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16 January 2015Volume 10

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

JAN

19 No AFAC

20Technology Parent Coffee, 7:45 - 9:00AM

(LT)

22, 29 Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,8.30AM

28Math Parent Morning, 8:15 - 9:45AM

(LT, Classrooms)

303rd Quarter Assembly, 8:00 - 9:00AM

(FAT)

Parent Bulletin

FEB

4, 11, 18,

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Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,

8.30AM

5Grade 4-5 Parent Transition Meeting, 5 -

6PM (FAT)

6 Childrens Musical Theater (FAT)

10, 11Parent Teacher Student Conference

Early Release 12NN

13 Sports Day

13, 27 Parent Bulletin

From e ESSS dministation

Mathemacs at ISM

This week we have had the pleasure of hosng Steve Leinwand,

Mathemacs consultant from the American Instutes Research.

Steve has spent me working with our Grade level teams in a co

planning, coteaching and debriefing model. Teams have

targeted a parcular learning standard and then coplanned the

lesson for a class that has then been cotaught by an ISM teacher

with Steve, while being observed by their colleagues. The level

of professional discourse focused on deconstrucng instruconalpracce and how best to maximize your children's learning in

Mathemacs has been outstanding and has set us up for great

ongoing discussion. As a school we have a philosophical

commitment to providing me for teachers to collaborate, with

the purpose of sharing pedagogy, resources and instruconal

pracces. This week has only sought to reaffirm this belief and

strengthened our commitment moving forward. Steve will

connue this work over the weekend, where he will be working

with our faculty in a two day workshop focused on Mathemacs

instrucon.

Connuing this discourse within our community, we will be

holding a Mathemacs morning on Wednesday 28th

January. The morning will start with an introducon in the Lile

Theater, followed by an open invitaon to come into our

Elementary classrooms and see Mathemacs in acon. This will

be a chance to engage in Mathemacs with your child. The

morning will look as follows:

8 15 8 45 Introducon in the Lile Theater

8 45 9 15 Preschool / Kindergarten / Grade 1 Classroom Visits

8 45 9 45 Grade 2, 3 and 4 Classroom Visits

We look forward to welcoming you later this month.

Adam Campbel Michael RourkeElementary Principal Elementary Assistant Principal


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From e T C Ofce

Sat Jan 17Varsity girls and boys basketball quarter finals at ISM/Local League Touch and Rugby finals at BSM/ISM/MS girls and

boys basketball at ISM. See game schedule on parent portal for mes/venue details.

Parents please note due to the Papal visit this week all ATAC seasonal/year round teams will not have pracce today Friday thisweek with the excepon of varsity teams.Traffic is expected to be very heavy and only varsity teams will pracce according to their

normal schedule. Please note Thurs/Fri varsity sessions are voluntary for athletes. If a parent is concerned about a varsity athlete

being caught in a heavy traffic situaon depending on where you live pracce is oponal.

In a lile under 2 weeks we host IASAS tennis and we need to house vising players from each of the IASAS schools. We sll re

quire more housing... please see informaon below and submit a form if you can support this event. It is going to be a great event

for our community hosted at the best tennis venue in IASAS. At this me we sll need to house 15 players so please assist if you can

by subming a housing form which is available from the ATAC blog.

Our other IASAS teams will be working hard to prepare over the next weeks for Rugby/Touch and Swimming in Bangkok and Bas

ketball in Taipei. It is an excing me coming up with the end of season 2 and the start of season 3 just around the corner. 2nd

season will conclude Jan 28th, 2015.

Season 3 pracce and tryouts schedule have been posted last week on noce boards and on the ATAC blog. Season 3 sports for HS

are Track & Field, Soball, Badminton and Golf. MS do the same sports in season 3 with the excepon of golf.

Please note the pracce mes for the following ATAC programs: ATAC all year round teams3:154:30. Sailfish/Gymnascs and all

HS seasonal teams now conclude pracce at 4:50pmeach day. MS sea

sonal teams 3:104:45pm. 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 programof 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 Dendrop 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

operaon7am4pm MonFri.

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.

Use this link to access the parent portal, log in with your user name/

password and look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab. Remember to re

fresh the page when the pdf schedule appears so you view the most cur

rent schedule.

GO BEARCATS!

Mark PekinAthletic Director


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Leaving ISM?

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

TIONFORMiftheirchildrenwillnotbereturningforthe2ndSemester.FamiliesareencouragedtosubmittheWithdrawalNofica

onForm, 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 offering that space to another candidate prior to

the holiday break.

The WithdrawalNoficaonFormcan be obtained from the Admissions Office or directly from the ISM website under Admission >

ReEnrollment & 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 Ofce of dmissions and dvancement

SAILFISHSailfish Swimathon Saturday 17th Jan

The Swimathon is an event where Sailfish swimmers and the ISM community can strive to swim as many laps as possible no

maer of ability.

The metable is below:

Anyone is able to join from the ISM community. All they need to do is bring along their PLEDGE FORM(accessible through this

link hp://goo.gl/8RrW8y) on Saturday, a plate of food to share aer swimming and have an adult or HS student to lap count

for them.

Last year we managed to raise over 77,000 PHP and complete 6,295 laps. Below is the breakdown . We hope to beat all these

figures this year.

Team Total 157,375m = 6,295 Laps!

ES 37,850m = 1,514 laps

MS 67,975m = 2,719 laps

Community 16,500 = 660 lapsHS - 35,000 = 1,400 laps

GROUP REGISTRATION MEAL

TIME

SWIM

TIME

TARGET METERS / LAPS

Elementary School 2:15-2:25 pm 3:30 pm 2:30-3:30 pm 1,000-2,500m / 40-100*

Middle School 3:15-3:25 pm 4:30 pm 3:30-4:30 pm 2,000-3,500m/ 80-140*

ISM COMMUNITY 4:15-4:25 pm 5:30 pm 4:30-5:30 pm 1,000-2,500m / 40-100*

High School 5:15-5:25 pm 4:30 pm 5:30-7:30 pm 5,000-9,000m / 200-360*


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