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12 September 2014Volume 3
ES PARENT BULLETIN
International School Manila
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER
SEPT
16 Parent Coffee, 7.45 - 9AM (LT)
17Kindergarten Parent Coffee, 8.30 - 9.30AM
ES Faculty Lounge
17, 24Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,
8.30AM
25MAP Information Parent Coffee, 7.45 - 9AM
(RM.2123)
26 ES Parent Bulletin
OCT
1, 8, 15,
22Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,
8.30AM
6 NO CLASSES, School Holiday
7 PS-12 Parent Workshop, 7.45 - 9.30AM (LT)
10, 24 Parent Bulletin
14, 15Parent Teacher Student Conferences
Early Student Release, 12.00PM
24 Filipiniana
27-31 NO CLASSES, Semester Break
From te ES AdministrationFrom te ES Administration
ALearningCommunity
Educaon is one field that has a language and vernacular all
of its own. At mes, this can prove to be puzzling for the
families as you bear the onslaught of phraseology coming at
you, parcularly if English is not your first language, as is the
case for over two thirds of our community. One of these o
heard phrases is a learning community what does this
actually mean? Well, over the past week we feel that on anumber of levels, ISM has been true to this concept. Last
Tuesday, we held a successful Open House evening where a
large proporon of our parent community was able to get an
insight into their childs learning at ISM. On Thursday, Friday
and Saturday, the Elementary School then hosted a group of
25 vising teachers and leaders from three other established
Internaonal School in Asia Western Academy Beijing, China
(WAB), New Internaonal School Thailand, (NIST) and
Yokohama Internaonal School, Japan (YIS). This is the third
symposium which has been held by the four schools, with a
purpose of bringing together teachers and leaders in similarinquirybased schools to open up discussions and
collaboraon based upon classroom pracce and
pedagogy. A key element of the symposium rests upon the
fact that students are actually in school at the me, such that
classroom observaons can take place and elements of co
planning and coteaching can occur. Eleven praconers
from ISM parcipated in this collaborave project, with the
premise of moving from theory to pracce.
On Sunday, ISM hosted Michael Thompson, author and
educaonal psychologist. He spent three days with our
community, where he had the opportunity to meet with ourleadership team, teachers, parents, counselors and
students. The depth of discourse was inspiring and powerful
as all our key stakeholders were involved in the discussions.
Three separate events all held at ISM over the past week,
supporng the learning of our enre community students,
parents and faculty. Does this make us a learning
community?
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Homework
It is amazing how one simple word can evoke so many
emoons in so many of us. Ask a Middle or High Schooler
and their eyes may roll. Ask any adult their opinion on
homework and you will get a broad range of responses,mainly stemming from their own experiences with
homework and how this has now influenced their thinking.
On Tuesday next week at our Elementary Parent Coffee
session, we will be looking at the topic of
homework. Some of the ideas we will be thinking about
are:
What should learning at home look like?
Upon which principles of learning is this based?
What are the homework guidelines in the Elementary
School at ISM?
Please join us at 7:30 am next Tuesday, 16th September in
the Lile Theater for an interacve session.
Adam CampbelElementary Principal
Michael RourkeElementary Assistant Principal
Please note that PE venues for all classes are changing as of next week (beginning September 15). Your child's class will be in the
following facilies for the next four weeks:
PE Venues: September 15 October 10, 2014
John Van GaalenES Physical Education Program Leader
From ES Physical Education TeamFrom ES Physical Education Team
From te Art Team
Dear Families,
Please consider the Elementary Artroom when you aredisposing of your gently used items. Cardboard pieces,
toys, books, paper bags, wire hangers, Old t
shirts, Newspapers, Paper towel rolls, Styrofoam trays,
Broken toys would be greatly appreciated for the
Artroom treasure boxes here at
ISM.
Thank you in advance for your
help in strengthening our class
room resource
collecon this year!
Coach Bill ES Gym
Coach Chapman Covered Court/ES Field
Coach van Gaalen Swimming Pool
Coach Nat Gymnastics
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ISM UNIFORM SHOPSTARTING SEPT 02,2014
THE UNIFORM SHOP WILL OPEN EVERY
TUESDAY & FRIDAY FROM 7:00AM TO 4:00PM
THANK YOU
BY MANAGEMENT
MB GARMENTS MFG INC
Message from te Clinic:
The Common Cold or Sipon is an infecon of the nasal mucosa, including the sinuses, the throat
and or bronchi. It is caused primarily by viruses of different species, like Rhino, Entero, Corona,
Adenoor Paramyxoviruses, and there are more than 200 strains known to cause a common cold.
