issue no. 25 (week of february 28 to march 04)

8/7/2019 Issue No. 25 (Week of February 28 to March 04)

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Student Bulletin

M I DD EL S C OH LO

Volume 3, Issue # 25

WEEK AT A GLANCE

Dear Students:

The exciting process of course registration begins this week. What electives would you like to take? Please discuss theoptions with your teachers and family. If you don’t have the chance to complete registration during Homebase, you canregister for classes during break or lunch times. Just access the course registration site on a workstation in the MSMC,print out your course selection sheet and remember to get your parent’s signature. Registration can only be completedcampus, not at home. Are you ready for World Maths Day? This week you will have a chance to show your skills. Please see the bulletin for information on this summer’s ISM Sports Camps. What an excellent way to stay active thissummer! Camps are available for Basketball, Badminton, Soccer, Rugby and Volleyball. If you’re interested, completeform to reserve a spot. Don’t miss the Friday mini-concert in the MS Courtyard. At 3:00 P.M. the Advanced/Intermediate Band will entertain usall.

Ms. Fredericks and Ms. Sayson

Upcoming Events in the Middle School PowerSchool Grade Updat

February 28 to March 04, 2011

March 01 to 02 World Maths Day

02 to 04 MS Course Registration

04 Courtyard Mini-Concert: Advanced/Intermediate Band

05 ISM Goodwill Gymnastics (LT)

07 MS Academic Bowl 15 Parent Teacher Conferences

18 Activity Period (1:20 P.M.)

18 Courtyard Activity (3:00 P.M., MS Courtyard)

21 to 25 Spring Break

30 to April 20 MAP Testing

April 11 School Holiday (Bataan Day)

13 Parent Coffee (8:30 A.M., LT)

21 to 22 School Holiday (Holy Week)

26 MS/HS Beginning Recital (5:00 P.M., LT)

27 Activity Period (1:35 P.M.)

May 02 School Holiday (Labor Day)

03 to 13 MS Art Exhibition (FAT Gallery)

04 to 06 Grade 4 Ambassador Program

Mar. 11 - Progress Reports

Distribution

April 08 - Grade Update

February 28 to March 04, 2011

Monday, February 28 School Holiday (EDSA Revolution Day)

Tuesday, March 01 School Holiday (Faculty In-Service)

Wednesday, March 02 Student Late Start/Regular ScheduleMS Grade Level Assembly (11:40 A.M.)Gr. 5 - HB; Gr. 6 - FAT; Grade 7 - MS Gym; Gr. 8 - LT

Thursday, March 03 Regular Schedule

Friday, March 04 Regular Schedule



SERVICE & ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATES

Welcome back after CWW! We hope you made great connections and had meaningful learning experiences with the many oganizations that took part in CWW. Hooked on Service and Eco? Get involved… Grab a group of your friends and go see Gracfor a permission slip!

CCV- Chosen Children’s Village is on Saturday, March 5th.Permission Slips at MS Guidance with Gorgeous Grace.

Eco Explorers- Saturday, March 12th.

More info to follow…

Stay tuned!

Tara Barton HS/MS Visual Art- 1169 MS Service and Environmental Learning Coordinator [email protected] http://ms-eco.ism-online.org/



After School Activities



FROM THE ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES OFFICE

IASAS Cultural Conventions 2011 Next week, March 3rd, our Cultural Convention delegations departfor Kuala Lumpur (Dance, Drama, Debate and Forensics) and Ja-karta (Art and Music). We wish all delegates the best of luck andhope that the hard work in the lead up to the Convention will bereflected in the big performances required next week. Informa-tion about the Cultural Convention events can be obtained via theIASAS website next week as results for the debate and forensics

competition will be posted regularly by the host schools.www.iasas.asia

Good luck to all delegates and advisors at Cultural Convention2011.

