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French Connections: Celebrations, Collaboration (T2 / W3)
Dear Parents, Happy National Day, Oman! 🇴🇲 What a beautiful moment to celebrate where we are, reflect on what brings us together, and enjoy a well-deserved sense of pride and community. Next week will be a short one, with no classes on Wednesday and Thursday so that...
Trial Exams
With the trial exams only two weeks away, this is a kind reminder to help Maria, Amanda, and Janko take care of themselves. They are excellent kids and work incredibly hard. These exams are to inform and to support, so while they should study and do their best, they...
🌟 The Little Teacher Project 🌟
Week 12: Fun with Math
Happy Thursday, Math superstars! 👋 We are in the 3rd week of term 2 which is also the 12th week of the academic year. This week has been a week of celebrations. You are full of energy and you're ready for the assessment seasons upcoming in weeks. Believe me it was...
Reading Fables
Dear Parents, I hope this message finds you well. This week in our reading group, we explored fables with the students. Fables are short stories that usually feature animals as characters and teach an important moral or lesson. Reading fables is important because it...
Notes from the (Slightly) Mad Science & Math Lab!
Hello Parents and Students, It has been a week of high energy (literally) and high-level thinking in the Science and Math departments. Here is the breakdown of what we’ve been up to before I head off into the wild next week! ⚛️ Physics: From Toast to Torques ...
This week in Art
Our MYP Art Grade 10 students have just completed Criterion C of our Utopia Unit, where they finalized their artworks and reflected on their entire creative process. As part of this reflection, students engaged in Sticky Note Critiques, a simple yet powerful strategy...
Happy National Day From G3!
Weekly Music Blog – Building Confidence for the Winter Concert!
ABIS Performing Arts Department As we move closer to the Winter Music Concert, excitement continues to build across all grade levels. This week, every class took meaningful steps forward—polishing their performance pieces, strengthening their musical skills, and...
Decodable Readers
You may be wondering what decodable readers are. Decodable readers are texts that mostly use words with phonics patterns that children have already learned. These texts usually focus on one specific phonics concept, like the “sh” digraph, and provide repeated...
Celebrating Oman National Day & more
Dear ABIS Families, Today was a special day for our whole school community as we celebrated Oman National Day together. This morning’s assembly brought students from across all grade levels onto one stage, showcasing traditional dress, music, and performances that...
This week in music
Dear Parents, I hope this message finds you well. As the countdown to the Winter Concert continues, I wanted to share an update on the dedicated rehearsal process and upcoming assessments in our music classes. All our music students (Grades 7, 8, and 10) are fully...
Happy Oman National Day
Happy Oman National Day! All of the students looked amazing in their national dress and colours and they did a brilliant performance in the whole school assembly! Remember that Tuesday 25 is Kindness Day and students can wear odd socks and/or a light blue top. There...
What’s up in Grade 2?
This week in literacy, we have worked on making words with the -ar, -art, -ir and -irt rhyming patterns. We have discussed our reading and the strategies we use to understand what we are reading. We are learning reviewing the difference between fiction and non-fiction...
Week 12 in Grade 1A
Today, we celebrated Omani International Day at school. The children wore beautiful, colorful dresses and traditional clothes. The school looked very festive. We also had a wonderful week of learning. The students explored the topic “What is the Earth made of?” They...
Kids Helping Cats
This weekend in Palm Garden, 15 amazing kids took action to help our community cats!With support from their moms and families, they organized a bake sale to raise awareness about the cats living in Palm Garden and the TNR project taking place there. TNR stands for...
G6 – Wk 12 and the Exhibition Launch
Week 12 in Grade 6 LINK to Star Wars intro video What a crazily busy week as the PYPX (Exhibition) is finally launched! The children have been busy answering questions, building word clouds, analysing possibilities, studying SDGs (Sustainability Development Goals),...
