Issue No. 16 (Week of Nov. 29 to Dec. 03)

8/8/2019 Issue No. 16 (Week of Nov. 29 to Dec. 03)

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From the Middle School Office

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Dear Parents:

With only two and a half weeks remaining in the first semester,

conversations have begun drifting toward peoples plans for the

upcoming break, but activities inside and outside the classrooms

continue to fill our days. Please encourage your child to stayfocused on assignments as the last two weeks may bring end of

semester tests and projects. The Student Council has busily been

preparing for Spirit Week, which will occur from December 7 13,

and the MS Holiday Ball for grades 7 and 8 on December 10. Then

on Tuesday, December 14 the PE Department has organized a

Sports Day. Each student has been assigned to a house Aklan,

Baguio, Cebu, or Davao and will have opportunities to participate

in events throughout the day. All parents are invited to attend

Sports Day and cheer on their child.

School will be closed on Monday, November 29 to commemorate

Bonifacio Day. Classes resume on Tuesday, November 30.

The next MS Parent Coffee is on Thursday, December 2. Some of

the topics for discussion are the MS Curriculum and Modern

Language choices. Please join us at 7:45 A.M. in room 1057.

Danielle Fredericks Clarissa Sayson

Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

ISSUE # 16

WEEKOF NOV. 29 TO DEC. 03, 2010

Middle School

MIDDLE SCHOOL

UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING EVENTS

NOVEMBER

29 School Holiday (Bonifacio Day)

30-Dec. 10 MS Art Exhibition

DECEMBER

02 MS Parent Coffee(7:45 A.M., Rm.1057)

02 MS Art Exhibit Opening

(3:00 P.M., FAT Lobby)

07 PTA General Assembly &Holiday Bazaar (7:30 A.M., LT)

07 MS Beginners Recital(5:30 P.M., LT)

07-13 MS Spirit Week

10 Grade 7 & 8 Holiday Ball(5:00 P.M., MS Courtyard)

13 MS Sports Day Pep Rally(2:00 P.M., MS Gym)

14 MS Sports Day

15 Student Early Release (12:00 P

16-Jan. 07 Semester Break

JANUARY

10 Classes Resume

19-23 AMIS Band

POWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATEPOWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATE

Nov. 26 Progress Reports

Dec. 10 Grade Update

Jan. 10 PowerSchool Closes

Jan. 21 PowerSchool Opens forSemester 1 Reports

Jan. 24 Semester 1 Report Card Distribtion (via courier)

Wanted: Sports Day VolunteersService & Environmental Learning UpdatesUpdating Parent Contact Information

2

Modern Language SurveyPoetry JamLost & Found Viewing

3

World AIDS Day 4

ATAC Announcements 5

AfterSchool Activities Reminders 8

Withdrawal Procedures from Admissions 9

Pre-IASAS Basketball Schedule 6

Calling All Community Gardeners! 7

Inside this issue:


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M IDDLE SCHOOL FRIDAY BULLETIN PAGE 2

Eco Explorers- Tree Planting Saturday, 4th DecemberPlease return permission slips to MS Guidance by Thursday, 2nd December.Meeting in Mr. Pasambas room (2037) on Thursday, 2nd December, during lunch at 12:45 P.M.

CCV Saturday, 11th DecemberPlease get your permission slips at MS Guidance.

CCV Diaper Drive -Bring your diaper donations to your Homebase teacher or purchase biode-gradable diapers at the cashier. Drive concludes on the 10 th of December. Winning Homebase receives afree dress day!

Thanksto all students and teachers who attended PAWS on Saturday!

Check out the Eco BLOG-http://ms-eco.ism-online.org/for updates,pictures of service activities PAWS, CCV, GK777, Invisible Workshop, Community Garden Opening, and more...

Thanks so much for your support!

Tara BartonHS/MS Visual Art- 1169MS Service and Environmental Learning [email protected]://ms-eco.ism-online.org/

Service and Environmental Learning Updates

Dear Parents,

Preparation for Sports day is already underway and we are looking for some parents (DADSAND MOMS) to get involved. We would like to arrange some parent teams to compete with the students in

the afternoon ofDecember 14th from about noon until 3pm. We also need some volunteers to help run the

PTA food booth all day. If you are interested or would like more information please contact the MS Guid-

ance Office at 845-8555 or email [email protected] .

