issue no. 20 (week of january 30 to february 03)

8/3/2019 Issue No. 20 (Week of January 30 to February 03)

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Dear Parents:

On Wednesday, February 1 we will be hosting a Grade 4 to Grade 5

Transition Meeting for parents. If your child will be moving from

Elementary School into Middle School next school year, we

encourage you to attend. We will be sharing information about life

in Middle School.

Each grade level has been busily planning and preparing activities

for the Classroom Without Walls week from February 20 to

February 24. Information will be sent out via your childs

Homebase. Please make sure to keep an eye out for the

information and return the signed permission slip to school via your

child. If you have any questions about the activities, please

contact your childs Homebase teacher.

Have a great weekend!

Regards,

Simon Gillespie Clarissa Sayson

Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

POWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATPOWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDAT

February 10Grade Update/ProgreReport Distribution

March 09 Grade Update

February 24 Grade Update

March 16 Grade Update/ProgreReport Distribution

From the Middle School Office

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents ISSUE # 20

WEEKOF JANUARY 30 TO FEBRUARY 03

Friday Bulletin

MIDDLE SCHOOL

iBelieve Photo Contest 2

English Language Course for Parents 3

Filipino Courses for Parents 2012 4

From the ATAC Office 5

IASAS Rugby/Touch Schedule 6

ISM Aquathon 2012 7

Inside this issue:

UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING EVENTS

JANUARY

31 PTA Bearcat Welcome to NewParents (7:30 A.M., LT)

FEBRUARY

01 to 05 AMIS Strings Festival

01 Gr. 4 to 5 Transition ParentMeeting (5:00 P.M., FAT)

02 PTA Liaison Meeting(8:00 A.M., MS Conf. Room

08 to 12 AMIS Honor Band

10 MS Party (Gr. 5 to 8)16 MS Parent Coffee

(7:45 A.M., LT)

16 to 19 ISTA Festival

17 No Classes

20 to 24 Classroom Without Walls (CW

23 Gr. 8 Parents HS CourseSelection Information Night(5:30 P.M., Lofthouse)

MARCH

05 to 09 Course Registration

08 to 29 MAP Testing

10 ISM Goodwill Gymnastics Mee

20 Parent Teacher Conferences

24 Service Learning Trip

REMINDER:

Yearbook Photos are now available! Those who ordered

photos may pick them up in the MS Office.


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FRIDAY BULLETIN PAG E 2

ABearcat Welcome

to New ParentsWhat is a Bearcat?

It's the ISM School mascot, which symbolizes our community spirit!!

We would like to invite YOU to a

PTA Morning Coffee Bearcat Welcome

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

7:30 A.M. in ISMs Little Theater

This is an opportunity to meet other new (and old) ISM parents,

ask them questions, and get more information about life in Manila!

Mabuhay! We hope to see you there!

ISM PTA

PTA Bearcat Welcome to New Parents


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iBelieve Public Voting & Silent Auction Now Open!

Drop by our booth: Every Wednesday & Friday

(during lunch breaks), outside HS/MS Canteen

OR

Visit us at the Advancement Office

(at the Plaza Level, beside Admissions)

For more information, check us out online at

ibelieve.ism-online.org!

Last week, six talented singers attended AMIS Honor Mixed Choir festival at the AmericanEmbassy School in New Delhi, India. Since being selected by audition in October, the stu-dents have been working hard to learn the challenging repertoire, meeting weekly to putthe soprano, alto and baritone parts together. Arriving in New Delhi, they rehearsed dili-

gently for three days and then performed two concerts singing in five languages with a com-bined choir from over 15 international schools. Congratulations to Won Joon Choi, Evie Cole-man, Katelyn Grandy, William Kertzman, Sebi Matera and Emmy Nam for representing ISM sowell through their exemplary participation. The students also had a chance to visit somelocal bazaars and even see the Taj Mahal! A special thank you to Melodie Hausman as theircoach and Carrie Grev for assisting with the festival.

AMIS Honor Mixed Choir Festival


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English Language Course for Parents

January 31, 2012.


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Filipino Courses for Parents 2012


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Plans are well underway for our hosting of

IASAS Rugby/Touch to make this a memorable

tournament for all the ISM community. If youcan assist with housing, we really need your

support. See below for details in regards to

housing a visiting athlete.

IASAS RUGBY/TOUCH HOUSING:

The next fantastic ISM Special event is on the

horizon when we host Rugby/Touch from Feb-

ruary 1-5, 2012 and 140 athletes require hous-

ing for this event. The housing letter can be

accessed via the ATAC blog or there is a link toit on the IASAS Rugby/Touch page. Housing let-

ters are due in now! Please return these ASAP

so the housing can be confirmed for all our

guests who will arrive on Feb 1st.

IASAS Venues for 2nd Season:

Traveling teams depart on Wednesday, Febru-

ary 1st and will return on February 5th.

Rugby/Touch @ ISM

Basketball @ ISB Bangkok Swimming @ Jakarta

Tennis @ ISKL Kuala Lumpur

Congratulations to our team of Sailfish coaches

who successfully hosted a great varsity swim

meet last Saturday at the ISM pool. Swim teams

from American School in Japan and Shanghai

American school flew in for this meet and had a

great day of racing. The team from ASIJ also

spent Friday morning visiting and working withone of our service partners to engage with and

assist some underprivileged children. From all

reports they found this an extremely valuable

and rewarding venture.

3rd Season starts soon:

February 6th sees the start of 3rd sea-

son for (Track and Field, Badminton,Softball for MS and HS students and Mixed Touch

for MS students only) Tryouts information and

practice schedules are now posted to the blog

and on school notice boards.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF:

(access to game schedule information)

Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures

for ISM teams can be found via the ATAC blog.

Please note the game schedule does change of-ten due to involvement with many local schools

so please check the page regularly to find out the

latest information of where and when the Bear-

cats teams are playing. Click on schedules tab or

the Bearcat logo to be directed to

http://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/. You

will need your Powerschool username and pass-

word to access the game schedule.

BEARCAT DEN:Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:

Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 11:30

A.M. 1:00 P.M. & 2:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M.

Tuesday & Thursday afternoons, from 2:30 -

4:00 P.M.

If you are interested in joining our group of vol-

unteers in the Bearcat Den, please contact our

BCD volunteers coordinator, Radhika at radhika-

[email protected] or pop in to the Dennear the HS Cafeteria and talk with one of our

volunteers. They will be very happy to make you

welcome.

Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athletics/Activities

From the Athletics & Activities Office


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IASAS RUGBY/TOUCH SCHEDULE


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