Parent Bulletin Issue 22 SY1314

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3 -7 Spirit Week

3 -7 Course Registraon

25 Naonal Holiday

24 No Classes

20 Parent Coee

10 -14 CWW

FEBRUARY

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MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 22

SY 2013 2014

WEEK OF: Weekly Publication for Middle School ParentsFriday Bulletin

Inside this issue:

Events & Acvies:

2Academic Bowl

Saturday Service Learning

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Admissions & Advancement

ISM Upcoming Events

FEBRUARY 10 to 14

Dear Parents:

Our much ancipated week of Classroom Without Walls has arrived. Be-

ginning on Monday, February 10 unl February 14, all of the Middle

School students will be involved in acvies that will raise their aware-

ness about the Philippines and engage them with our service learning

partners. In addion to learning about culture, the students interact with

children and adults from local communies and discover ways that theycan be acve, empathec cizens. During the weekend, please insure

that your child is prepared for their parcular trip. When they return,

also take me to engage your child and discuss ways that your child can

build on the experience.

In November students had school pictures taken. The photographer will

be back onTuesday, February 18for retakes of students that were absent

during the rst round. New students will also be photographed on this

day.

Our next parent coee is onThursday, February 20 starng at 7:45 A.M.

We look forward to meeng with you and sharing more about develop-

ments with how we assess and grade students, along with changes to

technology and how we use laptops in the middle school.

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.

No regular after-school activities during CWW Week (February 10 to 14).

SALINLAHI YEARBOOK PHOTO RETAKES:February 18 2014Changing Room

Refund for LOST, PAID andReturned Textbook/s

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, PAYMENTSMADE FOR LOST TEXTBOOKS WILLONLY BE REFUNDED, IF THE BOOK ISRETURNED WITHIN THE CURRENTSCHOOL YEAR OR THE FOLLOWINGSCHOOL YEAR, AT THE LATEST.

For questions, [email protected] call840-8517.

Athlecs & Acvies

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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 Smarter than a 5th

Grader?

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.

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

on 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.

SEMESTER 2

SATURDAY SERVICE DATES (TENTATIVE)

March 1 Habitat for Humanity & Love2Learn

March 8 Philippines Childrens Fund (PCF) & CRIBS Foundaon

March 15 Chosen Childrens Village (CCV)

March 22 Papaya Academy

March 29 PAWS

April 5 Tzu Chi Foundaon

To parcipate, students need to pick up a permission slip from the MS Oce on the Monday before the trip. Once its

been signed and returned to the oce, a student can sign up on the roster. Some trips ll up quickly so encourage them

to sign up early. Parents are welcome to join!

All the best,

Cory Willey

MS Student Advisory Coordinator


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MS/HS Sailsh Squads 5-7 have a shortened training schedule unl IASAS. Training will be from3:15 to 4:00 P.M. unl Feb 9th.

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It is IASAS week and our teams are in the thick of

the acon right now giving their all at IASAS. Best

wishes to all players and coaches for your pro-gress so far and for the nal day tomorrow. Go

Bearcats!

Venues for IASAS 2nd season championships are

as follows. Jakarta for Basketball, Rugby/Touch

at Singapore, Tennis at Kuala Lumpur and ISM forswimming. Visit www.iasas.asia. to keep up with

the acon at the IASAS venues (results and live

stream links).

The season 3 tryouts schedule and the 3rd season

pracce schedule for MS/HS students is nowposted on the tryouts and schedules pages of the

(ATAC blog) and on noce boards around school.

SaturdayCommunity Tennis resumes

nextSaturday February 15ththrough unl the

end of May. see the yer on the blog for datesand details. This is open to ISM community mem-

bers only, outside guests are not allowed. Con-

tact Coach Czarina to book lessons with our ISM

Tennis Academy coacheshp://atac.ism-

online.org/atac/saturday-community

-tennis/

Good luck to our MS C Boys and MS A and B girls

tennis teams who play in nals tomorrow at ISM

on the nal day of the ISTA League tennis season.

New families please take some me to peruse

the ATAC blog as this will help orientate you withthe wide variety of co-curricular programs ISM

oers. The MS boys basketball Gold team play

their league nal vs CSAon Friday. Best of luck to

all players and coaches.

A great way to stay in touch with the ISM ATACprogram is to subscribe via RSS feed to the ATAC

blog and also to follow via twier (see twier

feed on the blog home page).

EachMonday,I will post the weeks happenings

and highlight important events for students and

parents informaon on the ATAC blog and in theregular

Friday

parent bullens.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule

informaon): Informaon about all mid-week/

weekend xtures for ISM teams can be found via

the ATAC blog.Please note the game scheduledoes change oen due to involvement with many

local schools so please check the page regularly

to nd out the latest informaon of where and

when the Bearcats teams are playing.Click on

schedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed

to the power school secure site(hp://

powerschool.ismanila.org/public/) You will need

your power school user name and password to

access the game schedule pdf.

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

bearcat-den/) is open for business, please dropby to check out the range of Bearcat products.

We have a great team of volunteers who run the

den and are always looking for more people to

help out. If you are interested in joining a fantas-

c group please contact any of our den membersduring den opening hours or please contact Car-olyn Ching for details car-

[email protected]. We are always looking

for new volunteers and encourage parents from

ES/MS tojoin our group. The Bearcat den is now

calling for volunteers to take on POR's (posions

of responsibility) for next school year '14-15) assecretary, treasurer, volunteer coordinator, in-

ventory/merchandise and snacks purchasing. If

you are interested drop an email

[email protected]

Have a great year at the Home of the Bearcats!

Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs/Acvies
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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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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