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Updates, upcoming events, and a holiday
The holiday is here. Have a great week with your family. When you return, there is plenty going on... Grade 12 students should be spending significant effort completing university applications over the October break. UK applications should go through the UCAS system....
Integration…
Grade 12 have completed their test on integration (and performed better than previous years). They are moving on to trigonometry and calculus related to trigonometry. They are also making progress on their IAs.
Recycling Water at ABIS
Did you know that we have a system for recycling water at ABIS? To conclude our inquiry into Water as a natural resource, Mr Paul and Mr Suresh gave us a tour of the Sewage Plant at ABIS. We learned that the human waste from the toilets at ABIS is collected and...
Grade 7/8 language acquisition
In the past couple of weeks, our grades 7 and 8 language acquisition students have learned to use similes and adjectives to 'show' rather than 'tell' something. This culminated in a descriptive writing assessment to finish off our unit on food.
Cooking passion project
Our 5 little chefs are LOVING the opportunity to cook yummy dishes every week. Here are some photos from the past couple of passion projects.
Our Authors – Inspirations for Writing
After exploring the water play area this week, students wrote about their experience. They were free to express the feelings, emotions, thoughts and ideas that came to them. They then drew pictures to support and add detail to their writing. Over the holidays, if you...
Crafty creations!
A wonderful, new student-led activity is the craft group led by Grade 7 student, Hannah. In this activity, students have been learning a new skill each week, including bracelet-making and origami, and have enjoyed taking home their creations to share with family and...
sharing ideas
G4 students shared ideas and discussed many questions during their study of a new topic about the value of land and homeland
Week 8
It has been a great first 8 weeks of school. We finished off this week our unit of Inquiry about Role Models. The students shared very well thought out and organized presentations about the role model they had created. We look forward to our next unit of inquiry which...
Jeopardy!
During the Thursday class, IGCSE History students played Jeopardy to review content regarding the rise of Saddam Hussein, the Iranian Revolution, the Iran-Iraq War, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait. We had lots of fun reviewing these topics. After the break, we will...
Story Analysis
G7 students studied how to analyze a story in terms of content, form, and literary style. The students were creative in summarizing the finished story with each critique of the story.
So many interesting learnings this week!
As I carried out my Looking for Learning conversations with students I was reminded of how much learning goes on, both inside and outside the classroom, within traditional subjects and more non-traditional subjects. I was greeted with much joy and laughter by KG3 who...
Being creative and sharing culture
Grade 8 have been sharing ideas about national identities in French. This week they worked together to generate ideas for marketing traditional food to an international audience and were very creative in their role plays and presentations. We all learned lots from...
Grade 9 Mathematics
This week grade 9 mathematicians were collaboratively revising for a test. This will include everything they have learn’t so far this academic year. They were encouraged to try new approaches. They also, though, had to make sure they were practicing all of the keys...
Pond Weed
This week we started our first biology unit in science! We started off by having a look at a biology experiment given to us by Mr.Mwita. This experiment looked at how plants process sunlight into chemical energy. Specifically we were looking at pond weeds. Pond weeds...
Grade 8 Science
This week grade 8 Scientists continued to investigate ecosystems. To fuel their inquiries further they went on a field trip to Wadi Hibi. Here they could see first hand how the physical environment (abiotic) influences the living (biotic) life that grow there. Before...
Take off!
The Grade 6 students have been busy conducting flight related experiments, working collaboratively and using scientific vocabulary to write their hypothesis, variables, procedure, observations and results, and their conclusion. Some of them have also been planning and...
K2 doing research
This week in Ms Liezel's class, the K2 students learned about research and applied some of these skills to find out more about unfamiliar letters. The students chose a letter they didn't know. We looked at the letters "v", "m", "z", "o", "h", "e", "r", "f". They had...
Colours and Sorting
Over a period of a couple of weeks we have been reading a book about colours, the students chose their favourite and painted a sheet of paper in that colour. Then they went on a "colour hunt" around to ECC to see if they could find any items that were in their...
K2 language
For the last 2 weeks Ms Celine's class have been focusing on the big book SPLASH. The students have been reading along, sequencing the story, role play on the small world table, practicing their sounds and being authors making and presenting their own stories. They...
