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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!Helping your child read between the lines
Dear Families, In class, we are working on an important reading comprehension skill: making inferences. Making an inference means using clues from the text along with what we already know to understand information the author does not say directly. This skill is...
This week in music
Dear Parents, I hope this message finds you well. It has been a focused and productive week in the music department as our students transition into the analytical and technical phases of their current units. Our MYP music students are reaching important milestones in...
Cooking Together as a Reading Activity
Following a recipe is an excellent, practical, and engaging reading exercise at home that combines literacy development with essential life skills. It provides a real-world, non-fiction reading experience that requires close attention to detail, sequencing, and...
Week 23:- Fun with Math !!!
Ramadan Kareem to all! We have completed the 23 weeks of the academic year. This has been an exciting week as we have been celebrating assessments of learning and assessment of learnings in school. It is good to see everyone full of energy and this semester is going...
Week 23 in Grade 1A
Dear Parents, In Math, we continue to practice addition and subtraction facts up to 20 every day. The students are becoming faster and more confident. We are also learning to recognize and name 2D shapes such as circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles, as well as...
Week 23: Reading Between the Lines
Ramadan Mubarak from G3
We have been working hard in the first week of Ramadan. The students have mostly completed their slideshow presentations about an ancient artefact. We started sharing our presentations today and will finish this next week. Next week we will start our next unit of...
2B News Flash!!!
Weekly Photos Here Happy Ramadan to all and especially those celebrating. This week we began by concluding our How We Express Ourselves unit by completing a reflection of our performances and understanding of the creative process. Today the students have completed a...
Exploring Perspective Through Photography
This week, students explored the power of photo editing and how small changes can dramatically shift the mood, feeling, and perspective of what an audience sees. Through experimenting with light, colour, cropping, and filters, they began to understand how...
Finishing Creative Writing Unit
1. This Week in Our Learning: • Students received feedback on their short story and creative non-fiction pieces. They used this feedback to touch up on their writing before adding it to their migration blog. They also added their Arabic and French work to finish up...
Learning in Grade 2
For our first week of the Ramadan schedule we have been so busy with the shortened lesson time as I'm sure your child has mentioned to you. We have squeezed in quite a lot over our 4 day week! For our UOI, we have been reflecting on our learning and how we have worked...
Thinking About the Past..
Dear Parents, Students have been learning about the past by exploring how people communicated, forms of entertainment and architecture. We have played past games and made structure that was used in the past.
Ramadan Week 1
ANCHOR: "Welcome back, scholars and scientists! You are tuned into the Daily Syllabus Broadcast. I'm your host, Mr Sid, bringing you the latest updates from the academic frontlines. Let’s dive straight into the headlines!" ANCHOR: "First up, the Physics Forecast."...
Grade 9 Practising ATL skills
This week the grade 9 students practised a variety of the Approaches to Learning Skills in order to develop as learners. They practised Social skills of Collaboration by negotiating tasks and ensuring every person in their team gets help to succeed in completing the...
Arabic G 11 اللغة ب
Grade 11 students analyzed one of the novels from literary heritage, focusing on the following aspects: Characters and their role in shaping the events Events, their sequence, and their impact on the plot The writer’s symbolism and its intellectual and cultural...
Grade 7 and 8 Science Update.
Grade 8 Science Update Our current unit on the impact of sound and light waves has been an engaging and eye-opening experience for many students. We have explored the nature of waves, sound, and light through both theoretical learning and practical laboratory...
G.11 and 12 Chemistry update
Grade 12 Chemistry Update Good news — we have completed the DP Chemistry syllabus and have now moved fully into revision. We started by targeting topics students identified as challenging, particularly in organic chemistry. We have already reviewed the first part in...
Week 22: Capturing Ideas Through Photography
This week in Grade 5, we have continued to delve deeper into our new Unit of Inquiry, exploring how photography can be used to communicate ideas about the world. Students examined the work of professional photographers, discussing the possible messages behind their...
An Important Visitor and A Shape Community
Students continue to surprise me with their ability to be good inquirers this week as we had a special visitor to help us with Our Unit. We are learning about how people help us and provide us with our needs and wants. One of our parents is a doctor and very kindly...
Practicing listening skills at home!
Dear Parents and Guardians, I would like to invite you to support your child in practicing English listening skills at home. Many students, especially those who are new to learning English, sometimes find it challenging to understand everything their teachers say in...
Week 22: Fun with Math!!!
Happy Thursday and Ramadan Kareem to all! We have completed the 22 weeks of the academic year. This has been an exciting week as we have been celebrating assessments of learning and assessment of learnings in school. It is good to see everyone full of energy and this...
The Head's Blog
ABIS Parking and drop off changed
As a result of our continuing expansion work, we have introduced a new temporary entrance to the school. You will no longer be able to gain entrance to the school through on the normal route but will instead be redirected to use a different entrance. When approaching...
Expansion follow up meetings
First of all, thank you so much to all of you who attended the meeting last week. It was good to see so many present. We will be holding follow up meetings to answer any questions that you may have as a result of the presentation. These will be held tomorrow at the...
No ASA’s this week.
There will be no ASA's this week. New forms will be coming home tomorrow, Sunday 29th November. Remember it is first in first served so please return forms promptly. New ASA's begin next week, Sunday 6th of December. A reminder about the Expanision News meeting to be...
Carlijn
I am sorry to have to let you know that because of visa related issues Carlijn will not be able to work with us at the school. We will miss her terribly and hope that we will be able to arrange things so that she will be able to join us as soon as possible. In the...
We ARE there already
"When will we get there?" It is amazing how few times we have heard this cry, yet it is common enough. ABIS students will undoubtedly remember the walking on this trip, lots and lots of walking, but most seem to understand that Paris is the destination, not the...
Our first day out on the town
The text and images here are the same as the email sent out to parents during the trip. An hour in the park, pizza for lunch, meet up with M. Cerdan's brother, who gave us a tour of several major sites including the avenue des Champs-Élysées with some incredible...
Parent Toddler Group
We would like to introduce you to a new initiative that will be starting at ABIS after the November break. If you know of anyone who might like to join our Parent Toddler group then please collect an information pamphlet from the school to share. If you have any...
Preparing for the future
University preparation and counselling is a hot topic at the moment in the Secondary school. Following our successful Grade 10 to 12s visit to Edutrac conference in Muscat, we are evolving our systems for preparing our students for university life. Currently, ABIS...
The school photos are ready!
Please use this post to view photos of your child. Click on these links below! We hope you enjoy the pictures. Please be aware that these are just low resolution thumbnail images and like previous years all will have the background removed and be enhanced in...
University Conference Visit
On Monday afternoon, students from grades 10, 11, and 12 took a trip to the Oman Exhibition Centre in Muscat to visit the EduTraC Higher Education and Career Expo. There they met and talked with university representatives from all over the world, including Britain,...
School Photographs 12-13 October 2015
On Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th of October 2015 Lensman Studios will be back at ABIS to take lovely pictures of all students. Like in previous years there will be several packages available. wallet size copies Individual portrait of size 6” x 8” individual portrait 8”...
Taking the CIS survey and sorry to bug you.
Thank you to the 84 parents who have supported the school by taking the CIS survey. We are sorry to nag and hassle you if you haven't, but you can see that we really value your feedback. The survey takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. Please go to the website:...