es parent bulletin vol#13 2016 march 4

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4 March 2016Volume 13

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

MAR

9, 16, 23Wednesday Morning Meeting,

Student Late Start 8:30AM

18 Parent Cultural Show, 7:30 AM, FAT

23 International Day

Mar 24 -Apr 1

School Holiday: Spring Break

APR

6, 13, 20,

27Wednesday Morning Meeting,

Student Late Start 8:30AM

13 - 22 Art Exhibit Week, FAT Lobby

15ESL Coffee Morning, 7:45 - 9:00 AM

Children’s Media Center

19Student-Led Conferences

Early Student Release, 12nn

16Alliance Françoise de Manille Parent

Coffee, 8:30 - 9:30 AM, Little Theater

From e ESSS dminist ation

Teaching ‘silos’ or a Learning Community?

Unl recently the teaching profession was more oen than not, a

very isolang one. You came and taught within the four walls of

your classroom, with very lile opportunity to meet with other

teachers during the day and talk to them about your pracce, let

alone see somebody else teach. Luckily, we now know beer.

At ISM, collaboraon is one of our targeted transdisciplinary skills

for our students and equally, it is an underlying guiding principle,

as to how all our teachers learn. We now know that groups of

teachers collaboravely planning, assessing, and in an on‐going

dialogue together, will result in beer classroom instrucon and

learning. All our teams havemetabled sessions during the week

to meet and do this. Aligned with this, is a collaborave culture

where we also provide opportunies to see each other

teach. Teams conduct regular ‘walkthroughs’ of other specialist

areas and grade levels to support their own professional

growth. A walkthrough involves a team idenfying an element of

instruconal pracce which they would like to focus on, creang acommon understanding of what this looks like in our classrooms,

and then ‘walking through’ another team's classrooms to ‘look

for’ the idenfied elements of pracce. Reflecve discussion then

occurs between teams, using the data to promote discourse and

reflecve quesoning of each other.

As part of this collaborave culture, this week we hosted four

teachers from two other internaonal schools, Western Academy

Beijing (WAB) and New Internaonal School Thailand (NIST), who joined our Preschool program for two days. Both these

schools are like‐minded in their dedicaon to inquiry based learning and pracce. During this me they observed, co‐

planned and co‐taught with our teachers, looking at specific areas of instruconal pracce in reading and wring for threeand four year olds. Again, a focused opportunity for teachers to collaborate with each other, for the sole intenon of

sharing ‘best pracce’ and being able to observe this in acon.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Adam Campbe l Michael Rou r keElementary Principal Elementary Assistant Principal


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From the ATAC Office

Full results from the Philippine Gymnascs Cup are now posted to ATAC blog gymnascs page as received from the meet

organizers. Well done to our ISM gymnasts who competed at Rizal Stadium. The next meet for our gymnascs team is Mar 12 at

Brish School Manila.

S3 prac

ce schedule is posted on no

ce boards and on ATAC blog schedules page. ATAC S3 sports for MS are Badminton,Track&Field, Mixed Touch and Co‐ed Soball. For HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, Soball and Badminton.

Upcoming events:

Mar 4‐6 Bangkok Splash meet for Sailfish swim team.

(results to be posted on Sailfish blog)

Mar 5 HS girls soball teams at Brent/MS Boys badminton at Brent/ MS girls and HS Badminton at ISM

Mar 6 HS Soball teams scrimmage matches

Mar 12 BSM Gymnascs meet/May 7 ISM Goodwill Gymnascs meet.

Mar 12 Brent track meet/Mar 18 ISM twilight track meet

April 6‐10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at SAS, Golf at JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB)

May 13‐15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta

For our Sailfish swim team program please check the Sailfish blog for informaon. hp://sailfish.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 at hp://atac.ism‐online.org/schedules/all‐year‐round‐teams/

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 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.

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 please send an email to [email protected] and I will endeavor 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 navigaon guide is available here. hp://atac.ism‐online.org/

files/2011/08/ATAC‐Game‐Schedule‐Users‐Guide.pdf

Access the parent portal via this link (hp://203.177.92.107/ParentPortal/LogInCommunity.aspx), 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

involvement with many local schools and organizaons.

Check it regularly for the most up to date informaon. For security purposes....access to the ATAC game schedule pdf must be

linked via the secure parent portal and details should not be shared with non ISM community members.

Bearcat Den‐ drop by our fantasc spirit store. Bearcat Den hours of operaon‐ 7am‐4pm Mon‐Fri.

Regards,

Mark Pekin Athletic Director


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A few reminders from Operations and Security

Access and parking within the campus are important security and safety issues. For the well‐being of all members of the ISM

community, those entering the school campus are requested to take note of the informaon and procedures outlined below.

Vehicular Access

During drop‐off and pick‐up mes, vehicles may enter the campus through Gates 2 and 3. Those entering through Gate 2 should

proceed to the drop off area and, once the student has alighted or boarded, they should exit via Gate 1. Those vehicles entering

through Gate 3 must turn into the covered parking area and use the designated drop‐off areas. All vehicles must exit through Gate

1.

