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CLASSROOM WITHOUT WALLS

(CWW) 

Thursday, September 17th and 

Friday, September 18th 

Locaons: 

Grade 5: Amazing Race (on campus) 

Grade 6: Island Cove (overnight) 

Grade 7: Tagaytay (overnight) 

Grade 8: Caliraya (overnight)  

Purpose: Team building and strengthening our

MS community 

6 ISM Upcoming Events 

4 Operaons & Security 

Athlecs & Acvies  5 

MS & HS Parent Coee  2 

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Service Learning  3 

Clinic 

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL 

ISSUE # 04 

SY 2015–2016 

WEEK OF: 

AUG 31 TO SEP 4 

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

 

SEPTEMBER 

August 

iddle Schooliddle School

 

NATIONAL HOLIDAY 

Monday, August 31th 

FREEDOM FROM CHEMICAL

DEPENDENCY (FCD) 

September 7 to 11, 2015 

Dear Parents, 

As the rst month of school ocially draws to a close, life in MS has now fallen into a

steady roune. Aer-school acvies have commenced and students are enjoying a

wide range of acvies from sports and dance through to arts and service learning

clubs. Students are excited about these opportunies and are exploring their passions

with interest and enthusiasm. 

We would like to extend our gratude for supporng yesterday’s MS Open House

event. We hope you enjoyed meeng your son/daughter’s teachers and gained deeperinsights into the learning that takes place in the middle school. Next week’s Parent Bul-

len will include a parent survey and we will use this feedback to inform our planning

for next year’s event. 

Parents of G8 students are reminded that there is a parent coee for parents who wish

to learn more about ISM’s Global Program. The meeng is on Wednesday, September

2nd at 6:00 p.m. in the Lohouse. 

The week of September 7th - September 11th is Freedom from Chemical Dependency

(FCD) week. External counselors will be spending me with grade 8 students through-

out the week and holding an assembly for all students in middle school focused on mak-

ing wise decisions. 

We are currently nalizing our plans for the upcoming Classroom Without Walls

(CWW) event which is scheduled for Thursday, September 17th and Friday, September

18th. The focus of the September CWW acvies is to develop team-building skills and

strengthen our MS community. Later on today parents will receive an email communi-

caon about the respecve grade level events. The purpose of these communicaons is

to provide parents with addional informaon about the CWW acvies before the

hard copies are sent home next Friday. We hope that by sending the so copies in ad-

vance, parents will have the opportunity to read, review and digest the informaon

before being asked to sign and return the permission slips. 

On Tuesday, September 15th from 7:00 - 09:00, Kim Guiry and the ESL team will be

hosng a parent coee in the Lile Theater. Interested parents can come and learn

more about the language acquision process and how to support their child. 

Please remember that there is no school on Monday due to the naonal holiday. If you

are traveling, we wish you a wonderful long weekend and hope the weather is kinder

than the last long weekend! If you are staying home, we hope you have a resul me

with your family.

Kind regards, 

Rachel Harrington, Principal 

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Principal 

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Dear Parents 

At the moment we observe a peak of eye infecons in

Metro Manila. There is evidence that most cases are

caused by a virus and will resolve within a week without

treatment.

“Pink eye” is very contagious and very oen an enre

family or household is aected. It is so easy to get it and

yet so easy to prevent it as well: 

Wash hands frequently and use hand sanizer.

Avoid touching other people’s face

Refrain from touching your eyes.

Don’t share face towels or eye make up 

Please also remind your son or daughter about the neces-

sary hygiene measures.

If a pink eye occurs the Sick Day Guidelines must be

strictly followed to avoid that the infecon can spread in

school: 

Pinkeye or Conjuncvis – This can be caused by a virus-

es, bacteria, or allergy. There may be redness, swelling,

itchiness, discharge and puness. A student with thesesymptoms should not come to school but should visit

their doctor to see if anbioc drops are necessary. The

school requests a medical cercate of clearance by their

doctor before returning to school, as this condion can be

extremely contagious. 

If a student comes to school with a pink eye, he or she is

sent to the clinic and must be picked up with a private

vehicle. Please understand that we cannot allow students

with a pink eye to ride the school bus. The eye infecon

normally lasts around 5 days. The student can then return

to school with a medical cercate which is normally is-sued by an ophthalmologist (eye specialist).

Please let me know if you have any further queson or

need a doctor’s recommendaon.

