parent bulletin issue 21 sy1314

8/13/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 21 SY1314

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7 Progress Reports Access

25 Naonal Holiday

24 No Classes

20 Parent Coee

JANUARY

10 -14 CWW

5 G4 Transion Meeng

FEBRUARY

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Academic Bowl

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 21

SY 2013 2014

WEEK OF: Weekly Publication for Middle School ParentsFriday Bulletin

Inside this issue:

Events & Acvies:

2Saturday Service Learning

8ISM Upcoming Events

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Athlecs & Acvies

Admissions & Advancement

FEBRUARY 3 to 7

31 Naonal Holiday

PowerSchool Update:

FEBRUARY

Dear Parents,

We were able to welcome some of our new parents this morning at an

MS new parent coee, it can be challenging transioning in half way

through the school year for students and parents -if you were unable to

aend or have any quesons, please feel free to contact us in the MS

oce or your child's counselor.

Classroom Without Walls is fast approaching. The week ofFebruary 10 -

14all students will be in engaged in a number of dierent experience to

connect with the Philippines culturally, historically and through providing

service with many of our service learning partners. This is a great oppor-

tunity for our students to develop dierent types of skills than in the

classroom including building empathy and supporng others. We look

forward to our students reecons. If you have not received informaon

about your child's CWW experience, please contact their advisory teacher

or the MS oce.

In November students had school pictures taken. The photographer will

be back onFebruary 18for retakes, students that were absent during the

rst round, and for new students.

Our next parent coee is on February 20, we look forward to meeng

with you then and sharing more about developments with how we assess

and grade students, along with changes to technology and how we use

laptops in the middle school.

Have a great long weekend!

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie Clarissa Sayson

Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

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

No regular after-school activities during CWW Week (February 10 to 14).


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SEMESTER 2

SATURDAY SERVICE DATES (TENTATIVE)

March 1 Habitat for Humanity & Papaya Academy

March 8 Philippines Childrens Fund (PCF) & CRIBS Foundaon

March 15 Chosen Childrens Village (CCV)

March 22 Love2Learn

March 29 PAWS

April 5 Tzu Chi Foundaon

To parcipate, students need to pick up a permission slip from the MS Oce on the Monday before

the trip. Once its been signed and returned to the oce, a student can sign up on the roster. Some

trips ll up quickly so encourage them to sign up early.

Parents are welcome to join!

All the best,

Cory Willey

MS Student Advisory Coordinator

Refund for LOST, PAID and Returned Textbook/s

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, PAYMENTS MADE FOR LOST TEXTBOOKS WILL ON-LY BE REFUNDED, IF THE BOOK IS RETURNED WITHIN THE CURRENT SCHOOL

YEAR OR THE FOLLOWING SCHOOL YEAR, AT THE LATEST.

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


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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

thGrader?

THEN COME TO Academic Bowl Tryouts/ Pracces!!

WHERE-Room P046 (Mrs. Birchenalls classroom)

WHEN-Every Thursday, 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.

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.

Wow! The AMIS Strings Festival was a huge success last week-

end. Thank you for your support and encouragement with all

our visiting musicians and guests. Thank you especially to allthe parents that hosted the students in their homes. The gen-

eral sentiment that everyone gave was they felt so welcome at

ISM! We look forward to more musical events in the coming

months!

Also, if you did not have a chance to watch the concert, you

can watch it here: http://tinyurl.com/AMIS2014

Guime Odendaal

5-12 Music Program Leader


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MS/HS Sailsh Squads 5-7 have a shortened training schedule unl IASAS. Training will be from3:15 to 4:00 P.M. unl Feb 9th.

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Season 2 is rapidly coming to a close with the IASAS Cham-

pionships less than one week away. Venues for IASAS 2ndseason championships are as follows.Jakarta for Basket-

ball, Rugby/Touch at Singapore (*note venue change dueto polical uncertainty in Bangkok), Tennis at Kuala Lum-

pur and ISM for swimming. Visit www.iasas.asiato keep

up with the acon at the IASAS venues (results and livestream links).

The season 3 tryouts schedule and the 3rd season pracce

schedule for MS/HS students is now posted on the tryouts

and schedules pages of the (ATAC blog) and on noceboards around school.

Please note-2nd season pracces for all teams will con-

clude next weekFeb 4th!

SaturdayCommunity Tennis resumes

Feb 15th

through

unl the end of May. see the yer on the blog for datesand details. This is open to ISM community members only,

outside guests are not allowed. Contact Coach Czarina to

book lessons with our ISM Tennis Academy coach-es(hp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/saturday-community-

tennis/)

THANK YOU ISM Community.. we now have our IASASswim housing nalized. For those that are housing guestswimmers, leers with all the details have been sent

home this week. ISM proudly hosts IASAS swimmingfromFebruary 5 to9, 2014.It is going to be a great event! Stayin touch with all the acon viawww.iasas.asia. You can

access the swimming site at ISM along with all the othersites including live stream links from other venues. Please

come along and support our ISM swimmers who put in the

long lonely hours following the black line. Lets cheer themon from poolside!

Congratulaons to our 3 girls Touch teams who all won

their respecve divisions at the season ending UP Invita-

onal Tournament. What a great nish to the season forall teams and coaches. Our JV boys rugby teams nished

2nd and 3rd in the local league nals last Saturday withour JV gold team losing in extra me to Clark Rugby Club

in a great nal. The Varsity Boys B tennis team went unde-

feated this year to win the ISTA League B division tle andour Varsity Girls Basketball team connued their great

season by winning the Hardeman Cup Tournament at

Faith Academyon Saturday. Our JV Girls and Boys Basket-ball teams took out 3rd and 4th place in the Hardeman

Cup Division 2 tournament. Congratulaons to the VarsityBoys Rugby team for winning the PRFU trophyon Tues-

dayaer school defeang BSM in a run away victory 50-7.

Well done also to our MS Boys rugby teams who nished

their season very well last weekend and also to our MSboys basketball Gold team who won their semi nal vs

SISCon Saturday. They now take on a very strong CSAteam in the nal to be played next week.

New families please take some me to peruse the ATACblog 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 program is

to subscribe via RSS feed to the ATAC blog and also to fol-low via twier (see twier feed on the blog home page).

EachMonday,I will post the weeks happenings and high-

light important events for students and parents infor-

maon on the ATAC blog and in the regularFridayparent

bullens.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule infor-

maon): Informaon about all mid-week/weekend x-

tures for ISM teams can be found via the ATACblog.Please note the game schedule does change oendue to involvement with many local schools so please

check the page regularly to nd out the latest informaonof where and when the Bearcats teams are playing.Click

on schedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to thepower school secure site(hp://

powerschool.ismanila.org/public/) You will need your

power school user name and password to access the gameschedule 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. We have a great team of volun-teers who run the den and are always looking for more

people to help out. If you are interested in joining a fan-

tasc group please contact any of our den members dur-ing den opening hours or please contact Carolyn Ching for

details [email protected]. We are always lookingfor new volunteers and encourage parents from ES/MS

tojoin our group. The Bearcat den is now calling for volun-

teers to take on POR's (posions of responsibility) for nextschool year '14-15) as secretary, treasurer, volunteer coor-

dinator, inventory/merchandise and snacks purchasing. Ifyou are interested drop an email to [email protected]

Have a great year at the Home of the Bearcats!

Regards,Mark PekinDirector of Athlecs/Acvies
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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UPDATE YOUR CONTACT DETAILS THROUGH

THE ISM PARENT PORTALDear Parents,

We are pleased to inform you that your childs 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 childs last day of school.

For those leaving at theend 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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