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27 April 2012Volume 17

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

MAY

1 Nat ional Holiday - No School

2, 9,16, 23,

30Student Late Start @8.30am

11, 25 ES Parent Bull et in

12 K-12 Dance Recit al @3pm, Fine Arts Theatre

21 - 23 AFAC Recitals @3.30pm, AMR

25 Last day of After School Act ivi t ies

29 2nd Semester Report Card Dist ribut ion

31Grade 4 Moving-On Ceremony @8am, Fine

Arts Theatre

Early Student Release @12pm

From the ES Administrationrom the ES AdministrationDear Elementary School Parent s,

Visible Thinking

Last Tuesday we held our last parent coff ee morning for

this year, where we focused on the notion of visible

thinking. By this we mean providing students wit h

opportunit ies to arti culate, st ructure and document

their changing understandings wit hin an area of

learning. Visible thinking is defined as an approach to

t eaching and learni ng t hat emphasizes t he use of

thinking routines and documentation to make thinking

more visibl e in classrooms. Thinking rout ines support

t he development of students as self -dir ected learners

and learning for understanding (Harvard Proj ect

Zero). Part of the learning cycle involves having

students taking a moment to press the pause butt on

on their learning and refl ect on how their

understanding is evolving and what is inf luencing

this. This gives children the sense that t hinking is

highly valued, and promotes the understanding thatskil ls in t hinking creat ively and crit ically can be taught

explicit ly in order t o deepen targeted learning. The

presentation notes are now on the ES Blog for those

want ing to delve a bit deeper, or alt ernat ively, have a

browse through the Harvard Proj ect Zero websit e on

visible t hinking, for a wealth of materials.

http:/ / www.pz.harvard.edu/ vt/

VisibleThinking_html_fil es/ VisibleThinking1.html

Hats

We are now in the midst of summer in the Phil ippines,

bringing with it hot weather and intense sun exposure.

As well as reminding everyone to bring and refill their

water bottles, we are also encouraging all our students

to wear hats in their morning break and lunch time in

the playground / ES field during this period. We will

cont inue t o reinforce t his message as much as possible

at school and hope that you too can support this at

home.

Adam CampbellElementary Principal

Michael RourkeElementary Asst. Principal


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From the Fine Arts Officerom the Fine Arts Office


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From the Admissions & Advancement Officerom the Admissions & Advancement OfficeDear Parents,

Re-Enrollment for school year 2012-2013 is on-

going. We advise all families to begin the processearly to avoid long lines.

Please drop by the Admissions Office to pick-up yourRE-ENROLLMENT CLEARANCE FORM orvisit our web site at http://www.ismanila.org > AD-MISSION > Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal to down-load the appropriate forms.

Clearance signatures are required from the

following offices:AdmissionsHealth ClinicCashiers Office

Step 1Admissions forms will need to be signed and submit-ted to the Admissions Office.

Step 2All students are required to submit the Health Clin-ic Updating Form directly to the Clinic. This maybe done at any time. Incoming Grade 1, 5 and 9

students must have page 2 of the document complet-ed by a licensed physician. We do recommend that allchildren have an annual check-up.

In addition, all incoming Grade 5 and 9 students willneed to submit the Tuberculosis ScreeningForm.

Step 3Beginning May 31, 2012 you may visit the CashiersOffice to settle your accounts.

The Re-Enrollment Clearance Form will need

to be submitted in exchange for your childssection card and/or class schedule. Please do

not discard this form.

WITHDRAWAL PROCEDURE

If your family will be leaving before or at the end ofSY11-12, we would appreciate that you submit the

officialWithdrawal Notification Form in orderto initiate the withdrawal process. Please note, thisdoes not pertain to Grade 12 students who will grad-uate in May.

Please submit the completedWithdrawal Notifica-tion Form as early as possible.

All forms are available here: http://www.ismanila.org> Admission > Re-enrollment and Withdrawal

WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM(required by ES/HS/MS students) Please

submit this to the Admissions OfficeMIDDLE SCHOOL CLEARANCE FORM Once completed please submit this to theCashiers Office

HIGH SCHOOL CLEARANCE FORM Oncecompleted please submit this to the CashiersOffice

IMPORTANT DATE to remember:

May 11, 2012 Withdrawal Notification Forms forSchool Year 2011-2012 must be submitted. Formsreceived after this date will incur a penalty of USD

$1000 on the refund of the FUD.

For detailed information regarding receiving ReportCards, Transcript of Records, obtaining a yearbookand/or the refund of the FUD please visit our website at www.ismanila.org under the Admissions TAB< Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal.

