Parent Bulletin Issue 6 SY1516

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MAP TESTING

September 28 to October 22

NO CLASSES

Friday, September 25

NO CLASSES (Faculty In-Service)

Thursday, September 24

CLASSROOM WITHOUT WALLS

(CWW)

Thursday, September 17 and

Friday, September 18

Locaons:

Grade 5: Amazing Race (on campus)

Grade 6: Island Cove (o campus)

Grade 7: Balai Isabel (o campus)

Grade 8: Caliraya (o campus)

PARENT COFFEE: BILINGUALISM

Tuesday, September 15

Time: 07:45 - 09:00 Venue: Lile Theater

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8 ISM Upcoming Events

Admissions & Advancement

Athlecs & Acvies

Service Learning 3

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Learning 2.0 @ ISM 4

Parent Coee: Bilingualism

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 06

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

SEP 14 TO SEP 18

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

SEPTEMBER

MS Upcoming Events:

Dear Parents,

This week ISM hosted Freedom from Chemical Dependency (FCD) week. FCD’s mis-

sion is to work with schools and other organizaons across the United States and

around the world to provide students with the knowledge, understanding and skills

they need to make intelligent, healthy choices about alcohol and other drug

use. FCD incorporate eecve strategies to shape healthy student atudes and

behavior. Through their sessions, the FCD counselors educate students about false

normave beliefs, the importance of delaying rst use, provide accurate and devel-

opmentally appropriate informaon, help students to become aware of the conse-

quences of use, teach students how to intervene, encourage students to idenfy

pro-social goals, facilitate discussions that foster self -analysis, and address known

risk factors and protecve factors.

Throughout the course of the week, the FCD team has held small class sessions with

students in G8 and facilitated two dierent assemblies - one with the students in

G7 and G8 and a separate assembly for students in G5 and G6. The FCD counselors

hosted a Parent Coee, met with school leaders and counselors and consulted with

the wellness team. By facilitang sessions with key stakeholders, we feel the ISM

community will be beer placed to support and guide our students as they navigate

our ever-

changing world.

On Tuesday, September 15th from 7:45 - 09:00, Kim Guiry and the ESL team will be

hosng a parent coee in the Lile Theater. Interested parents can come and learn

more about the language acquision process and how to support their child.

On Wednesday, Sep-

tember 16th, Students

in G6, 7 and 8 will have

the opportunity to meet

Kiera Cass - author of

The Selecon Se-

ries. Students willaend an assembly dur-

ing the rst block on

Wednesday from 08:30

- 09:40, in the

FAT. This is a wonder-

ful opportunity for our

students and we are

sure they will enjoy

learning more about Keira’s inspiraons and her wring process.


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On Thursday and Friday all grade levels will be involved in

the CWW events/trips. G5 students remain on campus

and have an acon packed two days awaing

them. Students in G6, G7 and G8 visit dierent locaons

for an overnight experience, where the emphasis is onteam-building skills and making peer group connecons.

Due to the upcoming CWW trips, please note that there

will be no Middle School ATAC or Middle school AFAC on

Thursday, September 17th and Friday, September

18th. This informaon has been shared with all students

through our Advisory program. This includes the G5 acvi-

es!

By now all parents should have signed and returned the

required permission slips. If you have not returned the

permission slip, please do so immediately. Teachers willbe following up with parents whose child/children are

missing slips so no child is disappointed on Thursday!

In order to make sure that the G6 - G8 CWW departure

plans do not interfere with the start of the school day in

the ES and HS, we would like to remind all parents about

the arrival plan and strict departure me for each of these

trips.

Grade 6:

Students report to G6 classrooms at 6:45 for roll call.

At 6:50 a.m. the parents of students who are not at

school will be called to determine their esmated

me of arrival.

From 6:50 - 7:00 a.m. students will board the buses.

At 7:00 a.m. the buses will depart.

Grade 7:

Students report to Advisory at 7:30 a.m. for roll call.

At 7:35 a.m. the parents of students who are not at

school will be called to determine their esmated

me of arrival.

From 7:45 - 7:55 a.m. students will board the buses.


Grade 8:

Students report to MS Plaza at 6:45 a.m. for roll call.

At 6:50 a.m. students who are not at school will be

called to determine their esmated me of arrival.

From 6:50 - 7:00 a.m. students will board the buses:


The CWW buses travel in convoy as per school proto-

cols. The departure mes have been carefully coordinat-ed to try and avoid trac and facilitate a smooth start to

everyone’s day. Parents are respecully requested to plan

ahead so that students arrive at school in a mely fashion.

As requested in last week’s Parent Bullen, please make

sure your child’s vaccinaons are up to date - especially

for tetanus.

We appreciate that residenal trips can lead to increased

levels of anxiety among parents. Please know that the MS

oce will receive periodic updates from the Site Coordina-

tors and the oce will disseminate updates to parents via

email.