Colds are the most common infecon of mankind.
While adults catch a cold in average two to three mes a year, children are affected up to thirteen
mes more oen.
In the past few days there have been arcles about respiratory complicaons, caused by Enterovirus
(EV) D68 in children in some states of USA, as well as in some Asian countries, including the Philip
pines.
Enteroviruses form a quite large family of viruses, and cause 10 15 million infecons in the US yearly. Generally they tend to have
a summer/fall season that oen peaks in September, and can be easily spread when you have close contact with an infected per
son. You can also get infected by touching objects or surfaces that have the virus on them then touching your mouth, nose or eyes,
the CDC (the US based Center for Disease Control and Prevenon) says.
EV D68 however is a rare virus. A peak has been noted in the past weeks in some hospitals in several states of the US, where EV
D68 caused a large percentage of respiratory complicaons in children, 6 weeks to 16 years of age, with symptoms of common
cold. Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDCs Naonal Center for Immunizaon and Respiratory Diseases said it was too early to say
whether the virus would spread to other states and how long the outbreak might last.
The CDC stated last Monday that none of the cases so far this year were fatal, nor did any result in paralysis, as far as the CDC
knows.
Health officials note that there are no vaccines specifically formulated to prevent Enterovirus D68 or anviral drugs to treat it.
Affected children were receiving asthma medicaons, oxygen and intravenous fluids as needed, the Kansas City Star reported.
Schuchat stressed that one warning sign parents should look for in their children is difficulty breathing, which should prompt par
ents to seek immediate medical aenon.
It seems to produce illness with a more severe component (such as) difficulty breathing, Dr. William Schaffner, an infecous dis
eases expert at Vanderbilt University, told NBC News in a Monday report. But the vast majority of these kids will get beer.
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Campus Card Corner
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From te PTA
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From te ATAC OfficeFrom te ATAC Office
IASAS Volleyball/XC housing needed ASAP! ISM is hosng the IASAS Volleyball/Cross Country Championships Oct 1519.
We need to house 170 athletes for this event. Please print and submit a housing leer to ATAC office asap if you can
support this event. We really need lots of ISM community spirit to help make this a wonderful event for our communi
ty. You can access housing informaon/FAQ's and the housing leer via this link: hp://atac.ismonline.org/iasas/iasas
housing/
IMPORTANTplease note as of Tuesday Aug 26th the final bus will now depart at 5:05pm, not 4:45pm. This later bus
departure me is being done on a 1 month trial basis.
Upcomingmatches:
SatSept12Cross Country at Faith
SatSept1213Varsity Cross Country exchange at ISB/Volleyball exchange at SAS
VarsitySoccerexchangeatISM ComeonouttosupportourteamsthisFridayandSaturday.
FriSept12VGirls vs UP 4pm MSF/VBoys vs Ateneo 5:30pm HSF
SatSept13VGirls vs UST 8am and vs Ateneo 2pm/VBoys vs UP 8am and vs Lyceum 12:30pm
Parents and students please take some me to peruse the ATAC blog it has a wide variety of informaon and links to
our sports and acvies program. If you have any quesons regarding the compeve program of sports at ISM aer
reading the informaon on the blog please send an email to [email protected] and I will endeavor to assist you as
best I can.
The ES/MS Soccer Fesvals have informaon at these links. Please note recent fesval venue changes for the C and G
teams. Please check carefully.
hp://atac.ismonline.org/atac/1stseason/essoccerrifaleaguefesvals/
hp://atac.ismonline.org/atac/1stseason/mssoccerrifaleaguefesvals/
Bearcat Dendrop by our new spirit store. There is a range of new products and items to purchase including items from
our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operaon7am4pm MonFri. We have new frisbees, swim goggles, bearcat
socks and other products now available.
TheATACgameschedulepdfwhichisupdatedregularlybyTrizGonzalez(ATACAthlecsCoordinator)givesthe
mostuptodateinformaononwhere/whenandwhoourBearcatteamswillbeplayingthroughouttheschool
year.AccesstothegamescheduleisviatheISMparentportalnotviapowerschoolasinthepast.Kindlyaccess
theparentportal,loginwithyourusername/passwordandlookfortheATACGameScheduletab.Rememberto
refreshthepagewhenthepdfscheduleappearssoyouviewthemostcurrentschedule.
Regards,
Mark PekinAthletic Director
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