Making the grades, creating the best university application possible, and deciding what the future looks like. Students encounter some of their biggest academic decisions and experiences in their final years of school - but they aren’t expected to do this alone.
On Monday, 22nd March, our Year 12 students were introduced to some of the key components of the Extended Essay: Research Skills, Academic Honesty and the upcoming Extended Essay Cafe.
In Social Studies B, Year 9 students have been learning about water. They have looked at where water comes from in the UAE; specifically ground sources, desalination and cloud seeding. To encourage students to use their critical skills, a debate was held on the topic of cloud seeding.
A number of our Year 6 students took part in the Digital Summit today. This inter-school coding competition was hosted virtually for the first time, and brought together students from a number of schools across Abu Dhabi and Dubai to test their coding skills against one another.
Just before the half-term break, a select number of promising mathematicians from Years 9 - 11 entered the UK Mathematical Trusts’ Intermediate Mathematical Challenge. This highly-regarded Trust challenges students’ problem-solving abilities, working outside of traditional curriculum topics.
Your child’s natural desire to learn, experiment and question is fundamentally important to their education and development, so at The British International School Abu Dhabi we do not give our students all of the answers. Instead, we give them some of life’s most interesting questions and challenges, and the tools to tackle them.
For all of our students at The British International School Abu Dhabi, our University Guidance Counsellor plays a key part in helping them to understand and successfully navigate the pathway to their university of choice.