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Admissions & Advancement

Parent-Teacher Conferences 3

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Athlecs & Acvies 8

Aer-School Acvies

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 09

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

OCTOBER 5 TO 9

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

SEPTEMBER—NOVEMBER:

MS Upcoming Events:

Dear Parents,

Thanks to all the MS parents who aended the Parent Coee with Lance King on Tues-

day morning. A focal point of Lance’s presentaon was the concept of ‘failing well’ and

Lance highlighted how this approach to facing challenges can foster higher levels of re-

silience in children. The key points relang to the concept of ‘failing well’ or ‘failing bad-

ly’ are summarized below:

Failing Well:

Acknowledging failure and taking responsibility for your own acons.

Working at what you did wrong.

Making the necessary changes.

Going back and trying again being mindful of what you needed to change.

Failing Badly:

Placing the blame on someone else - Teacher’s, school’s, parents’ or

schedules fault.

Adding unnecessary drama to the situaon and blowing the issue out of

proporon.

Using avoidance techniques and acvies.

The task of growing resilient children is a prime concern for most parents. Parents needto encourage their child/children to take on new challenges and to perceive failure as a

source of feedback. Have you ever had a family conversaon where you shared some

of your personal experiences with failure as well as the strategies you used to move

forward in a proacve and reecve manner? If you have not done this, why not give it

a go!

Lance King also spoke to the MS faculty on Wednesday morning where he further ex-

plored the concept of resilience and failing well. Later in the day, he gave an engaging

presentaon to the MS students where he explained how our brain builds neural path-

ways.

Overall, Lance’s visit was a very engaging experience for students, parents and teachers

and we hope that collecvely we can connue to foster greater levels of resilience in

our students.

Parent-Teacher Conferences (PTCs):

Parent Teacher Conferences (PTCs) in the Middle School are scheduled for Wednesday

October 14, Monday October 19, and Tuesday October 20 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00

p.m. We will use an online reservaon system for making appointments, and the sys-

tem will open to parents at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, October 5. A step-by-step guide on

how to make appointments for Parent Teacher Conferences can be found on the next

page.

NO CLASSES (Learning 2.0 Conference)

Friday, October 2

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES

Wednesday, October 14

Monday & Tuesday, October 19 & 20

FILIPINIANA

Friday, October 23

SCHOOL BREAK

October 26 to November 2

MAP TESTING

October 5 to 13

ACADEMIC BOWL

Tuesday, November 10

MS YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOOT

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In some instances a pre-booked conference me may be visible when you log onto PowerParent to schedule

your conferences for October 14, 19 and October 20. The pre-booking was made upon the request of your child's teach-

er. If a pre-booking has been made, you may change the given me slot to suit your availability but please do not delete

it as this is a priority request. If you wish to know more about this request, please email your child’s teacher.

In order to reserve an appointment, you will need your PowerSchool username and password. If you have misplaced or

forgoen your PowerSchool login details, please call the MS Oce at 840-8550 or 840-8575. You may also email Krisne

Fong ([email protected]) or MS oce ([email protected]).

This year, you will noce that we have acted upon parent and teacher feedback from last year’s PTCs and have added in

an extra aernoon. There is now a sucient number of me slots to allow parents to meet with the teachers they wish

to talk with. During the three PTC aernoons, all teachers are available and so this makes it easier for parents to meet

with numerous teachers on the same day or over the course of the three days. We respecully request that parents en-

deavor to amend their schedules so they can aend the PTCs. This is the only me we can coordinate all of the teachers’

schedules and our ability to reschedule conferences will be limited.

PCA Cookbook Fundraiser:

Do you have a favorite recipe that reminds you of home? If so, why not share it with the PCA so it can be considered for

the PCA Cookbook Fundraiser? The PCA are hoping to gather 400 recipes and to date they have received less than 50

submissions. Any addional recipe submissions would be greatly appreciated!

IASAS Soccer:

ISM will be hosng the IASAS soccer tournament on Thursday and Friday of next week. Please know that you are more

than welcome to come to school and help cheer on the ISM Bearcats! The full schedule is available on the ATAC blog and

is posted on the TV screens around school.

We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to

all the MS parents who volunteered to host athletes

during this event- it’s wonderful to know that we

have such a supporve community!