We appreciate your notification as we have manyfamilies awaiting word for enrollment for next schoolyear. Please feel free to contact us at admis-

[email protected] for any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

Stephanie H. HagedornDirector of Admissions & AdvancementInternational School Manila

www.ismanila.org

RE-ENROLLMENT AND WITHDRAWAL PROCEDURES


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As the school year draws towards a close, this weekwe had our Head Coaches meet to decide the majorsports awards winners which will be presented at the

HS Honors/Awards assembly on May 22nd. Today,Friday April 27th is the final HS sports awards assem-bly for the school year beginning at 5:30 in the lofthouse to celebrate the efforts of all our athletes and torecognize the special achievements for track, badmin-ton and softball for varsity and junior varsity teams. Itis also an important awards to say goodbye to ourseniors who will be attending their last sports awardsat ISM. We hope and expect all 3rd season athletesto attend, enjoy a meal together and celebrate thefinal sports season of this school year with your teammates/coaches and parents.

Summer sports camps: see flyer for information or

visit ATAC blog summer sports camps for information.

Exciting developments for next school year:

In our quest to ensure ISM maintains and keepsimproving the wonderful sports facilities we haveit gives me great pleasure to advise that work hasalready started on the new roof top tennis courtproject and that work will be starting very soonon resurfacing our track.

The tennis court redevelopment is a largescale project which when completed in mid/lateOctober will provide a fully covered facility for

tennis and PE classes with the addition of twocourts (currently 6 to 8 courts), along with male/female locker rooms, extra storage space forequipment, rollaway tennis nets, a small officeand two areas of spectator bleachers.

Our athletics track will be resurfaced and thejumps runway/landing pit area will be relocatedslightly to improve this facility. We will also beadding an additional shot-put circle, grading andre-sowing this grass in the landing area for shotput.

ISM hosts IASAS Tennis and Track & Field next

school year and these improvements will ensurewe have the best facilities possible to host theIASAS Championships in 2013 and for our stu-dents/teams to use for their PE classes and teamtraining on a day to day basis during the schoolyear.

ATAC Events coming up:

April 27 MS/HS softball teams futures game -MSField.

April 27 MS 3rd season sports awards ES Gym

3:15-4pm for Track and Badminton teamsonly!

April 27 3rd season HS sports awards for all HS

teams, (softball, badminton and track) at theloft house 5:30 start.May 12th/13th Aikido meet at Gymnastics Area(May

12th, May 13th at Covered Court)May 12th Judo Meet Covered CourtMay 18

thSailfish Awards Dinner (see sailfish blog for

details).May 22nd All year round sports teams awards 3:15-

4:15pm @ ES Gym (Chess, Table Tennis,Aikido, Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Wall Climbing)

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game scheduleinformation) Information about all mid week/weekendfixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATACblog. 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 teamsare playing. Click on schedules tab or the Bearcatlogo to be directed to the http://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/You will need yourpower school user name and password to access thegame schedule pdf.

Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:

Mon, Wed and Fridays from 11:30am 1:00pm and2:30pm 4:00pm. Tues and Thurs afternoons from

2:30-4pm.

If you are interested in joining our volunteers in theBearcat Den please contact our BCD volunteers coor-dinator Radhika [email protected] orpop in to the Den near the HS Cafeteria and talk withone of our volunteers they will be very happy to makeyou welcome. Anyone interested in joining the dennext school year starting in August names are beingtaken, please contact Radhika to submit your infor-mation and expression of interest.

Please note final day for den sales this school year is

Wednesday May 30th.Thursday May 31st the denvolunteers will be doing inventory and closing up theden for summer hibernation. The den will not be openfor sales on the final day of school May 31st!

Mark PekinDirector of Athletics/Activities

E-mail: [email protected] Website:http://www.ismanila.org/ATAC Blog: http://atac.ism-online.org/

From the Athletics Officerom the Athletics Office


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ImportantReminderfrom

ImportantReminderfromTreasuryOfficeTreasuryOffice::

CutCut--offdatefortheoffdatefortheacceptanceofcheckacceptanceofcheckpaymentSY2011paymentSY2011--20122012

Pleasebeinformedthatforthepurposeofclear-ing theaccountsofstu-dentsforSY11-12,pesocheckswillnolongerbeacceptedafterthesecondFridayofMay(May11)whileUS$checksdrawnfromUSbankswillnolongerbeacceptedafterthesecondFridayofApril(April13).ThisistoallowenoughtimeforthecheckstogetclearedbythebankintimeforthestudentclearanceinMay.


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From the PTArom the PTA


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