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News image Why Good Sleep is Vital - why-good-sleep-is-vital Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Why Good Sleep is Vital
Our Head of Secondary, Mr. Irving, writes about why a good night's sleep is incredibly important for health.
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News image Downtime - Not a Myth, but a Necessary Reality - downtime--not-a-myth-but-a-necessary-reality Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Downtime - Not a Myth, but a Necessary Reality
As a community of learners, our lives are often frantic with deadlines to meet, planning to be done, skills to be mastered and knowledge to be absorbed. All of us are accustomed to sustained hard work of course, but sometimes we forget to build in some ‘downtime’, to relax and recharge those metaphorical mental and physical batteries.
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News image Message from the Principal: Term 3 - message-from-the-principal-term-3 Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Message from the Principal: Term 3
Our Principal Patrick Horne warmly welcomes our families back from Spring break for the start of Term 3. He discusses what is coming up in term 3, as well as term dates for the 2018/19 academic year.
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News image Signs that your child may be too stressed - signs-that-your-child-may-be-too-stressed Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Signs that your child may be too stressed
Stress is part of everyday life, but how do you know if your child is overwhelmed? Here are some signs to consider if you think that your child might be stressed and what you can do as a parent to help them cope.
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News image Animal Welfare Campaign - animal-welfare-campaign Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Animal Welfare Campaign
The PTA, in coordination with the Senior Service leaders group, Animal Aces, will be running an animal welfare awareness campaign throughout the school this month.
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News image Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve - ebbinghaus-forgetting-curve Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve
Forgetting happens very quickly and many of us will forget more than 50% of information within the first few days after learning it. So how can we prevent this happening? The answer is in regular reviewing, starting soon after the initial learning and then continuing on for subsequent occasions.
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News image IB Graduation – Class of 2017 - ib-graduation-class-of-2017 Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
IB Graduation – Class of 2017
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News image Parents Survey 2017 - parents-survey-2017 Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
Parents Survey 2017
Thanks to all parents who completed our Parents Survey last term and all those who regularly come into school to discuss their children’s education. Your ongoing communication and support for the school is greatly appreciated. The results of the Parents Survey are extremely useful for us in terms of confirming what is going well at school as well as highlighting the next stages of development.
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News image ‘The Achievosaurs’ in EYFS - the-achievosaurs-in-eyfs Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
‘The Achievosaurs’ in EYFS
At BIS Abu Dhabi we like to focus not only on what children are learning, but also on how they are learning. This term we have introduced learning dinosaurs ‘The Achievosaurs’ in our Early Years classes, which are based on the characteristics of effective learning from the EYFS framework.
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News image Enter the Global Classroom Visual Arts Competition - enter-the-global-classroom-visual-arts-competition Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
Enter the Global Classroom Visual Arts Competition
Calling all BIS artists… welcome to this year’s visual arts competition! Students at BIS Abu Dhabi, along with the Nord Anglia Education network of schools, have been invited to take part in creating art inspired by one of the winning Creative Writing Competition entries. Selected artworks will be published in the Creative Writing & Visual Arts Anthology 2016-17.
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News image Tanzania Expedition - tanzania-expedition Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
Tanzania Expedition
This December, GCSE and IB students will be travelling to Tanzania in a life-changing experience as they attempt to make a lasting impact on the local community of Arusha.
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News image Teacher Training, CSI - teacher-training-csi Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
Teacher Training, CSI
As a school with an international reputation, plus part of Nord Anglia Education, we are able to attract some highly experienced and talented teachers to join our team. In addition to this, it is then crucial that the ongoing professional development of our teachers is of the highest standard. Our teachers then continue to learn as part of BIS Abu Dhabi, remain at BIS Abu Dhabi and can offer more to their classes for many years to come.
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News image British International School Awards 2017 - british-international-school-awards-2017 Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
British International School Awards 2017
We are very pleased to be able to inform everyone that BIS Abu Dhabi has been nominated and shortlisted for the British International School Awards 2017.
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News image Attitude - attitude Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
Attitude
There are many factors that go into a successful education. We often consider the things which are most visible: the teacher, the resources, the homework for example. In this week’s article I want to raise another aspect which is Attitude.
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News image Breast Cancer Awareness Month - breast-cancer-awareness-month Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month at BIS and the PTA and student community have organised important initiatives to raise awareness and funds.
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News image FS2 Phonics Workshop - fs2-phonics-workshop Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
FS2 Phonics Workshop
We would like to invite FS2 parents to our workshop on Monday 5th October at 8am. The aim of the workshop will be to give parents a better understanding of how we teach Phonics and how you may help support your child at home.
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News image Exciting Times - exciting-times Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Exciting Times
Mr Patrick Horne writes his first blog post of the academic year, as well as recognising some successes from the year just finished.
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News image Is your child interested in learning an instrument? - is-your-child-interested-in-learning-an-instrument Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Is your child interested in learning an instrument?
Enrollment for instrumental music lessons at BIS Abu Dhabi is now open. Instrumental lessons will take the same format as last year, where pupils will leave their classrooms for 30 minutes to be taught by a specialist music teacher from the Juli Music Institute.
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News image Uniform Guidance - uniform-guidance Blog | category11 | Posts From Our People
Uniform Guidance
Every new school year is an exciting time for teachers and students and in preparation it is important that we remind ourselves of the high standards of appearance we expect from our students.
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News image Year 6 BISCARs - year-6-biscars Blog | category11 | Featured | Posts From Our People
Year 6 BISCARs
The Year 6 BISCARS 2015 took place on the 14th of June. The BISCARS is a graduation ceremony presented for Year 6 in preparation of moving up into Secondary School. During the ceremony students were presented with awards such as PSHE awards, The Arts award, The Music awards, PE awards and more.
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