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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!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...
New Discoveries in Grade 3
The grade 3 students have worked hard to learn how the skeleton gives us support and shape, protection and allows us to move. We studied the different joints in the human body and they help us move. During mixed arts with Ms Cary, the class were able to experiment...
Busy week in Design
After the long weekend, students were busy evaluating and completing the final pieces of work for their design challenge..... Grade 9 /10 started new units. Grade 7. Students created their own surveys using google forms. Then classmates watched their stop motion video...
Farewell ABIS & Oman
Well the day has finally arrived and by the time you read this post I will be in Muscat waiting for my flight to New Zealand. I will using next year to complete my Masters in Educational Leadership. I have had a wonderful time in Oman and at ABIS and it is very sad to...
When you finish grade 10 in the MYP
The grade 10 students have just finished one of their critical benchmark tasks in their last year of the MYP. The Personal Project Exhibition was done virtually this year but the students felt a health dose of anxiety as they anticipated showing what they have been...
The color week in ( Arabic AL ) Language 🔴🔵🟢🔷🔺🔳🟪♦️
Students had lots of fun exploring colors in Arabic Language during this week. Colors sorting and colorful shapes and objects were part of the exciting activities that kept them attracted and engaged throughout.
Beginning Blended Learning
We have survived our first week of blended learning and found ways to adapt to this. At times Grade 3 have shown great care for each other by offering support and encouragement to one another. We are finding ways to work together even though we are separated...
Why do we study the Earth?
study of the earth and atmosphere
TOK Mini Exhibition in Grade 11
Grade 11 students have been engaged in creating a mini TOK exhibit to practice for one of the final TOK assessments. Students are required to choose 1 of 35 prompts and then an object that focuses on knowledge and religion that addresses the prompt. A write up is...
G6 Arabic:
G6 students dealt with many different topics throughout the week, including linguistic and spelling skills, and analyzing topics for reading through a questioning unit through which students were able to understand the main concepts of the topics
Congratulations to Grade 10!
Today, the students in Grade 10 presented nearly a year's worth of hard work in the personal project feedback exhibition. The event was held during our 12:20 advisory block and all Secondary students and teachers participated, along with some families and other...
CHOIR & BAND
We are continuing practicing! Singing and playing at safe distance in the open air for future performances ( hopefully)!
Fantastic First Full Face to Face Week
MATHS -making patterns Unit of Inquiry / Maths - Temperature sort Cause and Effect Machines - Rube Goldberg inspired Daily Class Award Winners....How would you spend Ms Fiona's currency?
Shared Reading in Grade 4
We have begun reading Ratburger by David Walliams, and the fourth graders have done a splendid job of making connections between what is happening in the story to real life. Be sure to ask your children what happened to Gingernut!
Creating galaxies
As the students continue to explore Force and natural laws in their unit of inquiry we began to construct paintings of galaxies. Our hope is to pair these with our dances for an integrated art and movement video.
G7:MYP Arabic
During the students 'study of the unit of family cohesion and the concept of the family, and its role in building society, and posing many questions that give students a scope for research, thinking and employing learning skills, with students' familiarity with the...
Art: playing with symmetry
The grade 3 students explored the concept of symmetry while playing with paint. Giving students time to play with an artistic medium helps them create a knowledge bank of techniques that work for them. As the students explored with paint they became aware of brush...
Digital Citizenship and Primary
In Information Literacy classes, primary students have started their Digital Citizenship unit. Grade 3 students began investigating and discussing the "Rings of Responsibility" in relation to online behaviors. Grade 4 discussed personal and private information and how...
Scientific Method –
Hi everyone, This week we have been experimenting using the scientific method - asking questions, predicting, testing using independent and controlled variables and seeing how we can test fairly. We have been having such fun changing cone designs to see how we can...
Another Fun Week in Grade 2
We started some new things this and had a fun week of learning! This week we ready a story called Library Mouse. We learned about the main character Sam and that he lives in a hole in the wall in the library. He started writing tiny books for the children in the story...
