Welcome to my blog!
One of the most important skills that students learn at school is the ability to communicate effectively. Sharing our learning is important and here in my blog I will attempt to share some what is important with you.
I hope you find it useful and informative.
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!...
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...
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...