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8/16/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 34 SY1516

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15 ISM Upcoming Events

Parent Community

Associaon

Admissions & Advancement

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Operaons & Security

Campus Card

Cashier’s Oce

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Athlecs & Acvies 4

Fine & Performing Arts

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 34

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

MAY 30 TO JUNE 3

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

Dear Parents,

With 9 days of school le before the vacaon, we have many culminang events on thehorizon. Please check out the summary for the coming week so you know what’s happen-ing!

THIS WEEK: Tuesday, May 31st

AFAC Recitals

Time : 3:00- 5:00 p.m.

Locaon: Lile Theater Check out the AFAC Blog for more details

MS Concert Time: 5:30 p.m. Locaon: FAT This will feature performances by the MS Band, Strings and Choir students

Wednesday, June 1st Math Carnival! Time: 8:30 - 11:00a.m. Locaon: Lohouse For their nal unit on probability, all students in Grade 7 Honors Mathe-

macs have been busy designing and creang games of chance. All of thesegames will be combined to form the second MS Math Carnival Day. Allmembers of the ISM community are invited to aend and help the Grade 7students apply their knowledge of probability to real life. Come along and join in the fun!

Thursday, June 2nd Advocang for Change Day Who: G8 students Time: All Day (Opening assembly is at 7:30) Locaon: Various

Friday, June 3rd G8 to G9 Transion Morning for Students

Time: 7:30-

12:00 noon

G8 students will spend the morning rotang around dierent HS classes sothey can learn more about their upcoming transion to HS.

Students who are deparng ISM at the end of this school year, we have aseparate program focused on transions.

G8 students are dismissed at 12:00 noon so they can go home and get readyfor the Dinner Dance.

G8 Dinner Dance Time: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Locaon: Lohouse Please note this is a student event and parents do not aend.

PROJECT AWESOME (G7)

7th grade Cobras are going to donate

school supplies to an organizaon

called Springboard which will pass

them on to schools in need.

If you have any backpacks or school

supplies that you can donate, please

bring to advisory during upcoming

weeks.

If you want to know more about this

organizaon Springboard, you can visit

this website:

hp://springboard-foundaon.org/

If you have any quesons about this,

please ask Ms. Lepp

([email protected]) or Mr. Richard-

son ([email protected]).

Last day of Aer-School Acvies

(AFAC):

Friday, June 3rd

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NEXT WEEK:

Monday, June 6th G8 Community Outreach Day As part of the G8 end-of -year acvies, students

will parcipate in a meaningful day focused onservice learning. G8 students have signed up forone of the following partner sites:Tzu Chi Foun-daon, CRIBS, Coolengo, SPECS Home for Boys,PGH Pediatric Ward, PAWS, PCF Cras (at ISM)and Las Pinas (LPPCHEA).

Students will return to school between 1:30 and2:00 p.m. and will close the day by parcipangin a reecon exercise.

Tuesday, June 7th G8 Awards Assembly 7:30a.m. in the FAT. Teachers will present awards for dierent subject

areas as well as ISM’s disposions and transdisci-plinary skills. Parents are welcome to come and watch if they

would like to do so. Please be aware that this event is relavely infor-

mal.

G8 Acvies Aernoon and Yearbook Signing Event: 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. (Acvity day)

2:00 - 3:00 p.m. (Yearbook signing)

Wednesday, June 8th G8 Moving On Ceremony Time: 16:00

Locaon: FAT Please note that G8 students do not have school

on this day. Students should arrive on campus at3:00 p.m.

Thursday, June 9th Last Day of School! G8 students do not come to school on this day! Dismissal is at 12:00 noon for all students.

Library is Closed:

The MSMC is now closed to parents, students and facul-ty.

Scheduling:

At this me of year we invest a signicant amount of

me trying to nalize the MS schedules for the coming

academic year. We are currently calling a handful of stu-

dents, whose elecve choices cannot be honored, into

the oce so we can discuss alternave opons. As soon

as this facet of the scheduling process is complete, we

review classes for balance using the lenses of gender,

language, class dynamics and academics.

