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14 August 2015Volume 1

Es parent bulletin

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

AUG

18Grade 2,3 and 4 New Parent Coffee

7:45-9:00am

19Wednesday Morning Student Late Start

8:30AM

21 National Holiday – Ninoy Aquino Day

24 Start of AFAC

31 National Holiday- National Heroes Day

SEPT

2Wednesday Morning Student Late Start

8:30AM

2 ES Open House, 5:00-7:00PM

From the ESESES Administraon Welcome

Welcome to the 2015/16 school year at Internaonal School

Manila. It has been great to see so many new and returning

students starng to sele into their new classes and learning

communies this week. We know that transions looks

dierent for dierent ages and students. Our goal is to support

all in feeling safe, valued and ready to learn. It has been

equally pleasing to welcome so many parents onto campusthis week. We held a new parent coee morning on Tuesday

for the Early Years (Preschool, Kindergarten and Grade 1),

where we were able to introduce some key personnel in the

Elementary School, and also start some dialogue focussed on

transion, learning and play in the Early Years. We will be

holding a similar event for new parents in Grades 2, 3 and 4

next Tuesday morning at 7:45 am in the Lile Theater (email

invitaons will be sent).

Building Learning Communies which Foster Inquiry

As an Elementary faculty we have been focussing on one big

idea over the past three weeks, as we have prepared for thestart of the school year and the welcoming of our new and

returning students. We know that for learning to occur,

students need to feel a sense of membership in, and shared

ownership of, their classroom. This applies whether you are

moving grade levels, schools or even countries. The role of the

teacher in helping create these classroom communies is

pivotal. We have used some provocaons from Kath Murdoch

an on-going consultant to ISM and world leader in inquiry

based learning pedagogy, to provoke and promote teachers

thinking in this area. The provocaons were:

How will you ensure the classroom is ‘owned’ by the students? How will you involve them in creang the learning

space?

How will you use quesons to drive learning?

How will you nd out about your students’ interest?

How will you prepare the way for inquiry to grow in your classroom this year?

How will you help students learn and use the language of learning?

How can you make some of your beginning of the year ‘acvies’ more inquiry- based?


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How will you ensure that curiosity thrives in your classroom? Connued in page 2

Connued from page 1

How will you foster strong relaonships in your classroom from day one?

How will you make room for the unexpected?

How will you get connected?

Hopefully you will ‘noce’ some of these learnings in coming weeks in our classrooms.

Mr. Travis O’Neel

This week we held a community service for Travis. It was a ng tribute to such a wonderful husband, father, teacher,

colleague and human being. This morning our Counseling Department also held a parent workshop on ‘Talking About

Grief in Your Family’. Once again, a hearelt thank you to our community who have extended their support for both

the school and to Travis’ family at this me. One quote from this morning's presentaon resonates strongly at this

point in me.

Grief is a journey, oen perilous and without clear direcon, that must be taken. The experience of grieving cannot be

ordered or categorized, hurried or controlled, pushed aside or ignored indenitely. It is inevitable as breathing, as

change, as love. It may be postponed, but it will not be denied.

Molly Fumia

Our teachers and counselors connue to act a crical level of support for both you and you children. Please do not

hesitate to reach out at any me.

Elementary School Program Guide & Handbook

Last week you will have received our Handbook and Program Guide for 2015/16. The Handbook contains some useful

logiscal informaon and the Program Guide provides a broad overview of our curriculum framework.

We look forward to discussing this further with you at our Open House on Wednesday, 2nd September, 2015. A more

detailed outline of the evening will be forthcoming shortly.

Once again, a very warm welcome to the 2015/16 school year in the Elementary School!

Adam Campbell Michael RourkeElementary Principal Elementary Assistant Principal

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Over the break, the Children's Media Center reorganised the Ficon collecon of books. Now, all

books in this area are organised by genre. If you have any problems locang books, please just ask

for help at the desk.

We are also looking for some parent volunteers to help us with shelving and some other library du-

es. If you would like to volunteer in the CMC on a regular basis, please email us -

[email protected]

Thank you,

The CMC Team


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ATAC AnnouncementsOur first HS volleyball and soccer matches will be held this Fridayafter school. See game times below. Food/snacks will be on salecome on out to support our teams as they kick of the sports season. Elementary students are welcome but must be accompanied/supervised by an adult.

Friday Night Lights Aug 14th at ISM vs Faith AcademyVarsity Soccer HS field4pm Varsity girls- ISM vs Faith5:45pm Varsity boys- ISM vs FaithJV Soccer MS field4pm Faith JV boys vs ISM Aspirants boys5:30pm Faith JV girls vs ISM JV girls

Sat Aug 14th Friday night lights HS Soccer/Volleyball vs FaithSat Aug 15th ISM cross country races (8am MS 3.2km race/9am HS 5km race)Sat Aug 15th MS Midgets A1 vs Xavier/HS Aspirants and HS VBoys Soccer vs Xavier/ MS Midgets A2 vs San Beda AlabangSat Aug 15th HS VBoys/Girls Volleyball at home vs CSA and ESS.Thurs Aug 20th HS VGirls volleyball vs Shisa HS Japan 3:30pm

ES RIFA Soccer- Tryouts have concluded and teams have been finalized. Rifa soccer is a competitive program for season 1 that isopen to Grade 1-4 students. See information here- ES Rifa Festival information

For our Sailfish swim team program please check the Sailfish blog for information http://sailfish.ism-online.org/

For gymnastics team information please check http://atac.ism-online.org/atac/gymnastics/

Please note the practice times 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...

See Sailfish blog for swim squad start and finish times. Gymnastics team starts 3:10-4:50. All HS seasonalteams practice from 3:05- 4:50pm each day. MS seasonal teams practice 3:10-4:40pm. In order to clear the campusprior to 5pm all after school programs will conclude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus is 4:55pm this is due to the ever increasing

traffic concerns in our area.

The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by Triz Gonzalez (ATAC Athletics Coordinator) gives the most up to dateinformation on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be playing throughout the school year for midweek and weekend

matches.

Access to the game schedule is via the ISM parent portal. Use this link to access the parent portal, log in with your user name/password and look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab, don't forget to refresh the pdf page each time it opens to get the most

current schedule.

ATAC Game Schedule Users Guide

Parents and students please take some time to peruse the ATAC blog it has a wide variety of information and links to our sportsand activities program. If you have any questions regarding the competitive program of sports at ISM after reading the information

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 fantastic spirit store. There is a new school year sale on at the moment and a range of new products anditems to purchase including items from our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operation- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

GO BEARCATS...

Mark Pekin

Director of Athletics/ActivitiesInternational School Manila [email protected]

ATAC blog

Varsity Volleyball HS Gym 4:15pmCourt 1 Varsity Boys vs Faith

Court 2 Varsity Girls vs FaithJV Volleyball MS Gym 4:15pmCourt 1 ISM JV boys vs Faith JV

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