video: Here are some examples of works in progress which show a fantastic use...
Holy Quran competition
Today, our school received an honor from the Ministry of Education, where our students won advanced positions at the level of North Al Batinah. Congratulations to : Lamar Mohammed Al Mammari G6 Durah Yousuf Al AAbdulsalam G 5 Rawnaq Raid Mohammed Al Rubaii G3
Omani Social Studies
G6 in the social studies class discusses the Omani Imam حصة الدراسات الاجتماعية للصف السادس كانت تتحدث عن قيام الإمامة الأولى والثانية في عمان تعرف الطلاب على مؤسسين الإمامة في عمان وأهم الأئمة الذين حكموا عمان في تلك الفترة وأهم الأحداث...
Design
Students have been working hard while working remotely from home. I feel these last 2 weeks has been a reminder of how much we appreciate being face to face at school.... Most classes have been DEVELOPING IDEAS while at home. That means documenting their product...
Experiments the basis of Science
The DP students have been conducting experimental work this week. The Grade 11’s have been equating measurements of ‘g’ derived from home experiments and graphs of their data with the local value here at ABIS (9.78 N kg-1). The Grade 12’s have been planning and...
Welcome to all K1’s and K2’s
The time has come for us to finally open our doors and welcome all our new and returning students. Your teachers and assistants are so excited to see you all on this Sunday morning . We have been hard at work creating a wonderful place for you to play and learn in. So...
Final week online!
It's been a busy week in Grade 6. We have been looking at how to write professional emails and how to create Google Form surveys to support us with our Exhibition research. We've also been catching up on Maths progress and continuing our reading rotations. We also...
Arabic MYP G7:
By studying the family cohesion unit, the students performed some assessment that include two criteria for analysis and text production. During the evaluation of the analysis, students presented an analysis of a chapter of the international novel (The Prince and the...
Arabic MYP G7:
By studying the family cohesion unit, the students performed some assessment that include two criteria for analysis and text production. During the evaluation of the analysis, students presented an analysis of a chapter of the international novel (The Prince and the...
Looking forward to making more highlights!
Grade 1 is back . . . And on Sunday we will all be here, at school, learning, laughing and looking forward. We have already shared a lot of fun so let’s look back at some of the highlights as we get ready for what’s to come! Learning Buddies online Getting to know the...
Return to Face to Face Learning
Dear Families, Congratulations to the following students for their achievements in the Ministry of Education's Qur'an competition held last academic year: Grade 3: Rawnaq Al Rubaiey; Grade 5: Durah Yousuf Al Abdulsalam; Grade 6: Lamar Mohammed Al Mammari. They were...
Bonjour de Sohar!
Guess who is FINALLY in Sohar and ready to meet her students in person? Ms. Lougher! I'm so looking forward to meeting all of my students and getting to know the staff at ABIS. I visited the school this week and had a chance to explore the campus. What an amazing...
Fun with Money
We have been doing a daily "Number of the day" challenge. One of the questions is about forming the amount with money. On Wednesday we had a lot of fun looking for the money from our home countries or places we had travelled to. If possible we tried to make 13- that...
Motion and Waves
We are focusing on the physical sciences this term with grade 7s working on motion, forces and energy and grade 8s focusing on Waves, sound, heat and light. We are exploring these ideas within the context of understanding these phenomena and using that knowledge to...
Becoming avid writers!
K3 superstars have been special detectives this week as they found words with letter blends. Listening to special sounds in words can be challenging; yet, fun! The children explored using their creativity to draw and write words with sounds that blend together.
Happy New Year Everybody!
We were excited about seeing each other again this week and feel like we have been on extra adventures listening to each person talk about their Winter Break. Many people had special things to show the class and Emmily enthralled us with her stories and photos from...
Advantages of Learning Without Leaving Home
Here are some of the benefits of Online learning. Comfort - not having to sit in an uncomfortable chair. Access classes from the comfort of your home. You do not have to use transport to get to school and therefore you don’t have to get up early to get dressed for...
G8 :Arabic MYP وحدة الوطن
During this week, after returning from vacation, the students participated through online learning with enthusiasm and regularity within the classes. They had wonderful collective opinions and contributions regarding the unity of belonging to the homeland and how to...
Art: Found Objects
The grade 5 students were challenged to create a piece of art that interacted with an object from their house. This was a great activity to help students expand their creative thinking and problem solving skills. Here are some examples from our lesson.
G6 Arabic:
This was the first week after the students returned from holiday , as everyone participated during this week with enthusiasm and activity, and regular attendance in the classroom, where we discussed many topics in which the students showed great effectiveness and...
The Weather Report in Grade 2…. 2021 is Going to be Fine.