Over the summer we connue to receive new students

and, on occasion, this causes us to make minor altera-ons or switches. All students will be able to collect their

schedule for the 2016 - 2017 school year in August. The

collecon dates are below:

Monday, August 1st = Grade 5 and Grade 6.

Tuesday, August 2nd = Grade 7 and Grade 8.

Wednesday, August 3rd = General distribuon

for all MS students.

The rst day of school is Thursday, August 4th

and any student who has not collected their

schedule in advance, will be able to collect it

from the MS Oce.

Last Day of School:

The last day of school for students is on Thursday, June

9th. Students will be dismissed at 12:00 noon. If you are

taking your child out of school before this date, please be

sure to email the MS Oce.

Report Cards:

The end of semester report cards will be available on

Wednesday, June 15th. Parents can access the reports

via the ISM website and the Parent Portal. Please make

sure that all outstanding fees and/or school items have

been seled before this date, otherwise you will be una-

ble to access your child’s report card.

Ms. Susan’s Rerement:

Ms. Susan Aguila reres from ISM on Friday, July

29th. This means that all students, parents and faculty

members will say goodbye to Ms. Susan at the close of

this academic year. Ms. Susan has been a member of the

MS family for 30 years and a member of the ISM family

for 40 years! If you have the me over the next two

weeks, why not show your appreciaon for Ms. Susan’s

years of service by sending her an email

([email protected]), by calling the MS Oce or by

dropping in to give her a few kind words of thanks. Let’s

make her nal two weeks special!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Kind regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

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The ISM Fine & Performing Arts Oce lms many performances throughout the school year. Unfortunately, due to copyright

laws, we cannot post many of these events to a public access site such as YouTube. In order to make access to these events

easy for ISM families, we have now added a Google folder containing the lms in the "Quick Links" list of the Parent Portal.

Here is a screenshot of this link:

Once you have clicked on this link, you will be taken to the Google folder that contains folders label by the school year.

Click on the year in which the event you want to watch took place and a list of video les will appear.

Because the le sizes are so big, downloading the video you want to watch to your personal computer is recommended.

This also means you will retain access to it aer you leave ISM and it will be easy to share with family members via le

share sites such as Google Drive or Dropbox.

You can download by clicking on the video le you want. A similar screen as seen below will open and then you select the

download tab, which is located at the top-center of the screen:

You will be asked to select where you want to

save the le on your personal computer.

Currently we only have events for this year

available, but will work on shiing over the last

two years as well in the coming weeks. We will

also eventually include folders containing pho-

tos taken by our ISM student photographers at

some events.

SHARING POLICY

The videos in this folder are provided for pri-

vate family viewing only. These videos

SHOULD NOT be uploaded to the internet for public access. If this becomes an issue, we will have to stop providing the

lms in this manner. You can certainly share your downloaded les to family members in other countries but please make

it clear to them that these videosSHOULD NOT be uploaded to any social media or public access site.

Happy viewing!

Marsha Hillman

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End of year awards/cercate distribuon for our all yearround ATAC teams will take place at the nal training ses-sion of the year the week beginningJune 1st. Snacks/drinks will be provided at the last session and coaches will

present parcipaon and individual awards to concludethe year for Table Tennis, Chess, Wall Climbing, Aikido,Tae Kwon Do and Judo teams.

ISM summer camps informaon/yer is posted to theATAC blog. Summer camps are oered the rst 3 weeks of

the summer vacaon. Please note due to the largeamount of facility construcon planned for this summer

camps will only be oered in the mornings and all sessionswill end by 12 noon or before. hp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/atac-summer-sports-camps/

S4 runs from April 11 to June 3 and the pracce schedule

is posted on noce boards and on ATAC blog schedulespage . S4 pracces are open to all Gr 8-11 student ath-letes. Current Gr 8's who will be freshmen next SY areencouraged to come out as it is a great opportunity tomeet the coaches and other HS athletes while geng insome pre season pracce in readiness for next SY. ATAC

Season 4 ATAC HS seasonal sports sessions oered are-

Girls- Soccer/Volleyball/Basketball/Touch Boys- Soccer/Volleyball/Basketball/Faculty/Student

Basketball

Please note due to the very hot weather ISM reserves theright to cancel acvies on short noce if the use of ouroutdoor facilies is deemed too hot on any given day.Every eort will be made where possible to schedule S4pracces on the shaded MS eld or in a covered facility.

