parent bulletin issue 23 sy1314

8/13/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 23 SY1314

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3 -7 Spirit Week

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25 Naonal Holiday

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20 Parent Coee

FEBRUARY

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MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 23

SY 2013 2014

WEEK OF: Weekly Publication for Middle School ParentsFriday Bulletin

Inside this issue:

Events & Acvies:

2Saturday Service Learning

Academic Bowl

7ISM Upcoming Events

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Eco Council

Admissions & Advancement

FEBRUARY 17 to 21

Dear Parents:

This week some of our students travelled to distant sites while others remained in Ma-

nila. Regardless of where the students went, they all parcipated in acvies that ex-

posed them to the life of local Filipino communies. Through their CWW experience we

hope your child has developed a deeper appreciaon of the diversity of peoples experi-

ences and will be movated to more acvely support others in need and parcipate in

service learning opportunies. We also hope that your child returns home with a strong-

er sense of self-awareness and how they can connue to grow as independent, responsi-

ble adolescents. Please take some me to engage your child and discuss ways that yourchild can build on the experience. Its important that the learning does not end with the

conclusion of the CWW week but that the spirit of service connues to be nurtured. We

thank all the teachers for their dedicaon and eorts to provide a range of enriching ex-

periences for the students. It was a week well spent!

Please note that the school photographer will be on campus onTuesday, February 18for

retakes of students that were absent during the rst round. New students will also be

photographed on this day.

OnThursday, February 20 at 7:45 A.M. in the Lile Theater we will be hosng a Parent

Coee. We look forward to meeng with you 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.

For parents of grade 8 students This week the transion to High School acvies begin

for our eighth graders. Steve Ayling and Doug McQueen, two counselors from the high

school, will be spending a block of me with the students to introduce themselves and

share some basic informaon about life in high school. Our students will also have op-

portunies to ask quesons and parcipate in small group discussions. Looking ahead, a

High School Course Selecon Meeng for parents is scheduled for Wednesday, March 5

from 5:30 7:00 P.M. in the Lile Theater. Please plan to aend so that you can hear

more about high school and what lies ahead for your child.

Middle School course registraon for school year 2014 -2015 will take place the week of

March 3. One new course oering, Robocs -Advanced, will be available to Grade 7 and

8 students who have or will have taken the introductory Robocs course. Informaon

will soon be available online for all students and will be shared during Advisory me.

Reminderthere will be no classes on February 24 and 25. Classes resume on February

26.

Have a fabulous weekend!

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie Clarissa Sayson

Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

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SALINLAHI YEARBOOK

PHOTO RETAKES:

February 8FAT Changing Room

Athlecs & Acvies

MARCH


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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 Smarter than a 5thGrader?

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.

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MS Saturday Service Dates

March 1 Habitat for Humanity

Love2Learn

March 8 Philippine Community Fund (PCF)

CRIBS Foundaon

March 15 Chosen Childrens Village (CCV)

March 22 Papaya Academy

March 29 Philippine Animal Welfare Society

April 5 Tzu Chi Foundaon Recycling Center

To sign up, get a Permission Slip in the MS Oce and prepare to

[Get awesome!]
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What a great IASAS week for ISM, our teams and coaches.

5 medals out of 8 on oer in team sports along with 5bronze medals in swimming and 4 new school swimming

records broken. Well done to everyone involved.

Results: Overall medal tally-2 gold, 1 silver and 2

Bronze team medals.

Tennis boys and girls win GOLD(3 peat for boys and 4 peat for girls)

Basketball girls SILVER, boys BRONZE

Rugby Boys BRONZE, Girls Touch 4th

Swimming Boys 5th, Girls 6th

Daiki Kuriyama 200 breastroke Bronze medal

Boys (Lucas, Sturla, Daiki, Jae Woo) and Girls(Mae,Luna, Sophia, Sophia) 4x100m medley relayBronze medals

Boys 4x50m Freestyle relay (Steve, Ben, Avi, Rom)Bronze medal

Boys 4x100m freestyle relay (Rom, Sturla, Harry, JaeWoo) Bronze medal

2nd season sports awards areThursday, February 20th:

MS awards at LT; from3:15 to 4:00 P.M.HS awards at Lohouse; from5:30 to 7:30 P.M.

The season 3 tryouts have now concluded and we are intothe 3rd season pracce schedule for MS/HS students. The

schedule is now posted on the schedules pages of the

(ATAC blog) and on noce boards around school.

SaturdayCommunity Tennis resumed last week February15ththrough unl the end of May. see the yer on theblog for dates and details. This is open to ISM community

members only, outside guests are not allowed. ContactCoach Czarina to book lessons with our ISM Tennis Acade-

my coaches(hp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/saturday-

community-tennis/)

THANK YOU ISM Community for housing our vising swim-mers . They felt very well looked aer and your support is

greatly appreciated.

The MS boys basketball Gold team played their league

nal vs. CSA last week and lost to a very strong CSA team.Congratulaons on a great season to all players and

coaches and well done for claiming the runners-up trophy

this year.

Our MS Boys C and MS Girls A and B tennis teams played

nals last weekend also. The boys came in 3rd place andthe A & B girls played each other in the nal aer dis-

patching their opponents in the morning semi nals. Con-gratulaons to MS Girls Green (team B) who won a very

close nal over the MS Girls Gold team

New families please take some me to peruse the ATAC

blog as this will help orientate you with the wide variety ofco-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 regularFridayparentbullens.

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 oen

due 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. If

you 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]:[email protected]


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ECo Movie Night

A lile while back, the high school ECocouncil was approached by Eve Hart-

ley, a 4th grader who had found a

cause to ght for. Eve, who is passion-

ate about sharks would like to see the

ISM community come together to sup-

port this noble purpose.

Fridaythe21st ofFebruaryat 3:00in

room P045, the ECo council will be

hosng a movie night in which we will

showcase Eve's passion through the

documentary "Sharkwater". Students,

parents and teachers are invited to

join. Food sales will be conducted by

cooking club and proceeds from these

will be going to charity. So come

spend yourFridaywith ECo, Eve,and

Sharkwater!


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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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