Week 12 in 1B
This week in Grade 1, we moved into the finding out stage of our “How the World Works” unit by exploring what Earth is made of. Through hands on sorting activities, students identified and classified land, air, and water, and shared where they notice each of these in...
Our First Grade students are proudly celebrating their progress in fluent reading!
Our First Grade students are proudly celebrating their progress in fluent reading! 📚✨"Our Journey Towards Excellence" is the theme of our next stage, where we continue exploring the world of words and knowledge with confidence and enthusiasm. This journey reflects our...
Grade 11 Chemistry Update – Stoichiometry and Solutions.
We are nearing the completion of stoichiometry, a foundational skill that directly supports Structure 1 (mole concept, empirical/molecular formulas) and Reactivity 2.1 (reacting quantities, limiting reactants). Beyond these, stoichiometric principles underpin numerous...
This week in music
Dear Parents, I hope this message finds you well as we continue our preparations for the Winter Concert on December 15th! Our Grade 7 students are making excellent progress with their class song. They are focusing on blending their individual parts and ensuring that...
The Head's Blog
GRADE THREE’S DOINGS
Our young explorers have settled in quickly and spent the first day investigating the village of Fiza, which comes with fort, wadi, falaj and, of course, FUN! See the enclosed pictures!
The Grade 7s’ spirit is high!
Grade 7's had their best day yet and covered 12km. There was lots of running water so plenty of opportunities to refresh and wash themselves. They have become very confident with the camels and made a connection with the animals. The spirits are high and the mood is...
Too windy for diving today so Grade 8 cleaned the beach!
Unfortunately, the wind made diving too difficult for Grade 8 today so they decided to clean up the local beach! In return the Millenium hotel rewarded the students with access to the swimming pool and complementary pizzas and burgers. They should be doing their...
Grade 9’s doing fantastically well up Jebel Sham
Grade 9's are doing extremely well up Jebel Sham. Today they completed a long trek and Mr Lopez and Miss Brewer are very proud of them. They said that they were "amazing". Canyoning tomorrow!
UPDATES FROM THE FRONT
So the news is that the grade nines are on their way up their mountain - we cannot wait to hear what happens next! The grade twos and the K3s had some fun preparing the chicken pieces for the "Shuwar", an underground form of cooking where the food cooks slowly...
NEWS FROM THE FRONT!
From the grade five students we have heard they have settled down, and are going up the mountain today. The weather is beautiful and the kids are really excited! We made phone contact this morning. The grade nine students sent a couple of shots in last night (see...
Grade 8 dive into the fun
It's been a good day for Grade 8 who are doing their dive theory, the essential bit before they learn the practical aspects. All is well, though Miss Marchmont informs me that it is a little windy in Musannah. Everyone is happy, well fed and safe. More to come.
It’s been another successful day for our Grade 7 camel trippers
Grade 7 have had another successful day on and off the camels. They found lots of watering holes and have been swimming and splashing around. Everyone well and safe. More to come tomorrow!
Grade 9’s are having a fantastic time up Jebel Sham!
We'll post a few pictures soon, but we've just heard that Grade 9 are having a great time are Jebel Sham. They have been hiking, abseiling and done a Via Ferrata (protected climbing route), guided by a professional activity company. They are tired, safe and well and...
AND OUR NEXT GROUPS ARE AWAY
Today the grade five students headed off on their adventure as well as the grade four explorers. The car park was filled with busses as the younger ones were also off on their day trips to parks, beaches, wadis and forts. News from the older kids - the grade six...
AND WE’RE OFF!
What a marvelously exciting morning! Arriving at school watching buses loading with bags, bottles, bedding and kids, seeing Teacher Assistants putting the final touches on displays for the Launch Day and having teachers making final preparations for trips and events...
No ASA during Oman Week – February 8 – 12
This is a reminder that there will be no After School Activities (ASA) during Oman Week (8 to 12 February) due to the fact that many of the teachers and students will be away. All students need to be picked at 3:20pm or when they are on the school bus go home with the...