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Message from the High School Principal:

Dear Parents,

It has been another busy week in the High School. We had a very good parent turn out at the monthly Parent Coffee Meeting on Tuesday. We covered amongst other topics, the Global Issues Network or GIN conference that ISM is hosting next week and in addition the upcoming course registration process for the next school year. High school students are currently receiving information via assemblies, class meetings, individual teacher and counselor discussions and via the IB coordinator, in terms of what courses will be on offer in the high school next year and the likely pathways that students can take to meet ISM graduation and IB Diploma requirements. Please take time to discuss these important course selection decisions with your child. The HS Course Offerings book for next year can be found on through this link http://www.ismanila.org/portal/alias__/lang__en/tabID__333/DesktopDefault.aspx Please be reminded that next Friday, February 17, is a teacher professional development day and students are not required at school, though about 80 ISM students and 400+ plus from around Asia will be here for the GIN conference. An anticipated highlight of the GIN conference this year is the fact that we have integrated the annual Battle of Bands into the Saturday night festivities. The fact that the BOB organization annually raises in the vicinity of US$10,000 for ISM’s service learning program has not been lost on the conference organizers and this is in fact one of ISM’s three student run workshops presented by students and for students at the conference. For more information on BOB, GINManila2012 or HS Course selection please contact your child’s counselor or the High school Office. Kind regards

William R. S. Brown Michael Dickinson High School Principal High School Assistant Principal

A weekly bulletin for Parents and Students.

International School ManilaFor ATTENDANCE concerns,please contact the HS Office(Sam Ramos or Laurie Atilano)Tel: 840 8650 / 840 8653email [email protected]

For GUIDANCE concerns, pleascontact Bella, Gigi or JasminTel:840-8655 / 840-8660February 10, 2012 A weekly bulletin for Parents and Students



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SPAIN SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM 2012:

Reminders from the HS Office:

KAWAYAN PHOTOS (Yearbook Photos):

For those PARENTS/STUDENTS who ordered student

photos from Tino Ley, the photos are now ready for pick

up in the HS Office. If you will send a representative to

claim the photos on behalf of the student please send

an authorization letter to allow them to claim on your

behalf. Thank you.

HS CALENDAR:

Monday, February 13:

IB2 Language B & Language A2 Orals

Tuesday, February 14:

IB2 Language

B

&

Language

A2

Orals

Wednesday, February 15:

Late Start


Thursday, February 16:


Friday, February 17:

No Classes‐Faculty In Service

Global

Issues

Network

(GIN)

Conference

Saturday, February 18:

Global Issues Network (GIN) Conference

Battle of the Bands FINALS

Upcoming Events:

Feb 20‐24: Course Registration Week

Feb 22‐25: IASAS Dance Drama & Music Previews

(FAT/LT)

The International School Manila Modern Languages

Department is pleased to announce its 2012 Summer

Language Study / Home-stay / Travel Program to Spain. This program is for students 14 years of age or older as

of June 1st. It aims to develop students’ language

proficiency and to broaden their cultural knowledge. Thisprogram is being offered in cooperation with Tandem

(http://www.escuela-montalban.com/index.php). We with

spend three weeks at the Granada campus and one

week at the Madrid campus. Students will continue

learning and more importantly practicing Spanish through

total immersion in classes and during the home-stay. The

Tandem school finds families for students to stay with,

assists in locating appropriate local resources for the

group’s activities, plans outings, maintains a list of local

medical and emergency resources, and helps with the

orientation for group leaders.

Students will receive Spanish classes each morning that

include language and culture subjects and prepare

students for cultural visits. The cultural program will take

place in the afternoons/evenings and will be made up of

various supervised activities that take advantage of the

unique environment while taking into account the

individual interests of the students. Cultural activities

include things such as preparing paella, guided tours of

historical buildings, towns and museums, watching

flamenco dancing, visiting hot water springs, beach trips,

horseback riding, etc.

The dates of this trip will be approximately June 2nd

–

30th, 2012. If you are interested, please contact Jennifer

Diaz ([email protected]) to receive more information.

Students are parents interested in this trip to Spain

should plan to attend an informational meeting at 5:30

on Wednesday, February 29th

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FROM THE COUNSELING CENTER:



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SOPHOMORE AND JUNIOR PARENTS:

Don’t forget to mark June 4th

to 8th

in your calendar. These are the dates for this

year’s Bearcat Career Experience program. Give your daughter or son the

opportunity to experience one week in a “real life” company and in a career

area they are interested in and/or curious about. Details on how students can

apply will be out later. For now, please just keep these dates open when

booking summer

vacation

flights.

