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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!Exams, Book Fair and Open Day 7 May
Dear Parents, As we move into the final weeks of term, maintaining strong routines, good sleep, healthy starts, and punctuality, remains essential. Thank you for your continued support in helping students arrive ready to learn. Our Grade 12 students have now begun...
✨ Confident Steps Toward Excellence in Arabic Language Learning
With our Grade 1 students, we have begun an important new phase focusing on fluency in reading, expressive reading, and reading comprehension, helping students build confidence and strengthen their language skills.We have also emphasized the implementation of the...
Grade 9 Science- Students Solve the pH Formula for Our Oceans
This week, Grade 9 students dove deep into the chemical interplay between biology and our environment. By utilizing sophisticated simulations, they manipulated light intensity to observe its direct effect on the photosynthesis rates of algal balls. The core of their...
A Week of Language Mastery, Expression, and Excellence ✨
Towards deeper learning and continuous excellence ✨ #ABIS #IBPYP #Thinkers #Communicators #Inquirers
Week 32 Grade 7 Advisory
A big week for Grade 7 as they hosted their first ever House Game competition today! Everyone seemed to have fun, so well done guys. The preparations were happening right up to the last minute as the boys planned the first event of Handball, and the girls planned the...
Week 26th April to 30th April- Fun with Math!!!
Happy Thursday everyone! We have successfully completed the 3 weeks of the 4th term. It is great to see students evolving and excited to do new things everyday. The energy that you bring to the school is just amazing. Here’s a look at the incredible things we did this...
Ms. Jo: Service As Action
This week G8 continued to reflect on their service as Action projects. They are moving along nicely, and it's good to see the students understanding that the reflection process is a cycle and ongoing- not just something that happens at the end. One student who has...
French Connections: How We Really Learn a Language
Dear Parents, This week, I wanted to share a little insight into how language learning actually works, because sometimes it can feel like students are not understanding a lot… and that can be a bit unsettling. Let’s be honest, if you had to watch a whole series in...
Sound Explorers in Action
Dear Robloxian Parents, This week we have been diving deeper into our Unit of Inquiry, How the World Works, focusing on sound and how it helps us experience the world. The students also wrote their light pre-assessment. As part of our tuning in, students listened...
House Games and DP Exams Begin
Congratulations to the Grade 7s for organising a fun filled and action packed House Games today. The idea of hand ball was a definite winner and the level of participation and friendly competition was great - lot of skill, fun and excitement, especially as House Blue...
Communicating Through Clay: Grade 10 Bas-Relief Sculptures
Our Grade 10 MYP Visual Arts students are currently exploring the unit “Making a Bas-Relief Sculpture,” guided by the key concept of communication and the related concept of expression. In this project, students are creating a bas-relief sculpture that will later...
Week 31- Data in Action: Just a baby step!
ABIS Music Weekly: Harmony, Culture, and Social Change
It has been a vibrant and soul-stirring week in the Al Batinah International School music department! From our youngest learners preparing for the stage to our senior students tackling global ethics, the halls are alive with rhythm and deep inquiry. Early Years (KG1...
Grade 6 AAL students
This week grade 6 students created posters that reflecting what they had learned.They provided a wonderful example of the importance and the benefits of the teamwork. .
How does sound work?
For our UOI this week, we have begun our new unit focusing on the Central Idea: Light and sound help people experience the world. We took a sound walkabout campus to hear the different sounds and wrote these down on our whiteboards, then drew pictures of the different...
ابداع طلاب الصف الاول بكتابة الاملاء
أبدع طلاب الصف الأول الابتدائي بكتابة الفقرات الاملائية المطلوبة خلال هذا الشهر فقد تمكنوا من كتابة الكلمات الإملائية كتابة صحيحة خالية من الأخطاء ، وحصل معظم طلاب الصف على درجات نهائية ، أحيي طلابي على هذا...
This week in music
Dear Parents, I hope you are having a wonderful week. Our music lessons have been exceptionally productive over the past few days, as our classrooms have transformed into collaborative rehearsal spaces focused on our upcoming performance milestones. Developing...
2B News Flash!!!