ISM GOODWILL GYMNASTICS MEET – SATURDAY, MARCH 5TH, MSGYM ISM will host our annual gymnastics meet on March 5th. This is ahuge event for our gymnastics team and this year we have recordnumbers of entries with 300+ gymnasts coming to twirl/tumbleand flip their way through routines on Floor, Beam, Bars and Vaultfrom level 1 to 6 competition. This is a great event for our schoolto host and our gymnastics coaches led by Coach Ramon along

with the Gymnastics parents volunteers have been very busy coor-dinating many details for this event.

Please come along to the MS Gym on Saturday, March 5 to supportour Bearcat Gymnastics Team and to watch the event. Food anddrinks are available and it is a great day to watch some excellentgymnastics here in Manila.

Schedule is as follows: 7:00 A.M. - 8:00 A.M. General Warm-up8:30 A.M. - 10:30 A.M. WAG Level 1 competition11:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. WAG Level 2 competition12:30 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. Warm -up for Level 3, 4, 5 and

Level 1 boys

1:00 P.M. - 4:30 P.M. WAG Level 3, 4, 5 andMAG Level 1 competition

Awards will take place in the Little Theatre right after each sec-tion of the competition.

ISM INTERNATIONAL SWIM MEETLast weekend ISM Sailfish Swim team hosted the first internationalswim meet at our school pool with teams from Shanghai, Thai-land, Jakarta and Singapore joining local teams from BritishSchool Manila, Brent and Assumption College for a meet held Sat-urday and Sunday morning. Over 240 swimmers raced and withfantastic weather and superb organization by Coach Andy and histeam of Sailfish Parent volunteers the meet was a big success.Thanks also to sponsors Fitness First, SM Supermarkets,

Aquamondo and S&R Shopping. See Coach Andy’s Sailfish blog formeet details and results.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (new procedure in place for access togame schedule pdf information) Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISM teamscan be found via the ATAC blog. You can also access this informa-tion via the ES/MS/HS divisional web pages. Please note the gameschedule does change often due to involvement with many localschools so please check the page regularly to find out the latestinformation of where and when the Bearcats teams are playing.Click on schedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to thehttp://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/ . You will need yourpower school user name and password to access the game sched-ule in pdf format now located in PowerSchool.

ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES(for ALL match/schedule details check game schedule page asabove)

♦ Feb. 26 - ISM Track Meet

♦ Mar. 2 - IASAS Cultural Convention Teams Depart

♦ Mar. 3-5 - IASAS Cultural Convention (Art/Music @ JIS, DDDF @ IS

♦ Mar. 4 - Friday Twilight Track Meet v Faith/Brent at ISM

♦ Mar. 5 - ISM Goodwill Gymnastics Meet♦ Mar. 7 - MS Academic Bowl at Faith

♦ Mar. 8 - HS Academic Bowl at Brent

♦ Mar. 11-13 - SAS Eagles Track Exchange- varsity track

♦ Mar. 11-13 - ISB Softball Exchange – varsity teams

♦ Mar. 12 - Brent Track Meet – HS/MS Track team

♦ Mar. 12 - Varsity/JV softball v Brent at ISM

♦ Apr. 2 - Track Meet at Brent

♦ Apr. 8 - Twilight Track Meet at ISM v Brent at ISM

♦ Apr. 17 - (Sunday) Teams depart for IASASTrack at ISB, Softball at JIS, ISM is hosting Badminton

BEARCAT DENRegular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:

♦ Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. an2:30–4:00 P.M.

♦ Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:30-4:00 P.M. Thanks to all our great volunteers. If you are interested in joining ogroup of volunteers in the Bearcat Den, please contact our BCD volteers coordination Chantel ([email protected]) or pop in tothe Den near the HS Cafeteria and talk with one of our volunteers.They will be very happy to make you welcome. IASAS BADMINTON at ISM - April 18-21 Information related to the IASAS Badminton Tournament can nobe found on the ATAC Blog http://atac.ism-online.org

We are currently accepting housing offers for the 80 visiting Badmton athletes. If you can help with housing, please read details onblog and a housing letter can also be accessed via the blog or hardcopy picked up from the ATAC office. Mark PekinDirector of Athletics/ActivitiesInternational School ManilaE-mail: [email protected] Website:http://www.ismanila.org/ Blog: http://atac.ism-online.org/

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