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8/20/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 17 SY1516
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PARENT COFFEE - LITERACY
Tuesday, February 23
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7 ISM Upcoming Events
5 Operaons & Security
Athlecs and Acvies
Aer-School Acvies
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Guidance Oce 3
Parent Community
Associaon
MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL
ISSUE # 17
SY 2015–2016
WEEK OF:
JANUARY 11 TO 15
Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents
Friday BulletinInside this issue:
JANUARY - FEBRUARY:
MS Upcoming Events:
CLASSROOM WITHOUT WALLS
February 15 - 19
PARENT COFFEE - ALEX LONDON
Monday, January 11
MS NEW PARENT COFFEE
Thursday, January 14
MS PLAY
January 29 - 30
G4-5 PARENT TRANSITION MEETING
Wednesday, February 3
NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Monday, February 8
NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Thursday, February 25
Dear Middle School Parents,
Happy New Year, and all the best for 2016 to you and your families. It has been enter-taining and enlightening to have so many conversaons with students and teachersthis week hearing about everyone's travel adventures or me together connecngwith family and friends during our end of semester break. It seems we have coveredthe globe over the recent break and many also enjoyed me exploring our host coun-try.
We welcome our new families that have come for the start of second semester.
Teachers are now in the process of nalizing report card achievement and learninghabit levels along with wring report card comments. Semester one report cards willbe available for parents on January 20th, 2016 - you will be able to access a pdf copyof the report card through the online parent portal and power school, in advance ofthis we will send out a guide with screen shots for how to access your child's reportcards. We will not be sending out hard copies of the report card. If you have any
quesons please contact the Middle School Oce.
We will have a Middle School new parent coee on Thursday morning from 7:45 - 9:00 in the Lile Theater. We will share with you some informaon about MiddleSchool and provide the opportunity to meet other new parents and members of thePCA.
Next week January 11-15th PCA Author in Residence, NY mes bestseller, Alex Lon-don, will be at ISM. The week kicks o with a Parent coee in the Lile Theater at8am. All welcome.
Towards the end of the month January 29th and 30th at 6pm is our annual Middleschool play. The performance this year of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' will be out-side in the High school courtyard. The weather this me of year is perfect for an out-door performance and we hope that many students and families are able to join us.
School photos ordered and taken from last semester are due to arrive this month andwill be distributed to students through their Advisory classes. Parents will be informedof the distribuon date through a future parent bullen.
NEED TO KNOW:
NICE TO KNOW:
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As we begin second semester we would like to share with parents that over the past couple of years in Elementary and
Middle School a group of parents have come together to organize aer school lessons for students to further develop
and support Mother Tongue language development. This has been parent driven with the hiring of instructors in the
language and these have taken place in Chinese, Dutch, French, Hindi, German, Spanish, and Russian. If you would like
to nd out more informaon about what classes are being oered this year or how to set up a course please contactMei Dacer our aer school acvies secretary (AFAC [email protected]) who is located in the ES oce area and she
can put parents in touch with the other parent liaisons for the dierent languages.
We are looking forward to a great second semester ahead!
Yours in Educaon,
Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal
Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal
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Dear Middle School Parents,
The Aer-school Acvies Program for Middle School (MS AFAC) Season 1 and 2 will end January 29th. We will
be done with tryouts and CWW rst aer Season 2 nishes that is why Season 3 will start later in February.
For Season 3 and 4 acvies, please see dates below: Season 3: February 22 to March 22, 2016
Season 4: April 4 to June 3, 2016
For more info on acvies and relevant informaon on sign ups, acvity oerings, AFAC guidelines, dates and
seasons, please visit: hp://ms-acvies.ism-online.org/
The REGISTRATION FORM is lled-in online (rst come, rst served) which will go live on the blog address
above on January 11th, 4:00 pm.
ONLINE SIGN-UP DATES:
January 11 to 15, 2016 for 3rd & 4th Season Acvies
All students sll need to sign up again if they wish to connue on the year-round acvies, rst come, rst
served.
Thanks,
AFAC Oce 3
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Happy New Year Bearcats and welcome back to school for
2016.
The S2 pracce schedule which runs unl the end of Janu-ary is posted on noce boards around school and on the
ATAC blog schedules page.
Season 3 (S3) tryouts will begin rst week of Feb, an-
nouncements will be posted on noce boards aer the
break. ATAC S3 sports for MS are Badminton,
Track&Field, Mixed Touch and Co-ed Soball. For HS S3
sports are Golf, Track&Field, Soball and Badminton.
Upcoming events:
Jan 8 HS Basketball teams at Faith
Jan 9 Varsity touch at Faith (am games)
Jan 9 Varsity tennis at CSA/MS tennis at ISM
Jan 15 HS Basketball at Brent
Jan 16 Puma Touch League Finals at Brent (all teams)
Jan 16 ISM HS swim invitaonal
Jan 20 IASAS Send o assembly/send o lunch.
Jan 27-31 IASAS Rugby/Touch at JIS, Tennis at ISB,
Swimming at SAS, Basketball at ISKL
Feb 1-5 S3 tryouts week for MS/HS teams
Feb 11 S2 HS sports awards night
ISM Robocs Results. Congratulaons to ISM Robocs
team members who parcipated in the Vex champion-
ships at Taipei American School just prior to the semesterbreak. The ISM freshman team was part of an alliance
that won tournament champion. The sophomore team
won the 'Amaze Award' and as our strongest team was
chosen to represent ISM at the World Championships in
Kentucky, USA in April. See full results at- blog post of the
results here.
