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PARENT COFFEE - LITERACY

Wednesday, February 24

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ISSUE # 21

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

FEBRUARY 8 TO 12

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

FEBRUARY—MARCH:

MS Upcoming Events:

CLASSROOM WITHOUT WALLS

February 15 - 19

NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Monday, February 8

NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Thursday, February 25

NO SCHOOL

Friday, February 26

MAP TESTING

February 29 to March 23

G8 PARENT TRANSITION MEETING

Wednesday, March 2

ACADEMIC BOWL

Wednesday, March 9

Dear Parents,

This week students and teachers have been working hard to ensure everything is

ready for next week’s CWW experiences. Students have been hosng fundraisers so

they can purchase donaon items or materials that are needed at individual CWW

sites. Teachers have been adding the nal details to their plans to ensure that each

and every student has a meaningful experience.

When I think about why schools oer CWW experiences for their students, I am re-minded of a quote from the book Seven Arrows (1972) by Hyemeyohsts Storm,

where the tale of Night Bear and his people is shared. I feel that this quote perfectly

captures the essence of CWW.

“To touch and feel is to experience. Many people live out their enre lives without

really touching or being touched by anything.

These people live in a world of mind and imaginaon that may move them

somemes to joy, tears, happiness or sorrow. But these

people never really touch. They do not live and become one with life.”

While this quote is over 40 years old, it has renewed relevance in a world where

many experiences are ltered through the online world. Shis in our society, in re-

gards to how we communicate and interact with each other, coupled with a height-ened awareness of security and safety, have in some ways limited our students’ abil-

ity to connect authencally with their wider community. As students look forward

to the upcoming CWW experiences, we hope that as they venture out, and forge

stronger relaonships with our service partners, they will make meaningful connec-

ons not only with their minds but also with their hearts.

Whether your child is engaged in CWW day trips or residenal trips please be sure

to discuss their experiences and dig deeper into their percepons, emoonal re-

sponses and our shared humanity.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

No School: Monday February 8th (Lunar New Year)

Family Social: Parent/Child Dance

Friday, February 12th

Classroom Without Walls:

Monday, February 15th - Friday, February 19th

MS Yearbook Photo Retakes

Monday, February 22nd

MS YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOOT

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MS Parent Coee: Bonnie Singer

Wednesday, February 24th from 9:00 - 10:30 in the LT

No School:

Thursday, February 25th (No school for students - teacher work day)

Friday, February 26th (No school for students and teachers)

MAP Tesng - Spring Tesng Window:

Monday, February 29th - Friday, March 11th

CWW - Don’t Miss the Bus!

Informaon regarding student arrival me for the various CWW trips has now been shared with all parents. We have

made the mandatory arrival me for students approximately 15 minutes before the buses are due to leave. This provides

me for teachers to take aendance, deliver nal instrucons and allow students me to go to the bathroom before

boarding the bus. Please be advised that the CWW buses have to leave at their designated mes in order to avoid the arri-val of the school bus service. Students who are late will miss the bus and need to report to the MS Oce. Please note that

we will not be calling parents/students who are running late. Please set your alarms in order to allow sucient me to

navigate the morning trac!

CWW - Tetanus Injecons:

With CWW approaching fast, please take a minute to check if your child’s vaccinaon record for tetanus is sll up to

date. If it is 10 years or more, a booster shot is needed. Please make sure your child’s vaccinaon is up to date! Every

injury during the CWW week is reported to the clinic, and whether a lile scratch or a deeper wound, we check the status

of your child’s tetanus vaccinaon. In the past, a student was scratched and both the student and a teacher spent hours in

a local hospital waing for their turn, only to learn that the tetanus vaccine was unavailable in that parcular province. We

wish to avoid this situaon by making sure all children are up to date with their tetanus vaccinaon.

Please note that AFTER an injury (post exposure) more shots are necessary than BEFORE (pre exposure) to protect thebody against the infecon with Clostridium bacteria. Should you have further quesons, or do not know your child’s vac-

cinaon status, please get in touch with the clinic at [email protected] or via phone 840 8582. ([email protected] -

Phone 8408581).

Lunar New Year:

As we approach a long weekend for the Lunar New Year, we wish everyone who is travelling to celebrate this special me

of year with their families a safe trip. As some members of our community welcome the Year of the Monkey - we wish you

all happiness and prosperity.

Family Social: Parent/Child Dance:

Time to dust o your blue suede shoes and get ready to boogie! The PCA sponsored Parent/Child Dance will take place on

Friday, February 12th in the LT. Tickets are available from the cashier. The theme of this year’s family social is the 80’s so

start searching the deep dark depths of your closet for your old ra ra skirt or New Romancs’ fr illy shirt!