High jumping in grade 5
The students have been working very hard on the Athletics unit. We have been working on the 100, 200, and 800-meter runs, as well as the discus, shotput, long jump, and high jump.
Grade 4 are such Chatterboxes!
This week the Grade 4 students learnt about writing instructions for other people to follow. This is in the lead up to Science Fair where students need to write a scientific procedure. We watched a hilarious video where children tried to give instructions to their dad...
Libraries Get a Facelift!
Wow, we have been very busy in the primary and secondary libraries rearranging, organizing, and categorizing! Furniture has been rearranged to allow for easier browsing ( once we are back to normal), along with reading, meeting, and working spaces. Books are...
Farewell Ms. Simpson
Dear Families, Yesterday ABIS said goodbye to Ms. Simpson, who has been at the school for 7 years. Her drive and dedication have had a huge impact across the school over the years, and student well being and learning was always at the heart of her work here. I feel...
Photographer in School 7 & 8 December
Dear ABIS community We are delighted to inform you that EyeMagic Photography will be joining us in school on Monday 7th & Tuesday 8th December. During this time, individual photographs will be taken of students in Grades 1 and above only. We apologise that our K...
A Comedy of Manners
Grade 11 have moved on this week to study 'The Importance of being Earnest' in English. We continue to think about the representation of marriage and gender here, which makes for a good contrast with 'The Taming of the Shrew!' Both plays are very entertaining and I...
Critical thinking and creative writing in grade 9
Grade 9 has been engaged in an interdisciplinary unit with I&S for the past few weeks. While they get the factual information about various genocides around the world in their history class, in English, we read creative pieces written on these subjects and also...
Inquiry & Investigation in G1 Mrs Isles & Miss Ancilla
The grade ones have been learning about doing research by investigating and inquiring. They have been finding out about the characteristics of rocks and how they were formed. We have also been doing lots of measuring with a 1 metre piece of wool. We are estimating how...
Collaborative Research
Our Exhibition Groups continue to work on researching their Lines of Inquiry, guided by their mentors and Homeroom teachers. Please click SEE MORE to view all photographs. Groups also started to use their working walls to record ideas and tasks and continue to work...
Developing ideas and skills in DP 1.
Lizzy has recently completed her first two prints, which were made in homage to two existing works by Käthe Kollwitz and Edward Hopper. After reflecting on this process, she is taking her ideas a bit further and making a third piece that will be more uniquely hers....
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 Short Week in Grade 3
Grade 3 made the most of the short week. We started the week as always with ‘Buzz Groups’ allowing the students to chat about their weekend in preparation for writing. The class were asked to recount what their partner said. This encourages listening skills because...
How We Express Ourselves in Grade 4
As you know, our "How We Express Ourselves" unit is one that we will periodically explore over the course of the whole school year. This week, students looked at food as an expression of culture and learned about the traditional foods of nationalities represented in...
Dear Families, I hope you are enjoying this long weekend in honour of the 50th National Day for Oman. Blended learning continues throughout the Primary classes, with more students returning to the classroom each week. If you would like your child to start face to...
Arabic G6 :
The students presented many works suitable for the National Day celebration, some of them wrote paragraphs about the history and civilization of Oman, and the Color Line students also made a wonderful presentation that talks about the aspects of development in Oman,...
ATL in Arabic G5:
During the students' study of some Qur’anic verses through which they learned useful life values, the students searched for stories from the Qur’an that support these values.
Arabic G7:
The students completed the Health and Environment Unit and the ideas and topics dealt with in the unit linking the human relationship with the environment and its impact on it. Each student wrote a paper reflecting the extent of his understanding and conclusions of...
MYP Design
A shortened week meant working hard to complete our products. Students have been working hard to turn their ideas into reality..... Grade 7 stop motions are nearly complete..... looking forward to the finished movies... Grade 8 photo stories are finished and now they...