Please contact Mr. Doug McQueen in HS Counseling ([email protected])

if you have any questions.

Doug McQueenHS Grade 9/10 Guidance Counselor

FOR SENIOR PARENTS:To all High School Parents:

Senior Dedication Bought Pages for the Kawayan yearbook

are now available!

WHAT is a bought page?

It is a page that you create which will be included in the

Kawayan yearbook. It can contain anything – from family

messages for graduating kids to picture collages of your

child’s best moments in high school. It is a great way to create

a lasting memory of your child’s high school years and you

can buy as many pages as you want!

PRICES: (per page)

Black and White: PHP 2,500

Colored:

PHP

4,800

*All payments must be made to the cashier

DEADLINE: March 2, 2012 (Friday)

PAGE DETAILS:

Dimensions: Each page should be 9"x12"

Must be turned in as either a picture (.jpeg) or Photoshop

(.psd) file with a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (dots per

inch).

SUBMISSION:

Please burn the file on a CD and drop it off at the HS office

WITH a receipt from the cashier. Please indicate that it is a

bought page

for

the

Kawayan

yearbook.

For questions, please don't hesitate to contact

Angela Sy or Kevin Yang at [email protected].

Thank you for your support!

Angela Sy and Kevin Yang

Kawayan Yearbook Editors‐in‐Chief

FROM THE ADVANCEMENT OFFICE:



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FROM THE FINE ARTS OFFICE:



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FROM THE ATAC OFFICE: IASAS Results: What a fantastic tournament here at ISMlast week. To all involved whether your part was small orlarge in assisting with the running of the event manythanks. The school spirit and support on display all threedays was incredible. We have had amazing feedback fromstudents, parents, alumni and visiting IASASathletes/parents and coaches about the time they had atISM last week and the awesome live streaming that wasproduced by our IT team and commentators RingoDingrando/Eugene Comer. A special thanks must also goto my ATAC staff for their wonderful support and to theISM medical team who attended so well to all the medicalconcerns during the tournament.

I would also like to say a special thanks to all families whoagreed to support the most important part of the tournamentby housing the visiting athletes.

RESULTS: Our tournament results were amazing with our

tennis teams both winning GOLD in Kuala Lumpur, our Touchgirls winning SILVER here at ISM and our Girls Basketballteam winning BRONZE at Bangkok. Boys Rugby narrowlymissed out on a medal coming 4th, along with Boys Basketballalso placing 4th in Bangkok.

A full set of confirmed individual results from the swim meet inJakarta will be posted to the sailfish site as soon as theyare received. Girls swim team placed 6th and Boys 5th thisyear. From coaches feedback many of our swimmersrecorded PB’s or personal best times and made more finalsthan in previous years. Congratulations to all athletes andcoaches.

Reminder that the HS awards for all 2nd season athletesis Wed Feb 15th 5:30pm at the Lofthouse 3rd floor.

3rd Season: Tryouts for Track and Field, Badminton,Softball for MS and HS students and Mixed Touch for MSstudents only conclude today and the season practiceschedule is posted to the blog and is on school noticeboards.

ISM student Jaime Abadam last weekend on Jan. 28 and 29competed at the International Submission WrestlingCompetition\ Brazilian Jiu Jitsu here in the Philippines. Within

the two days Jaime scored 3 gold medals for under 73.5kg,74kg. and 76kg divisions remaining undefeated in his weightcategories. Jaime scored bronze for the free weight divisionon Saturday, and silver for another free weight division fight onSunday. In total he had 21 fights within the 2 days. What anoutstanding and by the sounds exhausting effort.Congratulations Jaime!

Tomorrow at 8am our two MS boys tennis face off in thfinal of the ISTA MS tennis league at CSA. Good luck tall the players, can the grade 5/6 team pull off a big upseand defeat the 7/8

thgrade boys?

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game scheduinformation) Information about all mid week/weekenfixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATAC blogPlease note the game schedule does change often due tinvolvement with many local schools so please check thpage regularly to find out the latest information of wherand when the Bearcats teams are playing. Click oschedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to thhttp://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/ You will need youpower school user name and password to access thgame schedule pdf.