MS Courtyard Event:

Check out the poster on this page and get ready to

come and show your Bearcat spirit! This event is

open to all MS students and will take place in the MS

Courtyard. Students are welcome to come and join

in the pep rally fun and games before heading o to

support the IASAS soccer game.

No School:

Please remember that there is no school forstudents on:

Friday, October 2nd (Learning 2.0 Edu-

cators’ Conference is being hosted at

ISM)

Kind regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

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ATAC oce is sll seeking some more host fami-

lies for IASAS Soccer. See below if you can assist.

Hosng leers with guest informaon and event

details will be distributed via email at the end of

this week. Check out the link at IASAS housing infor-

maon if you have any quesons please contact the

ATAC oce. Forms can be printed and turned in to

ATAC oce or emailed to [email protected].

With season one coming to a close soon Season 2 try-

outs will be starng aer IASAS. See this link for try-

outs and pracce schedules. Season 2 sports are Bas-

ketball/Rugby/Touch/Tennis and HS varsity swim-

ming. MS/HS tryouts and pracce schedules

IASAS is next week Oct 8-10, 2015 - ISM is hosng the

IASAS Soccer Championships and whilst we are hosng

soccer our Volleyball and Cross Country teams will be

striving for success in Bangkok at their season ending

championships in two weeks me. Live stream acon/

results from Manila and Bangkok

will be available

via www.iasas.asia. Hosng an

IASAS event has a whole school

focus to bring our community to-gether across all divisions (ES/MS/

HS) to support our Bearcats soccer

teams.

Find here the schedule of matches

for your forward planning. We

hope to have big crowds out to all

games but especially when our ISM

girls and boys teams are playing.

RIFA ES/MS soccer fesval nals for

teams that have qualied are onOct 17th. Finals venues are now

posted on noce boards and via

the ES/MS Fesval ATAC blog pag-

es. Please check carefully and If

you are in doubt about whether

the event will go ahead due to

heavy rain or extreme weather

please follow the procedure at this

link. hp://atac.ism-online.org/

manila-weather-forecast/atac-

event-

cancelaon-

extreme-

weather/

ES RIFA fesvals infor-

maon and MS Rifa fesvals infor-

maon

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Leaving ISM?

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

a WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM if their child will not be returning for the 2nd Semester

(January 2016 term). Families are encouraged to submit the Withdrawal Nocaon Form,

stang the student's nal date of aendance, immediately. Failure to submit the form may lead

to a delay in the forwarding of your child's transcript to his/her new school.

The Withdrawal Nocaon Form can be obtained from the Admissions Oce, by clicking the

link above, 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.

This coming October break ISM will be hosng a Fall Basket-

ball Camp run by Filipino Basketball Academy FBA. See FBA

yer for details. Flyer is also posted on noce boards around

school. Sign up quick as places will go fast.

Well done to our MS/HS XC teams who raced at Faith last

Saturday. Full results are available here.. hp://atac.ism-

online.org/atac/1st-season/cross-country-race-results/

Upcoming events:

Oct 2 Mid A1/Asp/VBoys vs Claret 3:30/5pm/3:30

Oct 3 Mid A1/Asp vs Hedcen 9am/10:30am

Oct 3 Rifa HS girls Div 1/Div 2 soccer nals.

Oct 3 ISSA Volleyball semis and nals

Oct 8-10 IASAS VBall/XC at Bangkok/IASAS Soccer at

ISM

Oct 10 Wall Climbing team at PowerUP Tandang Sora

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- 3:15-4:30. 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 3:10-4:40pm. In order to clear

the campus prior to 5pm all aer school programs will con-

clude 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 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

new school year sale on at the moment and a range of new

products and items to purchase including items from our

service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operaon-7am-

4pm Mon-Fri.

GO BEARCATS!

Best Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs and Acvies

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SAVE THE DATE!

Join us in support of theVicky SyCip Philippine ScholarshipProgram on November 13th,2015 in the Little Theater. Rockthrough the ages with live musicprovided by our very own FacultyBand, The MamSirs. Early Bird tick-

ets will go on sale soon!

All proceeds of the event supportthe Philippine Scholarship for atruly deserving Filipino student toattend ISM. For more informationon the Philippine Scholarship

please visit this LINK.
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