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8/19/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 26 SY1516

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ISSUE # 26

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

MARCH 14 TO 18

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

MARCH—APRIL:

MS Upcoming Events:

STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES

Wednesday, March 16

SCHOOL HOLIDAY

March 24 to April 1

PARENT COFFEE

Tuesday, April 19

DRAMA CLASS SHORT PLAYS

Tuesday, April 26

ACTIVITY DAY

Thursday, April 28

NO CLASSES

Friday, April 29

Dear Parents,

If you could have dinner with anyone, living or dead, who would you choose? Thinkabout this for a moment, before reading on. Do you have someone in mind?

This intriguing queson was posed to dierent groups of parents and then the samequeson was posed to their respecve children. Take a look at this wonderful vid-eo to see the interesng, and very dierent ways, the parents and children re-sponded. You might want to have a box of ssues close by!

The message in this video is simple- quality family me maers. Creang the space

to talk, in a safe and relaxing environment helps strengthen family relaonships anddemonstrates how much you value each other and what is taking place in each ofyour lives. As students go through Middle School, there can be a tendency forthem to pull away from their parents, but they sll need to feel deeply connectedto their loved ones and to know that parents care deeply about them. By makingfamily me sacred parents can help keep the communicaon channels open andshow your children that you really care about them and their day.

Below are the essenal updates for the coming week!

UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER:

Student-Led Conferences:

- Wednesday, March 16th from 12:30 to 5:00pm

- Early dismissal for students at 12:00noon - No ATAC and AFAC acvies for MS on this day (See respecveblogs for details)

Cultural Show: Friday, March 18th 7:30am in the FAT

School Holiday Thursday, March 24th—Sunday, April 3rd

MAP Tesng is Wrapping Up:

The MAP tests are coming to a close with just a few make up sessions needing totake place next week. Students will be invited to a make-up session if they needaddional me to take the test or if they were absent on the tesng day. Pleasenote that some make-up tests will be held aer school from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Course Registraon:

This week we have been working on some key logiscal maers for the coming aca-demic year. By now your child should have successfully registered for the elecvecourses they wish to take next year and parents should have received a conrma-on email sharing the choices your child opted for. If you have yet to receive thisemail, please contact the MS Oce.

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Student-Led Conferences:

We hope all parents are ready to come to school on Wednes-

day, March 16th for the Student-Led Conferences. The con-

ferences are divided into two sessions:

Session 1 = 12:30- 2:30p.m.

(Students whose surnames begin with A- K.)

Session 2 = 3:00 - 5:00p.m.

(Students whose surnames begin with L - Z.)

The SLC brochure was sent home via email on Monday,

March 7th and contains addional informaon about this

event.

While preparing students for this event, we have received

numerous pleas from students to provide some parental

guidelines for cell phone usage during the SLCs. The purpose

of this event is to have uninterrupted me to talk with your

child about their learning to date. We therefore politely re-

quest that cellphones are turned to silent and remain in pock-

ets or handbags for the duraon of the conference. If a child

is sharing their learning and a parent is focused on reading

their email, sending/responding to texts or wring a Face-

book post, it sends a message to your child that their learning

is not important to you. Show your child how much you care

by making this a device-free event!

While everyone knows how much I love my high heels, these

too are frowned upon during the SLCs! The gym oor is not

designed for heels and as such moms will need to take their

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heeled shoes o when they go to the gym. (Even I amnot allowed in the gym or on the arcial turf with my

heels!) We suggest that moms bring a pair of ats in their

handbags or wear comfortable shoes and clothes for the SLCs

so parents can parcipate in all the fun learning experiences

your child would like to share with you. As a sign of support, I

promise to wearing ats too!

Temporary Guardianship:

If you and your partner/spouse are both travelling outside of

Manila at the same me, please remember that you need to

complete a temporary guardianship form and submit it to the

MS Oce before you leave town. This helps to make sure wehave the correct contact details for your chosen guardian in

case your child misses the school bus, needs to go to the clin-

ic or needs addional help in some area.

MS Academic Bowl:

On Wednesday, March 9th ISM hosted the Academic

Bowl. Three schools parcipated in the nal - ISM, Faith

Academy and Brent School. This event was a huge success

with ISM coming rst with 593 points. This was ISM’s 6th

consecuve Academic Bowl victory! Congratulaons go out

to the MS Academic Bowl Team as well as their coaches - Ms.

Holly Elwell and Ms, Holly Walker. (1st ISM 593 pts, 2nd Faith

436 pts, 3rd Brent 321 pts.)

Maker Faire:

Tuesday March 8th was a wonderful day where innovaon

and creavity oozed from the Lile Theater! It was truly a

showcase of student ingenuity and the countless hours of

preparaon, collaboraon and crical thinking that went on

behind the scenes helped to make this event unforgea-

ble! Congratulaons to all parcipants and to Mr. Chadwick

who hosted the event.

Have a great week!

Kind regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

Need to top up? ISM goes cashless in SY16-17!

Starng SY2016-2017 ISM will implement a full debit system in the MS/HS Canteen. The debit system

provides customers with a cashless payment system once the customer's ID has been loaded with funds.

Parents and Students are encouraged to start using the debit system if they

aren't already doing so.