It has been so lovely to see everyone back online again for the start of a brand new year. The students have been really impressing me with their hard work and eagerness to learn. LITERACY Adjectives We have been continuing to practise using adjectives to make our...
Chemistry Independent Experiments – the Science Internal Assessment
Post from December that failed to upload! All DP Chemistry students must conceive of, plan, and execute an investigation into a specific topic within a realm of chemistry. This includes posing a research question, collecting the data to answer it, setting up an...
Welcome to a new year!
It will be nice to be together in person. I am looking forward to resuming our work in person. Until then the new year has gotten me thinking about transitions and how this unusual and often distressing year passed. Here are some questions I am thinking about in the...
Grade 12 DP English A
Our English A students did not waste any time diving into the final four months of their IB journey. We started the classes with mock individual oral (IO) assessments. Students reflected on these assessment to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Using the...
Back Online
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. Ms. Simonds and I had a chance to travel around Oman. What a beautiful country! We have been working online the last week and will be online for next week. Here are some reminders for our online class:...
2021: New Beginnings
Dear Primary Families; Welcome to 2021 and a new year in Sohar and at ABIS. I wish all of you health, happiness and success in the coming year. Our classes started online this week and students were truly happy to be back together again, even if virtually. It's been...
Great to be virtually back in Grade 5.
The wonderful Grade 5 We are all so happy to back together virtually in 2021. Although we can’t wait to be back together in class, in another weeks time. This week we have begun our new inquiry unit ‘Our place in the universe impacts our lives on Earth’. We are...
Happy new year! Read for upcoming events
We have seen many well-rested faces on teachers and students this week. Clearly, the December break has been energizing. We are so pleased to finally be able to welcome Ty Lougher and Maureen Baier to Oman. They have both arrived in country and are thrilled to finally...
Grade 8 I & S- How can technology affect our relationships and identities?
Grade 8 Individuals and Societies has been looking at technological breakthroughs throughout history and more recently been inquiring into how television and computers have shaped society and changed the way we live and work. They have looked at the genre of...
Preparation for K1 and K2 to Start School.
Over the next week we are preparing the ECC for our K1 and K2 students. We are looking forward to meeting you all after this very long break. There will be lots of exciting activities prepared for the children and a wonderful creative environment for them to explore...
Japanese Expansion in DP History
This week, grade 12 students have begun revising for exams by looking at the paper 1 topic of The Move to Global War. We are revisiting the case study of Japanese Expansion in the first half of the 20th century. Grade 11 students are also looking at this topic for the...
The Head's Blog
Welcome back to school
Dear parents, We welcome back all our students after the winter break followed by two weeks online learning. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday over the winter break. Everyone is excited to see the students returning to school! Next week marks the return of our KG...
Enjoy the Winter Break!
Dear parents, The next two weeks we will all enjoy the Winter Break, well deserved by students and teachers. These past few weeks with students at school have made the school come alive, we are all enjoying the sight of children using the playgrounds, learning in...
Photographs are ready to order now
The photographs taken in school this week are ready for you to view and place your orders. The digital thumbnails can be viewed by following these links: Individual Photos Link Class Photos Link Siblings Photos Link Please place your order by completing form at this...
KG returns, student photographs and more
Dear parents, We are pleased that KG classes can resume in January at school. On January 17, students in KG will be coming back after a long time away. Our school is ready to welcome them, and all health and safety precautions will be taken. A Newsflash was sent out...
A busy school week
Dear parents, It’s been a great week. The weather is perfect, school is running exceptionally well and the news that KG will be allowed to open soon was very welcome. We are waiting for instructions from the Ministry of Education for when this will start. The Grade 10...
A short week
Dear parents, This was a short week for all due to the long weekend, yet much was still accomplished in school. Classes are running well, both in person and online, and we are finding more students have been returning to school. We are maintaining our strong health...
A good week
Dear parents, The second week of face to face learning has been completed at school, and those who are at home have continued with online learning. We are seeing more students return to school this week and welcome those who are planning to do so. If you wish to send...
A recap of the week
Dear parents, The first week with the school open to all students has been a great success. Our planning and implementation of ABIS health and safety protocols demonstrate a high attention to the ongoing health of our students and staff. The Sohar Aluminium Health and...
An eventful week
Dear parents, This week has been a whirlwind of events with the Ministry of Education visiting, then giving ABIS approval to open, as well as allowing the opening of KG3 online. Further, their warm compliments on how the school is organised for the safety and...
Authorised for IB MYP
Dear parents, I am delighted to announce that we have received confirmation ABIS was successful in obtaining authorisation for the IB MYP. This is excellent news, and we are now one of only two schools in Oman to have 3 IB programmes: PYP, MYP, DP. That ABIS has...