Parent Bulletin Issue 19 SY1314

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JANUARY

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FEBRUARY

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Textbook Center

HS Guidance Oce

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 19

SY 2013 2014

WEEK OF: Weekly Publication for Middle School ParentsFriday Bulletin

Inside this issue:

Events & Acvies:

Admissions & Advancement

2Clinic

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Academic Bowl

Fine Arts Oce

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Athlecs and Acvies

JANUARY 20 to 24

PowerSchool Update:

Dear Parents:

On Monday, January 20 at 8:00 A.M. PowerSchool reopens and you will be able

to access your childs rst semester report card. Please take some me to re-

view the teachers comments with your child, idenfying areas of strength and

areas for growth. As part of the discussion, consider helping your child set short-

term, aainable goals that enable them to take iniave for their own learning

and make steady progress. Other areas and skills worth honing may be me

management and organizaon skills. If you have any quesons or concernsabout your childs level of achievement, please contact the appropriate subject

area teacher or guidance counselor. Addionally, if you have misplaced or for-

goen the login details for your PowerSchool account, please contact the MS

Guidance Oce at 840-8555.

This week we are hosng internaonal school students who will be parcipang

in the AMIS (Associaon for Music in Internaonal Schools) Middle School Honor

Orchestra Fesval. Students from 12 dierent schools will arrive on Wednesday

and be involved in workshops and rehearsals over the following days. We thank

all the families that have opened their homes and are hosng our visitors. The

fesval culminates in a concert on January 25 at 6:00 P.M. in the FAT and all

members of the school community are welcome to aend.

Next school year we are implemenng a Bring Your Own Device iniave for

grades 7 and 8 and we would like to see all students bring a personal laptop to

school. We have discussed this iniave on a few occasions in Parent Coee

meengs since the start of the year and informaon is also available through the

Middle School blog. Please review the informaon on the ISM Connect pages

which can be accessed through the link hps://sites.google.com/a/ismanila.org/

byod/home. If you have addional quesons or need claricaon, please feel

free to contact the Middle School IT Program Leader, Mahew Chadwick at

[email protected].

Looking aheadOn Thursday, January 30 at 7:45 A.M. we are hosng a MiddleSchool New Parent Coee. Please join us.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie Clarissa Sayson

Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

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The yearbook photos are available for pick-up in the MS Office.

Please be informed thatPowerSchool is temporarily closed.

It will re-open on January 20,Monday at 8:00 A.M.


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Measles on the rise in Manila

Measles is a highly contagious viral disease and remains an important cause of death among young chil-

dren globally. It is transmitted via droplets from the nose, mouth or throat of infected persons. Initial symp-

toms, which usually appear 1012 days after infection, include high fever, a runny nose, bloodshot eyes,

and tiny white spots on the inside of the mouth. Several days later, a rash develops, starting on the face

and upper neck and gradually spreading downwards. A sick person is infectious five days before until four

days after the appearance of rashes.

Severe measles is more likely among poorly nourished young children, or whose immune systems have

been weakened. The most serious complications include blindness, encephalitis (an infection that causes

brain swelling), severe diarrhea and related dehydration, and severe respiratory infections such as pneu-

monia.

2013 has seen an outbreak of measles in several cities, in particular in the Capital region, with 1724 con-

firmed cases (and 21 fatalities), after only 25 cases were confirmed in 2012.

The measles vaccine has been in use since the 1960s. It is safe, effective and inexpensive. WHO recom-

mends immunization for all susceptible children and adults for whom measles vaccination is not contrain-

dicated (severe allergic reaction after a previous dose, severe immunodeficiency, pregnancy). The vac-

cine usually comes in combination with mumps and rubella (German measles) vaccine and is then called

MMR. 2 shots are needed to ensure a lifetime immunization, which are normally given at the toddler age.

In 1-2% the immune system does not produce antibodies; therefore the individual can still fall sick with

measles. Or mumps. Or rubella.

Should a child not have received 2 shots within an interval of 4 weeks or more, they need a second shot.

Should an adult (18 years and above, born 1970 or later) not have documented evidence of receiving 2

shots of measles-containing vaccine in their childhood they should be immunized with one single dose of

MMR. Women should delay pregnancy by 4 weeks following vaccination with MMR.

Adults born before 1970 are presumed to have acquired natural immunity and do not need vaccine neither

as a routine nor in case of an outbreak. They are only vaccinated in case of a confirmed exposure to the

virus.

The vaccine is available at Market!Market Healthway and other branches (phone 751 4929) for 900 PHP+

400 PHP consultation fee, CoHess in St. Lukes (phone 789 7700 x 7038) for 710 PHP + 500 PHP admin-

istration fee, or the Corporate Health department in Makati Med (phone 999 9888 x 2187) for 850PHP+850 PHP consultation and administration fee, to name a few.

Should you have any questions or concern please contact us by phone at 840 8581 or per mail at clin-

[email protected] or [email protected].

Dorothee Binsfeld

Clinic Administarator


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Middle School Academic Bowl TRYOUTS/Pracces

Do you know lots of interesng facts and general knowledge?

