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Update on students' learning: Grade 7 Humanities - students are being guided through how to make clear and purposeful research notes. They have received formative feedback and must use it to show improvements in the upcoming summative. Grade 8 Humanities - students...
ABIS MUN
This week saw activity ramp up regarding our ABIS MUN, to be held on Feb 7th. The event was initiated and coordinated by our oganisers: Amanda, Janko and Maria. The work these students have put in to get things up and running has been amazing and is a fantastic...
تمثيل حوار العمل أمان ( الحوار في شريط مصور) في الصف الخامس
قام طلبة الصف الخامس بتمثيل حوار ( العمل أمان ) المحدد لهم في كتاب لغتي الجميلة في حصة اللغة العربية متمثلين قيمة العمل وأهميته في حياتهم ولتصل لهم فكرة ضرورة الجد والاجتهاد في الحياة وعدم الركون للكسل والراحة المفرطة لتحقيق الأهداف التي نضعها نصب أعيننا في جو من...
AAL Grade 6 students
Grade 6 AAL students demonstrated enthusiasm, knowledge, and enjoyment through created various posters establishing some basic of Arabic and reflecting what they had learned during the previous period of the school year.
Creative Writing
To start the new academic term and new year, we have been exploring creative writing in grade 10. We are examining the reasons that people write when they undergo major life changes, specifically looking at migration stories. The first part of our unit has been...
Grade 10 in Art
This Week in Our Learning This week, our Grade 10 MYP Art students continued unpacking their e-portfolio unit, Embracing Uniqueness, through mind map exploration and researching artists and artworks for inspiration. Our statement of inquiry is: “Beauty and uniqueness...
First week Back – Term 3
Listen to this while watching. Its fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcoUvu0mGog&list=RDFcoUvu0mGog&start_radio=1 Good morning, good afternoon, and welcome back! Can you believe it? We are live from Term 3, and time has flown faster than a projectile with...
Week 18 in 1B
This week, we wrapped up our Unit of Inquiry, How the World Works, by completing our student reflections. We thought carefully about what we learned and shared our ideas using pictures and words. In phonics, we explored magic e sounds, focusing on long vowel a and i....
Week 18: Fun with Math!!!
Happy Thursday to all! We have completed the 18th week of the academic year which happens to be the 2nd week of the second semester. It is good to see everyone of you fully rejuvenated and full of energy and this semester is going to be great. It is just awesome to...
2B News Flash!!!
Weekly Photos Here What an exciting time to be in Ms. Leah’s grade 2 classroom. Our Unit Of Inquiry, How We Express Ourselves is in full swing with the introduction to the creative process. The students enjoyed watching a multiple amount of stories in the classroom. A...
Week 18 in Grade 1A
This week, the students wrote a story in their journals, and the topic was a dragon! We learned new skills, namely the use of transition words in a story. These words help the students create a clear beginning, middle, and end, improving the structure of their...
Week 2 of the new year!
This week in maths we finished up some length activities, then moved onto addition and subtraction within 100. We began by counting on and back by 10s and will move onto counting on and back by 100s. This means we are looking at a number, ie 58, then count back by a...
Week 18: Explorers and Forts
الهوية والمواطنة/الصف الاول
استمتع طلاب الصف الاول في هذا الاسبوع بالالعاب الالكترونية الوطنية
Artifacts – Museum Visit!
Dear Parents All students were amazed by the special artifacts that were in the Amjad Museum. They learned a lot about ancient Oman.
Where We Are in Place and Time
As part of our tuning in, we have been doing observational drawings of our own artefacts. We looked through the lens of historians, thinking about what the artefact was, who and what it was for and where it was from. This is good preparation for when we start finding...
G6 – Week 7 of the PYPX
A short, but very ‘full on’ week with students starting to lean towards the Exhibition finish line and map out their final choices, actions and the experience / take-away they would like their audience to experience. This week we have been creating our road map of our...
