Parent Bulletin Issue 11 SY1516

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Service Learning

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ISSUE # 11

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

OCTOBER 19 TO 23

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

SEPTEMBER—NOVEMBER:

MS Upcoming Events:

Dear Parents,

Communicaon is an essenal component of any school and, as I shared in my earlier email, the MS

Parent Bullen is the primary communicaon pathway between the MS oce and our parent com-

munity. This week marks the launch of some new sub-headings that are intended to help parents

easily access essenal informaon quickly. We hope you nd it helpful!

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Tesng: MAP tesng has now concluded for the Fall tesng season. We have a handful of students who

need to take retakes, due to absences, but we ancipate that these will be completed before the

October break. Parents will receive a MAP Student Progress Report on Friday, November 6th. This

report will be sent home in a sealed envelope and provides a summary of your child’s results for

Math, Reading and Language usage for the Fall tesng season 2015 (October). Returning ISM stu-

dents will receive the MAP data in both graph and tabular formats. If your child is new to ISM, par-

ents will only receive their child’s results in a table.

Parent-Teacher Conferences (PTCs):

The MS has had one successful aernoon of PTCs and we look forward to our two addional aer-

noons which are scheduled for Monday, October 19th and Tuesday, October 20th. If you have yet

to sign up for the PTCs please do so via the online sign -up system. If you need a reminder about

how to do this, please refer to Parent Bullen Issue 9: October 5th - 9th for step by step de-

tails. Parents looking for PTC ps can check out last week’s Parent Bullen. The ps listed here are

a great way to frame your thinking in ancipaon of the conferences.

Please note that we have a modied schedule on PTC days and students will be dismissed from

school at 12:00 noon.

Period 1 = 7:30 - 08:15

Period 2 = 8:20 - 9:05

Break = 9:05 - 09:20

Period 3 = 9:25 - 10:10

Period 4 = 10:15 - 11:00

Period 5 = 11:05 - 11:50

Dismissal = 12:00 noon

The school buses will be leaving ISM at 12:15. Please note that all MS students are expected to

leave campus aer being dismissed from classes for the day. We are unfortunately unable to pro-

vide supervision as all teachers and TAs will be in conferences. We respecully request that parents

make the necessary arrangements to have their child picked up from school in a mely fashion.

Filipiniana:

On Friday, October 23rd, ISM will be celebrang Filipiniana! For those parents who are new to ISM,

this is a program of events that has been carefully designed to honor and celebrate our wonderful

host culture of the Philippines. The specic schedule for the day is slightly dierent in ES, MS and

HS, however, there are some events that are common to all divisions such as the Filipiniana Pa-

rade. In the morning, MS students will operate on a shortened schedule so that the aernoon can

be dedicated to dierent cultural events and acvies. The following is a snapshot of the MS stu-

dent acvies:

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES

Wednesday, October 14

Monday & Tuesday, October 19 & 20

FILIPINIANA

Friday, October 23

SCHOOL BREAK

October 26 to November 2

ACADEMIC BOWL

Tuesday, November 10

MS YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOOT

November 9 to 12

NEED TO KNOW:

ALL BANDS’ CONCERT

Tuesday, November 17

ART EXHIBIT

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11:55 - 12:15 Filipiniana Parade

Students who wish to parcipate in the parade must wear

tradional Filipino are or the Philippine Cultural Club (PCC)

t-shirt. PCC T-shirts are available for purchase at

school. Parcipaon in the parade is oponal and advisory

teachers will be discussing this event with students who areinterested in joining in the parade. Students who do not

wish to parcipate will be spectang and can either wear

Philippine are, PCC t-shirts or their regular school uniform.

12:15 - 1:15 MS Filipiniana FAT Program

This MS event will feature MS band, strings, choir and dance

students showcasing tradional Filipino music, songs and

dances. All students from G5 - G8 will be in the audience

alongside their teachers. As the FAT can only seat 800 peo-

ple, and the total number of students and faculty is approxi-

mately 800, parents will unfortunately not be able to aend

this event.