Grade 10 Mathematics
This week grade 10 mathematicians have been investigating the different forms of a quadratic equation and what different information can easily be obtained from each. Their work will be assessed in terms of their investigative & communicative...
Maths in the ECC
This week the K1 students have been exploring measurement and human graphing. The students compared each other's height and recorded it. They then explored Maths language, tall, taller, tallest, short, shorter and shortest. The K2 students were consolidating there...
Happy Holidays
This week the students have been looking at the components of maps. What should or should not be on a map and what a key is. In maths we began to look at division and equal sharing. The students had great fun in STEAM making slime with their G6 buddies, making Maths...
How many points of contact can YOU make?
During our Dance Brain Gym session with Ms Markin, the students had to touch the ground with the number of contact points (feet, hands, fingers,) that she said. We had some inventive positions indeed.
Leading Primary Dance
On Wednesday, three of our girls, Doha, Rinad and Sarah led all of primary for the primary dance warmup activity. They were courageous, and we are very proud of them!
Mmmm- really! We get to eat M&Ms at School?!
Well, there is a reason why we ate them! It was to facilitate our learning! Miss Ancilla wanted us to understand that when we count backwards from 10, the number is getting less. She also wants us to know how important counting accurately is! And because we were...
A fun week in Grade 4
This week we have enjoyed using a digital app that allows all the students to participate and answer questions about what we are learning, at the same time as each other. There is always a lot of laughter and talk in this learning. We have finished our unit of inquiry...
Photography
The photography ASA has got off to a very promising start. The students participating have each chosen a theme, such as nature or light. Below are examples of some of the pictures already taken.
Ratio and Linear scale
For the past week Grade 7s have been researching for an interdisciplinary Unit, combining Math and Individuals and Societies. Groups prepared posters to communicate real-life examples of ratio and linear scale, as well as explaining the procedure for how to calculate...
G9 Sculptures Nearly Finished!
Grade 9 art students have put finishing touches on their Oman-inspired sculptures, on display around the ABIS campus. This class was able to collaborate very effectively on the project. The groups made a lot of discoveries along the way, such as when Eaton and Maria...
Blue Dolphins Advisory
This week Blue Dolphins captains & deputy captains led activities during advisory time. This will become more regular and varied throughout the rest of the academic year as student involvement, creativity & leadership is encouraged. "We wanted to do something...
Exhibition works in progress.
Our Grade 12 DP art students are busily working on their latest exhibition pieces. Shamma is painting in acrylic, exploring the concept of inside vs. outside and the things that we sometimes hide within. Sara has been making papier-mâché casts of faces and hands that...
Filling buckets of kindness in Grade 1
We had a great time sharing our learning this week - and everyone else enjoyed it too! We looked for all the little ways we could build healthy relationships and use ours special qualities to spread happiness around. We hope the photos of our bucket-filler good deeds...
MYP Arts showcase Thursday Oct 31st
The MYP Arts performance has been moved to Thursday during the primary assembly time. We look forward to showing our creative products to the entire primary school and the ABIS community. The students have been working hard to create three art pieces simultaneously...
Tragedy and the Common Man
Grade 9 have been enraptured by the dramatic twists and turns of Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons,' but all good things come to an end. Having reached a powerful conclusion, the class is now working on the summative assessment task which turns on Miller's exploration of...
As soon as a rule is made it’s broken!
Is that right? Grade 11 students have been busy analysing the rules and conventions of the French language to become more fluent. Preparing for the very rigorous DP assessment programme, we are questioning all we know about how French works and asking difficult...
ATLs – Approaches to Learning
ATLs (Approaches to Learning) are skills that reach across subjects and disciplines and are generally not content specific. A student who develops their ATLs will be more successful in achieving our goals of raising independent, life-long learners. ATLs...
It’s all happening in Grade 1!
The week started with Mother Tongue Monday - awesome fun! We shared a lot of ideas together and even organized and displayed our thinking. Our bookworms are the best! We created amazing bookworms - each one different and unique, just like us! Before you create you...
Wetlands & Ecosystems
This week grade 8 Scientists were developing their research skills. They were collaboratively investigating wetland ecosystems & creating presentations to communicate their findings.
