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Welcome to Grade 5!
What a fun-filled first week it has been in Grade 5! We watched old friendships rekindled and new ones begin to grow as our class community started to take shape. This week, our focus was on building a strong and supportive classroom community. Through a variety of...
Summer Reading Challenge…Complete!
It has been a great first week of school. At the end of last school year, we had given the students a reading challenge. To mininize the Summer Slide(the decline in academic skills), that students experience during the extended summer break from school, we initiated...
Level Up Completed!
It was great to see so many familiar faces back at school and excited to be starting their MYP journey in Grade 7. We also welcomed 4 new students to Grade 7: Alaynaa, Maryam, Ruth, and Sabina and everyone made them feel very welcome. Grade 7 started the week by...
WK 1 in G6
What a fun, engaging and exciting first week in Grade 6. It has been amazing to connect with and learn about your children. As a Grade 6 team we are delighted at how the week has gone. We are very much looking forward to an exciting year of inquiry and growth. Seesaw...
Integrated Humanities – Natural Hazards
This week Grade 8 students were introduced to their first unit exploring the concept of: "How do societies respond to natural hazards?". They worked together in pairs to create a colour, symbol, and image that they fely best represented the unit topic, and then took...
Travel Writing.
In English Grade 9 students are exploring the concept: "Why Travel?". They started to look at some of the techniques used by travel companies to entice their target audiences into paying for their dream holiday package! Students started to identify how the combination...
Welcome to Music!
Welcome back! I am thrilled to welcome our students to what promises to be another exciting year in music. We have some wonderful projects and units planned that will challenge our students and help them grow as musicians and critical thinkers. In 7th grade, we are...
Dear ABIS Families, I hope this message finds you well and excited to begin another wonderful year at Al Batinah International School. As many of you know, I’m Mr. Mino (officially still Nalumino Mundia!) and I’m delighted to be returning for my second year as your...
Week 1 in French, what a success!
Dear parents, This week in French we set the tone for the year: talked about our focus, agreed on our WoW’s (Ways of Working), and launched our essential agreements. You should have seen your child’s French notebook by now (some of you may even have signed it!). We...
Welcome back
1. This Week in Our Learning: • We welcomed everyone back and introduced DP expectations, timetables, and spaces. In English, we started our first unit examining political cartoon. The students demonstrated some phenomenal background knowledge with especially poignant...
Shining Bright @ First School Week!
Dear Parents We had a fantastic first week of school! All students settled into routines with enthusiasm and quickly began building new friendships. Our classroom was filled with curiosity, collaboration, and joy as we explored activities that encouraged both learning...
First week in 1B
What a wonderful start to the year! This week in 1B, we focused on getting to know each other and our new learning spaces. A cheerful classroom scavenger hunt helped us learn where everything lives while we practiced tidy-up and carpet expectations. We built our...
Week 1
Dear Parents, I’m happy to share with you that we had a wonderful first week of school with our new Grade 1 students! It is normal for children to feel a little nervous at the beginning, but it was lovely to see how quickly they felt comfortable and excited to...
A French Welcome!
Hello Everyone! I’m delighted to introduce myself as your child’s new French teacher. I’m Miss Tania Juricevic, but most students quickly start calling me Miss J (much easier, don’t you think?). I was born and raised in France, and I’ve been teaching internationally...
A well-deserved summer break!
As we wrap up another incredible school year, I want to take a moment to say how proud I am of each and every one of you. You’ve worked relentlessly hard, shown resilience, and grown in so many ways—both inside and outside the classroom. I wish all of you a restful,...
Grade 8,9 Science, 11 DP Biology
The summer break has officially started, and I want to take this opportunity to extend my heartfelt congratulations to each of you for your incredible resilience and hard work throughout this academic year. Your dedication has truly shone through in so many ways. The...
Preparing for next academic year: Grade 7 and Grade 8 Humanities
This week the students were encouraged to use their creative thinking skills and knowledge to design a cover for their first unit in Integrated Humanities. Grade 7s designed a cover based on their understanding of natural hazards. Grade 8s designed a cover based on...
Thank you!
Dear Parents, As we come to the end of the school year, I want to say a big thank you to each of you for your support during this learning journey. It has been a wonderful year filled with learning, fun celebrations, and special memories. I feel lucky to have...
A Joyful Finale to 2024–25 in Performing Arts
As the curtain falls on the 2024–25 academic year, we look back with immense pride at a vibrant year of creativity, courage, and collaboration in the Performing Arts at Al Batinah International School. From our youngest learners discovering rhythm and voice, to our...
This week in Music
Dear Parents, As the academic year draws to a close, I want to express my sincere gratitude for what has been a truly fantastic year for the Music Department. Thank you for the warm welcome and for making this such an enjoyable and memorable experience. To our...
Last Week and Looking Back
Dear Parents and Students of G1A It has been a super- rewarding, often challenging and never dull first year at ABIS for me! I have learnt so much from the children, other staff and parents so I am grateful to everyone for making this an amazing first year in Sohar...
The Head's Blog
National Dress Day- Wednesday, March 6th
Dear parents, We will be celebrating national dress day on Wednesday, March the 6th in preparation for our International Evening on the same day. We encourage you to dress your child in their national costume/dress on this particular day as we celebrate...
Secondary Trips update
So the Secondary students are reaching the second to last day of their trip week and are have a great time on the sea or wandering in the desert. The grade six's are all now 'level one' sailors and will be sailing to a remote island today trying to hopefully find...
Grade 4 – Day 2
From Yann: "Did you know that Al Barenda was owned by Mr Nassem's Grandfather? It was really fun because it had buttons to press and lots of funny Dino noises. It talked about mountain formation."
Grade 4 – Day 2
From Claire: "Did you know that Bait Al Zubair was somebody's home? It had something that was 3000 years old. It had a falaj which is a stream that takes water from a Wadi and takes it to the crops. It also had a miniature village. I really enjoyed it and Sanna did as...
Grade 3 – Day 1
Grade 3 arrived happily, set up call and explored the site on Day 1. As I spoke with them they were sing around a camp fire and having a really great time!
Grade 5 – Day 2
Grade 5 had a great day on Day 2. Perfect weather and wonderful day followed by a relaxing evening. everyone is in good spirits and enjoying themselves.
International Evening Update
Dear parents and community members, Our annual International Evening will take place on March 6th (from about 6 pm onwards) so please reserve this date in your diary. Each year the event goes from strength to strength and gets bigger and bigger. We hope that this...
Grade 4 – Day 1
From Prisha... "Today we went to the natural history museum. It was fantastic! We saw animals but they were dead in it is just stuffed. We saw amazing fossils... They look so real. We even saw a whale hall, cool right? We love it!"
Grade 4 – Day 1
From Oleg... "Today was great! We saw the person who thought of the idea. We also made a knot for the globe. We watched a video about its history. there were snacks and it was nice. It will go into the Guinness Book of Records so we helped make history." See the video...
Grade 5 – Day 1
Just heard from the Grade 5 camp and everything is going really well. The children are all happy and it has been a really great day. More tomorrow!
Secondary Oman week update
So the Oman week is in full swing and the Secondary students have embarked on their camel safari (Grade 7,8,9) and sailing adventure (Grade 6). Both trips are going well and students are adjusting to their challenges. Both trips have been chosen because they will...
Oman Week is Coming!
Well, another exciting Oman Week is about to begin and I'd like to say on behalf of all the teachers how excited we are to have such an exciting programme of activities for the children this year. From camel trekking to museums from sailing to forts, everything will...