1:15 - 2:00 Barrio Fiesta Lunch

Parents of students in the Philippine Cultural Club will be

providing a wide range of tradional tasty treats that will be

available for purchase during lunch me. Students can pur-

chase food ckets in 100 peso increments from the PCC

booth under the covered area by the MS plaza.

2:00 - 3:00 MS Rotang Acvies

For the nal hour of the school day, students will be orga-

nized by house teams and will rotate around 5 dierent ac-

vies that range from Filipino games and dances to making

paper parols.

Parents who would like to spend the aernoon at school and soak up

this cultural extravaganza are welcome to do so!

As part of Filipiniana, a bazaar will be held in front of the canteen from

Wednesday, October 21st through to Friday, October 23rd. A wide

variety of Filipino jewelry, texles, Marikina shoes and home decor

items will be available for purchase. Parents are welcome to drop in

and see what’s on oer!

Yearbook Photographs:

Our ocial school photographer, Tino Ley, will be on campus the week

of November 9th to take student photos for the ISM Yearbook and

individual photo packages. The individual photo packages will be deliv-

ered to students in January aer the three week vacaon.

For those of you who are new to MS, ISM produces three separate

yearbooks:

High School = Kawayan

Middle School = Salinlahi

Elementary School = Alaala

The yearbooks serve as a collecon of memories for the given school

year and are given out at the end of each school year. The yearbooks

are free of charge!

The Yearbook photo shoot will take place in Room 1124 - this is the

classroom behind the AMR. Students will have their photos taken

during their Modern Language, EAP or SI instruconal blocks. Please

be sure to make sure uniforms are clean each day and that you send a

comb or a hairbrush so students look their best in the photos!

Photo order forms and other related payment informaon will be given

to students during Advisory on Monday, October 19th. Please remem-

ber that your child needs to hand in the photo order form directly tothe photographer during his/her scheduled photo shoot. Please re-

mind your child to ask for a receipt.

October Break:

Please remember that there is no school for students and faculty

from Monday, October 26th - Monday, November 2nd. During

the break the MS Oce will be ful ly staed if you have any ques-

ons.

Classes resume on Tuesday, November 3rd. Please make sure

your child has a resul sleep on Monday night so they are ready

for school the next day.

Go Bearcats!

This week we have seen extremely high levels of community spirit as

ISM celebrated a double victory with the boys soccer team and girls

volleyball team both taking the gold in the recent IASAS tourna-

ment. The cross country teams were not to be out done with both

boys and girls taking the silver. The boys’ soccer victory is parcularly

memorable as this is the rst me in 30 years that ISM has won this

event. It was wonderful to see so many passionate supporters cheer

our boys on last Saturday. Go Bearcats!

We’d like to give a quick shout out to the MS teachers who dedicated

their me and eort over the duraon of the rst season to coach our

varsity teams: Jason Juteau and Jenna Child (Girls Volleyball), Erik Rich-

ardson (Girls Soccer) and Dennis and Angela Respecki (Cross Coun-

try). Thanks also go out to Dave Allen who was the Site Coordinator for

the Soccer tournament. Thanks for supporng and guiding the ISM

teams!

PCA Cookbook Fundraiser:

The PCA would like to extend a personal invitaon for everyone in the

ISM community to parcipate in the ISM Cooks! Cookbook Fundrais-

er. The PCA’s goal is to collect at least 400 home-cooked family recipes

from our community. The published cookbook will be sold on campus

and on the shelves at Naonal Bookstore. The book will be decorated

with artwork from our ISM students. The funds raised will be used

towards next school year's PCA and the events, student organizaons

and service learning partners the PCA supports. The deadline to sub-

mit is October 23rd. Please show your community spirit and submit

your favorite recipes to the PCA!