BEARCAT DEN:

Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:

Mon, Wed and Fridays from 11:30am – 1:00pm an2:30pm – 4:00pm. Tues and Thurs afternoons fro2:30-4pm.

If you are interested in joining our group of volunteein the Bearcat Den please contact our BCD volunteercoordinator Radhika [email protected] pop in to the Den near the HS Cafeteria and tawith one of our volunteers they will be very happy t

make you welcome.

Mark Pekin

Director of Athletics/Activities

International School Manila

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



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IASAS SWIMMING SUMMARY:

New School Swimming Records: 6.

o Ray Oo, broke George Go's 50 Butterfly record, he also broke his own 50mFR, 100m FR, 200FR, school records.

o Lotta Toppari lowered the 800 Freestyle record by 13 seconds, and came very close to improving Cha Inn Moon

400m Record, she missed it by less than half a second.

o The boys 4x100m relay team was the swim of the meet for our team, the team is made up by Yong An, Jae wo

Jang, Noah

Sison,

and

Ray

Oo,

they

smashed

the

school

record

from

2004

by

15

seconds,

their

time

is

the

3r

fastest time swum at an IASAS meet. Ray Oo time of 52.80 is the fastest 100m Fr leg ever swum, the boys bea

second place ISB by 5 seconds, who also beat their school relay record. Sailfish swimmers should watch the vide

of this swim, it is inspiring to watch. https://sites.google.com/a/jisedu.or.id/iasas‐swimming/day3/session

2/4x100‐boys‐freestyle‐relay

Overall the boys came 5th, and the girls 6th. For the boys the final placing was disappointing considering it was ou

strongest boys team from the previous years. The final point score shows just how close to ISB and TAS we were. The

teams traded places throughout the meet. ISM were placed 4th at the start of Day 3, half a point ahead of TAS, and 2

points behind ISB. In the end we didn't put as many swimmers in the A finals as the other two teams.

The boys

reached

finals

34

times

this

year,

and

finished

with:

3 Gold,

2 Silver,

we

reached

the

A

final

13

times,

the

B

Fina

21 times our best result in many years, hopefully we can convert those B Final swims into A Finals next year. In 2011 w

put 28 people into finals, 2010 had 24, 2009 we placed 12 boys into finals, 2008 had 13, and 2007 we had 16 finalist.

For 6 of our girls it was their first IASAS, I am sure they now know what they have to do next time, and will be back in th

water very soon to ensure they improve their results next year. A few of our experienced girls seemed to catch every fl

that went around, were injured, or were busy with school work, so they spent much of the season out of the water, a few

still swam personal best times, I am sure they will be back next year wiser and stronger than ever before. Lotta and Lun

had an outstanding meet, Lotta, stepped onto the winners dais twice for 2 silver medals, Luna won a bronze, an

definitely acquired a taste for medals.

The Girls reached the finals 21 times, we reached the A final 8 times and the B Finals 13 times, we finished with: 2 Silver

1 Bronze. Compared to previous IASAS meets, we reached finals 20 times in 2010, 2009 we had 6, and in 2008 we had 1

finalists, 2007 had 12.

Overall we swam in 144 events, 106 of those were personal best times, Yong An, Harry Cho, Ivi IIaya, Jae Woo Jan, Ju

Woo Jang, Alex Klauser, Aly San Jose, Mai Shafei, Tyler Sy and Justin Van Klaveren, all swam a best time every time the

swam, an outstanding effort guys. It should be noted that some of our fastest swimmers did not need to swim their ver

fastest in the heats, instead they saved themselves by swimming for a place in the final then swam their very fastest in th

finals.

The team we took away were easy to coach, you all cheered for each other, and took care of each other, thank you for

fantastic IASAS at JIS.

Coach Hazel and Kaight Forgie, you also were fantastic to travel with, Kaight for all her organizing at the meet and whil

travelling, Hazel for all you hard work on pool deck.

