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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!WIDA TEST
Dear Parents, This week, our school has begun the WIDA testing process. WIDA is an important assessment that helps us understand how well students are developing their English language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. ✅ Why WIDA testing matters: It...
Week 2: Exploring “Who We Are”
What an exciting second week in Grade 5! We launched our first Unit of Inquiry, Who We Are, with the central idea: understanding and managing our feelings helps us build a healthy self-concept and develop resilience. We kicked off with a playful provocation—Miss...
French Connections: Health, Travel, Identity (Week 3 / Semaine 3)
Dear Parents, G10 wrapped up their diagnostic and jumped straight into the big question, what is health? We teased apart empathy, sympathy, and compassion, and connected these to the Social and Self-management ATL skills like "practising empathy” and “positive...
حار وبارد في الصف السادس
قام الصف السادس بعمل عصير حار وبارد من خلال عصر الليمونات ووضعها في دورق وإضافة الماء لها وكبشنا عدة ملاعق من السكر لإضافة الطعم اللذيذ لعصير حار بارد بلمسات طلبة لصف السادس ومشاركة الطالب المتألق أحمد المعمري بليمونات حامضة تضفي جمال عصيرنا الذي تناوله طلبة...
Week 2
Egg-cellent Engineering & Physics in Action! 🚀 Our DP1 Physicists kicked off their at-home experiments with a classic, high-stakes challenge: The Egg Drop! The mission, should they choose to accept it, was to build a device that could protect a raw...
Who we are
In Grade 2 this week we have worked together to build our understanding of the Learner Profile attributes. Students worked in small groups to create a poster of what a particular attribute might look, sound or feel like. Students were able to articulate their...
Utopia Unit Grade 10 Art
This Week in Our Learning: This week, our Grade 10 MYP Art students continued developing their Utopia unit by experimenting with acrylic paints to design an ideal background for their final artwork. Acting as architects, students explored how the aesthetic style of...
Week 2 in 3SC
Thank you to everyone who came to the Parent Information Evening. I sent the leaflet with all the information and an overview of our first unit on Seesaw this week. The students have been busy in all of their lessons and becoming more organised with their resources...
الاحتفال بمناسبة المولد النبوي
قام طلاب الصف اليوم بتنفيذ فعالية للاحتفال بالمولد النبوي حيث قاموا بالانشاد ومشاهدة مقطع فيديو كرتوني عن المولد النبوي واستمتعوا بتناول الحلويات...
Week 2: Art and Culture
Interactive games for teaching Arabic to the fifth grade
Grade 7 – Service as Action (SA)
It was fantastic to meet so many of you at our Parent Information Evening on Tuesday. Thank you so much for coming along and supporting our Grade 7 students as they navigate a brand new programme. It is crucial that we build these relationships, and work together to...
2B News Flash!!!
Weekly Photos Here The second week is complete!! Students have been busy working on spelling, phonics, reading, and of course writing. We had our first spelling test this Thursday. The students completed a story map about The Tortoise and the Hare. They were...
This week in Music
I hope this message finds you well as we settle into the new school year. The music department is off to a fantastic start, and I'd like to share an update on what our students are working on. In 7th grade, our students have officially embarked on their exciting unit...
G8 Language and Literature اللغة والأدب
During this week, the eighth-grade students studied a unit entitled “A Journey into the World of Writing”, which aimed to introduce them to the concept of creative writing, its main components, and how a literary text can serve as a mirror of life and human...
Week 2 in Grade 6!
Dear Parents, We have had another fabulous action packed week in Grade 6. In our How We Organise Ourselves unit we have been starting to set personal goals connected to our physical, social, academic and mental health. We have been using the SMART criteria to make our...
Grade 3 is Busy!
Dear Parents All students are fully engaged and enjoying been back at school. They are involved and doing their best.
Week 2 in 1B
This week in Grade 1B we continued our Who We Are unit by building our class community: students created “Who I Am” self-portraits and shared favourites, interviewed classmates and recorded results with tally marks, and co-wrote our 1B Class Agreements (listening...
Week 2
Dear Parents, We have started the school year with the Unit of Inquiry Who We Are, which is a wonderful way for students to get to know each other and to explore what makes each of us unique. This week, the students painted the Colorful Monsters. Each monster...
Hello and welcome from Al Batinah International School – ABIS 🌟
First Week in Grade 1C
On Sunday, students arrived excited, shy, happy or nervous for their first day in Grade 1 but soon joined together to play, draw, talk and get to know each other. It is a very busy time but such an important week of learning new routines, spaces and faces! By the...
The Head's Blog
Parent Handbook available now!
I have attached the new ABIS Parent Handbook. Please take a take some time to download and read this important document. ABIS Parent Handbook 2012/13 Thank you.
IMPORTANT: Message about school bus service
We had a meeting this morning with the gentleman who has provided our bus service over the last years. Totally out of the blue, he demanded that the parents pay double the amount that they were paying last year. Unfortunately, there was no way of negotiating with him,...
School Starts Tomorrow!
Another great year of learning, growing, and having fun begins next week at ABIS. We're looking forward to seeing our friends return and we can't wait to see all those new faces! Here's some basic information to get us started: On Saturday, September 1, the school...
Welcome to all our new students
I would like to extend a very warm welcome to all our new families here at our school! In order to make you feel welcome at the school this year we are holding a New Student Orientation Meeting at 10.00 am on Saturday, September 1st. This will be your opportunity to...
Amazing Race
A exciting program for grade 3-5 Dear Parents, Grade 3- 5 will be having a amazing race on June thirteenth. The amazing race will be held at A.B.I.S. We will use the whole school. They will be 9 different stations. Some stations will be physical and some station will...
Yearbooks ready to order!
The ABIS 2011/12 Yearbook is ready for order! We are very proud of our yearbook this year with 130 pages of photos and memories between the covers. As I wrote in my previous letter, we will not be distributing CDs this year containing the yearbook so the only way of...
Public Holiday Announced
Please be aware that a public holiday has been announced for next week. School will be closed for students on Saturday and Sunday. Staff will be in school on Sunday.
End of Year procedures
we enter the last three weeks of school, I would like to share some information regarding the end of year events and procedures. The End of Year Reports will be distributed on Saturday 23rd of June for returning students. We will not be able to issue any reports...
New Staff!
I am very happy to announce that we have two new staff members who have joined our team. We have been searching for a teacher of Arabic as an additional language for the children in the Primary School since the beginning of the academic year and finally we found one....
Swimming Gala
We are all really excited about the Swimming Gala coming up tomorrow and hope that as many of you as possible can come along, even for some of the time. Unfortunately, I have a meeting in Muscat a 9.00 tomorrow that just can't be moved so I'll be late to the event so...
iPad Handbook – revised edition
Please find the updated version of the iPad Handbook attached. We sincerely apologize that an incorrect version of this document was posted. I know it caused some raised blood pressure! Ramesh Warrier, the school Business Manager, will be on hand at the meeting on...
Grade 5 camp – Day 3
Just spoken with the Grade 5 team. Everyone had a great day today. The morning were spent at the caves and the afternoon in Niswa castle and souq. The student explored the castle and then switched into shopping mode at the souq. Be prepared for lots of golden camels!...