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30 New Parent Coee

ISM Upcoming Events 8

JANUARY

10 - 14 CWW

22- 26 AMIS

5 G4 Transion Meeng

FEBRUARY

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Academic Bowl

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 18

SY 2013 –2014

WEEK OF: Weekly Publication for Middle School ParentsFriday Bulletin

Inside this issue:

Events & Acvies:

Admissions & Advancement

2 Clinic

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Fine Arts Oce

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Athlecs and Acvies

JANUARY 13 to 17

Dear Parents,

Happy New Year and welcome to the second semester in Middle School! We

hope everyone enjoyed a relaxing holiday with their family, and it's clear that

the students have come back recharged and ready to go.

On January 17, please join us for the ISM Parent Meet and Greet hosted by

the PTA. The evening will begin at 5:30 P.M. in the Lile Theater and will be

a fabulous opportunity to reconnect with friends and make some new con-

necons. Hope to see you there!

This past week and next week PowerSchool remains closed so that teachers

can nalize rst semester grades and write report card com-

ments. PowerSchool reopens on Monday, January 20 at 8:00 A.M. aer

which me you can login to view comments.

Looking ahead...From January 23 - 25 we are hosng internaonal school

students who will be parcipang in the AMIS Fesval. The students will be

performing in the Asian Middle School Honor Orchestra and we hope you will

support the students by aending their concert. More details will be in next

week's bullen.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie Clarissa Sayson

Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

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PowerSchool Update:

Refund for LOST, PAID and Returned Textbook/s

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, PAYMENTS MADE FOR LOST TEXTBOOKSWILL ONLY BE REFUNDED, IF THE BOOK IS RETURNED WITHIN THE CUR-RENT SCHOOL YEAR OR THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR, AT THE LAT-EST.

For questions, please email [email protected] or call 840-8517.

The yearbook photos are available for pick-up in the MS Office.

Please be informed thatPowerSchool is temporarily closed.

It will re-open on January 20,Monday at 8:00 A.M.


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Measles on the rise in Manila

Measles is a highly contagious viral disease and remains an important cause of death among young chil-

dren globally. It is transmitted via droplets from the nose, mouth or throat of infected persons. Initial symp-

toms, which usually appear 10–12 days after infection, include high fever, a runny nose, bloodshot eyes,

and tiny white spots on the inside of the mouth. Several days later, a rash develops, starting on the face

and upper neck and gradually spreading downwards. A sick person is infectious five days before until four

days after the appearance of rashes.

Severe measles is more likely among poorly nourished young children, or whose immune systems have

been weakened. The most serious complications include blindness, encephalitis (an infection that causes

brain swelling), severe diarrhea and related dehydration, and severe respiratory infections such as pneu-

monia.

2013 has seen an outbreak of measles in several cities, in particular in the Capital region, with 416 cases

(and 21 fatalities), after only 25 cases were confirmed in 2012.

The measles vaccine has been in use since the 1960s. It is safe, effective and inexpensive. WHO recom-

mends immunization for all susceptible children and adults for whom measles vaccination is not contrain-

dicated (severe allergic reaction after a previous dose, severe immunodeficiency, pregnancy). The vac-

cine usually comes in combination with mumps and rubella (German measles) vaccine and is then called

MMR. 2 shots are needed to ensure a lifetime immunization, which are normally given at the toddler age.

In 1-2% the immune system does not produce antibodies; therefore the individual can still fall sick with

measles. Or mumps. Or rubella.

Should a child not have received 2 shots within an interval of 4 weeks or more, they need a second shot.

Should an adult (18 years and above, born 1970 or later) not have documented evidence of receiving 2

shots of measles-containing vaccine in their childhood they should be immunized with one single dose of

MMR. Women should delay pregnancy by 4 weeks following vaccination with MMR.

Adults born before 1970 are presumed to have acquired natural immunity and do not need vaccine neither

as a routine nor in case of an outbreak. They are only vaccinated in case of a confirmed exposure to the

virus.

