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JANUARY

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL ISSUE # 19

SY 2014 2015

WEEK OF:

JANUARY 19 TO 23

Weekly Publication for Middle School ParentsFriday Bulletin

Athle cs & Ac vi es 2

Inside this issue:

Events & Ac vi es:

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Dear Middle School Parents,

We had the opportunity to welcome new parents at our Middle School new parentco ee this Thursday - if you are a new parent and were unable to a end, we arealways open to mee ng with you and to share more about our MiddleSchool. Thank you to our PTA parents who were there as always to support ourschool program, and also our wider parent community.

Math has been a focus this week for learning at ISM. We have had the pleasure ofworking together with a math consultant from the United States - Steve Leinwand,who held a parent workshop on Tuesday and has been working closely with teach-ers all week to re ect on our prac ces and learn more about how we teach andlearn math. Finding a balance between conceptual learning, deep thinking, ex-pressing understanding, and numerical uency as an important goal to achieve forall students.

Feedback is an important part of the learning process. This happens in severalways, as a part of the learning process daily in lessons and through forma ve as-sessments that guide instruc on and individual growth and development. Anotherway we give feedback and communicate learning is through our semester report

cards. As you know we have made some changes to our grading and repor ngprac ces, and we are now ready for our rst round of sharing your child's learn-ing. You will receive a separate email with the informa on on how to access yourindividual child's report card through the parent portal.

Yours in Educa on,

Simon Gillespie, Middle School Principal Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal

Fine Arts O ce

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FEBRUARY

PowerSchool Update:

Jan 21 PowerSchool Opens

Grade 4 -5 Parent Transi on Mee ng

Please send us an email for any clari ca ons or concerns:

[email protected]

Jan 16 Report Card Access


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Upcoming matches:

Sat Jan 17- Varsity girls and boys basketball quarter nals at ISM/Local League Touch and Rugby nals at BSM/ISM/MS girls and boys basketball at ISM. See game schedule on parent portal for mes/venue details.

Parents please note due to the Papal visit this week all ATAC seasonal/year round teams will not have prac ce to-day Friday this week with the excep on of varsity teams.Tra c is expected to be very heavy and only varsity teamswill prac ce according to their normal schedule. Please note Thurs/Fri varsity sessions are voluntary for athletes. Ifa parent is concerned about a varsity athlete being caught in a heavy tra c situa on depending on where you liveprac ce is op onal.

In a li le under 2 weeks we host IASAS tennis and we need to house visi ng players from each of the IASASschools. We s ll require more housing... please see informa on below and submit a form if you can support thisevent. It is going to be a great event for our community hosted at the best tennis venue in IASAS. At this me wes ll need to house 15 players so please assist if you can by submi ng a housing form which is available from the

ATAC blog.

Our other IASAS teams will be working hard to prepare over the next weeks for Rugby/Touch and Swimming inBangkok and Basketball in Taipei. It is an exci ng me coming up with the end of season 2 and the start of season 3

just around the corner. 2nd season will conclude Jan 28th, 2015.

Season 3 prac ce and tryouts schedule have been posted last week on no ce boards and on the ATAC blog. Season3 sports for HS are Track & Field, So ball, Badminton and Golf. MS do the same sports in season 3 with the excep-on of golf.

Please note the prac ce mes for the following ATAC programs: ATAC all year round teams - 3:15 -4:30. Sail sh/Gymnas cs and all HS seasonal teams now conclude prac ce at 4:50pm each day. MS seasonal teams 3:10 -4:45pm. The last bus is now 4:55pm and all a er school programs will conclude by 4:50pm in order to try and clearthe campus prior to 5pm due to the ever increasing tra c concerns in our area.

Parents and students please take some me to peruse the ATAC blog it has a wide variety of informa on and linksto our sports and ac vi es program. If you have any ques ons regarding the compe ve program of sports at ISMa er reading the informa on on the blog please send an email to [email protected] and I will endeavor to as-sist you as best I can.

Bearcat Den - drop by our fantas c spirit store. There is a range of new products (mouthguards and rugby balls for2nd season) and items to purchase including items from our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of opera on - 7am-4pm Mon -Fri.

The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by Triz Gonzalez (ATAC Athle cs Coordinator) gives the

most up to date informa on on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be playing throughout the schoolyear. Access to the game schedule is via the ISM parent portal. Use this link to access the parent portal, log in withyour user name/password and look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab. Remember to refresh the page when the pdfschedule appears so you view the most current schedule.

