by Melodee PETERS | Nov 20, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9
This week the grade 9 students have been practicing their analysis skills of news articles by collaborating within teams. The students had to communicate and negotiate their understanding as they annotated news articles for structure and language use to influence...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 13, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8
Upon their safe return from their sailing fieldtrip, Grade 8 students immediately dove in to get ready for the next event – the house competition which they will host on 11 December. The spent Thursday morning going through a list of AI-generated activities to...
by Melodee PETERS | Nov 6, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, The Grades
This week Grade 8 students had to create a visual map of the power dynamics within ABIS as an organisation. Some students showed great awareness of where to find information about the stakeholders of the school and use the information to create a visual map. A few...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 23, 2025 | Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 9, Secondary English
Grade 9 students have now produced a text of their choice (Criterion C) to complete the Travel Writing Unit. Five students challenged themselves to perform monologues, which they did for their class. All text choices were new to them, so it was great to see students...
by Melodee PETERS | Oct 16, 2025 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Humanities, The Grades
The students in Grades 7 to 9 English and Grade 8 Integrated Humanities are completing their final summative assessments. Grade 7 students at this stage should have completed the writing of their own myth (inspired by their own culture) in English. Some of them had to...
