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So many things happen at ABIS and we love to share!Oct 14: Coffee Morning for Primary & Secondary Parents
Dear parents, As another week comes to a close, I am reminded of what makes ABIS such a special place for learning here in Sohar. When visitors and parents speak about our school, they often comment on the exceptional dedication of our teachers, the care and attention...
Grade 10 – Making Connection
In our first unit in Integrated Humanities we have looked at how Europe transformed form a feudal system into industrial societies. This has been conceptually challenging. Getting students to understand or imagine the history context it difficult enough. However to...
Drawing the letter “ت” (taa) inside plates as an art activity.
“Writing an Arabic letter to my father and interactive Arabic games.”
GRADE 4 AAL
To develop students' speaking skills, grade 4 AAL students conversed with each other about purchasing different types of fruits and vegetables from the grocery market, using correct pronunciation and understanding of the meaning. The students enjoyed this interaction,...
Week 7: What are Traits?
Introduction to the Extended Essay
1. This Week in Our Learning: • Today in our advisory session, we introduced the diploma year one students to the extended essay. This a first exam session for the new extended essay guide and many new and exciting opportunities have been opened to students. The IB is...
مشروع عبقري الإعراب في الصف السادس
تواصل الصف السادس في تنفيذ مشروع عبقري الإعراب خلال الأسابيع الماضية من خلال إعطاء الطلبة جملة يوميا ليقوموا بإعرابها مع التنويع المختلف للجمل لتغطية المواضيع التي تمت دراستها في النحو، والتوسع من خلالها لآفاق جديدة لم يدرسوها لمحاولة توسيع آفاق الطلبة المتميزين في...
الام الزائرة
استقبل طلاب الصف الثاني ولية امر الطالبة الين البادي السيدة سامية العمورى حيث قدمت لهم نشاطا رائعا وحصة متميزة عن الطعام الصحي وختمت نشاطها المميز بتقديم طبق من سلطة الفواكه الصحية للطلاب كل الشكر والتقدير...
Learning in G2
This week we have been exploring how community and natural spaces are being used by people, animals and plants. We listed many ideas, including: camping, picnics, playgrounds, sports grounds, fishing, etc. We asked questions about our ideas and then explored how me...
Week 7 Learning Highlights and Updates
Dear Roblox Parents, Photos Week 6 I was unwell for most of this week and have been in and out of school (your child may have mentioned this already), but despite that, we’ve had a wonderfully engaging week of learning and inquiry in our classroom! Our spelling...
2B News Flash!!!
Weekly Photos Here Another exciting week in classroom 2B. For our UOI we completed our Venn Diagrams with partners. Students worked together comparing the similarities and differences of the landscape inside of the ABIS walls and the landscape outside our walls....
G3 # Take Action!
Dear Parents All students are enjoying our human body exploration. They are aware that their choices affect them daily. They are making good food choices and staying active.
How Writing Develops
Just like learning to talk or walk, learning to write is a process that happens in stages — and every child moves through those stages at their own pace. Writing development reflects a child’s growing understanding of letters, sounds, words, and how we use them to...
We’re on the Move! Full speed into our new unit of inquiry!
This week, students put their class Who We Are action plan into action! We’ve just about finished all the parts and are now getting ready to create our display on the wall. The children are so proud of their teamwork and can’t wait to share the finished result with...
Week 7 in G6
Dear Parents, Another action packed week in Grade 6. Probably the highlight was our mini UN summit of empathy. In this exciting event students represented one of 6 fictional countries (all with very big differences in terms of health care, education, industry,...
Week 7 in 1B
This week in Grade 1, we deepened our exploration of Who We Are by thinking about the choices we make and how they shape our classroom community. In math and literacy centers, students rotated through hands-on tasks that built confidence in reading, writing, number...
Week 7 in Grade 1A
This week, our students continued developing their understanding of numbers up to 20. Many of them can now count independently. We took the next step by learning about even and odd numbers. What do these words mean, and how can we tell if a number is even or odd? We...
“Learning the Letter ب through Creativity and Collaboration”
From Assessment to Achievement.
Grade 7 Advisory – Summative Success or Summative Stress?
Middle School students faced the first round of Summative Assessments this week, and the reality of the secondary academic workload is setting in! We saw some students handle them admirably—planning their time, completing homework, and coming in relaxed and ready....
The Head's Blog
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...
Holidays, events and reports…
I hope you all had a great holiday, I did! I am writing to give you an update on holidays (tentative and otherwise) and some dates for events coming up over the next few months. You will have all notice that next Saturday and Sunday are tentatively on the calendar as...
Eid Holidays – School Closed from 3 to 11 of November
Well, the Eid holidays are upon us and I know that we are all looking forward to the break! The school will be closed from Thursday 3rd of November and will reopen on Saturday 12th of November at 8.00AM sharp. I would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a...
School as usual on the 25th & 26th of October
On the School Calendar you may have noticed that there are two Teacher Professional Development days marked as being tentatively reserved for the 25th and 26th of October. After reviewing the calendar, we have decided that it would be wise to move these days until...
Welcome the the Broadcaster!
Since presenting the idea of putting the Broadcaster online at the Curriculum Evening a couple of weeks ago, we have been busy making sure that there is something interesting to read and see before we go public! We have tried to include photos from recent events, some...
Some stimulating stuff from Ken Robinson
As promised in a previous post, I have included a a video that we at ABIS are particularly interested in at the moment. It is based on a speech the Sir Ken Robinson originally made at the Royal Society of Arts in London.To compliment the speech the RSA have...
The video from my presentation
As promised, here is the video that I showed in my presentation at the Curriculum Evening. The IB have created a few really interesting videos that summarize the philosophy of the programme rather well. We have included some others in the Community Site. If you are...
Curriculum Meeting, Camels and Power cuts!
First of all, I would like to thank you all for your support and understanding last Wednesday. Closing the school is always a difficult decision but when there are significant factors outside of our control, like a power cut, then we often have no alternative. The...