es parent bulletin vol#9 2014 dec 5

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5 December 2014Volume 9

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

DEC

10Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,8.30AM

6 K-12 Dance Recital, 3 - 5PM (FAT)

11 First Semester Report Card Distribution

12Early Student Release, @ 12NNLast Day of First Semester

15 - Jan 2 No Classes: Semester Break

JAN

5Classes Resume1st day of 2nd Semester AFAC

7, 14, 21,28

Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,8.30AM

13New Parent Coffee, 7:30 - 8:00AM (LT)Steve Leinwand Parent Coffee, 8 - 9.30AM (LT)

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From e ESSS dminist ation

What does it mean to be creave?

At ISM, one of our school‐wide goals for our students is to

be creave. But what exactly is creavity? Do we all have

it? Or do we need to try to ‘be’ it? We asked some people

in our Elementary School community what their thoughts

were…

At last week’s whole school assembly, four of our teachers shared with us what that they do in their lives in order to

be creave. Ms. Monlla loves blogging and she shared her

personal blog with us. Mr. Steve showed us the models he

puts together, paints and designs. Ms. Cha Cruz, a talented

(and famous!) volleyball player, talked about her passion

for her sport and living healthily; and Mr. Smith spoke

about how he creates, plays and shares music with his

band.

Mr. Steve then asked other teachers, and students from

Preschool through to Grade 4, ‘what is creavity?’ These

were some thoughts..

“Creave means something that you’ve never seen before

or something you’ve never made before ‐and with lots of

details.”

“When I think of creavity, the first thing that comes to my

mind is Mathemacs. Being creave in mathemacs is

being able to solve a certain problem in many diff erent

ways. You need to be flexible and think of a lot of diff erent methods in order to solve a problem.”

“You draw something and you don’t know what it is.”

“Coming up with diff erent soluons to a problem.”

“A creave thinker is someone who can think of many ways to do one thing ... and is able to think out of the box.”

“Creavity in PE means creang a roune, a dance, problem solving… how you are going to get around an obstacle

course?!”

“It is something that you create yourself … like if you’re making something yourself.” Con nued on Page 2



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Con nued from

“To think about what others haven’t thought of.. or to do things diff erently.”

“When I think of being creave, I think of football. On the field you discover soluons you weren’t even aware you

were discovering. You’re not afraid of mistakes… You get in the mood or the ‘zone’ and creavity funcons

automacally. When you’re really enjoying what you do playing or working with creavity seems much easier.”

“It means that you do things in diff erent ways to other people… or you make things that were invented by yourself.

We are also being creave when we are playing in the playground.”

For those interested in reading about some of the myths associated with the noon of creavity, this arcle provides

an interesng read: 5 Myths About Creavity at hp://goo.gl/ZSGl69

We hope you have a safe, relaxing, and creavity‐filled weekend!

Adam Campbe l Michael Rou r keElementary Principal Elementary Assistant Principal




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Message f r om t e Clinic

Dear Parents,

We would like to remind you about the school’s “Sick Day Guidelines”. The enre document can be found on Public Website, but

below two condions which may cause uncertainty among parents more oen than others:

Pinkeye or Conjuncvis – This can be caused by viruses, bacteria or allergy. There may be redness, swelling, itchiness, discharge

and puffiness. A student with these symptoms should not come to school but should visit his/her doctor to see if anbioc drops

are necessary. The school requests a medical cerficate of clearance by the aending pediatrician or ophthalmologist before the

student can return to school, as this condion can be extremely contagious.

Rashes and Skin Infecons – They are most oen caused by bacteria or viruses, which can be passed to others easily. The school

requests a medical cerficate of clearance by the aending pediatrician or dermatologist before the student can return to school.

Every student found with pinkeye or rashes should be sent to the clinic immediately. We will call the parents to collect their child

at the clinic.

Please let me know of any further quesons or concerns.

D o o te BinsfeldClinic AdministratorEmail [email protected]

Phone: 840 8581




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ES AFAC ANNOUNCEMENTS

Confirmaon of 2nd Semester Aer‐School Acvies for your child is on Dec 9, 2014.

