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Admissions & Advancement 2

Athlecs & Acvies 8

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 28

SY 2014 –2015

WEEK OF:

MARCH 23- 27

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday Bulletin

Parent-Teacher Associaon 11

Inside this issue:

1-10 School Holiday

APRIL

21 Parent Coee

30 Acvity Day

MAY

1 Naonal Holiday

4-14 MS Art Exhibion

7-9 MS Play

13 MS Concert

28Grade 8Advocang for Change

Dear Middle School Parents,

Student led conferences were a great opportunity to share with you student

learning. We had a great turn out which students really appreciated. The quali-

ty of conversaons, reecons, extending thinking, and seng goals was at a

high level throughout the aernoon and in all learning areas. We hope that you

found value in this experience and the conversaons will connue with your

child.

March 31 is our annual Elementary School Internaonal Day which last year we

decided to join in as a Middle School and we will connue again this year. On

Internaonal Day we encourage all students to dress up in something repre-

senng their naonality. Students in Middle School will start in their advisory

class at 7:30 a.m. and then head to the ES playground as a group for the Flag

Ceremony which will begin at 7:40 a.m. Aer the ag ceremony students will

head to their rst period class. At 2:00 p.m. on that day we will have a Middle

School assembly to celebrate our Internaonally Diverse community.

Advocang for Change is the nal quarter unit for grade 8 students in Social

Studies and English. This project will start on Wednesday March 25 during advi-

sory me, grade 8 parents are welcome to aend this assembly at 11:35 a.m. to

learn more about what students will be learning and the acvies they will be

taking part in which will culminate in a summit at the end of May. This is a

great project for students to demonstrate their learning and skills that they

have acquired over the course of their 8th grade year and me in Middle

School.

We would like to remind all students of our uniform guidelines which can be

found in the Middle School Student Handbook. The past number of weeks we

have noced an increase of students wearing their PE shorts outside of PE class

me. Thank you for your cooperaon in helping to remind our students of our

uniform requirements.

We hope everyone has a great weekend ahead…

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal

After-School Activities Office:

Season Dates for Season 3 and 4: Third Season: February 16 - March 31, 2015

Fourth Season: April 13 - May 29, 2015

ISM Upcoming Events

Events & Acvies:

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Important informaon on Re-Enrollment for SY 2015-16

Dear Parents:

We will begin on-line Re-enrollment for school year 2015-16 on Monday, March 16. As before, parents will have to log into PowerSchool in order to

do this. Below are instrucons to help. If you are not sure of your PowerSchool log-in or need support, please contact your school oce.

Please note that you must complete re-enrollment by May 22nd at the latest. PowerSchool will close on that date unl the start of the new school

year. We have over 500 students on our waitlist, and we will assume that your children are leaving if you have not completed the re-enrollment pro-

cess.

Step 1: Log-in to PowerSchool

Step 2: Look for the Re-enrollment Clearance icon on the le hand panel.

Click on the icon.

Step 3: Create your Re-enrollment Clearance Form. You will receive an email nocaon verifying that you have been successful updang your childs

record.

Students entering Grade 6 will be required to

download and complete the Physical Examinaon Form

(including ECG results) which should be submied to

the ISM Health Clinic

Students entering Grade 7 will be required to

download and sign the Drug Policy Form which should

be submied to the MS Oce.

Step 4: Tuion and Fees: Please sele your accounts

through our Cashiers Oce.

You must sele your accounts for SY14-15 and pay the

rst quota of tuion fees for SY15-16 to receive your

Final Clearance Nocaon for your child to aend class

on August 6, 2015.

Re-enrollment must be complete in order to receive a

students Class Schedule.

Class Schedule distribuon dates are as follows:

August 03, 2015: Grade 5 and 6

August 04, 2015: Grade 7 and 8

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Leaving ISM?

Please be reminded that parents are obliged to ocially inform the School in wring through a WITH-

DRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM if their children will not be returning in August for School Year 2015-

16. Families are encouraged to submit the Withdrawal Nocaon Form, stang the student's nal

date of aendance, immediately. Forms must be submied on or before May 8. Failure to submit the

form by that date may lead to a deducon of US$1,000 from the Facilies Upgrade Deposit (FUD), in

compensaon for having held a space for your child, prevenng the School from oering that space

to another candidate.

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

ISM website under Admission > Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal > Withdrawals

Please feel free to contact the Admissions Oce at 840.8601 for quesons or claricaons.


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The pracce schedule for season 3 is posted on noce boards and on the ATAC blog. Season 3 will run

from Feb 9th to March 31st.

IASAS athletes please get forms/passports in ASAP to Joan at ATAC. Deadline was Mar 19th! Everything must

be checked to ensure individuals have travel documents back if they are going overseas for the break.

Well done to all soball and track athletes who competed at exchanges last weekend. Some great soball

results and a terric eort by Molly Bailey who broke her school 1500m and 3000m records running a

4:45.95 and a 10:31.53 in Bangkok.

Upcoming dates:

Mar 20 VBoys soball vs Polo Club team at PC

Mar 20 VGirls soball vs NU at PC

Mar 21 Golf team at Luisita

Mar 21 HS Badminton MS/HS Gyms

Mar 22 JV Boys soball nals ASSL league

Mar 25 IASAS Assembly/send o lunch.

Saturday Community Tennis for semester 2 has commenced. See link for informaon on dates and how to

book. Use of the courts is only available to ISM community members. Outside guests are not allowed hp://

atac.ism-online.org/atac/saturday-community-tennis/

Please note the pracce mes for the following ATAC programs: ATAC all year round teams- 3:15-4:30. Sail-

sh/Gymnascs and all HS seasonal teams now conclude pracce at 4:50pm each day. MS seasonal

teams 3:10-4:45pm. The last bus is now 4:55pm and all aer school programs will conclude by 4:50pm in

order to try and clear the campus prior to

5pm

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 acvies 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.

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store. There is a range of new products and items to purchase in-

cluding items from our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

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

the most up to date informaon on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be playing throughout the

school year. Access to the game schedule is via the ISM parent portal. Use this link to access the parent por-tal, log in with your user name/password and look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab. Remember to refresh

the page when the pdf schedule appears so you view the most current schedule.

GO BEARCATS!

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs and Acvies

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Sign up to host grade 10 and 11 students for the week

of June 8

- 12th.

For Career Experience Week to be suc-

cessful it will need the support of the ISM community,

please sign up today!

Sign ups are easier than ever before, just contact me and

ll out the survey with basic informaon regarding your

company or organizaon!

Google Sign up form: hp://goo.gl/forms/2z6tncYDOR

Or contact Crystal Cappuccio at [email protected]

https://docs.google.com/a/ismanila.org/forms/d/1gWUr_IGZNIwIgY5utrjFg4enFtzqqNhy019ggPJYdQs/viewform?c=0&w=1https://docs.google.com/a/ismanila.org/forms/d/1gWUr_IGZNIwIgY5utrjFg4enFtzqqNhy019ggPJYdQs/viewform?c=0&w=1http://bit.ly/ISMFirstAidhttps://docs.google.com/a/ismanila.org/forms/d/1gWUr_IGZNIwIgY5utrjFg4enFtzqqNhy019ggPJYdQs/viewform?c=0&w=1


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