The vaccine is available at Market!Market Healtyway and other branches (phone 751 4929) for 900 PHP+

400 PHP consultation fee, CoHess in St. Luke’s (phone 789 7700 x 7038) for …….or the corporate health

department in Makati Med (phone 999 9888 x 2187) for 850 PHP+850 PHP consultation and administra-tion fee, to name a few.

Should you have any questions or concern please contact us by phone at 840 8581 or per mail at clin-

[email protected] or [email protected].

Dorothee Binsfeld

Clinic Administarator


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Middle School Academic Bowl TRYOUTS/Pracces

Do you know lots of interesng facts and general knowledge?

Are you fast on the buzzers? Do you like ‘Are you Smarterthan a 5

th Grader’?

THEN COME TO… Academic Bowl Tryouts/ Pracces!!

WHERE - Room P046 (Mrs. Birchenall’s classroom)

WHEN - Every Thursday, 3:00 P.M. –to 4:00 P.M., starng Thursday, 16th

January 2014

The successful students will represent ISM at the second semester Academic Bowl compeon

which is to be held at Faith Internaonal School in March.

All Middle School students are very welcome to come to the tryout/pracce sessions.


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Hello Bearcat Parents,

I hope all is well. As you may or may not know, every JANUARY we have a career -focused week at InternaonalSchool Manila called Bearcat Career Exploraon Week. It is a week dedicated to helping our high school stu-dents learn more about themselves and the vast array of careers that exist and connue to be created in ourworld. (Click here if you would like more informaon on the week: hp://bearcat-careers.ism-online.org/career-explore/)

This year the Bearcat Career Exploraon week is January 20 -24, 2014. There are a number of special acviesgoing on this week, but some of the more popular ones are the Career Talks that are given by various profes-sionals from the ISM community. I was hoping some of you Bearcat parents might be interested in giving ashort (20 minutes to 30 minutes) talk about your career area to some of our high school students during thatweek. If you are interested in giving a career-focused talk during that week, please click the link below and ll

out the Google form. I will then be in touch shortly to conrm your parcipaon.

hps://docs.google.com/a/ismanila.org/forms/d/13nLVKq50zS8gXqGTGyq_eODA33-Ul4- jFYoB41XKesU/

viewform

In the meanme, if you have quesons about the week, please feel free to email me anyme [email protected].

Best regards,

Doug McQueen HS Grade 9/10 Guidance Counselor

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URGENT: Host Families sll needed for MS AMIS Orchestra Fesval

Thank you to all the families who have already oered to host students for this event. Unfortunately,we are sll 10 beds short of the amount required to host all our guests. If you have spare beds,maresses or air beds at your house, please consider hosng an AMIS student.

The Associaon for Music in Internaonal Schools (AMIS) Orchestra Fesval runs betweenthe January 22nd and 26th, 2014. The group consists of 70 students from a mix of 11 dierent inter-naonal schools in East and South East Asia. ISM is pleased to have secured 9 slots in the orchestrabut this means we sll need to nd hosts for our 61 vising students. More details of hosng respon-sibilies and forms can be downloaded from the Fine Arts blog at hp://arts.ism-online.org/2013/12/05/host-families-needed-for-ms-orchestra-fesval-please-help/ or by con-tacng the Fine Arts Oce on 8404000 ex 630/631/ email [email protected] .

Please email me as soon as possible if you are willing to host!

Marsha Hillman Fine and Performing Arts Director


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MS/HS Sailfish Squads 5-7 have a shortened training schedule until

IASAS. Training will be from 3:15 to 4:00 P.M. until Feb 9th.

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On behalf of the ATAC department, welcome backto school and we look forward to seeing all our

Bearcats back ready for acon as the new year ofsports kicks o this coming weekend for many ofour teams.

The regular 2nd season pracce schedule resumed

this week and local matches/league schedules will

resume this weekend to start our 2nd semester pro-gram of events.