Wanted: Sports Day Volunteers!

In order to best serve the ISM Parent Community it is essential that information be quickly disseminated

when necessary. For this reason, the accuracy of your contact details in our data base is of the utmost im-

portance. Please note that Parent Contact Information must be updated online by the parent. However sub-mitted information will be screened for correct format and the parent may be called for clarification. To

make any changes or verification in contact information, please access one of your childrens data file via

the ISM website (www.ismanila.org) and then under Login, click on Powerschool Public Access and enter

your Username and Password.

On the page that opens, click on the Demographic Update icon for changing or updating demographic infor-

mation. Note that if there are siblings also enrolled in ISM, changes will automatically be made in the data

files of all other enrolled siblings in the same family at the same time.

Updating Parent Contact Information


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Other Announcements

From the Modern Language Department


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World AIDS Day


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From the Athletics and Activities Office

SAILFISH in SINGAPORE this weekend!Good luck to our sailfish swimmers and families who willtravel to Singapore this weekend for the annual thanksgiv-ing weekend Santa Claus meet. Coach Andy and CoachZaldy will be attending the meet with the team and wewish participants best of luck and hope they can swimpersonal best times in Singapore. Have fun Sailfish swim-mers!

A big thanks to our sailfish coaches for their efforts lastSaturday at the ISM Fall Relay meet. It was great daywith superb weather and some school records were bro-ken. I would also like to thank the parents who worked atthe bake sale stall for their efforts and to Coach Noli andhis team of officials who ran the meet. Well done to eve-ryone concerned.

MS/HS Academic Bowls

On November 9 and 10, ISM hosted the first semester Aca-demic Bowls. HS teams participating were ISM, Faith,Brent and Brent Subic and despite some close competitionfrom the Faith Academy team during the morning roundsthe ISM team romped away in the afternoon round to winconvincingly over Faith Academy. Congratulations to allparticipants for their efforts to continue ISMs winning runof victories in the HS Academic Bowl .

The MS Academic Bowl held in the Little Theatre on No-vember 10 against Faith and Brent Mamplasan was a dif-ferent affair this year with the ISM team having its win-ning run broken by a determined and talented team fromFaith Academy. Mrs. Birchenall and her team are deter-mined to get the trophy back in ISM hands at the 2 nd se-

mester Academic Bowl in April.

A big thanks must go to our advisors Mr. and Mrs.Birchenall for all their work in the lead up to the eventand on the day as hosts and organizers of this AcademicBowl contest. Our teams are looking forward to doingbattle again in the Spring.

IASAS BASKETBALL HOUSINGIASAS Basketball will be taking place at ISM on January 27-29, 2011 and housing placements are now being accepted.As of this week we have 30 students housed but we re-quire 100 housing slots in total.

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season athletes who were housed this is your timeto fulfill your responsibility and offer housing for Basket-ball. All varsity and JV basketball teams should also havereturned housing forms by now as well. Please support theATAC Department by getting these forms in ASAP. Itwould be great to have the housing completed before wego on Christmas break! Go Bearcats show your pride andsupport of the program and get behind our teams by host-ing a pair of visiting players from our IASAS sister schools.Housing forms are available from ATAC office or on theATAC Blog athttp://atac.ism-online.org/iasas-basketball-jan-26-31-2011/

GAME SCHEDULE INFORMATIONInformation about all mid week/weekend fixtures forISM teams can be found by going to the GAME SCHED-ULE tab on the ATAC page of the ISM website. You canalso access this information via the ES/MS/HS divisionalweb pages. Please note the game schedule does changeoften due to involvement with many local schools soplease check the page regularly to find out the latestinformation of where and when the Bearcats teams areplaying. Access to the game schedule page is also avail-able via the ATAC blog. Click on the Bearcat logo to bedirected to the game schedule page. http://atac.ism-online.org

ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES - NOVEMBER/DECEMBER:(for ALL match/schedule details check game schedulepage as above)

Varsity Basketball Tournament in ISM - November

26/27 Varsity JV Rugby/Touch vs. Faith in ISM - Novem-

ber 26

MS Tennis - November 27 in ISM

Rugby and Touch - December 4 in ISM

Wall Climbing Invitational - December 11

PRFU Juniors MS/JV Rugby in ISM, 8:00 A.M. - Noon

Last Day of School for 2010 Dec. 15th, Noon dis-missal

BEARCAT DEN:Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:30 A.M. 1:00 P.M. and 2:30 4:00 P.M.Tuesdays and Thursdays afternoons from 2:30 - 4:00P.M. Thanks to all our great volunteers. The BearcatDen will go into Christmas hibernation from Tuesday,December 14 and will reopen on Wednesday, January12th, 2011.

