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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...
Growth, community, celebration, annual report
Dear Parents and Students, As the 2024–2025 academic year comes to a close, I would like to congratulate all our students on their hard work, dedication, and growth throughout the year. This has been the most vibrant and dynamic year since I joined ABIS, filled with a...
End-of-Year Message of Gratitude & Celebration 🎉
💐 A heartfelt thank youI would like to extend my sincere gratitude to our incredible leadership team — Mr. Dominic, Mr. Matthew, and Ms. Zuweina — for their unwavering support, inspiring vision, and constant encouragement.Your trust and dedication empowered us...
The Head's Blog
Oman Week – Grade 4, Day 3
Grade 4 have been really busy in Muscat today. Ms Saunders (clever teacher that she is!) saved the best museum to last. The Armed Forces Museum was a real hit with all the children with many of them planning to convince their parents to visit again. When I spoke to...
Public Holiday Announced!
A public holiday has been announced today. as a result the school will be closed on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of February. School will resume on Monday the 6th of February at 08:15 as usual. I would like to wish you all a restful few days. This holiday is...
Swimming pool renovations and improvements almost complete
As many of you know, we have been investing a great deal in our pool over the last few months. We have installed a heater / cooler system that will enable us to use the pool throughout the year. This is a great addition. The pool had also developed some sharp cracks...
Come and visit our great new library!
As part of the changes preparing for the second semester we have moved our library! With the arrival of the iPads we no longer needed the computer lab to be situated in the centre of the upper floor of the school. Yesterday, we set up our new library where it should...
IPads meeting February 13th
We are happy to announce that we will be holding our iPad meeting on February 13th at 17.30 in the Gym. At this meeting we will be distributing the iPads to families who have children in grades 3 to 9 and we will be explaining about the programme. We will also be...
Kindergarten on the move!
Many of you will have noticed changes in the Kindergarten area over the last two days. Our K3 class has been growing over the year until, in December we reached our full class capacity. We had two students on the waiting list and instead of turning them away we...
News from the Grade 6, 7 & 8 Sailing Camp
Mr Duffield has just spoken with me and said that they have just cooked dinner at their camp and are just putting some marshmallows on the fire. They had a wonderful day and all the children loved it on the water! They are really tired now and will be heading off to...
Get involved in After School Activities!
The new block of After School Activities will be starting soon and we are looking for parents who are willing to contribute to our programme to make it as rich and as interesting for the students as possible. If you the time to commit one hour a week for a period of 8...
New SMS Service
As many of you know, we have been working hard over the last few months to try to get as many people as possible involved in what is going on at the school. To this end we have been working on a communication strategy which has the goal of trying to communicate...
New wireless network is up and running…
Sometimes the bits that no one sees are the most challenging and the iPad project is a prime example of this. Getting the iPads was relatively easy but making them work in the school situation has been more challenging! I am really happy to announce that as of today...
iPads are coming to ABIS
As I announced in the recent Parent Information Evening, ABIS will be taking a giant leap into the future very soon. In time for Semester 2 we will be putting iPads in the hands of all our Grade 3 to 9 students. We are incredibly excited about this plan and have been...
Holidays are here!
Winter Holidays have arrived and everyone is really excited about having a well deserved break. I has been a wonderfully successful term with so many great things to celebrate. We are looking forward to an exciting 2012 with iPads, Sports Day and Oman Week just around...