The 2nd season pracce schedule which runsfrom October 23 to February 7 is posted on noce

boards around school, and is available on the ATAC

blog (hp://atac.ism-online.org/schedules/hs/).

PLEASE HELP! ISM proudly hosts IASAS swim-ming from February 5 to 9, 2014 and host families

are required to house the vising IASAS swimmers.

The housing leer is available via the ATAC blog andvia the Sailsh blog. Please assist us to make this a

wonderful event for our community by housing apair of swimmers for IASAS. Currently we have 55

swimmers housed, we need to house 120 swimmers

from the IASAS Schools, so 65 more are needed!Please print, complete and return the slip to the

ATAC oce (hp://atac.ism-online.org/iasas/iasas

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housing/iasas-swim-meet-housing-leer/) .

This Friday, our Varsity Basketball teams play Brentat 4:15 P.M. to get back in tune aer the break.

Come out and cheer for them as the girls team

strives to keep its undefeated record this seasonalive. We are hosng MS and HS Rugby this Satur-

day at the HS eld, along with MS tennis on the roof

and our usual array of local league basketball gamesin the gyms. Our girls touch teams play at Faith this

Saturday in the Luzon Ladies Touch compeon. A

big weekend of acon to start the new year.

New families please take some me to peruse theATAC blog as this will help orientate you with the

wide variety of co-curricular programs ISM oers.

A great way to stay in touch with the ISM ATAC pro-gram is to subscribe via RSS feed to the ATAC blog

and also to follow via twier (see twier feed onthe blog home page).

Each Monday, I will post the weeks happenings and

highlight important events for students and parents

informaon on the ATAC blog and in the regu-

lar Friday parent bullens.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule

informaon): Informaon about all mid-week/weekend xtures for ISM teams can be found via

the ATAC blog. Please note the game schedule does

change oen due to involvement with many localschools so please check the page regularly to nd

out the latest informaon of where and when theBearcats teams are playing. Click on schedules tab

or the Bearcat logo to be directed to the power

school secure site (hp://

powerschool.ismanila.org/public/) You will need your power school user name andpassword to access the game schedule pdf.

The Bearcat Den (hp://atac.ism-online.org/

bearcat-den/) is open for business, please drop by

to check out the range of Bearcat products. Wehave a great team of volunteers who run the den

and are always looking for more people to help out.If you are interested in joining a fantasc group

please contact any of our den members during den

opening hours or please contact Carolyn Ching fordetails [email protected]. We are always

looking for new volunteers and encourage parents

from ES/MS to join our group.

Have a great year at the Home of the Bearcats!

Regards, Mark Pekin Director of Athlecs/Acvies


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UPDATE YOUR CONTACT DETAILS THROUGH

THE ISM PARENT PORTAL Dear Parents,

We are pleased to inform you that your child’s PowerSchool account may be accessed through the ISM Parent Portal.

Aside from being a gateway to PowerSchool, the Parent Portal also provides informaon on school events, useful links,

as well as child-specic academic blogs and student porolios. Should you need to make any changes to your contact

informaon, visit the Parent Portal and follow the steps below:


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Leaving ISM?

For those students that will be withdrawing from Internaonal School Manila this school year (SY 13

-14), the following procedure applies:

Parents are obliged to ocially inform the Admissions Oce in wring through a Withdrawal No-

caon Form at least een (15) days prior to your child’s last day of school.

For those leaving at the end of the school year, you MUST submit a Withdrawal No-

caon Form on or before May 09, 2014.

Failure to do so will lead to a deducon of US$1,000 from the Facilies Upgrade Deposit (FUD) in

compensaon for having held a space for the child and thus prevenng the School from oeringthat space to another child prior to the summer holiday break.

The Withdrawal Nocaon Form can be obtained from the Admissions Oce or downloaded from

the ISM website here.

We hope that your child has had an enriching stay at ISM and wish you and your family the very

best in the future.

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