Upcoming events:

June 1- 3 End of year awards presentaons for ATACall year teams(Chess/Table Tennis/Wall Climbing/Aikido/TKD/Judo)

June 1 Bearcats for street soccer MS/HS fundraiser forcharity

June 3 Last day of AFAC and ATAC training

Aug 4,5,8,9

S1 HS Tryouts (Volleyball/Soccer/CrossCountry) Aug 8,9,10 S1 MS Tryouts (Volleyball/Soccer/Cross

Country) Aug 8,9,10 Tryouts/Registraon for ES Rifa League

Soccer Gr1-4. Aug 8, 10, 12- Tryouts/Registraon for ATAC All Year

teams( Sailsh swim squads, Gymnascs, Wall Climb-ing, Table Tennis, Chess, Akido, Judo, TaeKwonDo

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the Sail-sh blog for informaon. hp://sailsh.ism-online.org/

Please note the pracce mes for ATAC programs for SY

16-17 are as follows:

ATAC all year round teams

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4:30. See schedule for our All year round teams programat ATAC blog schedules page

For SY 16-17 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 allaer school programs will conclude by 4:50pm or earlier.

The last bus is 4:55pm this is due to the ever increasingtrac concerns in our area.

Parents and students please take some me to peruse theATAC blog it has a wide variety of informaon and links to

our sports and acvies program. If you have any ques-ons regarding the compeve program of sports at ISMaer reading the informaon on the blog please send anemail to [email protected] and I will endeavor to as-sist you as best I can.

The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularlyby Triz Gonzalez (ATAC Athlecs Coordinator) gives themost up to date informaon on where/when and who ourBearcat teams will be playing throughout the school year.

Access to the game schedule is now via the ISM parentportal not via power school as in the past. A navigaonguide is available here. ATAC Game Schedule Users Guide.

Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your username/password and then look for the ATAC Game Sched-ule tab under the le side quick links. Don't forget to re-fresh the pdf page each me it opens so you access themost current schedule. Please note this schedule doeschange oen and at short noce due to involvement withmany local schools and organizaons.

Check it regularly for the most up to date informaon. Forsecurity purposes....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 for year

end sale items. Get some Bearcat gis for friends andfamily. Bearcat Den hours of operaon-7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

Best Regards, Mark Pekin Director of Athlecs and Acvies

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Need to top up?

ISM goes cashless in SY16-17!

Starng SY2016-2017 ISM will implement a full debit system in

the MS/HS Canteen. The debit system provides customers with a

cashless payment system once the customer's ID has been loaded

with funds.

Parents and Students are encouraged to start using the debit

system if they aren't already doing so.

Click here for details.

YEAR-END CLEARANCE REMINDERS:

NOTE 1 : Student charges will be FINAL on June 07,2016 . Kindly view the ISM Web Online and sele the re-maining outstanding balance(s) in me for year end clearance SY2015-2016 .

NOTE 2 : In ancipaon of the year-end clearance for SY2015-2016, please note that only students with fullypaid SY2015-2016 fees will have their clearance forms signed by the cashier and will then have access toschool documents such as report cards and transcripts.

Likewise, for next school year’s incoming Pre-School 4 to Grade 4 old students, secon cards will be releasedby the Accounng Oce on June 9, 2016 and thereaer only if current school year (2015-2016) fees are fullyseled.

NOTE 3 :Please be informed that for the purpose of clearing the accounts of students for SY15-16, On-ly CASH payment will be accepted by ISM cashiers both for dollar and peso payments aer the cut o datesbelow :

Peso checks will no longer be accepted starng on May 23, 2016 (Monday) while US$ checks will no longerbe accepted starng on April 25, 2016 (Monday). This is to allow enough me for the check to get cleared bythe bank in me for the student clearance in June. Please also note that US dollar coins are not accepted bythe cashier, however, the same can be converted to its peso equivalent to sele the remaining fees.