Kind Regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal

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NICE TO KNOW:


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October 1

PCF

November 7

La Mesa

Watershed

CCV

November 14

Tzu Chi

Foundation

November 21

CRIBS

Foundation

Papaya Academy

December 5

Love2Learn

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ISM Boys Soccer Gold Medal(1st Gold in boys soccer since 1985!) ISM Girls Volleyball gold Medal

ISM Boys Cross Country Silver Medal ISM Girls Cross Country Silver Medal

McKenzie Kinsella IASAS 5km Bronze Medalist (21:27:03)

IASAS RESULTS: Soccer:

Girls 6th, Boys Champions

Cross Country:Boys Silver, Girls Silver

Volleyball:Boys 4th, Girls Champions


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Thank you to all ISM faculty, students and community mem-

bers for supporng our athletes last weekend here in Manila

and in Bangkok. It was a fantasc atmosphere at the soccer

tournament with huge crowds out to support our teams.Well done for our boys soccer for winning Gold this year at

home aer a 30 year wait and also to the Girls Volleyball

team for a wonderful undefeated run in Bangkok to bring

home the Gold! Huge congrats to our XC boys and girls

teams for winning Silver medals in Bangkok. Our boys volley-

ball had a great run in the round robin but lost a nail bing

semi nal to SAS and were not able to recover their form to

bring home a medal. Girls soccer baled hard and were

close in all games except the rst of the tournament vs SAS.

A very successful season 1 experience with 2 gold and 2 sil-

ver along with an individual Bronze medal for McKenzie Kin-

sella in the 5km cross country race. A fantasc race Kenzie!

Congratulaons to all our Bearcat athletes and to our faculty

coaches for your hard work over the past 9 weeks.

V'Ball- Jenna Child, Jason Juteau, Blair Berg, Ben Paulson

Soccer- Erik Richardson, Steph Dodd, Steve Ayling, Frank

MacInnes

Cross Country- Dennis Respecki, Angela Respecki, Dan Hall

A HUGE thanks to all our host families for housing our vis-

ing soccer players, these tournaments cannot happen with-

out your support so on behalf of all the vising players

THANK YOU.

To the ATAC sta, PCA, Bearcat Council, Student Ambassa-

dors, Clinic, Security, IT,AV, Transportaon and Custodial

sta a BIG thanks to all of you for all the behind the scenes

work that is done to make these events so very special.

With season one coming to a close soon Season 2 tryouts

have started this week. See the link for tryouts and pracce

schedules. Season 2 sports are Basketball/Rugby/Touch/

Tennis and HS varsity swimming. MS/HS tryouts and pracce

schedules

RIFA ES/MS soccer fesval nals for teams that have quali-

ed are onOct 17th. Finals venues are on noce boards and

via the ES/MS Fesval ATAC blog pages. Please check care-

fully 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 informaon and MS Rifa fesvals infor-

maon

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.

Upcoming events:

Oct 15,16 and 21 MS S2 tryouts

Oct 17 ES boys and MS girls soccer fesval nals at ISM

(for teams who qualied)

Oct 17 Rifa Boys soccer nal ISM V FEU 3:30pm at Xavi-

er Greenhills

Oct 18 8am MS boys fesval nals at BSM (for team that

qualied)

ISM Climbing Team- The 3rd leg of the young, wild and free

climbing series happened at Power Up Centro Atleco last

sat with almost 60 competors from all over the Philippines.

With 18 medals at stake ISM climbers had a great meet

and achieved 4 medals overall, with 2 silvers and 2 bronzes.

Congratulaons to Emma Stephan, Ruitong Liu, Ethan Liu,

Patrick Peterson and the rest of the climbing team! The

last leg of the young, wild and free compeon will be a

bouldering event on Nov 7 at ISM Climbing facility at our MS

gym.

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 3:15-4:45pm. 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. Bearcat Den

hours of operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

Best Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs and Acvies

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Dearest Parents,

You are cordially invited to Rock of Ages – a fund-raising social benefiting the Vicky SyCip HerreraFilipino Scholarship at ISM.

Here’s how you can help:

Purchase tickets on sale at the cashier for P1,500and get a FREE limited Bearcat Shirt

Donate any work of art to Stephanie Dodd in Room1169

All proceeds of the event support an additional Fili-

pino Scholar to attend ISM. For more informationon the Philippine Scholarship please visit this LINK.

Please click HERE to register. Kindly drop by the Alumni Office (P085) with the official/kiosk receiptto claim your ticket and shirt.

Let's rock through the ages together with great mu-sic, food and drinks - all for a cause!

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.

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