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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!Grade 8 and Grade 9 Collaboration: English – Advertisements
This term both grade 8 students and grade 9 students are analysing advertisments. Grade 9s are focusing on specifically tourism advertisements while grade 8 students select advertisements for their final analysis. On Wednesday, the 2 groups had the opportunity to...
Grade 8 Science-Innovative inquiry in ecosystem solutions
Proud to celebrate the achievements of our Grade 8 Science students. In their individual Criterion D project-based assessment, students researched and represented ecosystems by either creating a 3D model or sketching a scientific diagram. They identified biotic and...
Grade 8 Advisory: Tuesday’s Drop Everything & Read Statistics
This week our grade 8 students had their second DER morning, which is intended to encourage students to take a break from their screens and engage with a text of their choice, whether book (fiction/nonfiction), magazine, newspaper, graphic novel, etc. . Our target...
Week 4: Learning and Beyond in Math!
Happy Thursday, math enthusiasts! 👋 Can you believe it's already Week 4? It's been an absolute pleasure seeing all the hard work and progress in our classrooms. Let's take a look at what we've been up to and what's coming next. 🚀 Grade 7: Fractions, Decimals &...
G7 Advisory – Tuesday’s Oh DEAR! time.
Another busy week has wrapped up for Grade 7! We celebrated "R U OK? Day" on Friday, where students wore yellow, and our Secondary Student Council held a bake sale. The funds raised will go toward Student Council events for all students throughout the year. We're...
Week 4 in Grade 6
Dear Parents, An inspiring week in Grade 6 as we properly launch our new unit of inquiry with provocations and lots of wonderings. Ask your child about our provocation and if they were in group A or B in our forced migration, and what they experienced. We began...
Week 4: Connecting our strategies to everyday life
This week in Grade 5, our Unit of Inquiry on Who We Are moved from exploring emotions into finding practical ways to manage them. After trying out different mindfulness and stress-relieving techniques, students reflected on which strategies worked best for them and...
Grade 9 Science- Exploring Lipids; a hands-on approach
In the past three weeks, our Grade 9 science students have embarked on an exciting journey into the world of biological molecules. This week, the unit took a hands-on turn as students investigated the presence of lipids in various food substances. The atmosphere in...
“My Grandmother’s Secrets with the Lemon Tree”🍋🌳
Political Cartoons, Portfolio, and Camus
1. Our First Assessment • This week we took our first assessment, an oral presentation exploring the work of a political cartoonist. Students worked in pairs and selected one cartoonist, whose work they then examined. They presented to the class the central themes and...
DP Cohorts Coming Together Well
Grade 11 and 12's first opportunity to show team work happened today as our house competition got underway. At fairly short notice the students came together to plan and run a quadruple court dodgeball competition. What was striking was the way the 2 cohorts worked so...
This week Art
This week, our art students have been hard at work completing Criterion C: the creation of their final artworks. Grade 7 students, in their unit Nature in Printmaking, are experimenting with multiple prints to achieve the best results. They are focusing on...
Roblox’s 4th Week
Dear Parents, The Roblox’s had another busy and exciting week in 2A! This week we spent a lot of time finishing up reading assessments (we are almost done!) and completing some unfinished work. Alongside this, we continued with our phonics, focusing on digraphs,...
Teaching colors in Arabic
Week 4 in 3SC
This week we started our new unit, Who We Are, by doing an exercise video and looking at some objects related to the unit. The student talked about what the saw, what they thought and asked questions. We then looked at the central idea and lines of inquiry to discover...
Read Together, Take Turns
Dear Parents, Reading is one of the most powerful ways for children to grow in English. It builds vocabulary, improves spelling, and strengthens imagination. Most importantly, when children see that reading is a family routine, they learn that reading is important and...
G8 Language and Literature اللغة والأدب
This week G8 students studied a translated novel from world literature, “Around the World in Eighty Days” by Jules Verne. They focused on analyzing the narrative structure, following the sequence of events and the development of the plot until the resolution. The...
الجملة الاسمية تزور طلبة الصف الرابع
خلال هذا الأسبوع كثر زوار طلبة الصف الرابع، حيث زارتهم الجملة الاسمية من خلال مشهد تمثلي من خيالنا لافتتاح حصة اللغة العربية وتعرف الطلبة على زائرتهم الجملة الاسمية من خلال جلسة توقعات وتخمين لهوية الزائرة من خلال فتح باب التوقعات من جميع الطلبة وبعد التعرف على هوية...
الصف الثاني
تميز طلاب الصف الثاني بتنفيذ الأنشطة الصفية بكل مهارة واتقان بوركت جهودهم
2B Weekly News Flash!!!
Weekly Photos Here A student who reads 20 minutes each day will read 3,600 minutes in a school year. That means they will on average read 1,800,000 words per school year. Please support your child on completing their Reading Journals during the school week. I can’t...
Another busy week in Grade 2!
We began our busy week with sharing our 'Shoebox Autobiographies'. The student shared their boxes in small groups of three, changed into different groups for more sharing opportunities, then shared with the whole class. it was so fun to see what the students had put...
The Head's Blog
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...
Despite a small fire, it is business as usual at ABIS
As you are aware, there was a small fire in the Secondary Learning Centre during the early hours of Wednesday morning, which has caused us to temporarily close the Secondary School whilst we assess the damage and decide the best way to continue teaching and learning....
Thank you and have a great holiday
It has been a busy and incredibly successful time since the Winter Break. The Swimming Gala this week really demonstrated all that is great about our school, Sports Day was, again, a huge success and the the students were challenged and entertained in equal measure in...
Miss Maram
Mrs Akerstrom and Ms Saunders visited Miss Maram over the weekend at her home. They are happy to report that Miss Maram, with the aid of a brace, is now sitting upright. Miss Maram misses her students and colleagues a great deal and we are looking forward to hearing...
Ms. Maram update
I visited Maram in hospital with an armful of 'get better soon' cards from the children. Whilst she is obviously very hurt, she was able to talk with me a little and her face lit up when she saw the cards. I will continue to update you if and when there is more.
Ms. Maram has been involved in a car accident
I am very sad to have to inform you that Ms. Maram Al Nairat was involved in a very serious car accident at the weekend and is currently in intensive care at the Sohar Hospital. As you may be aware, she is an extremely popular teacher at our school and we are all very...