MS Parent Bulletin (Week of March 16 to 20)

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Admissions & Advancement 5

After-School Activities Office:

Season Dates for Season 3 and 4: Third Season: February 16 - March 31, 2015

Fourth Season: April 13 - May 29, 2015

Athlecs & Acvies 11

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 27

SY 2014 –2015

WEEK OF:

MARCH 16 to 20

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday Bulletin

Parent-Teacher Associaon

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Inside this issue:

MARCH

19Student Led

Conferences

1-10 School Holiday

APRIL

21 Parent Coee

30 Acvity Day

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Dear Middle School Parents,

It was great to see our Middle School Robocs program in acon today during

our annual Roboluon... The creavity used to apply to programing and building

of robots is a great way for students to demonstrate their thinking and under-

standing. Our program connues to grow and we will be oering more secons

in both grades 7 and 8 next year along with our aer school acvies program

oered to students in grades 5 through 8.

Students have been involved in course registraon this week. If you have any

quesons or concerns please touch base with one of us in the Middle School

oce and we can answer your quesons about courses and the process for sec-

oning. We now take the course registraon and begin to build the schedule for

next school year.

Next week we are excited about our Middle School Student Led conference. You

received a separate email last week with the detailed informaon about these

conferences. If you did not receive the email, please contact the Middle School

oce directly. We will have printed copies of the program available during your

session with your child. Student lessons will end at

12:00 next

Thursday March

19 and you can take part in one of two sessions - 12:30 - 2:30 or 3:00 - 5:00

p.m. Students have been preparing and are looking forward to sharing their

learning with you.

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal

ISM Upcoming Events

Events & Acvies:

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1 Naonal Holiday

4-14 MS Art Exhibion

Leaving ISM?

Please be reminded that parents are obliged to ocially inform the School in wring through aWITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM if their children will not be returning in August for School Year

2015-16. Families are encouraged to submit the Withdrawal Nocaon Form, stang the stu-

dent's nal date of aendance, immediately. Forms must be submied on or before May 8. Failure

to submit the form by that date may lead to a deducon of US$1,000 from the Facilies Upgrade

Deposit (FUD), in compensaon for having held a space for your child, prevenng the School from

oering that space to another candidate.

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

ISM website under Admission > Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal > Withdrawals

Please feel free to contact the Admissions Oce at 840.8601 for quesons or claricaons.


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Dear Students and Parents,

Welcome to our Middle School student-led conferences. We hope that you nd this me together sharing your learn-

ing to be a worthwhile experience. The purpose of this student-led conference is to provide students with an oppor-

tunity to share their learning with their parents and teachers in their classrooms. The goals of a student-led confer-

ence include the following:

Encourage students to accept responsibility for their learning and progress.

Help students recognize and take ownership for the things that interfered with their learning success.

Teach students the process of self -evaluaon.

Facilitate the development of students’ oral communicaon skills and self -condence.

Enhance communicaon between student and parents.

During the aernoon of March 19, you will take part in one of two sessions (12:30 – 2:30 p.m. or 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.)

together with your child going around to each of their classrooms. The schedule for each session is included in this

program guide. We encourage you to aend the rst session if your surname begins with the leers A-K, and the se-

cond session if your surname begins with the leers L-Z (If you need to aend the other me because of conicts, this

is acceptable).

During each class that you visit your child has prepared a presentaon of their learning for you. They will be sharing

work samples and their reecons, and we encourage you during this me to engage in a conversaon. Included in

this guide are some suggested quesons that you may ask your child to facilitate the process. Students in Grade 5 and

6 may be using school provided laptops and students in Grade 7 and 8 should bring their laptop with them. As part of

Physical Educaon you will be in the MS Gym, please bring appropriate footwear.

On the back page of this guide is a worksheet for you and your child to complete at the end of your session. This me

is an opportunity for you to sit down and reect together on the aernoon and to set goals for the remainder of the

school year.

Thank you for taking me to parcipate in your child’s learning during our Middle School student-led conferences. We

hope that this has given you addional insight into your child’s learning, and an opportunity to understand what hap-

pens on a daily basis in our classes at Internaonal School Manila.

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie Amanda Pekin

Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

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Please attend one of the following two sessions – 12:30 – 2:30 or 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. You will begin in

your child’s advisory where an overview will be provided. Then go in order of your child’s schedule

spending approximately 10 minutes in each room (the time is flexible). Your child should know their

schedule and where to go, but if you need an individual copy of their schedule or a map of the Mid-

dle School, please stop by the Middle School Office.

