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PARENT COFFEE - LITERACY 

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ISSUE # 23 

SY 2015–2016 

WEEK OF: 

FEBRUARY 22 TO 26 

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday Bulletin

Inside this issue: 

FEBRUARY—MARCH: 

MS Upcoming Events: 

NATIONAL HOLIDAY 

Thursday, February 25 

NO SCHOOL 

Friday, February 26 

MAP TESTING 

February 29 to March 23 

G8 PARENT TRANSITION MEETING 

Wednesday, March 2 

ACADEMIC BOWL 

Wednesday, March 9 

MS YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOOT 

Monday, February 22 

STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES 

Wednesday, March 16 

Dear Parents, 

What an acon-packed week! The CWW experience is now drawing to a close and, stu-dent feedback indicates that all students have had a great me. All student groups aresafely back at school, and it has been wonderful to see all of them again. For those whosechildren have been away on overnight CWW trips, I’m sure you will enjoy hearing all abouttheir adventures while away from home! Next week we will create student and teachersurveys so we can gather more in-depth feedback on the CWW experiences so we canconnue enhance our pracces. 

DATES TO REMEMBER: 

Paint-a-Thon (HS Student Run Event) Saturday, February 20th 

MS Yearbook Photo RetakesMonday, February 22nd 2016 in room 1123 

MS Parent Coee: Bonnie Singer Wednesday, February 24th from 9:00 - 10:30 in the LT 

No School: Thursday, February 25th (No school for students - teacher workday) Friday, February 26th (No school for students and teachers) 

MAP Tesng - Spring Tesng Window: Monday, February 29th - Friday, March 11th

Paint-a-Thon Event - student announcement 

Hello everyone! This SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, come and join the Naonal Honor Socie-ty, the Naonal Art Honor Society and the PCA for a fun day of canvas painng, facepainng, and nger painng at the Paint-a-thon! This event will be held at ISM, in the Lo-houses A and B from 10:00am to 2:00pm, and you can stay for as long or short as youlike! Art produced during the paintathon will be digitally auconed at a later date and thefunds raised will go to Operaon Smile. Operaon Smile is a service organizaon that givesfree, life-changing surgeries to kids with facial deformies. Everyone is welcome to parci-pate: arsts, rst me painters, parents, kids, and families alike! Join us for a fun day ofart, music, and food from clubs such as SHS, FHS, and the Cub Scouts! We look forward toseeing you there! 

Please sign up for the acvies that you're planning to parcipate in here*: hp://nyurl.com/paintathon2016 

*Please note: each acvity has a separate price, but entrance to the event is free ofcharge 

Kind Regards, Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal 

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Last Saturday our MS Girls green tennis team and our MS boys

Grey team both won 1st place in the local ISTA league tennis

nals. Our MS boys green team placed 3rd losing a very close

semi nal in the morning match. Congratulaons to all our MS

tennis players on a great eort to win the ISTA league compe-on this year. Thanks to our coaches as well for their hard work.

Girls green defeated CSA 3-2/Boys grey defeated Ateneo 5-0! 

This past weekend a group of our gymnasts and their families

along with 3 ISM coaches went to Bangkok to compete at the ISB

meet. From all reports it was an excellent meet and we will post

results in the Friday bullen when they are received from the

tournament organizers. 

A great track meet at ISM on Saturday the rst for the season

with some excing racing on the track and solid compeon for

our eld event athletes. Congratulaons to Junior Trinity

McPherson who broke Smri Sridhar's 2009 school record of

12.47 for the 100m dash with a blistering 12.45 sec run. Well

done Trinity for a fantasc result at the rst meet for the season. 

A busy day on campus last Saturday with the ISM Chess invita-

onal at the ES cafeteria. Our chess players did very well with

Abinav Bathula winning his division winning the team champion-

ship along with ES player Srihaaan Poddar gaining 2nd place and

the ES team placing 3rd overall. A big thanks to all parcipants. 

Our ISM judo team also had a compeon last Saturday with

Brody Barba, Johna Barba, Chrisan Donnel and Xavier Scholey

winning gold medals. Silver medals went to Connor Pla and

Alessandro Ga with ISM team also taking our the overall cham-

pions team trophy. Well done to all members of our Judo teamthat competed last weekend. 

Season 3 (S3) tryouts concluded last week. S3 pracce schedule

is posted on noce boards and on ATAC blog schedules page. 

Due to MS CWW this week there has not been any ATAC or AFAC

aer school programs. Programs will resume from Mon Feb 22.

Remember next week is a short week with no school for stu-

dents on Thurs and Friday. 

ATAC S3 sports for MS are Badminton, Track&Field, Mixed Touch

and Co-ed Soball. For HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, So-

ball and Badminton. 

Upcoming events: 

Feb 19 HS girls soball teams vs Brent at home 4pm and

5:45pm 

Feb 19 Charity soccer match ISM Faculty vs Alumni in sup-

port of Coach Eric Bajada 7pm MS eld 

Feb 20-21 ISM Aikido meet at Covered Court. 

Feb 20 HS Academic Bowl at Brent. 

Feb 20-21 Philippine Cup Gymnascs at Rizal Stadium/Mar

12 BSM Gymnascs meet/May 7 ISM Goodwill Gymnascs

meet. 

Mar 4-6 Bangkok Splash meet for Sailsh swim team. 

Mar 12 Brent track meet, Mar 18 ISM twilight track meet 

April 6-10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at SAS, Golf

at JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB) 

May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta 

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the Sailsh blog

for informaon. hp://sailsh.ism-online.org/ 

Please note the pracce mes for ATAC programs for SY 15-16

are as follows: ATAC all year round teams- 3:15-4:30. See sched-

ule 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 cam-

pus prior to 5pm all aer school programs will conclude

by 4:50pm

 or earlier. The last bus is4:55pm

 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 infor-

maon on the blog please send an email

to pekinm@ismanila.org 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 parent portal not via power school as in the

past. A navigaon 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 schedule does change oen and at short noce due to

involvement with many local schools and organizaons. 

Check it regularly for the most up to date informaon. For secu-

rity purposes....access to the ATAC 

game schedule pdf must belinked 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 & Acvies 

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