Your confirmaon slips will be given through your children. If you prefer to have the slip emailed, please contact

us at [email protected]

Last day for 1st Semester of Aer‐School Acvites is on Dec 11, 2014 (Thursday)

K‐12 DANCE RECITAL

A REMINDER FOR THE DANCERS:

Please refer to the following prep venues for your child on the Recital Day. Call me for all dancers is at 1:00 PM on

the following venues:

Everyone is invited to watch the K-12 Dance Recital on Dec 6, 2014 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the Fine Arts Theater.




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Leaving ISM?

Please be reminded that parents are obliged to officially inform the School in wring through a WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICA‐

TION FORM if their children will not be returning for the 2nd Semester. Families are encouraged to submit the Withdrawal No fi ‐

ca on Form, stang the student's final date of aendance, immediately.

For students who will be withdrawing at the end of the school year, forms must be submied on or before May 8. Failure

to submit the form in a mely manner 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 off ering that space to another candidate prior to

the holiday break.

The Withdrawal No fi ca on Form can be obtained from the Admissions Office or directly from the ISM website under Admission

> Re‐Enrollment & Withdrawal >Withdrawals

Please feel free to contact the Admissions office at 840.8601 for quesons or clarificaons.

Thank you,

Office of Admissions and Advancement

From e Of ce of dmissions and dvancement

ANNOUNCEMENT! LOST AND FOUND

VIEWING

EVERY SCHOOL DAY

Dec. 1st

to the 12th

, 2014

From 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

FAT Changing Room 1123

Items uncollected after this t ime will be

disposed of in support of our Service Learning

Program.




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From e T C Of ce

2nd season pracce schedules are posted to the ATAC blog and on noce boards around school. 2nd season sports for MS/HS are;

Basketball, Rugby, Touch, Tennis and Swimming. 2nd season will run from Nov 3 unl Jan 28th, 2015.

IASAS Tennis is Jan 28‐Feb 1, 2015. We need to house 80 vising tennis players. If you can help please submit a form to ATAC asap. Housing leer is available via the ATAC blog.

It has been a busy week for sports at ISM with our V Rugby boys playing the naonal u/19 team, losing narrowly aer a great 2nd

half comeback, and we had 2 vising basketball teams from Perth Australia who played our varsity boys and girls. Both our Bear‐

cats basketball teams were able to win vs our Aussie vising teams! Girls won by 2pts and boys by 8pts in close matches. Well done

to all involved.

Fri Dec 5 HS Basketball teams away at Brent

Sat Dec 6 ISM Wall climbing comp at MS gym/MS Rugby Fesval at BSM/Touch league at ISM

ICARE for HS‐ next week only varsity teams will be praccing if players are at metro Manila sites. There will be no pracces for JV

teams

next

week!

Please note the new pracce mes for the following ATAC programs: ATAC all year round teams‐ 3:15‐4:30. Sailfish/Gymnascs

and all HS seasonal teams now conclude pracce at 4:50pmeach 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 traffic 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 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 (mouthguards and rugby balls for 2nd season) 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. Kindly go to the parent portal, log in with your user name/password and look for the ATAC Game Sched‐

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

GO BEARCATS!

Ma r k PekinAthletic Director




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Campus Card Corner Kiosk Top‐up with Mulple Notes/Bills

Did you know that you can opt to do one top‐up with mulple bills? When the machine is ready to accept the bill,

always wait for the green light at the slot before inserng the other bills.

For example, you have 2 pcs of P200 and 1 pc of P100 bills, choose P500 denominaon. The system will give you in‐

strucon when it’s ready to accept the next bill/note.

For more informaon, visit: For quesons/concerns, email:

hp://campusonline.ismanila.org [email protected]

From e Bea cat Den

From t e Ar t TeamDear ISM Families,

Please consider the Elementary ArtRooms when you are disposing of your

gently used items.

The Art Department would gratefullyappreciate your donation of papertowel rolls, toilet rolls and old t-shirts.

Thank you in advance for your help in

strengthening our class-room resourcecollection this year!

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