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Student Bulletin

M  I  D D  E L  S  C  O H  L O Issue # 21

WEEK AT A GLANCE

Upcoming Events in the Middle School PowerSchool Grade Update

February 4 to 8, 2013 

February 11 to 15 Classroom Without Walls (CWW)

25 No Classes (EDSA Revolution Holiday

26 No Classes (Faculty In-Service)

27 to Mar. 01 Grade 8 Course Registration

March 04 to 08 Grade 5 to 7 Course Registration

05 MS Academic Bowl

07 Early Student Release

Feb. 8 - Progress Reports Distributio

February 4 to 8, 2013

Monday, February 4 Regular Schedule 

Tuesday, February 5 Regular Schedule 

Wednesday, February 6 Student Late Start/Regular ScheduleGrade Level Assembly (11:40 A.M.)Gr. 5 - AMR/Lofthouse; Gr. 6 - Gym; Gr. 7 - LT; Gr. 8 - FAT 

Thursday, February 7 Regular Schedule 

Friday, February 8 Regular Schedule 

Dear Students: Congratulations to our students who attended the AMIS Band Festival in Myanmar and performed inconcert with other international students. We hope you had a memorable experience and forged somnew friendships.

Third season tryouts begin this week on February 6. If you are interested in badminton, softball, MSmixed touch rugby, or track and field, make sure to check the ATAC blog for more information and thelocation of tryouts. CWW is almost here! Make sure to get your permission slips in to either your Homebase teacher or sit

leader. The CWW trips are great fun and memorable experiences. If you or your parents have anyquestions, please get in touch with your HB teacher or site leader. Be part of the action! Take note…the MS Party scheduled for Friday, February 8 has been postponed until March 15. Staytuned! Have a great week ahead! 

Sincerely,

Mr. Gillespie and Ms. Sayson

Please note that the MSParty (Grade 5 to 8) on

February 8, 2013 has beenrescheduled to

March 15, 2013. 

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3rd Season sports are fast approaching (Badminton, Softball and Track & Field) see tryouts andpractice schedule via the ATAC blog schedules pages.

http://atac.ism-online.org/schedules/hs/ http://atac.ism-online.org/schedules/tryouts/ 

IASAS Golf makes its debut this year at ISKL. If you want to be a part of history and represent ISMin the first ever IASAS Golf Tournament, contact Mr. Hamaguchi to register your name.

ISM will host IASAS Tennis Jan 30-Feb 3. Please come and support our Bearcats tennis teams atIASAS. You can find the schedule via www.iasas.asia. A big THANK-YOU to ISM families that agreed tohost an IASAS Tennis athletes. Housing letters for the IASAS Track and Field event is now available viathe ATAC blog. Please sign up early to house a visiting track athlete in April. For general information

about housing at IASAS tournaments see the housing and hosting page…. 

http://atac.ism-online.org/iasas/iasas-housing/

IASAS Tennis matches start Thursday Jan 31st. The schedule is very busy with 204 matches to beplayed over the 3 days. To help you understand the schedule, a match consists of 3 singles games S1,S2, S3 and 2 doubles games D1 and D2.There is also an 8 th or alternate player for each team who playmatches as a part of the tournament. The alternate player can be used in case of injury/illness in sin-gles or doubles if needed. To win the match, you need to win 3 out of the 5 games. It is a round robinformat with all teams playing each other by Saturday lunch time. By Saturday afternoon the finals areplayed based on the round robin results.

All 8 courts on our new roof facility plus our 2 courts at the covered court will be utilized for the tour-nament, so there will be plenty of great tennis matches to watch during the 3 days. For those of youthat are unaware or are new to ISM, both our ISM boys and girls teams are defending IASAS championsand our girls team is going for a 3rd win in a row this year. The event will be live streamed via

www.iasas.asia and IASAS tournaments are wonderful events to host and we look forward to puttingon a great event for the visiting teams in our new facility. We hope for great support from our ISMcommunity during the event to cheer on our teams as they do battle against the IASAS schools.

Whilst we are hosting tennis our other 2nd season teams will be battling it out at the following venuesfor their season ending IASAS Championships and we wish them thebest of luck. You can follow their progress via live score and stream-ing sites at www.iasas.asia

Rugby/Touch at Kuala Lumpur

Basketball at Singapore

Swimming at Taipei

Please come along and check out the action when we host our IASASfriends from Singapore, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei and Bangkok!

