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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!Nessy is Back!
Dear Parents and Guardians, I am excited to let you know that Nessy is back and ready for students to use again! 🎉 Nessy is an engaging online learning platform that helps students build confidence in reading, spelling, and phonics through fun, interactive games and...
Building, Biomes, and a Bit of a Breeze!
Dear Roblox parents and families, What a busy and exciting week it has been in the Roblox classroom! Students have jumped straight into our new Unit of Inquiry: Where We Are in Place and Time and have been full of curiosity and thoughtful questions. We started...
Primary & Secondary Learning Highlights
Dear ABIS families, This week has been another strong example of how learning at ABIS extends far beyond the classroom, with students across both the Primary and Secondary Schools engaging in meaningful, real-world experiences. Our Grade 8 students have just returned...
Weekly Music Blog – Winter Concert Preparations Begin!
: Weekly Music Blog – Winter Concert Preparations Begin! ABIS Performing Arts Department Last week was an exciting and creative time in the music room as all classes—from our youngest learners in KG to our confident upper primary musicians—continued preparing for our...
Week 11 in Grade 6
Dear Parents, What a week! We have just arrived back from camp today! We had an absolute blast building new bonds, friendships and memories! It was a wonderful change to refresh our minds as we dive into the start of Exhibition next week! Please checkout more photos...
🎁 Distribution of Gifts to the Winners 🎉Arabic
Art and Design
As we approach the end of the term, creativity is blooming across the Art and Design classrooms at Al Batinah International School in preparation for our upcoming exhibition, the ABIS Art Show 2025. The event will run from December 4–17 in LC3, with PYP artworks...
HL Literature
This Week in Our Learning: • We started the first higher level only work of literature. The students in higher level study two additional works of literature and our first text to study together is Persepolis. For our opening lesson, we explored the context of the...
Week 11: It takes nothing to be kind
Funbrain: Give It a Try!
FunBrain was developed for kids in Pre-k through 8th grade. It features multiple games related to reading, math and general fun to help engage children in the learning process. In addition to games, FunBrain offers interactive presentations, popular comic books and...
A Map – Have You Ever Used One?
Dear Parents Some students have never used a map and it was exciting for them to look at continents and oceans. They also researched some facts about different continents.
French Connections: Sound, Style, and Storytelling (T2 / W2)
Dear Parents, What a fun AND focused week it’s been! Grade 7s started practising their listening and viewing skills to discuss clothes and looks. We decided to postpone hobbies for a bit; the perfect choice to dive into something more playful and visual while...
Grade 6 AAL students
This week, grade 6 AAL students demonstrated enthusiasm, knowledge, and enjoyment through using the Arabic words that they learned. They created Blooket games entitled "What We Learned" using the words they learned to formulate the game's questions and answers.
News from Grade 2SB
This week in our UOI lessons we have begun looking at the types of homes around the world and the biomes in which these homes are located. By observing and learning about the biomes we can find out which materials can be used to build a home. This inquiry related to...
انجاز طلاب الصف الثاني
كل الشكر والتقدير لطلاب الصف الثاني على انجازاتهم الرائعة في حصة اللغة العربية
بدأ فترة الاختبارات القصيرة الثانية في الصف السادس
بدأ الصف السادس بفترة الاختبارات القصيرة الثانية خلال هذا الأسبوع مع مادة التربية الإسلامية وسنواصل هذه الفترة خلال الأسبوع القادم أداء الاختبارات المتبقية، وقد أظهر طلبة الصف السادس الجدّ والاجتهاد في هذه المرحلة الصعبة التي تساير أيام عمان النوفمبرية، ومن هنا نطلب...
الدراسات الاجتماعية
الاستعدادات للاختبارات النهائية من خلال التقويمات القصيرة والتدريبات لطلاب الصف العاشر
Exploring Forces in Motion at the Port
What an exciting week it was in Grade 5 as we went on our first field trip of the year to the port! It was great to see students excited and being able to name different forces and simple machines in action! We talked about where people used their understanding of...
Week 11 in 1B
In our Unit of Inquiry, children explore sensory bins with leaves, rocks, flowers, and sand. They look closely, touch gently, and sometimes smell the items, then describe what they notice using simple words like rough, smooth, soft, hard, light, heavy, and fragrant....
Week 11 in 3SC
This week we started our new unit of inquiry, Sharing the Planet by identifying different types of extreme weather, We talked about our experiences of floods in Oman and cyclone Shaheen. We looked at each type of weather and used adjectives about the colours, shapes...
Week 11 in Grade 1A
This week, we went outside and practiced our skip counting with sidewalk chalk, counting by twos, fives, and tens up to 50. It was a fun way to combine movement and learning! Additionally, we learned new “spelling friends,” such as qu and ou, which help students read...
The Head's Blog
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...
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...