by Oscar DASS | Mar 10, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science
All students are looking forward to the end of term and the upcoming activities duirng Oman week. However, we have two weeks of work before that – and a great effort needs to be made to complete all summative tasks for the term. So focus and work hard, we can...
by Margot SIMONDS | Mar 10, 2022 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Library
What a pleasure it has been seeing students welcoming their families into our amazing ABIS library during these student-led conferences! It is clear from this week’s visits that students are very proud of their library as they talked about how it is organized,...
by Andrew JOHNSON | Mar 9, 2022 | Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP)
In English students finished their poetry anthologies. They made sure that they had written a different types of poems, such as haikus, acrostics and those with an AA BB rhyming scheme. In addition they used different poetic devices such as personification, simile...
by Oscar DASS | Mar 3, 2022 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Secondary Maths, Secondary Science, The Grades
“Knowledge is not intelligence” [Heraclitus] “knowledge needs to be a verb” [Edwards Deming] These two quotes provide us with the basis of what can be achieved. Knowledge can be learnt. And we can use that knowledge to bring about change...
by Margot SIMONDS | Mar 3, 2022 | ECC, Grade 1, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 11 & 12 (DP), Grade 12, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Grade 9, Library
Exciting News!! Ms. Maryam traveled to the Muscat International Book Fair last weekend and was able to purchase many new titles for all ages for our Arabic book section. When students read in their mother tongue, this often helps them to perform better when learning...
by Kirsten LLOYD | Feb 24, 2022 | Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 7 - 10 (MYP), Grade 8, Music, The Grades
So often, students are handed written music and asked to learn to play it. But what do you do when there isn’t any written music? The 6th, 7th, and 8th graders have been experimenting with this very question. In Music class, we have been listening to the...
