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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!This week in Music
Dear Parents, I hope this message finds you well. I'm writing to provide an update on the progress of our music students. In Grade 7, students continue to make great strides in their song performances and music reading skills. Their central unit of inquiry, "Music for...
SA and CAS
Dear Parents, I hope you're all having a great week. I wanted to provide an update on the service and action projects our students are beginning this semester. Our students in MYP and DP are well underway with their Service as Action and CAS projects. For our MYP...
Why We Love Starfall for Early Reading and Phonics Practice
As parents, finding the right tools to support your child’s learning can feel overwhelming at times. With so many educational websites out there, it’s hard to know which ones are actually worth your child’s screen time. One resource we've come to truly appreciate is...
Week 4: R U Okay?
Heart Matters!
Dear Parents, This week we have begun our unit on the human body. Students were pumped up after a session of Joe Wick 5 minute move. They were also able to feel their carotid pulse and reflect on our the exercise made them feel.
Sharing in G1C
This week students have had some very settled, calm and hard-working mornings which are always the best time to learn! We have done our sounds, numbers, tally counting and venn diagrams. Many students are helping to do registration by greeting their friends and...
Week 4 in 1B!
Here’s a peek at our week! We’re continuing with Show & Tell to build speaking confidence and community. We also launched our literacy and math centers, where students rotate through listening, word-work, writing, and hands-on games. As young researchers, we...
Week 4 in Grade 1A
Grade 1 has had a busy and joyful week of learning! The children enjoyed their swimming lessons and built confidence in the water. Please remember to send swimming gear on Thursday so everyone can take part. Each morning we start by checking in with our feelings,...
A Week of Growth, Creativity, and Connections
Dear Parents, Please click here: Week 3 photos Even though it was a shorter week, it was filled with so much energy, learning, and creativity! The students have been hard at work and really enjoyed diving into new activities across all subjects. In Maths, students...
Celebrating our students’ passion for reading and their journey as lifelong learners.
G.11 Chemistry: Building Foundations in Pre-IB Chemistry.
Grade 11 Chemistry students sat for their Pre-IB Chemistry Test this week and will receive feedback next week. For the past three weeks, they have been working through a foundational unit we call Pre-IB Chemistry. This introduction has covered key concepts such as:...
إبداعات طلاب الصف الثاني
أبدع طلاب الصف الثاني في مادة اللغة العربية حيث قاموا بتنفيذ الأنشطة المطلوبة بكل اتقان بوركت جهودهم
Activities, Parent Coffee Morning and the Saturday Club
Dear parents, It has been wonderful to see the school year continue with such energy and enthusiasm. Our Secondary Student Council is already planning events to strengthen school life, and our After-School Activities have started very well. This year, we are delighted...
Grade 8 Earthquakes
Our Grade 8 Integrated Humanities students have been studying tectonic plates and how their movements cause earthquakes. The students enjoyed demonstrating the different tectonic plate movements through their body movement. When they demonstrated, the other students...
Grade 11 IBDP- Unraveling the Secrets of Life- DNA
The discovery of DNA’s structure in 1953 was a monumental breakthrough in science, serving as the blueprint for all living organisms and paving the way for advancements in medicine and genetics. Recently, our Grade 11 students engaged in a hands-on initiative to model...
Week 3: Math this week!
📢 Weekly Math Newsletter 👋 Dear Parents and Students,Here’s a snapshot of our math learning journey across the grades this week, along with what’s coming up next! 🔢 Grade 7 📘 This Week in Our Learning: Investigation from recurring decimals to fractions Strengthening...
AAL Learning numbers in Arabic ✅
Week 3 – Grade 7 Advisory
It’s hard to believe this was only a four-day week! Everyone seems to be settling into the new routines of MYP, and self-management skills are really starting to develop (as they must!) in order to keep up with the increased workload and the challenge of navigating...
Grade 9 English: Examining Travel/Tourism Adverts
Grade 9 students have been examining travel advertisements for their first unit of study. This week, they had the opportunity to collaborate with a partner on a chosen advertisement; thus, using each other's strengths in analysis to complete annotations of the...
French Connections: Courage, Grammar and… Belonging (Week 4)
Dear Parents, Grade 10s kicked things off this week with some honest self-reflection, looking at the “meaningful feedback” from their diagnostic test to “identify strengths and weaknesses” (ATL Self-management – Reflection) and practise “receiving and acting on...
Week 3 at ABIS – A Joyful Start to the Year!
Hello ABIS families, What a wonderful and energetic first week it has been in the music room! It's Mr. Mino here, and the sound of music-making has already filled our halls with so much creativity and enthusiasm. It's truly a joy to see our young musicians back at it,...
The Head's Blog
Sun hats and the gym…again!
This is a correction to today's newsflash in relation to lunchbreaks and bringing sun hats. The gym facility will be used for organised sports competitions at break and lunchtimes rather than for supervised play. This not due to any health and safety concerns but...
What have Secondary Students been doing this week?
It's been a busy week back from the break for students, who have now received their second and most detailed report for the year so far: the first Semester Report. This has stimulated much discussion around their personal targets and they will be reviewing and...
The LAST Movie Night Under The Stars
The sun is setting later and later, so our last outdoor Movie Night will take place on Tuesday, March 19th at 7:00. (Note the later starting time) Appropriately, as this will be our last Movie Night under the stars, we'll be featuring two films from out of...
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...