Coach Andy



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TIME

3:00 - 5:00PMMONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

HS GYM Boys Varsity BadmintonBoys Varsity Badminton/

JV Boys BadmintonBoys Varsity Badminton JV Badminton Badminton Fitness

MS GYM Gi rl s Varsi ty Bad minto n Gi rl s Varsi ty Bad minto n Gi rl s J V Bad minto n Gi rl s Varsi t y Bad minto n Faculty Basketball 3:15 - 5p

ES GYMMS Girls Badminton

3:15-4:45pm Girls JV BadmintonMS Boys Badminton

3:15-4:45pm

MS Girls Badminton

3:15-4:455pm

MS Boys Badminton

3:15-4:45pm

Covered Court Faculty Tennis MS AFAC Badmint on Club MS AFAC Cricket ClubMS AFAC Badminton

Club AFAC

HS FIELD Boys Varsity Soft ball Varsity Softball 3-4pm 1/2 field JV Boys Softball 3-4pm 1/2 field Boy's Varsity HS Javelin / Discus

MS FIELD Girls Varsity Softball JV Girls Softball Girls Varsity/JVSoftball MS Softball Girls Varsity Sof tball

ES FIELD Faculty Football MS AFAC Club FootballMS Mixed Touch

3:15-4:45pmMS AFAC Club Football

MS Mixed Touch

3:15-4:45pm

FIELD (JAV/DISCUS) 3-4 pm1/2 field 3-4 pm1/2 field HS Javelin / Discus

TRACK HS TrackMS 3:15-4:45

HS Track 3-5pmHS Track HS Track MS 3:15-4:45

TRAINING SCHEDULE3RD SEASON 2012 TRAINING SCHEDULE (Feb 13 to April 13)



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ISM AQUATHON 2012

Saturday 25th February

Presenting the Annual ISM Aquathon 2012

Open to all ISM Student/Faculty/Staff/Parent Community.

RACE 1 - MS Grades 7-8 - all High School and Adults - Start Time 8:00am Run 600m Swim 400m Run 1400m

Male/Female, Age Groups 13/14, 15-18, Adult

RACE 2 - ES Grades 3-4/MS Grades 5-6 – Start Time 8:30am Run 300m Swim 300m Run 700m Age Groups Under 8, 9/10, 11/12

RACE 3 - ES Grades 1-2 – Start Time 9:00am Run 150m Swim 200m Run 300m Age Groups 8 & Under

RACE 4 - Relay – Student/Student, Adult/Student, Adults/Adult, Start 9:30am - Run 600m Swim 800m Run 1400m

Awards Ceremony – 10:00am

ISM AQUATHON 2012 – ENTRY FORM1. Present this entry form to the Cashiers office and pay 300 pesos en try fee2. Cashier will Stamp Entry Form.

3. Present this form to the Swimming Pool Office

Pa rticipants Name -

DIVISION

AGE GROUP – Plea se Select a division and Age

Group (X)

U8 9/10 11/12 13/14 15-18 Adult Relay

MS7-8/HS/ADULT

8:00am

ES 3-4/MS5-6

8:30am

ElementaryGrades 1-2

9:00am

Relays9:30am

Cashier STAMP 300 Peso Entry Fee(Cashier Office)



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College Acceptances for Class 2012

Report as of February 10, 2012

College (No.

of

Students

Accepted)

1 Ateneo de Manila University (7)

2 Brunel University

3 Canterbury Christ Church University College

4 College

5 College of New Rochelle

6 Columbia University

7 Creighton University

8 De La Salle University Manila (2)

9 Drexel University

10 Durham University

11 Emerson College

12 Enderun Colleges Inc.

13 Florida Institute of Technology

14 Georgia Institute of Technology

15 Gonzaga University

16 Heriot‐Watt University

17 Indiana University at Bloomington

18 Johnson & Wales University

19 Keele University (2)

20 King's College London

21 Knox College

22 Lancaster University

23 London South Bank University

24 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

25 McGill University (8)

26 Michigan State University (3)

27 Middlebury College

28 Northeastern University (2)

29

Northwestern

University

30 Occidental College

31 Pennsylvania State University, University Park

32 Princeton University

College (No.

of

Students

Accepted)

33 Quest University Canada (2)

34 School of Visual Arts

35 SSTH‐Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality

36 Stanford University

37 Swinburne University of Technology

38 The University of Alabama

39 University College London (2)

40 University of Bradford

41 University of California at Irvine (2)

42 University of East Anglia

43 University of Edinburgh (2)

44 University of Greenwich

45 University of Hertfordshire

46 University of Leeds (2)

47 University of Maryland, Baltimore County

48 University of Miami

49 University of Oregon

50

University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton

School of Business)

51

University of

Plymouth

52 University of Portsmouth

53 University of Southampton

54 University of Sussex

55 University of the Philippines

56 University of Wisconsin, Stout

57 University of Wollongong

58 University of York

59 Vancouver Film School

60 Vassar College

61

Wellesley College

Total Number of Acceptances (83)

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