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Es parent bulletin

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

SEPT

24 No Classes – Faculty In-Service

25 No Classes – National Holiday

OCT

2 No Classes – Learning 2.0 Conference

7Wednesday Morning Student Late Start

8:30AM

14-15 Parent Teacher Student Conference-Early Student Release 12pm

23 Friday, Filipiniana

26-30 No Classes- School Holiday

Fom e ESSS dministration

Elementary Faculty Learning

One of the most important features of the ISM community is theunmistakable appetite of all stakeholders for continuouslearning. Our students demonstrate it on a daily basis in ourclassrooms and on the playground through their independenceand collaboration. Our parents continue to show their intent bycontinually engaging in all of our parent sessions targetingresearch and learning. And our faculty continually strive tobetter themselves in their quest to implement the most up todate methodology on best instructional practice. Two weeks

ago, we had over a hundred of our parents engage with theideas presented by Kath Murdoch on inquiry-basedlearning. On Tuesday, we had over sixty Grades 3 and 4parents attend a session on Measures of Academic Progress(MAP) testing. Today, teachers spent the whole day workingtogether on various elements of our curriculum and itsimplementation.

We had:

Preschool teachers gaining swimming certification, tosupport their students as they learn to swim

Art and PE teams working on their written curriculumoutcomes and how they are assessed

Music teachers watching recorded lessons of their ownteaching, and isolating elements of effective instructionalpractice

Classroom teachers looking at what elements comprise a‘balanced literacy program’ and how we facilitate this. Thissession included sharing and building upon ourunderstandings of how we best support our students intheir learning of spelling, writing and reading.

Classroom teachers defining a set of essential instructionalagreements for our literacy program. They identified the

following six key elements, which will occur every day, in every classroom. These are all based upon what theresearch indicates about reading and writing.

1. Every child reads something he or she chooses.

2. Every child reads accurately. 3. Every child reads something he or she understands.

4. Every child writes something personally meaningful. 5. Every child talks with peers about reading and writing. 6. Every child listens to a fluent adult read aloud.

All our teachers collaborating on producing a series of ‘lessons’, at each grade level, targeting the four key concepts(Safety, Touch, Advocacy & Responsibility) in our Healthy Relationships curriculum.

It really was a great day of learning.

Have a wonderful long weekend.

Adam Campbe Michael RourkeElementary Principal

Elementary Assistant Principal


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From the T C Office

rom the T C Office

Dear ISM community members,

Host families are needed for IASAS Soccer

on October 7 to 11, 2015.

Please help support this event and house a pair ofHS Soccer players for the IASAS Soccer Champi-onships. Housing forms are available from ATACoffice. You can also download the form from thelink below.http://atac.ism-online.org/files/2013/10/IASAS-

Soccer-2015-Housing-Request-letter.pdf

We look forward with your support to making this

a truly special ISM event.

Regards,

Mark Pekin

From the Office of dmissions and dvancementrom the Office of dmissions and dvancement

Leaving ISM?

Please be reminded that parents are obliged to officially inform the School iwriting through a WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM if their childwill not be returning for the 2nd Semester (January 2016 term). Families arencouraged to submit the Withdrawal Notification Form, stating the studentfinal date of attendance, immediately. Failure to submit the form may lead ta delay in the forwarding of your child's transcript to his/her new school.

The Withdrawal Notification Form can be obtained from the AdmissionsOffice, by clicking the link above, or directly from the ISM website underAdmission > Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal > Withdrawals

Please feel free to contact the Admissions office at 840.8601 for questions oclarifications.

Thank you!

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From the Professional Learning Department

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