Freshman team (tourney champs): Mack Crowe, David
Zhang, Jericho Bangue, and Yupang Yuan. Sophomore
Team (winners of Amaze award and World Champ
spot): Ashish Tutakne, Ishan Pradhan, Aayush Gupta,
Abhinav Bathula.
Well done to our ISM Table Tennis juniors and midgets
teams who won the silver and champion tles at the local
PRADA Table Tennis tournament for 2015-16 before the
holiday break. Champion Team members- Joshua G, Alex-
is B, Takao S, Apoorv P, Sirpi, and Shamir.
Silver Team members - Johsua T, Iasson.B, Tigha. M,
Charles. T, Chris T, Ashwin B.
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 SY15-16 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 conclude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus is
4:55pm 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.
The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly
by Triz Gonzalez (ATAC Athlecs Coordinator) gives the
most up to date informaon on where/when and who
our Bearcat teams will be playing throughout the school
year. Access to the game schedule is now via the ISM par-
ent portal not via power school as in the past. A naviga-on guide is available here. ATAC Game Schedule Users
Guide. Access the parent portal via this link, log in with
your user name/password and then look for the ATAC
Game Schedule tab under the le side quick links. Don't
forget to refresh the pdf page each me it opens so you
access the most current schedule. Please note this sched-
ule does change oen and at short noce due to involve-
ment with many local schools and organizaons. Check it
regularly for the most up to date informaon. For security
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. Bearcat
Den hours of operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.
Best Regards,
Mark Pekin
Director of Athlecs and Acvies
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A few reminders from Operaons and Security
Access and parking within the campus are im-
portant security and safety issues. For the well-
being of all members of the ISM community, those
entering the school campus are requested to take
note of the informaon and procedures outlined
below.
Vehicular Access
During drop-o and pick-up mes, vehicles may
enter the campus through Gates 2 and 3. Those
entering through Gate 2 should proceed to the
drop o area and, once the student has alighted or
boarded, they should exit via Gate 1. Those vehi-cles entering through Gate 3 must turn into the
covered parking area and use the designated drop-
o areas. All vehicles must exit through Gate 1.
Please note that Gate 2 may only be used by those
drivers and passengers who have an ISM ID card
and who are in a vehicle displaying a valid ISM ve-
hicle scker.
Alternavely, vehicles entering through Gate 3 may
park in the covered car park. The spaces reserved
for parent-driven cars should only be used by those
vehicles which are driven by parents themselves.
Vehicles in which parents are traveling, but which
are driven by a driver, should not use these spaces.
Rather, they should park elsewhere in the covered
car park or make use of the outside spaces next to
the power center.
Visitors to ISM must enter through Gate 3. There is
an area for short-stay visitor parking near Gate 1.
The Pedestrian Gate
The pedestrian gate is located in the perimeter
fence mid-way between Gate 1 and Gate 2. There
is a paved area between the road and the perime-
ter fence, allowing easy access to the gate. The
pedestrian gate is solely for the entry of members
of the ISM Community at the beginning of the
school day. It will only be open between 7:00 am
and 7:45 am (8:00 am to 8:45 am on Wednesdays).
Due to parking restricons, and in the interests of
security, it will not be open in the aernoon forpick-ups. During the me it is open, it will be un-
der the supervision of members of the ISM Guard
Force.
Drivers should stop adjacent to the paved area and
students should alight from the right side of their
vehicle. The driver should then move o, clearing
the space for other vehicles dropping o students.
Under no circumstances should a student be
dropped o from the middle lane. This is danger-
ous as the student would need to walk in front ofanother vehicle. Drivers are reminded that trac
regulaons forbid parking on the roads around
ISM. Therefore, vehicles should only be stopping
for the brief me it takes for a student to alight.
Drivers must not wait for anybody to return to the
vehicle.
ID Cards
ID cards should be worn at all mes while on cam-
pus. If you have not been issued an ID card, or you
have lost it, you should obtain one by vising thesecurity oce and compleng the appropriate ap-
plicaon form.
Vehicle Checks
The pracce of inspecng vehicles will connue.
During o -peak hours, all vehicles will be checked
before they are allowed to enter the campus.
During peak hours (drop o and pick-up mes), all
vehicles without valid sckers and randomly select-
ed vehicles with sckers will be asked to undergo
an examinaon.
Whether an examinaon is conducted or not, it is
important that the security sta at the gates are
able to idenfy the occupants of vehicles entering
the campus; therefore IDs must be clearly dis-
played. Vehicles with nted windows must roll
down windows to allow a clear view of the interior
of the vehicle.
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Dear ISM Parents,
New York Times bestselling au-
thor, Alex London, will be at ISM
January 11-15, 2016, kindly
sponsored by the ISM PCA.
He will be working with grades 3
-12 during his week with us. He
has wrien numerous tles forelementary, middle, and high
school students, both con
and noncon.
Please join us for a Parent
Coee on Monday, January 11th
at 8am, to hear Alex give an
overview of his books, purchase
tles, and have a chance tohave them signed for you or
your students.
REGISTRATION LINK
You don't want to miss this
event!
Kind regards,
ISM Professional Learn-
ing Oce
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