GO BEARCATS!

Regards, Mark Pekin Athle cs and Ac vi es Director

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MS ISTA Theatre Fes val this week!

What is Happening?

ISTA is nally here and the six visi ng interna onal schools alongwith the 10 scholarship students from local service groups will bearriving on Thursday a ernoon. We will be hos ng students fromBeijing City Interna onal School, American Interna onal School ofGuangzhou, Hong Kong Interna onal School, Harrow Interna onalSchool of Hong Kong, Nishimachi Interna onal School from Tokyoand Mont'Kiara Interna onal School Kuala Lumpur. The fes val willrun over three days, star ng rst thing on Friday morning and cul-mina ng in a sharing of a devised performance on Sunday, January25th at 3.30pm in the Fine Arts Theatre. Anybody is welcome towatch the performance, which is followed by an ISTA representa-ve speaking. The sharing should only take around 45 minutes.

For those hos ng, the nal placement of students will be sent toyou on Monday via the emails you provided on the housing sheet. Ifyou haven't heard from me by Tuesday, please contact the Fine ArtsO ce on 8408400 ex 631 or email me.

A Big THANKS!

An ISTA (Interna onal Schools' Theatre Associa on) fes val bringstogether interna onal students to par cipate in theatre workshopsand ensemble building work. There are 110 students par cipa ngand these are split into 5 ensembles who work over the course ofthe 3 -day fes val to create a short group performance based on thefes val theme.

Bayanihan, a Filipino word for a spirit of communal unity and coopera on, was chosen for our fes val theme because we de-cided to exchange the regular sightseeing trip with a Saturday Service and also include ISTA scholarship students from our localservice learning partners.

However, the concept of Bayanihan is best exhibited at this fes val in the following ways: The many ISM families who have opened their homes to our visitors The ISM sta from ES, MS and HS who are giving up their Saturday morning to lead our visitors on the Saturday trip Neil Woods, Mary delos Santos and Cory Willey who provided their exper se in planning the service learning experiences. Each of the 5 service learning partners we will be visi ng who have dedicated several sta to suppor ng our visits The HS Fine Arts Council who are gree ng our guests at the airport and helping coordinate housing on the day of arrival The wonderful administra ve and support s ta who help with ordering, scheduling, transpor ng and generally makingideas happen The security sta who have worked hard to ensure the safety at sites

The PTA for helping adver se housing Trish Pazcoguin for another wonderful poster design

In short, I feel very lucky that I'm at ISM whilst organising this fes val because the Bearcat Spirit appears to be interchangeablewith the concept of Bayanihan. It really has taken representa ves from all of stakeholders in ISM's community to make thisfes val possible.

Best Regards,

Marsha Hillman Fine and Performing Arts Director Interna onal School Manila
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We have the pleasure of producing The Wind in the Willows this spring for our musical. If students are inter-ested and would like to know more, rst check out this website. Secondly, students can contact Ms. Grev orMs. Rankin --either in person or via e -mail ([email protected] or [email protected]) --to ask ques onsand get access to the google folder. And nally, students can sign up on the google sheets that are sharedwith all who express interest in par cipa ng.

AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD FROM MONDAY, JANUARY 19TH, TO THURSDAY, JANUARY 22ND. PLEASE SEE THEGOOGLE FOLDER FOR DETAILS.

Thank you for your kind a en on, Ms. Grev & Ms. Rankin

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MUSIC NEWS: AMIS (Associa on for Music in Interna onal Schools) ALL THE BEST to the Travel Team Honor Choir singers represen ng ISM at the AMIS fes val in Tianjin, Chinathis week. We know you've been working hard all year, preparing a wide range of music in many styles andlanguages, and we hope you'll have a wonderful me. We're looking forward to hearing your on -campus per-formances together with the Home Team when you return. You make us proud!

ISM HONOR CHOIR 2014 -2015 *AMIS Travel Team

Tanvi Ajmera* Keerthana Bathula

Bac Hai (Kevin) Bui* Jenny Byun

Caroline Ca erton* Adi Erquiaga

Emma Fleming* Sam Garcia Elias Gro *

Mina Jensen* Calvin Kertzman

Chesca Ngo Razel Suansing Carly Wolfe*
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