Dear Families,
Today you will have received your child’s Semester 1 report card. This is a comprehensive summary of your child’s achievements so far this year. Teachers have written comments that highlight each individual’s strengths as well as the next steps for learning and growth in the coming weeks and months. Please take the time to read this important document with your child and talk about how things are going at school. Celebrate what has gone well and talk about what learning they should focus on next. As always, communicate with your child’s teacher(s) if you have questions about how to support learning.
Students have been engaging well online throughout Primary, and teachers have been making adjustments to the schedules as best suits their individual classes. Please continue to look for the weekly email with schedules and links for your child to follow at home. We hope that everyone in our community is staying safe and feeling well, and sincerely hope that cases will begin to drop and we can look at safely returning to face to face learning very soon. If there are positive covid cases in your family, please inform Ms. Eiman: e.alrisi@abisoman.com Thank you for helping to keep our community healthy.
Please note that if your Primary child has turned 12 recently, it is imperative that they are vaccinated in order to attend school in person. This is a mandate from the government, and ABIS is required to follow it. Thank you for your cooperation.
We’ve enjoyed some quality Professional Development as a team over the past two weeks, as Cindy Blackburn, a PYP expert and consultant for Toddle, has been leading us in some online workshops during our after school Primary Team staff meetings. We’ve been examining our units of inquiry to ensure we are planning to meet our students’ needs and providing the best learning experiences possible. We have been defining what it means to be successful in learning and how to share this criteria with students in a meaningful way.
I hope everyone continues to enjoy the wonderful winter weather here in Oman. It’s the perfect time to be outside together. Visit this website if you are looking for some simple, fun activities to do outdoors with your children: Fun Outdoor Activities for Kids
Have a great weekend! Maeve