Grade 7 Science
This week in Grade 7 we continued with our unit on Food. We were able to test for the presence of different food types. Students also sat for their end of unit 1 assessment on Cells. Students taking their end of unit assessment:
Hands on Capacity
In Grade 3 we have enjoyed learning to measure capacity in millilitres and litres. We have been learning how many millilitres are in a cup and how many cups there are in one litre. Working with a buddy is helping us to develop our ability to understand and solve word...
Analysing Sources
Several grades have been working on evaluating sources for major research assignments. In history and Individuals and Societies, we use the acronym: OPCVL. This stands for Origin, Purpose, Content, Values, and Limitations. We basically look at Origin, Purpose, and...
So much talent at ABIS!
If you were lucky enough to attend our Talent Show last night I am sure you will agree with me that we certainly have a lot of up and coming talented students in our midst. We were treated to singing, tap dancing, gymnastics, sax playing, pianists, all led by four...
Grade 10 B’ball
Grade 10 are winding up their basketball unit with all the students displaying a vast improvement in their skills. The accompanying picture shows Annelies performing the difficult left hand layup.
Basketball
This year's senior basketball competition kicks off next week with the boys playing Future Science School on Thursday afternoon. The game is scheduled to get under way at 3:30pm and all spectators are welcome. In the other game Batang Gilas will play SIS at the SIS...
February Fun
If you wish to join this February's fun in the snow there is still time.
Omani Traditional Life
G4 shared their non-Arabic speakers with one of their lessons about old Omani life and how to make Omani bread and the way of life in the old Omani village
Different strategies with G6 students
Some students explained one of the lessons of Arabic language through the application of one of the strategies of active learning and ask questions in a fun and simple and then encourage the winning students
human rights
This week, the students presented some works that talk about human rights in different forms that reflect different concepts of human rights
Array City
This week the students have been working on arrays and had fun making an array city to help them with multiplication. Our grade six buddies have been helping us learn how to use see saw.
The Head's Blog
Photographer at ABIS next week
On Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th October 2019, the photographer will be in school to take portraits of all staff and students. Please ensure students are wearing their ABIS branded tops on these days. Sibling photographs will be arranged within school time. Parents...
Grade 9 are Master Chefs!
As part of our MYP Design course, Grade 9 have been learning how to design and create extraordinary food together. To day we created a wonderful 4 course meal in 45 minutes (and a great deal of work in advance). We building up to serving a full menu to VIP guests at...
School will be closed on Sunday
In celebration of the Islamic New Year, and aligned with our usual practice, we will be following Sohar Aluminium and will be closed on Sunday, 1st September. School will resume on the 2nd of September. Enjoy the long weekend!
Goodbyes & hellos
At this time of year we always have a series of goodbyes (and hellos) and this year is no exception. This year, there are a number of teachers who have decided head back home, all of them after extended periods of working as international teachers. Isgak and Rayda...
Staffing Update
We are writing to let you know that for health reasons, Ms Ann Galliard will stopping work at ABIS We would like to thank Ann for all her commitment to the school and wish her good health for the future. Sebastien will be finishing the year as usual to ensure that...
Please take the parent survey if you haven’t done it yet
If you haven’t taken the survey yet then we would be very grateful if you can do so by clicking on the blue link below: http://bit.ly/2HOa8aW We will share a summary of the parent feedback in the annual report. Thank you so much for your...
Contract for returning students
We are on course to be welcoming record numbers of student to ABIS next year and, if you are one of them, this message is for you! We are sending home a copy of the ABIS parent contract. It is required by the Omani Ministry of Education that it is signed by both...
ABIS Parent Questionnaire – How did we do this Year?
We would like to ask you to spare 5 minutes to fill out a survey letting us know how well you feel we did this year. The survey is easy to use and easy to understand and we really want as many people as possible to give us feedback. Please click on the link below:...
ABIS COMMUNITY IFTAAR
Dear ABIS Families, Although we are coming to the end of this school year, the Community Council has organized one final event: The ABIS Community Iftaar. As Ramadan is a chance for families to gather together, it seems fit- ting that our ABIS family take the...
ABIS Community Outreach
On Friday the 10th of May, a group of students and staff went out into our Sohar community to hand out Hampers to less fortunate families. It was a good team effort driving from home to home delivering items we purchased with the money raised at our International day...