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Important informaon on Re-Enrollment for SY 2016-17

Dear Parents:

We will begin On-line Re

-Enrollment for school year 2016

-17 on Monday, April 4. As before, parents will have to log into

PowerSchool in order to do this. Below are instrucons to help. If you are not sure of your PowerSchool log-in or need sup-

port, please contact the Middle School Oce.

Please note that you must complete re-enrollment Steps 1 & 2 by 4pm on Friday, May 27 at the latest. PowerSchool will close

on that date unl the start of SY16-17. We have over 500 students on our waitlist, and we will assume that your children are

leaving if you have not completed the re-enrollment process.

If your child/ren will not be returning for SY16-17, you MUST follow the Withdrawal Procedure and submit a Withdrawal No-

caon Form on or before Friday, May 13. Click here for more informaon.

Online Re-Enrollment

Step 1: Visit www.ismanila.org and click on Parent Portal under the Quick Links drop -down menu. Log-in to the Parent Portal

and click on PowerSchool. Please refer to the aached guide on “How to Access Online Re-Enrollment.”

Step 2: Look for the Re-Enrollment Clearance icon on the le hand panel. Click on the icon. Create your Re-enrollment Clear-

ance Form and click submit aer updang. You will receive an email nocaon verifying that you have been successful up-

dang your child’s record.

Step 3: Submit Forms (if applicable)

Students entering Grade 6 will be required to download and complete the Standard Physical Examinaon Form

(with ECG) which should be submied to the ISM Health Clinic as soon as possible.

Students entering Grade 7 will be required to download and sign the ISM Drug Policy Form which should be sub-

mied to the MS Oce as soon as possible.

Step 4 You must sele all charges for SY15-16 which may include incidental fees not covered by company sponsorship (ATAC

uniforms, instrument rental, payment for lost textbook, etc.).

Step 5: You must pay the rst quota of tuion fees for SY16-17 to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION for your

child to aend class on August 4, 2016.

Tuion and Fees: Please sele your accounts through our Cashier’s Oce.

Successful compleon of required steps will generate a NO REPLY email conrmaon. Compleon of all steps is necessary in

order to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION.

To check status of Re-Enrollment, please visit the Parent Portal page.

Class Schedule distribuon dates are as follows:

August 01, 2016: Grade 5 and 6 (MS Intersecon)August 02, 2016: Grade 7 and 8 (MS Intersecon)

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A comedy about how to make it through

Middle school.

DATE: 22nd March 2016

TIMES: Two session - 3.30pm - 4pm and

4pm - 4.30pm

WHERE: AMR - Free seang

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Well done to all sailsh swimmers who traveled to Bang-

kok last weekend and also congrats to the sailsh swim-

mers who swam at the BSM meet last Saturday.

This Saturday Mar 12 our Bearcats gymnascs team is

compeng at the Brish School Manila meet. Best wish-

es to all gymnasts and coaches! Results will be posted to

the gymnasc blog page when received from BSM organ-

izers.

ISM summer camps informaon/yer will be posted to

ATAC blog next week. Keep an eye out as slots will ll

quickly. Summer camps will be oered the rst 3 weeks

of the summer vacaon. Please note due to the large

amount of facility construcon planned for this summer

camps will only be oered in the mornings and all ses-

sions will end by 12 noon or before.

S3 pracce schedule is posted on noce boards and on

ATAC blog schedules page. ATAC S3 sports for MS are

Badminton, Track&Field, Mixed Touch and Co-ed So-

ball. For HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, Soball and

Badminton.

Upcoming events:

Mar 11-13 V soball teams to SAS/V Badminton

teams to ISB for pre IASAS exchanges.

Mar 12 BSM Gymnascs meet/May 7 ISM Goodwill

Gymnascs meet.

Mar 12 JV/MS Badminton teams to Brent meet/JV

girls Soball vs Brent at home (dbl header)

Mar 12 Brent track meet/Mar 18 ISM twilight track

meet

Mar 19 ISM mini TKD meet at Covered Court/JV Boys

soball at home (ASSL League game)

Mar 20 Var boys soball at home (ASSL league

game)

April 6-10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at

SAS, Golf at JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB)

Apr 22-23 ISM Sailsh Spring Meet

Apr 24-25

IASAS Board Meeng

- Bangkok

May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the

Sailsh blog for informaon. hp://sailsh.ism-

online.org/

Please note the pracce mes for ATAC programs for SY

15-16 are as follows: ATAC all year round teams- 3:15-

4:30. See schedule for our All year round

teams program here...

All HS seasonal teams pracce from 3:05- 4:50pm each

day. MS seasonal teams pracce 3:15-4:45pm. In order

to clear the campus prior to 5pm all aer school pro-

grams will conclude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus is

4:55pm this is due to the ever increasing trac 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 pleasesend an email to [email protected] and I will endeav-

or to assist you as best I can.

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 now via the ISM

parent portal not via power school as in the past. A navi-

gaon guide is available here. ATAC Game Schedule Us-

ers Guide.

Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your

user name/password and then look for the ATAC Game

Schedule tab under the le side quick links. Don't forget

to refresh the pdf page each me it opens so you access

the most current schedule. Please note this schedule

does change oen and at short noce due to involve-

ment with many local schools and organizaons.

Check it regularly for the most up to date informaon.

For security purposes....access to the ATAC game sched-

ule pdf must be linked via the secure parent portal and

details should not be shared with non ISM communitymembers.

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store. Bearcat

Den hours of operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

Best Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs & Acvies

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