Dorothee Binsfeld 

- Clinic Administrator -

Internaonal School Manila 

Phone +63 2 8408581  2 

For more informaon,

contact Kim Guiry(guiryk@ismanila.org) 

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Parent IDs 

The parent IDs issued since SY 2013/14 (black) will connue to be valid for the new school year. Standard

parent cards will be issued free of charge. Parents may, however, elect to apply for a smartcard ID which willbe usable with the cashless payment system introduced into the school for SY 2013-14. There will be a fee of

P250.00 for a smartcard. 

Applicaons for parent IDs can be processed through the Security Oce. 

School Passes 

School passes issued to parents’ employees and representaves need to be replaced for this school year.

As of September 1, 2015 the dark green bordered passes will be invalid. 

The security oce is now accepng applicaons for new school passes. These passes will not be compable

with the cashless payment system. 

Each family will be given two free school passes. Addional school passes may be obtained aer paying a

processing fee of Php100.00 each to the Cashier’s Oce. 

Car Sckers 

The car sckers for school year 2015/2016 are available from the security oce. 

Starng school year 2015-16 parents will no longer be required to submit copies of the registraon docu-

ments of their vehicles. They will instead be asked to conrm through the applicaon form that the vehiclehas minimum Third (3rd) Party Insurance, is legally registered and is fully compliant for operaon on the

roads under Philippine Laws. For those vehicles not registered in a parent’s name a leer of assignment will

sll be needed. 

Each ISM family will be issued one vehicle scker free of charge. Any addional sckers will be issued follow-

ing payment of P100 to the cashier’s oce. 

In order to facilitate the easy recognion of authorized cars at the gates, the sckers should be axed to the

top right corner of the windshield. ISM sckers issued in previous years must be removed. 

Vehicles not displaying a current car scker will not be allowed regular access from Sep-

tember 1, 2015. 

Thank you for your cooperaon.

Best wishes, 

MIKE FLYNN 

Director of

Operaons and Security

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 Next week is a short week with Mon Aug

31st being a naonal holiday. 

This Saturday is the rst of the RIFA ES/MS soc-

cer fesvals. See links at the ES/MS fesval pages

for venues. Venue informaon is also posted on

ES/MS noce boards. A permission slip was sent

home with your child this week with match de-

tails for this Saturday. Fesval informaon and

venues can be found at the links below. Please

check carefully. If you are in doubt about wheth-

er the event will go ahead due to heavy rain or

extreme weather please follow the procedure at

this link. hp://atac.ism

-online.org/manila

-

weather-forecast/atac-event-cancelaon-

extreme-weather/ 

ES RIFA fesvals informaon and  MS Rifa fes-

vals informaon 

Housing for IASAS soccer Oct 7-11. ISM proudly

hosts IASAS Soccer this year and it is going to be

a fantasc event for our community. In order to

host we need to house 160 athletes from theIASAS schools. Please consider hosng it is a

great experience.  ES and MS along with HS par-

ents can host. Check out the link at IASAS hous-

ing informaon if you have any quesons please

contact the ATAC oce. Forms can be printed

and turned in to ATAC oce or emailed

to pekinm@ismanila.org 

Upcoming events: 

Aug 28th HS V'ball teams vs Brent from 4:15pm 

Aug 29th Rifa Soccer Fesvals ES/MS teams

 

Aug 30th Mid A1 soccer vs Don Bosco away

game 

Sept 5 XC meet at Brent 

For our Sailsh swim team program please check

the Sailsh blog for informaon. Squads are now

conrmed and Sailsh training has started in ear-

nest from last week. hp://sailsh.ism-

online.org/ 

Please note the pracce mes for ATAC pro-

grams 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… 

See Sailsh blog for swim squad start and nish

mes. Gymnascs team starts 3:10-4:50. 

All HS seasonal teams pracce from 3:05-

 4:50pm each day. MS seasonal teams prac-

ce 3:10

-4:40pm. In order to clear the campus

prior to 5pm all aer school programs will con-

clude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus

is4:55pm  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 in-

formaon and links to our sports and acvies

program. If you have any quesons regarding the

compeve program of sports at ISM aer read-ing the informaon on the blog please send an

email to pekinm@ismanila.org and I will endeav-

or to assist you as best I can. 

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store.

There is a new school year sale on at the mo-

ment and a range of new products and items to

purchase including items from our service part-

ners. Bearcat Den hours of operaon-7am-

4pm Mon-Fri. 

GO BEARCATS! 

Best Regards, 

Mark Pekin 

Director of Athlecs and Acvies 

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We hope you received

your copy of the 

ISM 

SY

2015—2016 school calen-

dar. If you have not yet

received your copy or if

you want to purchase ex-tra copies, please stop by

the Communicaons

Oce. We are located

near the Admission

Oce.