From the Athletics & Activities Office

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Our MS boys B and girls tennis teams have made it to the ISTA league semi finals to be playedon Feb 16. The MS Gold girls and boys basketball teams also play their semis and finals this Saturdayat ISM MS gym. Good luck to all players.

Our varsity girls basketball team won the ISSA league final, that was played last Tuesday nightover Assumption 43-31. Congratulations to players and coaches! Well done JV and MS boys Rugbyteams who took out the local league finals last Saturday. The Bearcats Rugby boys made it a triple

sweep this season winning all 3 divisions of local school boy rugby.

The Faith Academy Hardeman Cup Basketball tournament gave our IASAS teams solid finalpreparation for this week’s IASAS in Singapore. The Varsity boys lost in OT in the bronze medal gameand our girls won the 3rd place trophy with freshman Tori and Chiara being recognized for the all-tournament team.

Congratulations also to our JV and Varsity girls touch teams who also won the ISM Touch Invi-tational played on Saturday. Both teams played very well to take out the 1st place trophy. We wishour girls touch players the best as they head for Kuala Lumpur on Wednesday.

A great way to stay in touch with the ISM ATAC program is to subscribe via RSS feed to theATAC blog and also to follow via twitter (see twitter feed on the blog home page). Each Monday I will

post the weeks happenings and highlight important events for students and parents information onthe ATAC blog and in the regular Friday parent bulletins.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule information) Information about all mid-week/weekend fixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATAC blog. Please note the game scheduledoes change often due to involvement with many local schools so please check the page regularlyto find out the latest information of where and when the Bearcats teams are playing. Click onschedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to the power school secure sitehttp://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/ You will need your power school user name and password toaccess the game schedule pdf.

HS Student registration for ATAC activities: (new for school year ’12-13) A Google doc regis-tration is now available for all HS students who will take part in any ATAC seasonal sports teams,

MUN and Cultural Convention programs. Please take the time to complete this online registration foractivities that you plan on joining this school year. Please access the form via the HS Student Regis-tration tab found under the Helpful Shortcuts bar on the ATAC blog home page. Please note this is forHS students only and you must use your school email address to access the link. Personal gmail orhotmail addresses will not allow you to access the page.

BEARCAT DEN: http://atac.ism-online.org/bearcat-den/

Our Bearcat Den is open for business, please drop by to check out the range of Bearcat prod-ucts. We have a great team of volunteers who run the den and are always looking for more people tohelp out. If you are interested in joining a fantastic group please contact any of our den membersduring den opening hours. We have a new volunteer coordinator thanks so much to Carolyn for step-ping forward to take on this role. If your interested in joining the Den volunteers please contact Car-

olyn Ching for details carolynqching@yahoo.com.We are always looking for new volunteers and en-courage parents from ES/MS to join our group.

Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den: Wed and Fridays from 11:30am – 1:00pm andeach afternoon from 2:30-4pm.

Regards,

Mark PekinDirector of Athletics/Activities

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Middle School Choir

Last weekend, 10 middleschool students participat-ed in the AMIS Choir andOrchestra music festival inBeijing. They joined morethan 20 other schools inrehearsing and performingbeautiful music including

the world premiere of I CHOOSE THE LIGHT, whichwas specifically composedfor this festival. Highlightsof the trip included visitingthe Great Wall of China,performing for a middleschool assembly, and meet-ing many other young musi-cians from the otherschools. Mr. Odendaal, Ms.Hausman, and Mr. Gillespie

are very proud of thesetalented musicians!

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Please note that the

Broadway Bound film

shown in MS Assembly featuring staff 

and faculty dancing Gangnam Stylecan now be viewed on Google Docs.

Either use the following link:

https://docs.google.com/a/ismanila.org/file/d/0BxGdVbAOpwfJZk1CZWk3c0Fla0k/edit 

or simply search by typing in Pablo.Many thanks once again to everybody in-

volved in the making of the movie.

From the After-School Activities Office:

There will be no afterschool activities from February 11 to 15due to Classroom Without Walls!

Second session after school sports activities: badminton, volleyballand cricket will start on February 18, 2013 (Monday).

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