Welcome to Grade 9

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Music and the Brain

Albert Einstein.  Brian May.  Francis Arnold.  James P. Allison.  Beyond their contributions to science and technological advancements, what do these people have in common?  They were all musicians. There has always been anecdotal evidence about Musicians and...

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...

G9 Visual Art

G9 Visual Art

The students in Grade 9 have been continuing with their identity planning ideas, showing some really creative ways of representing their personalities. Soon they will begin their final pieces, using watercolour and drawing skills to make a colourful large scale outcome.

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...

Tree of life from the Grade 9 French students

Tree of life from the Grade 9 French students

Earlier last term, I posted about the grade 9 French students working on a reflective project as part of our unit on Identity, a tree of life. The students have completed their tree of life and the projects are displayed in LC2. Here are a few pictures.              ...

MUN Club Receives Visit From UN Peacekeeper

MUN Club Receives Visit From UN Peacekeeper

This week, the ABIS Model United Nations club had the exciting opportunity of welcoming Lt. Colonel Ella Van Den Heuvel as a guest speaker.  Lt. Col. Van Den Heuvel graciously shared her insights and experiences as a United Nations peacekeeper, leaving us all with a...

Grade 9 Visual Art

Grade 9 Visual Art

The Grade 9 Artists have been creating planning compositions about their Identity - using elements of their personality and the style of Gustav Klimt to represent who they are. I look forward to seeing this work develop into final pieces in the coming weeks. I hope...

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.

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...

Ideas for learning tricky maths concepts

Let’s dive into those 7 essential takeaways for students to follow together, whatever stage they’re at on their maths learning journey. Check for prior knowledge when learning new maths Assess a starting point to establish realistic next steps Work within the...

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...

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...

Grade 9 Individuals and Societies

Grade 9 Individuals and Societies students are off to a great start this school year!  It has been a real pleasure to get to know them as students.  We are in full swing with our first unit of inquiry which examines the Interwar Years, or the period between the world...