Weekly Photos Here!!! This unit we are working on How the World Works and the central idea is ‘light and sound help people experience the world’. Our focus is on light and sound. This week we looked at the vocabulary words and the students completed a Freyer Model...
Sounds and Story Time
In Grade 1C we have been reading stories, thinking about elements of a story- the characters, setting, problem and solution or the structure of a story. We talked about why we read stories, what they can teach us and, most importantly, what makes a good story....
الهوية والمواطنة الصف الثاني
تحدث طلاب الصف الثاني في الاسبوع الماضي عن شخصيتهم المفضلة وتم ربط الموضوع بمحتوى درس الاسبوعين الماضي والحالي وهو اطفال العالم يجب ان يعيشو بسلام ومحبة وتعارف...
دراسة الأدب العالمي في الصف الخامس ( الشعر القصصي)
درس خلال هذا الأسبوع الصف الخامس أنموذجا للأدب العالمي من خلال الشعر القصصي لحاية من أوربا بعنوان الثعلب والغراب في سرد لأحداث قصتهما على لسان الحيونات بشكل قصص شعرية بهدف التوصل لعدم الانخداع مع المدح الزائف والمنمق من قبل الآخرين وعدم الانجراف تحت ضغوطات المدح...
The Head's Blog
Important Staffing Announcement
Dear ABIS parents, We need to share some important news with you, and the wider ABIS community. Our Head of School, Neil Tomalin, has decided to move on at the end of the current school year, and it is with reluctance that we have accepted his...
School closed on Sunday
The MOE has announced that all local and private schools will be closed on Sunday 27thOct due to Al Shurah Council election. This means that ABIS will be closed on Sunday and will reopen on Monday 28th October! Enjoy the extra day holiday everyone!
Photographer at ABIS next week
On Wednesday 9th and Thursday 10th October 2019, the photographer will be in school to take portraits of all staff and students. Please ensure students are wearing their ABIS branded tops on these days. Sibling photographs will be arranged within school time. Parents...
Grade 9 are Master Chefs!
As part of our MYP Design course, Grade 9 have been learning how to design and create extraordinary food together. To day we created a wonderful 4 course meal in 45 minutes (and a great deal of work in advance). We building up to serving a full menu to VIP guests at...
School will be closed on Sunday
In celebration of the Islamic New Year, and aligned with our usual practice, we will be following Sohar Aluminium and will be closed on Sunday, 1st September. School will resume on the 2nd of September. Enjoy the long weekend!
Goodbyes & hellos
At this time of year we always have a series of goodbyes (and hellos) and this year is no exception. This year, there are a number of teachers who have decided head back home, all of them after extended periods of working as international teachers. Isgak and Rayda...
Staffing Update
We are writing to let you know that for health reasons, Ms Ann Galliard will stopping work at ABIS We would like to thank Ann for all her commitment to the school and wish her good health for the future. Sebastien will be finishing the year as usual to ensure that...
Please take the parent survey if you haven’t done it yet
If you haven’t taken the survey yet then we would be very grateful if you can do so by clicking on the blue link below: http://bit.ly/2HOa8aW We will share a summary of the parent feedback in the annual report. Thank you so much for your...
Contract for returning students
We are on course to be welcoming record numbers of student to ABIS next year and, if you are one of them, this message is for you! We are sending home a copy of the ABIS parent contract. It is required by the Omani Ministry of Education that it is signed by both...
ABIS Parent Questionnaire – How did we do this Year?
We would like to ask you to spare 5 minutes to fill out a survey letting us know how well you feel we did this year. The survey is easy to use and easy to understand and we really want as many people as possible to give us feedback. Please click on the link below:...
ABIS COMMUNITY IFTAAR
Dear ABIS Families, Although we are coming to the end of this school year, the Community Council has organized one final event: The ABIS Community Iftaar. As Ramadan is a chance for families to gather together, it seems fit- ting that our ABIS family take the...
ABIS Community Outreach
On Friday the 10th of May, a group of students and staff went out into our Sohar community to hand out Hampers to less fortunate families. It was a good team effort driving from home to home delivering items we purchased with the money raised at our International day...