Al Batinah International School

Sohar, Oman

When it was time to leave Dubai, we were excited when

International School Services offered us a chance to work
starting a school from the ground up. Little did we know how
interesting the work of the next three years would be!
The term life-long learning took on real meaning for us
during the three years at A.B.I.S.as the school grew from an
idea with no name, to a villa with twenty-six students, to a
campus with over one hundred students. Here we learned the
value of flexibility - adjusting to new teaching roles and new
job titles. It was a steep, but satisfying learning curve as we
tried to jump in and not wait to be asked to complete the work
that needed to be done whether it was educational,
organizational or even mechanical! Luckily, we had a group of
people surrounding us who were also ready and willing to take
on these unique challenges.
This school community became family, and we enjoyed the
variation of the tasks of each day and the students that we
taught.