Welcome to Grade 8

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MYP Design

MYP Design

The Grade 8 Designers are continuing the process of clock making. They are at the early stages of cutting their card to create layers for the main body of their clocks. The students have encountered some issues, but they are using their problem solving skills to...

MYP Support – AtL Goal Setting

MYP Support – AtL Goal Setting

This week was 3 Way Conference week, a time when students, parents and teachers come together to reflect on Term 1's progress reports and discuss some of the ways in which students can approach their learning in Term 2.  In G8 MYP Support class, we spend a lot of time...

Working SMARTER not harder in Grades 7&8

Working SMARTER not harder in Grades 7&8

  This week in Grades 7 and 8, students reflected on their Term 1 reports. We took time to celebrate their strengths and successes. We then explored how to use the feedback in the reports to start developing SMART goals for term 2.  A SMART goal is a goal that is...

How beautiful!!! ما أجمل هذا

How beautiful!!! ما أجمل هذا

A special day at Al Batinah International School, colorful and cheerful clothes, expressing the diversity of cultures in the school, Promoting mutual understanding and respect between students from different cultures. يوم مميز في مدرسة الباطنة العالمية، ملابس ملونة...

Secondary students present Time-based Art

Secondary students present Time-based Art

On November 13 at 6:00pm, secondary students will be presenting Coffee House, a time-based Arts exhibition.  For our inaugural night, the selected performances will be Music students from Grade 10-12.  All performances will be works the students have been preparing...

Grade 8 English and Individuals and Societies

In English we completed our unit on advertising and have just started our new unit titled: Trying to Belong.  In this we will be investigating what it means to be part of a group - both the positive and negative aspects.  Students have just finished a short...

Coffee House: ABIS’s Time-Based Art Night

On November 13 at 6:00 PM, ABIS will be hosting the first Coffee House.  Come celebrate the Music students as they share their current works-in-progress and hear from our student rock band, The Sand Monkeys.  The students would love your support. Enjoy your Fall...

NEW! MYP Music Website

NEW! MYP Music Website

In MYP Music, the majority of the work and creation the students do is from a PBL perspective: Project Based Learning.  But many of these final products do not translate into a traditional concert or gallery presentation.  Introducing MYP Music at ABIS.  On this site,...

Grade 8 Science Service as Action-Where Science meets Art!

Grade 8 Science Service as Action-Where Science meets Art!

.    Grade  8 science are through with the term 1 unit in science. Our statement of inquiry; "How can we change matter to make it more useful?" has helped drive the inquiry  from basic concepts such as changes of state and kinetic theory to more complex separation...

Literary criticism النقد الأدبي

Literary criticism النقد الأدبي

During this week, G9 students studied the standards of literary criticism for poetic texts, the employees or elements of criticism in terms of ideas, structure, words, methods, imagination and statement, creativity, the emotion of the text, judgments and values.

A Little Help from my  Friends (7 & 8)

A Little Help from my Friends (7 & 8)

Assessment As Learning This week in Grade 7, students used their Personal Timeline Projects to workshop around self-evaluation, self-assessment and using feedback to elevate their work. They used their project checklists and student friendly success criteria...

Grade 8 Science-Outdoor classroom

Grade 8 Science-Outdoor classroom

.    The 'outdoor classroom' provides a meaningful way to engage learners in practical science, giving them experience of collecting and analysing data, and making predictions in the real world, beyond the limitations of the classroom or laboratory. The wider...

Service as Action – School supplies donation

Service as Action – School supplies donation

Thank you to all who have already given! .       We need more, a lot more! Here is a reminder about the purpose of the Grade 9 Service as Action activity. Thank you to donate unused school supplies. They don't have to be new but they should not have been used...

MYP Design

MYP Design

The Grade 8 MYP Design students have created some highly imaginative design ideas for their Cultural Clocks project. It will be great to see some of these clocks made when they create their final products.

Grade 9 SCIENCE-Our journey so far has been intriguing!

Grade 9 SCIENCE-Our journey so far has been intriguing!

         For 6 weeks now, Grade 9 science students have been exploring the unit on acids and bases around us and the impacts on our environment. At the onset, we assessed  some misconceptions surrounding acids and bases, some of which included the notion that acids...

Sold out!

Sold out!

The Secondary Student Council's first bake sale of the school year was a HUGE success! We sold everything, to the last crumb! Thank you to the students (and families) who baked and thank you to all who bought the yummy treats. The money, kept in the school safe, will...

Service as Action – Grade 9 advisory class.

In support of Takaful Charity located in Sohar. Up until October break, Grade 9 will be collecting school supplies.  (glue sticks, pairs of scissors, pens and pencils, colours, pencil cases, highlighters, sharpeners, erasers) There will be boxes in the 3 atriums in...

grade 8 arabic

grade 8 arabic

this week students has learned arabic grammar to use the possessive adjective in a new sentences.