Please note that Gate 2 may only be used by those drivers and passengers who have an ISM ID card and who are in a vehicle

displaying a valid ISM vehicle scker.

Alternavely, vehicles entering through Gate 3 may park in the covered car park. The spaces reserved for parent‐driven cars

should only be used by those vehicles which are driven by parents themselves. Vehicles in which parents are traveling, but which

are driven by a driver, should not use these spaces. Rather, they should park elsewhere in the covered car park or make use of the

outside spaces next to the power center.

Visitors to ISM must enter through Gate 3. There is an area for short‐stay visitor parking near Gate 1.

The Pedestrian Gate

The pedestrian gate is located in the perimeter fence mid‐way between Gate 1 and Gate 2. There is a paved area between the

road and the perimeter fence, allowing easy access to the gate. The pedestrian gate is solely for the entry of members of the ISM

Community at the beginning of the school day. It will only be open between 7:00 am and 7:45 am (8:00 am to 8:45 am on

Wednesdays). Due to parking restricons, and in the interests of security, it will not be open in the aernoon for pick‐ups. During

the me it is open, it will be under the supervision of members of the ISM Guard Force.

Drivers should stop adjacent to the paved area and students should alight from the right side of their vehicle. The driver shouldthen move off , clearing the space for other vehicles dropping off students. Under no circumstances should a student be dropped

off from the middle lane. This is dangerous as the student would need to walk in front of another vehicle. Drivers are reminded

that traffic regulaons forbid parking on the roads around ISM. Therefore, vehicles should only be stopping for the brief me it

takes for a student to alight. Drivers must not wait for anybody to return to the vehicle.

ID Cards

ID cards should be worn at all mes while on campus. If you have not been issued an ID card, or you have lost it, you should

obtain one by vising the security office and compleng the appropriate applicaon form.

Vehicle Checks

The pracce of inspecng vehicles will connue. During off‐peak hours, all vehicles will be checked before they are allowed toenter the campus.

During peak hours (drop off and pick‐up mes), all vehicles without valid sckers and randomly selected vehicles with sckers will

be asked to undergo an examinaon.

Whether an examinaon is conducted or not, it is important that the security staff at the gates are able to idenfy the occupants

of vehicles entering the campus; therefore IDs must be clearly displayed. Vehicles with nted windows must roll down windows to

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Drivers, Helpers and Bodyguards

Drivers, helpers and bodyguards should not wait on campus for students throughout the school day. Aer dropping off students

they should exit the school grounds and not return earlier than 30 minutes before dismissal me. Those who repeatedly fail to

comply with the regulaon will have their access privilege suspended.

Only those vehicles carrying parents or other people with business within the school will be allowed to return to the campus

before the scheduled pick‐up me.

There are designated areas for unaccompanied drivers, yayas, helpers and security escorts to wait for parents and students. Unless

specifically authorized, they may not enter any other area. In the interest of security, and to prevent congeson at the pedestrian

entrances to the covered parking area, parents are requested to emphasize to their employees the importance of cooperang with

the security staff and remaining in the appropriate areas.

Terminaon of Employment

In the event of the terminaon of service of a family employee, parents are asked to secure the former employee’s ISM ID card

and return it to the Security office. If this is not possible, it is important that the Security Office is sll informed of the change ofcircumstances.

Firearms

All members of the ISM community are reminded that it is strictly forbidden for firearms to be brought onto the campus. This

includes concealed weapons carried by bodyguards for close protecon. Any person arriving at the school with a firearm should

inform the gate guard, and arrangements will be made for the weapon to be safely and securely stored during the visitor’s stay.

Security Staff Direcons

Our security team is endeavoring to make the school as safe and secure an environment as possible for all members of our

community.

We ask that everybody cooperate with us in this important task. In parcular, all those entering our campus are requested to

comply with any direcons given to them by members of our guard force.

If you are confused or unclear as to the purpose of such instrucons, please seek clarificaon from the security office. Please note

that it is the parents’ responsibility to advise their staff accordingly.

Thank you for your cooperaon. We are looking forward to another great year at Internaonal School Manila.

Best wishes,

Mike FlynnDirector

Operaons & Security


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MOTHER TONGUE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Alliance Française de Manille Parent Coffee at ISM

WHEN: March 16, 8:30 - 9:30 AM WHERE: Little Theater


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http://bit.ly/ISMParentsFirstAid


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Campus Card Corner

Lost Campus Card

Whether you are on a family or individual account,

you can sll set a spend limit per day at the Cafeteria

Copy & Print, and Bearcat Den Here’s how:

Log in to your account → Go to E‐Account → Set

Spend Limit → Click Save when done.

For more informaon, visit:

hp://campusonline.ismanila.org

For quesons/concerns, email:

[email protected]

FROM THE PCA OFFICE

Dear ISM Community

What do you do with all of your recycled

items? The ES Art Department would ap‐

preciate your help in strengthening our

classroom resource collecon. We are ac‐

cepng donaons of: paper towel rolls,

toilet rolls, old t‐shirts, cereal boxes, corks,

plasc containers, toys, and boxes. Please

make sure that everything is cleaned anddry before donang. Thank you for your

help!

The ES Art Team

From the ES Art Team


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