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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!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...
2B News Flash!!!
Weekly Photos Here This week's UOI was a busy one. Students were introduced to materials such as wood, straw, and bricks from the story, ‘The Three Little Billy Goats’. This provocation led them into looking at what materials we use to build houses. Our central idea...
Grade 9 Science- The Kinetic Theory of Matter
Our Grade 9 science class recently wrapped up an exciting week in the lab, conducting hands-on investigations into the kinetic theory of matter. Following the design phase, students explored the effect of temperature on the rate of particle movement. It was truly...
G1C: Week 11 on Earth!
Students have been doing more collaborating, sharing and inquiring into our Unit about the Earth. We worked in small groups to construct our own globes which involved observation of the Earth to make our own. Then we needed to have a steady hand to glue and put...
Grade 8 Advisory – House Competition Hosts on 11 December
Upon their safe return from their sailing fieldtrip, Grade 8 students immediately dove in to get ready for the next event - the house competition which they will host on 11 December. The spent Thursday morning going through a list of AI-generated activities to decide...
The Head's Blog
Annual Report Meeting – Reminder
Please attend our 2012/13 Annual Report Meeting at 6.30PM sharp tomorrow, Tuesday 11th of June. We will be talking about ISAs, progress made this year and plans for next year. There will be a follow on meeting for all parents who are interested in the specifics of the...
School Closed on Thursday
A public holiday has just been announced for Thursday, June 6th. as such ABIS will be closed on Thursday. Wednesday will be a regular school day finishing as normal. After School Activities on Wednesday will be held as usual. School will resume on Sunday 9th of June.
Choosing the right charities for ABIS to support
Over the last year we have been making investigations into how we can help those much less fortunate than ourselves. As an international school, we are committed to supporting all nationalities though we are equally committed to supporting our host country and local...
ABIS Questionnaire – How did we do this year?
PLEASE HELP! We would like you to ask you 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 would want as many people as possible to give us feedback....
IB Authorization and Grade 11
We are extremely pleased to announce that we have just been informed that the Al Batinah International School has been authorized to offer the prestigious International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) from September 2013. As you know, this is an extremely...
Weekly update
We are really proud of the Secondary School students who represented ABIS at TAISM this week in basketball tournaments. It is the first time that students have participated against other schools in this sport and naturally they felt intimidated by the idea and...
We passed one exam and are awaiting results on the other!
It has been a week of visits and inspections for the Secondary School with a sudden visit from an IGCSE examination inspector and a scheduled visit by an IB Verification Team. The IB Verification Team were in school on Sunday and Monday and led a very thorough...
School Open … Unless otherwise announced
Just a very quick note to say that is school will be open tomorrow unless you receive an SMS before 6.30 tomorrow morning.
School Closed Tomorrow – 27th April
We have been directly instructed by the Ministry of Education to close the school tomorrow. As you know, I am always reluctant to miss any school days as I know how important it is to ensure that the school is open whenever possible. indeed, on Wednesday we were 1 of...
Primary Student Led Conferences and Mid Semester Reports
The time for the Student Led Conferences is fast approaching. This year students’ portfolios will be web-based and students have been working hard developing their websites and portfolios. They are very excited about sharing their learning journeys electronically....
Friday and Saturday to be weekend holidays
Friday and Saturday to be weekend holidays Dear Parents, As you all are aware, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said has issued a directive to adjust weekend holidays to fall on Friday and Saturday, beginning May 1 2013. Obviously, this change will also affect the school...
Staffing changes for 2013/14
As we approach the end of the school year, we start to think about the next one. And I wanted to inform you of staffing changes that will be occurring over the summer. Lala and Ola Akerstrom have decided to leave us at the end of this year to return to Sweden. They...