Guiding Questions for parents to ask students during and after the conference:

1. What has been the most difficult part of this class?

2. What has been you favorite assignment this year?

3. What assignment did you learn the most from this year?

4. Which subject do you feel is the most difficult for you? Why?

5. How do you think I could help you in this subject?

6. Do you feel that I am helpful to you, in your studies?

7. How do you manage your time when you have assignments that are large?

8. What inspired you to.....?

9. When you're given a choice, what type of assignment would you choose?

10. How do you communicate with your teacher for help?11. Do you use the tutorial time after school?

12. Do you challenge yourself to try new things?

13. Do you take risks with your assignments?

14. How do you learn best?

15. What study habits do you need to improve? Why?

16. How will you use what you know about your learning styles to improve?

17. How well do you manage your time? What do you need to work on?


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Important informaon on Re-Enrollment for SY 2015-16

Dear Parents:

We will begin on-line Re

-enrollment for school year 2015

-16 on Monday, March 16. As before, parents will have to log into Pow-

erSchool in order to do this. Below are instrucons to help. If you are not sure of your PowerSchool log-in or need support, please

contact your school oce.

Please note that you must complete re-enrollment by May 22nd at the latest. PowerSchool will close on that date unl the start of

the new school year. We have over 500 students on our waitlist, and we will assume that your children are leaving if you have not

completed the re-enrollment process.

Step 1: Log-in to PowerSchool

Step 2: Look for the Re-enrollment Clearance icon on the le hand panel. Click on the icon.

Step 3: Create your Re-enrollment Clearance Form. You will receive an email nocaon verifying that you have been successfulupdang your child’s record.

Students entering Grade 6 will be required to download and complete the Physical Examinaon Form (including ECG results)

which should be submied to the ISM Health Clinic Students entering Grade 7 will be required to download and sign the Drug Policy Form which should be submied to the MS

Oce.

Step 4: Tuion and Fees: Please sele your accounts through our Cashier’s Oce.

You must sele your accounts for SY14-15 and pay the rst quota of tuion fees for SY15 -16 to receive your Final Clearance Noca-

on for your child to aend class on August 6, 2015.

Re-enrollment must be complete in order to receive a student’s Class Schedule.

Class Schedule distribuon dates are as follows:

August 03, 2015: Grade 5 and 6

August 04, 2015: Grade 7 and 8

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The pracce schedule for season 3 is posted on noce boards and on the ATAC blog. Season 3 will run

from Feb 9th to March 31st.

This past Tuesday Mar 10 ISM hosted the MS Academic Bowl at the Lile Theater against Faith and

Brent. Aer a sluggish start the ISM team focused and ran away with the compeon winning over Faith

in 2nd place and Brent were 3rd. Well done to all parcipants and a big thanks to Mr and Mrs Birchenall

for all their hard work to prepare for the compeon.

Results ISM 591 pts, Faith 565 pts and Brent 174 pts

Upcoming dates:

Mar 13-15 G Soball exchange at ISKL

Mar 13-15 Boys Soball and Track exchange at ISB

Mar 14 HS Golf team at Southlinks

Saturday Community Tennis for semester 2 has now commenced again. See link for informaon on dates

and how to book. Use of the courts is only available to ISM community members. Outside guests are not

allowed hp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/saturday-community-tennis/

Please note the pracce mes for the following ATAC programs: ATAC all year round teams- 3:15-4:30.

Sailsh/Gymnascs and all HS seasonal teams now conclude pracce at 4:50pm each day. MS seasonal

teams 3:10-4:45pm. The last bus is now 4:55pm and all aer school programs will conclude by 4:50pm in

order to try and clear the campus prior to 5pm 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 pro-

gram 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.

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store. There is a range of new products and items to purchase

including items from our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

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 via the ISM parent portal. Use this link to ac-

cess the parent portal, log in with your user name/password and look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab.

Remember to refresh the page when the pdf schedule appears so you view the most current schedule.

GO BEARCATS!

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs and Acvies

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Sign up to host grade 10 and 11 students for the week

of June 8

- 12th.

For Career Experience Week to be suc-

cessful it will need the support of the ISM community,

please sign up today!

Sign ups are easier than ever before, just contact me and

ll out the survey with basic informaon regarding your

company or organizaon!

Google Sign up form: hp://goo.gl/forms/2z6tncYDOR

Or contact Crystal Cappuccio at [email protected]

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