Are you fast on the buzzers? Do you like Are you Smarterthan a 5

thGrader?

THEN COME TO Academic Bowl Tryouts/ Pracces!!

WHERE-Room P046 (Mrs. Birchenalls classroom)

WHEN-Every Thursday, 3:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M., starng Thursday, 16th

January 2014

The successful students will represent ISM at the second semester Academic Bowl compeon

which is to be held at Faith Internaonal School in March.

All Middle School students are very welcome to come to the tryout/pracce sessions.

Festival Concert

Saturday, January 25th

6:00pm

Fine Arts Theater


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MS/HS Sailfish Squads 5-7 have a shortened training schedule until

IASAS. Training will be from 3:15 to 4:00 P.M. until Feb 9th.

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Season 2 is rapidly coming to a close with the IASASChampionships two and a half weeks away. Ourteams are preparing themselves and training hard

and I am sure they will all (athletes and coaches) rep-resent ISM to the very best of their abilies at Jakar-ta for Basketball, Rugby/Touch at Singapore (*notevenue change due to polical uncertainty in Bang-kok), Tennis at Kuala Lumpur and at ISM for swim-ming.

Please note Rugby/Touch will now be held at SAS notISB. This decision was made by the school head onWednesday of this week due to polical uncertaintyin Bangkok at the moment.

The season 3 tryouts schedule and season pracceschedule is now posted on the schedules page (ATACblog).

The 2nd season pracce schedule which runsfromOct 23toFeb 7is posted on noce boardsaround school, and is available on the ATACblog. hp://atac.ism-online.org/schedules/hs/

PLEASE HELP!ISM proudly hosts IASAS swim-mingfrom February 5 to 9, 2014and host familiesare required to house the vising IASAS swimmers.

The housing leer is available via the ATAC blog andvia the Sailsh blog. Please assist us to make this awonderful event for our community by housing apair of swimmers for IASAS. Currently we sll needto house 25 swimmers!

Pleaseprint, complete and return the slip to theATAC oce. (hp://atac.ism-online.org/iasas/iasas-housing/iasas-swim-meet-housing-leer/)

This Friday our Varsity Basketball teams play away atFaith. Our jv basketball teams play Brent at home

starng at4:00 P.M.. We are hosng Touch this Sat-

urday at the MS eld, along with MS tennis on theroof and our usual array of local league basketballgames in the gyms.

New families please take some me to peruse theATAC blog as this will help orientate you with thewide variety of co-curricular programs ISM oers.

A great way to stay in touch with the ISM ATAC pro-gram is to subscribe via RSS feed to the ATAC blogand also to follow via twier (see twier feed on theblog home page).

EachMonday,I will post the weeks happenings andhighlight important events for students and parentsinformaon on the ATAC blog and in the regu-larFridayparent bullens.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule in-formaon): Informaon about all mid-week/

weekend xtures for ISM teams can be found via theATAC blog.Please note the game schedule doeschange oen due to involvement with many localschools so please check the page regularly to nd outthe latest informaon of where and when the Bear-cats teams are playing.Click on schedules tab or theBearcat logo to be directed to the power school se-cure site(hp://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/)You will need your power school user name andpassword to access the game schedule pdf.

The Bearcat Den (hp://atac.ism-online.org/bearcat

-den/) is open for business, please drop by to checkout the range of Bearcat products. We have a greatteam of volunteers who run the den and are alwayslooking for more people to help out. If you are inter-ested in joining a fantasc group please contact anyof our den members during den opening hours orplease contact Carolyn Ching for details [email protected]. We are always looking fornew volunteers and encourage parents from ES/MStojoin our group.

Have a great year at the Home of the Bearcats!

Regards,Mark PekinDirector of Athlecs/Acvies


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UPDATE YOUR CONTACT DETAILS THROUGH

THE ISM PARENT PORTALDear Parents,

We are pleased to inform you that your childs PowerSchool account may be accessed through the ISM Parent Portal.

Aside from being a gateway to PowerSchool, the Parent Portal also provides informaon on school events, useful links,

as well as child-specic academic blogs and student porolios. Should you need to make any changes to your contact

informaon, visit the Parent Portal and follow the steps below:


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Leaving ISM?

For those students that will be withdrawing from Internaonal School Manila this school year (SY 13

-14), the following procedure applies:

Parents are obliged to ocially inform the Admissions Oce in wring through a Withdrawal No-

caon Form at least een (15) days prior to your childs last day of school.

For those leaving at theend of the school year,you MUST submit a Withdrawal No-

caon Form on or before May 09, 2014.

Failure to do so will lead to a deducon of US$1,000 from the Facilies Upgrade Deposit (FUD) in

compensaon for having held a space for the child and thus prevenng the School from oeringthat space to another child prior to the summer holiday break.

The Withdrawal Nocaon Form can be obtained from the Admissions Oce or downloaded from

the ISM website here.

We hope that your child has had an enriching stay at ISM and wish you and your family the very

best in the future.
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