Kind Regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

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Dear Grade 8 Parents,

If your

Grade 8 child is

interested in joiningone the Rusc Pathways Global Program, or

they're already going and want to meet a rep-

resentave, then stop by the AMR next Tues-

day.

Grade 8 parents can aend at any me be-

tween 9:30 and 12.30.

You can visit the website (password - ism) to

nd out more.

Thailand (Elephants)

MS: groups.ruscpathways.com/

trips/ismelephants2016/

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Congratulaons to all our Bearcats teams that represented at Bas-

ketball in ISKL, Tennis at ISB, Swimming at SAS and Rugby/Touch

here at ISM. What a wonderful, historic and excing 3 days

of compeon last weekend.

Results:

Swimming- Girls 5th, Boys 6th (8 new school records broken

and 21 out of 24 swimmers on our team broke their own per-

sonal best mes with 5 medals. (Maia Ner Bronze 100 Bstroke/

Dias Konysbayev Silver 100 Backstroke/Bronze 800 and 400

Freestyle and Boys 4x50m relay)

Tennis- Boys Silver, Girls Gold (6peat! 6th Gold in a row for ISM

girls tennis)

Basketball- Boys 5th and Girls Silver

Touch- Gold (repeat-2nd Gold in a row)

Rugby- Gold (rst rugby Gold for ISM)

To all our 2nd season varsity coaches thank you for your hard work

and dedicaon during S2.

HS awards Thurs Feb 11 5:30-7:30pm at the lohouse 3rd oor. For

all HS 2nd season Asp/JV and Varsity teams and parents- (Rugby/

Touch/Tennis/Basketball/Swimming)

Thanks to all our community for the fantasc support with housing

and the support at all the R&T matches. It was a wonderful atmos-

phere to watch our girls and boys win double Gold at home.

Congratulaons to the JV girls basketball who won the local league

ISSA nal on Saturday going through the season undefeated. Our JV

boys lost to Beacon in the semi nal and play for 3rd place this Sat-

urday.

Well done to our ISM Table Tennis teams who won all 3 divisions

(ES/MS/HS) at the ISM Invitaonal Table Tennis Tournament held

last Saturday at the covered court.

This Saturday our MS Girls gold basketball team plays o for 3rd

place in the local league and our MS Boys gold basketball team plays

their semi nal, if they win the nal will be

played Saturday aernoon.

Sunday is the start of the local soball league season with Varsity

girls and JV boys having games to kick o S3.

Next weekend a group of our gymnasts will be heading to Bangkok

to compete at the ISB meet.

Season 3 (S3) tryouts will begin this week announcements are post-

ed on noce boards and on ATAC blog schedules page for tryouts

and the season pracce schedules.

ATAC S3 sports for MS are Badminton, Track&Field, Mixed Touch

and Co-ed Soball. For HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, Soball

and Badminton.

Upcoming events:

Feb 1-5 S3 tryouts week for MS/HS teams (see schedules on

noce boards and on schedules page of ATAC blog)

Feb 5-8 ISM Climbing team trip to Cebu

Feb 11 S2 HS sports awards night (for all Season 2 HS teams

V&JV)

Feb 13 ISM Track meet,

Mar 12

Brent

track

meet,

Mar 18

ISM

twilight track meet

Feb 12-14 Gymnascs meet at Bangkok/Feb 20-21 Philippine

Cup Gymnascs at Rizal Stadium/Mar 12 BSM Gymnascs

meet/May 7 ISM Goodwill Gymnascs meet.

Mar 4-6 Bangkok Splash meet for Sailsh swim team.

April 6-10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at SAS, Golf at

JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB)

May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the Sailsh blog for

informaon. hp://sailsh.ism-online.org/

Please note the pracce mes for ATAC programs for SY 15-16 are as

follows: ATAC all year round teams

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-4:30. See schedule for our

All year round teams program here...

All HS seasonal teams pracce from 3:05- 4:50pm each day. MS

seasonal teams pracce 3:15-4:45pm. In order to clear the campus

prior to 5pm all aer school programs will conclude by 4:50pm or

earlier. The last bus is4:55pm this is due to the ever increasing

trac concerns in our area.

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 acvi-

es 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 ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by Triz Gon-zalez (ATAC Athlecs Coordinator) gives the most up to date infor-

maon on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be playing

throughout the school year. Access to the game schedule is now via

the ISM parent portal not via power school as in the past. A naviga-

on guide is available here. ATAC Game Schedule Users Guide.

Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your user name/

password and then look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab under the

le side quick links. Don't forget to refresh the pdf page each me it

opens so you access the most current schedule. Please note this

schedule does change oen and at short noce due to involvement

with many local schools and organizaons.

Check it regularly for the most up to date informaon. For securitypurposes....access to the ATAC game schedule pdf must be linked

via the secure parent portal and details should not be shared with

non ISM community members.

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store. Bearcat Den hours of

operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

Best Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs & Acvies

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