RazKids Isn’t Just For Reading…
Improving EAL (English as an Additional Language) reading and speaking skills using Raz-Kids' recording feature involves specific strategies to build confidence, fluency, and pronunciation. A simple way to support your child at home, is by helping them record...
مخُّ الوعلِ في الصف الرابع
قام طلبة الصف الرابع بتمثيل درس مخّ الوعل الذي تم دراسته خلال هذا الأسبوع، وتمثلوا أدوار الأسد والثعلب والوعل في صراع واضح ليظهر من خلال الأحداث مصير الطمع الذي يتصف به الإنسان وكيف ممكن أن تكون نهاية من لا يحكم عقله في المواقف التي تمرّ به ولا يستفد من الدروس التي...
A busy time ahead
Dear parents, It has been a pleasure to see students return this week after the Winter Break, and to feel the renewed sense of energy across the school. Classrooms have quickly settled back into routines, and it has been good to see students reconnecting with friends,...
welcome Back to School عودًا حميدًا
With the beginning of the new academic term, we close a chapter of effort and learning from the first term and welcome a new chapter filled with renewed determination and greater ambition. We return to our classrooms with a positive spirit and a strong commitment to...
The Head's Blog
Community Dance and Cancer Walkathon
We look forward to seeing you all at this evening's Community Dance that starts prompt at 6.30 (we suggest you arrive by 6:20). We are trying to ensure there is adequate lighting but still please be very careful when parking. We are currently improving the safety of...
Sharing some good news about Miss Simpson!
We are all looking forward to the opportunity to spend a bit of extra time with our families over the Autumn break. It has been a really busy ten week so far - full of learning, activities and experiences for our students and we are really happy with our new teachers...
Primary Swim Gala
Wow! What a fantastic effort our primary swimmers put in at the Al Ain English Speaking School on Wednesday. ABIS took out all three sections of the swim meet winning the individual girls section, the individual boys section and the overall result even though we...
Four great meetings!
We have had three significant meetings at the school this week, all very positive. Qatar Foundation came to visit on Tuesday to see our new building, as they are considering similar projects back home. They were enormously impressed by what our students were doing and...
ABIS Parking changes
Welcome back to school after what we hope has been a fun and relaxing Eid break. Tomorrow you will find that the access to the school has changed. The old main entrance from the road is closed. The entrance road has moved approximately 50 meters back towards the...
What a wonderful start!
As life settles back to normal it is difficult to believe that just a few weeks ago I was staring at a building site! It has been a fantastic start to the year and I would like to thank all of you for kind words and support. The opening of the new building is the...
One Week To Go!
With one week to go before students and families return to school the staff have been very busy unpacking resources and setting up the new furniture and buildiings. It's a very exciting time for all of us. Some reminders about upcoming dates: Sunday 21st...
The new school year is approaching.
Hello to all of our families wherever you are. We hope you are having a wonderful break and have enjoyed your summer so far. All is going well in Sohar and at ABIS. We would like to remind you of a few points below: Early Years Meeting between 1pm -2pm: Sunday August...
Math teacher demonstrates proficiency to multiply
Margaret (Margo) Nohlgren Adams Born on June 13, 2016: 49 cm, 2.65 kg Proving, once again, that sometimes 1+1=5
Yearbooks & Iftar
Yearbooks will be disturbed tomorrow, Monday, to all students who have purchased one. If you would like a yearbook and haven't ordered yet see Miss Ruqaia. This week's price is 15OMR. Iftar As Ramadan is a chance for families to gather together it seems fitting that...
Staffing News – leaving and new teachers
It is time formally share information about the teachers who are leaving us this year and to share some of our plans relating to next year’s staffing with you. We must say goodbye to seven exceptional teachers who have given so much to the development and life of the...
Farewell to our Grade 12s
We had a bittersweet assembly in Secondary today: we said farewell to our 12th graders, but we also welcomed our 6th graders into Secondary. To commemorate the occasion, Student Council instituted a new tradition: an ABIS Totem Pole. Each grade will have an...