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IDs for the New School Year

Parent IDs

The previously issued black and white parent IDs will connue to be valid for the new school year. Standard par-ent cards are issued free of charge. Parents may, however, elect to apply for a smartcard ID which will be usable

with the cashless payment system introduced into the school for SY 2013-14. There will be a fee of P250.00 for a

smartcard.

Applicaons for parent IDs can be processed through the Security Oce.

Student IDs

All students will be issued with new ID cards at the beginning of the new school year. The cards will be compa-

ble with the cashless payment system. There will be no need for returning students to visit the Security Oce as

we will be ulizing the photographs taken for the yearbooks.

School Passes School passes issued to parent’s employees and representaves need to be replaced for next school year. As of

August 31, 2016 (Wednesday) the brown bordered passes will be inva-

lid.

The security oce is now accepng applicaons for new school passes,

however the cards will not be available for collecon before July 1,

2016. These passes will not be compable with the cashless payment

system.

Each family will be given two free school passes. Addional school

passes may be obtained aer paying a processing fee of Php100.00

each to the Cashier’s Oce.

Car Sckers for the New School Year

The car sckers for school year 2016/2017 will be available from the

security oce beginning July 1, 2016.

To obtain a new vehicle scker please submit a completed vehicle sck-

er form. Applicaons for vehicles registered with companies or other

instuons should be supported by a leer of assignment.

Each ISM family will be issued one vehicle scker free of charge. Any

addional sckers will be issued following payment of P100 to the

cashier’s oce.

I would like to thank all members of the ISM community for their cooperaon

across this school year in helping us maintain ISM as a safe and secure environ-

ment for our children.

Sincerely,

MIKE FLYNN

Director of Operaons

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Important informaon on Re-Enrollment for SY 2016-17

Dear Parents:

We will begin On-line Re

-Enrollment for school year 2016

-17 on Monday, April 4. 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 sup-

port, please contact the Middle School Oce.

Please note that you must complete re-enrollment Steps 1 & 2 by 4pm on Friday, May 27 at the latest. PowerSchool will closeon that date unl the start of SY16-17. 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 process.

If your child/ren will not be returning for SY16-17, you MUST follow the Withdrawal Procedure and submit a Withdrawal No-caon Form on or before Friday, May 13. Click here for more informaon.

Online Re-Enrollment

Step 1: Visit www.ismanila.org and click on Parent Portal under the Quick Links drop -down menu. Log-in to the Parent Portal

and click on PowerSchool. Please refer to the aached guide on “How to Access Online Re-Enrollment.”

Step 2: Look for the Re-Enrollment Clearance icon on the le hand panel. Click on the icon. Create your Re-enrollment Clear-ance Form and click submit aer updang. You will receive an email nocaon verifying that you have been successful up-dang your child’s record.

Step 3: Submit Forms (if applicable)

Students entering Grade 6 will be required to download and complete the Standard Physical Examinaon Form(with ECG) which should be submied to the ISM Health Clinic as soon as possible.

Students entering Grade 7 will be required to download and sign the ISM Drug Policy Form which should be sub-

mied to the MS Oce as soon as possible.

Step 4 You must sele all charges for SY15-16 which may include incidental fees not covered by company sponsorship (ATAC

uniforms, instrument rental, payment for lost textbook, etc.).

Step 5: You must pay the rst quota of tuion fees for SY16-17 to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION for yourchild to aend class on August 4, 2016.

Tuion and Fees: Please sele your accounts through our Cashier’s Oce.

Successful compleon of required steps will generate a NO REPLY email conrmaon. Compleon of all steps is necessary in

order to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION.

To check status of Re-Enrollment, please visit the Parent Portal page.

Class Schedule distribuon dates are as follows:

August 01, 2016: Grade 5 and 6 (MS Intersecon)August 02, 2016: Grade 7 and 8 (MS Intersecon)

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