Kind regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

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For more informaon,

contact Kim Guiry

([email protected])

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Dear ISM parents,

You may have heard that ISM will be hosng one of the world's leading technology conferences, Learn-ing 2.0, from October 1-3. You may not know that we are involving students from Manila area schools

to give their voice to the many innovaons we will be considering at this conference. In addion, and

for the rst me, we would like to invite members of the ISM parent community to take part in this

conference. Having the voice of the parent community can give the thinkers in this conference valuable

insights into the lives of our young learners and how we can best support them with technology as we

progress through the 21st Cen-

tury.

With this in mind, please readthe announcement below and

visit theLearning 2.015 Web-

site to nd out more and regis-

ter for the conference. ISM par-

ents can receive a 20% discount

o the registraon by entering

the following promoonal

code: "ISMParents".

When selecng your Cohort,

please select the "Int'l School

Manila Parents Cohort".

If you have any quesons

please contact the ISM Learning

Oce

at [email protected].

We hope to see you at the con-

ference!

Kind regards,

ISM Learning Oce

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Tomorrow is the third of the RIFA ES/MS soccer fesvals.

See links at the ES/MS fesval pages for venues and

mes. Venue informaon is also posted on ES/MS noce

boards. Please check carefully and If you are in doubtabout 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

Housing needed for IASAS soccer Oct 7-11. ISM proudly

hosts IASAS Soccer this year and it is going to be a fantas-

c event for our community. In order to host we need to

house 160 athletes from the IASAS schools. Please consid-er hosng it is a great experience. ES and MS along with

HS parents can host. Check out the link at IASAS housing

informaon 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]. We currently

need to house 75 more athletes!

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

ketball Camp run by Filipino Basketball Academy

FBA. See FBA yer for details. Flyer is also posted on no-

ce boards around school. Sign up quick as places will go

fast.

Well done to our ISM Bearcats Climbing team and coach-

es who parcipated in the 2nd round of the local wall

climbing series at PowerUP last Saturday. Out of 40 en-

trants in 3 categories ISM girls and boys won 2 gold

(Emma and Leopold), 2 silvers (Patrick and Ruitong) and

2 bronze (Jacob and Gabie) 14 ISM climbers took part and

all but 2 made it into the nal round. Well done Bearcats

Climbing team and coaches.

Well done to our XC team who competed at Brent last

Saturday. Race results can be found here Brent meet re-

sults.

Next weekend our Varsity Volleyball and Cross teams

travel to Kuala Lumpur for their exchange weekend and

our Varsity soccer teams travel to Singapore. Good luck to

all players and coaches, this is great preparaon for the

IASAS S1 championships in October.

Upcoming events:

Sept 11 HS Volleyball teams away at Brent

Sept 11th Midgets A1/Asp vs DLSZ from 3:30pm/

VBoys at 5:30pm

Sept 12th Rifa Soccer Fesvals ES/MS teams

Sept 12 Rifa MS Girls Fesval 1pm at ISM

Sept 12th Cross Country meet at Faith 8am start

Sept 12th HS Soccer teams away at Faith

Sept 18-20 Pre- IASAS exchange at KL(V'ball/XC

teams) and Singapore(soccer teams)

Sept 19 Swim meet at Brent.

Sept 21- PRFU/CBRE Rugby clinic #2 with former All

Black Geo Alley5:15-7pm @ HS Field ISM rugby

players welcome.

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

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 conclude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus

is4:55pm

this is due to the ever increasing trac con-cerns 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 the

Vicky SyCip Philippine ScholarshipProgram on November 13th, 2015 inthe Little Theater. Rock through theages with live music provided by ourvery own Faculty Band, The MamSirs.Early Bird tickets will go on sale

soon!

All proceeds of the event support thePhilippine Scholarship for a truly de-serving Filipino student to attend ISM.

For more information on the Philip-pine Scholarship please visit this LINK.

http://email.ismanila.myenotice.com/c/eJyFT8uKwzAQ-xr7aGb8yOPgQ6H0N4rrsVPTOClJSujfd7qEZW8LA5IGISHyCV26GVm8BnTQI0BreosKXaut6lo0Vlgoaw1TGYOq7zTNW4lJxbnKu88UTECdwQHlm3WWoI-m7QISUqNRjv6-bU9hTkJf-PZ9V79h8zLwK-brT2Z-sxjL9MjzsoeFVMxVmEsNZRxekzBnFLr5onWG2YsZMKYDKa0b0http://email.ismanila.myenotice.com/c/eJyFT8uKwzAQ-xr7aGb8yOPgQ6H0N4rrsVPTOClJSujfd7qEZW8LA5IGISHyCV26GVm8BnTQI0BreosKXaut6lo0Vlgoaw1TGYOq7zTNW4lJxbnKu88UTECdwQHlm3WWoI-m7QISUqNRjv6-bU9hTkJf-PZ9V79h8zLwK-brT2Z-sxjL9MjzsoeFVMxVmEsNZRxekzBnFLr5onWG2YsZMKYDKa0b0


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