The Chinese Civil War
Grade 11 students have started a new section on the Chinese Civil War as part of their paper 2 studies. We have been able to link the material effectively to our paper 3 sections on 19th and 20th century East Asia. Below is some of our work in jamboard focusing on...
School is cool in Grade 1
“ We think school is really cool, it’s a lot of fun Cos everyday we laugh and we play, School is number 1!” Wishing everybody a lovely long weekend celebrating Oman, and we’ll see you back at school on Sunday😊
A Short and Fun Week
We had a fun week writing with Ms Michelle, sharing our opinions, playing math games inside and outside, and reading a lot! Enjoy your weekend and we will see you on Sunday. Sharing our opinions with the class and the reasons that support our opinions. We are...
French City Planners
Grade 7 French students created their own imaginary cities to wrap up their unit on cities and neighborhoods. Throughout the unit of study, students compared their own neighborhoods to those of Francophone countries, paying particular attention to the different types...
Healthy Teeth
We were fortunate to have Dr Carol visit our online classroom to teach us some more about how to care for our teeth. Although we already knew a lot about how to care for our teeth, Dr Carol told us some things that surprised us. We learned that water is the very best...
ختامها مسك مع نهاية أسبوع قصير لطلاب الصف الرابع
ختم طلاب الصف الرابع هذا الأسبوع القصير بحماس لا نظير له مع تسميع آيات سورة المطففين وتسابق الحافظون في ترديد آيات الحفظ بنشاط وهمة لتكون خاتمة مسك لهذا الأسبوع الممتع فبارك الله هممكم طلاب الصف الرابع وحفظكم المولى وأنار قلوبكم بنور القرآن وجعله شفيعا...
Knowledge is Power!
This week's focus has been on research and changing data into information and into knowledge and in some cases taking those seemingly unrelated facts and making some insights. The old adage that states “Knowledge is power”; not data, or information, but knowledge. We...
We are thinkers!
K3 online is doing an amazing job! As we begin to inquire about making balanced choices and how our body works, we started to notice how we use our thinking skills. The children enjoyed playing a game where we had to guess what each one was doing that required careful...
Properties of Water
One of the lines of inquiry for Grade 4 at present looks at the properties of matter. On Monday morning the students investigated water in its three forms. They started with an ice cube, then watched water boil to become steam. The challenge was as follows: make an...
A week of “learning to follow instructions”
Hello everyone, In grade 5 we have been learning to follow instructions by making pop up cards and origami cranes and dinosaurs hats. We are starting to make our own instructions so others can follow. In math we have been using multiple strategies to solve...
World Record 1 Mile Challenge
Grade 4 students in PE this week were set the challenge of trying to beat the World Record for 1 Mile (1609 meters). This was set by a Morrocan athlete named Hicham El Guerrouj, with an amazing time of 3 minutes 43 Seconds. That's just over 4 laps of our athletic...
Visual communication in G8.
As this short week comes to a close, G8 students have just completed a unit on Surrealism and look forward to seeing their finished artworks on display soon in LC2. These works were created in a variety of media and highlight using creative thinking strategies to come...
The Head's Blog
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...
Autumn break
Dear parents, We have come to end of the first teaching period of the year, and everyone will be enjoying a week off from school for the Autumn break. The year has started off well and I am pleased to see just how well the students have been engaging in their lessons....
MYP authorisation virtual visit
Dear parents, We have now completed our 5th week of Distance Learning though this week was shortened by the sad news of the passing of Kuwait's Emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah. Jordan's King Abdullah II noted “Today we lost a big brother and a wise and loving...
Looking ahead
Dear parents, Another week of Distance Learning has gone by, and we are now taking stock of what we have accomplished and what lies ahead for the school community. Our planning of health and safety protocols is in progress should the Supreme Committee allow schools to...
A good week for all
Dear parents, The third week of Distance Learning is now finished and we are finding that students are becoming more comfortable with the platforms and the teaching and learning. This is a positive step for everyone, and we hope that the learning curve continues to...