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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!Nessy is Back!
Dear Parents and Guardians, I am excited to let you know that Nessy is back and ready for students to use again! 🎉 Nessy is an engaging online learning platform that helps students build confidence in reading, spelling, and phonics through fun, interactive games and...
Building, Biomes, and a Bit of a Breeze!
Dear Roblox parents and families, What a busy and exciting week it has been in the Roblox classroom! Students have jumped straight into our new Unit of Inquiry: Where We Are in Place and Time and have been full of curiosity and thoughtful questions. We started...
Primary & Secondary Learning Highlights
Dear ABIS families, This week has been another strong example of how learning at ABIS extends far beyond the classroom, with students across both the Primary and Secondary Schools engaging in meaningful, real-world experiences. Our Grade 8 students have just returned...
Weekly Music Blog – Winter Concert Preparations Begin!
: Weekly Music Blog – Winter Concert Preparations Begin! ABIS Performing Arts Department Last week was an exciting and creative time in the music room as all classes—from our youngest learners in KG to our confident upper primary musicians—continued preparing for our...
Week 11 in Grade 6
Dear Parents, What a week! We have just arrived back from camp today! We had an absolute blast building new bonds, friendships and memories! It was a wonderful change to refresh our minds as we dive into the start of Exhibition next week! Please checkout more photos...
🎁 Distribution of Gifts to the Winners 🎉Arabic
Art and Design
As we approach the end of the term, creativity is blooming across the Art and Design classrooms at Al Batinah International School in preparation for our upcoming exhibition, the ABIS Art Show 2025. The event will run from December 4–17 in LC3, with PYP artworks...
HL Literature
This Week in Our Learning: • We started the first higher level only work of literature. The students in higher level study two additional works of literature and our first text to study together is Persepolis. For our opening lesson, we explored the context of the...
Week 11: It takes nothing to be kind
Funbrain: Give It a Try!
FunBrain was developed for kids in Pre-k through 8th grade. It features multiple games related to reading, math and general fun to help engage children in the learning process. In addition to games, FunBrain offers interactive presentations, popular comic books and...
A Map – Have You Ever Used One?
Dear Parents Some students have never used a map and it was exciting for them to look at continents and oceans. They also researched some facts about different continents.
French Connections: Sound, Style, and Storytelling (T2 / W2)
Dear Parents, What a fun AND focused week it’s been! Grade 7s started practising their listening and viewing skills to discuss clothes and looks. We decided to postpone hobbies for a bit; the perfect choice to dive into something more playful and visual while...
Grade 6 AAL students
This week, grade 6 AAL students demonstrated enthusiasm, knowledge, and enjoyment through using the Arabic words that they learned. They created Blooket games entitled "What We Learned" using the words they learned to formulate the game's questions and answers.
News from Grade 2SB
This week in our UOI lessons we have begun looking at the types of homes around the world and the biomes in which these homes are located. By observing and learning about the biomes we can find out which materials can be used to build a home. This inquiry related to...
انجاز طلاب الصف الثاني
كل الشكر والتقدير لطلاب الصف الثاني على انجازاتهم الرائعة في حصة اللغة العربية
بدأ فترة الاختبارات القصيرة الثانية في الصف السادس
بدأ الصف السادس بفترة الاختبارات القصيرة الثانية خلال هذا الأسبوع مع مادة التربية الإسلامية وسنواصل هذه الفترة خلال الأسبوع القادم أداء الاختبارات المتبقية، وقد أظهر طلبة الصف السادس الجدّ والاجتهاد في هذه المرحلة الصعبة التي تساير أيام عمان النوفمبرية، ومن هنا نطلب...
الدراسات الاجتماعية
الاستعدادات للاختبارات النهائية من خلال التقويمات القصيرة والتدريبات لطلاب الصف العاشر
Exploring Forces in Motion at the Port
What an exciting week it was in Grade 5 as we went on our first field trip of the year to the port! It was great to see students excited and being able to name different forces and simple machines in action! We talked about where people used their understanding of...
Week 11 in 1B
In our Unit of Inquiry, children explore sensory bins with leaves, rocks, flowers, and sand. They look closely, touch gently, and sometimes smell the items, then describe what they notice using simple words like rough, smooth, soft, hard, light, heavy, and fragrant....
Week 11 in 3SC
This week we started our new unit of inquiry, Sharing the Planet by identifying different types of extreme weather, We talked about our experiences of floods in Oman and cyclone Shaheen. We looked at each type of weather and used adjectives about the colours, shapes...
Week 11 in Grade 1A
This week, we went outside and practiced our skip counting with sidewalk chalk, counting by twos, fives, and tens up to 50. It was a fun way to combine movement and learning! Additionally, we learned new “spelling friends,” such as qu and ou, which help students read...
The Head's Blog
Like a fish: Swim Gala 2015
Congratulations to all the students involved in yesterday's Swim Gala. The Blue Dolphins came out on top by the slimmest of margins in a hard fought battle with the Green Leopards. The day was full of nail-biting finishes and excellent sportsmanship. A special thanks...
Calendar 2015-2016
The Calendar for next school year is now available. You will find it on the front page of the Broadcaster in the "Important Documents" section or you can download it here. The password for Broadcaster is "parents".
International Day Benefits
Thank you to all ABIS parents who generously ran a food stall at International Day. We managed to raise a massive 1848.700 rials which also included a sizable contribution from Sohar Aluminum.All money sponsored and collected will be send to...
International Evening 2015
Congratulations and thanks to everyone who made Thursday evening a big success. Whether you were cooking food, performing songs, selling tickets, wishing the clouds away or simply turning up for a fun night out, it wasn’t possible without your support. Extra...
C.I.S. very positive about the school
We are happy to share that the Council of International Schools (CIS) were really positive about the school after their four day visit last week. They praised the high level of skill and commitment (hard work) of our staff, the strength of our PYP programme, our...
ABIS seeks accreditation from the Council of International Schools
Since opening back in 2008, our school staff have put a huge amount of time and energy into making ABIS better in all respects. Though our efforts to get better will never stop, we are now approaching a standard where we feel that we can seek accreditation from CIS,...
The expansion to the Secondary Learning Suite (SLS) will be open tomorrow!
An exciting development at ABIS. Our contracted builders, Target, have done a fantastic job in expanding the SLS (Secondary Learning Suite), which will be open for the first time tomorrow. The Secondary building has nearly doubled in space and will provide a lot of...
CAMELS
This from a grade seven student, who was snagged as soon as he arrived! This week I went on a camel trek through the desert. The hardest thing was the last day because we walked more than 12 kilometres. Everyone had red, puffy faces. I liked riding the camels. My best...
And it’s the end
What a brilliant week! I thought the best way to round off the week was to ask the kids themselves what they liked best about Oman Week. Here are their answers. FEY LADYBIRDS Lawrence: My favourite thing today was I caught some fish. I can't see them in the water. I...
GRADE FIVE ROUND UP
From Ms Fitch: We got the sports going and they (the kids) are having a brilliant time. Right now we are doing kayak races with the grade 6 class. We had pizza last night which was a great treat and we were treated to a concert around the fire by Peter (Mr...
LAST DAYS….
Some pictures from the front. Teachers are confirming their arrival times back at school - expect a Newsflash/SMS on this soon. All in all it has been a lovely week for everyone. In the words of one teacher "We may never leave!!!!!"
Trip return times
The estimated trip return times today are listed here. We will SMS you if there will be a delay of more than 30 minutes. G9 - 12:30 pm G3 - 1 pm G4 - 1 pm G5/6/8 - 2 pm G7 - 4pm