Mark PekinDirector of Athletics/ActivitiesInternational School ManilaE-mail:[email protected] Website:http://www.ismanila.org/Blog: http://atac.ism-online.org/


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Pre-IASAS Basketball Schedule


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From the MS Afterschool Activities Office


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Dear Parents,

If you will be withdrawing your child(ren) before the start of the second semester or at some other timebefore the close of this school year, please read the following information carefully.

Withdrawing from International School Manila

First of all, we are sorry that you will be withdrawing, or not re-enrolling, your child in International

School Manila. We hope, however, that their stay, whether for one semester or for many years, was en-

riching and rewarding academically, socially and emotionally.

In order to make the withdrawal process go as smoothly as possible, we would like to remind you of the

following:

STEP 1: Please come by the Admission Office to fill out, sign and return a Withdrawal Notification

Form. The form is also available on the ISM website to download and print and it can also be faxed back to

the Admission Office at 840-8489.

STEP 2: If the student will be withdrawing BEFORE the last day of this school year, parents or stu-

dents need to pick up the following forms from the Admission Office (or download and print the appropriate

form):

The Withdrawal Clearance Slip should be taken to the indicated teachers and offices for

signatures.

High SchoolStudent Withdrawal Clearance Slip (Grades 9-12)

Middle SchoolStudent Withdrawal Clearance Slip (Grades 6-8)

For elementary students, the elementary office will handle the withdrawal clearance form

for them.

To receive the childs YEARBOOK, if withdrawing before the end of the school year, com-

plete and return the correct form to the childs school office for follow-up.

Elementary School Yearbook: ALAALA

Middle School Yearbook: SALINLAHI

High School Yearbook: KAWAYAN

Note that school transcripts and records will be available from the particular school office

approximately 5-working days after the childs last day of attendance at ISM. Please coor-

dinate directly with the particular school office if you require other arrangements.

Withdrawal Procedures from the Admissions Office


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STEP 3: When completed, the Withdrawal Clearance Slip must be taken to the Accounting Office

Cashier. Only after the Accounting Office Cashier has received and signed the completed Withdrawal Clear-

ance Slip will the childs transcript or school records be released from the Elementary, Middle or High

School Office. Please note that one copy of the transcript is provided free of charge, additional copies cost

P100 each, payable at the Cashiers Office before release. Please coordinate directly with the particular

school office if you require more than one copy of school records.

STEP 4: The refund of the Facilities Upgrade Deposit (FUD) will be available approximately 15-

working days after the signed Withdrawal Notification Form, by the parent, is given into the Admission

Office. However, in any event, it cannot be released before the childs last day of attendance at ISM and

the completed Withdrawal Clearance Slip is signed by the Cashier. The refund check can be picked up from

the Accounting Office Cashier only upon return of the original signed FUD certificate. Note that the refund

of the deposit shall only be made to the person or authorized company representative whose name appears

as the certificate holder on the certificate. Please call the Cashier if you have any question about this.

Please allow the withdrawal process to go smoothly by starting the process early. Thank you for your help

and understanding.

If you need help searching for a school at your next location, please try one of the following websites:

http://www.ecis.org/http://www.nais.org/index.cfm

http://www.internationalschools.net/

http://www.eteach.com/hosted/schoolList.asp?list=international

or use a search engine and query independent school search or international school search or private

school search for example

Again, we hope that your child has had a successful and enriching stay at International School Manila and we

wish you and your family the very best in the future. If you have any suggestions or comments about Admis-

sion, School Life, and/or Withdrawal, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Gary W. Jerome Margie Endelman

Director of Admission Deputy Director of Admission

[email protected] [email protected]

Issue No. 16 (Week of Nov. 29 to Dec. 03)

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