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18 March 2016Volume 14

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

MAR

23

Wednesday Morning Meeting,

Student Late Start 8:30AM

International Day

Mar 24 -

Apr 1School 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

29 School Holiday; No Classes

From e ESSS dminist ation

Internaonal Day

Next Wednesday, March 23 is Internaonal Day in the Elementary

School at ISM. This is a day for our students to acknowledge and

share where they come from, and for us as a school to celebrate

our diversity. As in previous years, our Middle School students

are invited to aend the flag ceremony in the morning, and

together we will unfurl 98 flags represenng 97 countries in the

ES and MS. We will begin with the flag for the United Naons, followed by the flag of the Philippines, and then all the countries

in alphabecal order.

The flag ceremony will be in the Elementary Playground beginning

at 8:30am, led by our Student Council. Grade levels will then be

celebrang in various ways throughout the day so please refer to

your class teacher for specific details. Grades 3 and 4 will also be

celebrang with music from around the world, in their annual

concerts hosted in the Fine Arts Theater. The Grade 3 concert

starts at 9:30am and the Grade 4 concert at 1:00pm. Students are

invited to wear clothes that represent who they are and where

they come from, for this final day of the third quarter.

Internaonal Day is a me to for us to step back and appreciate

our unique context as an internaonal school, and to celebrate

our students’ mullingualism and internaonal

mindedness. Many of our children belong to mulple naonalies ‐perhaps born in one country, with parents of two

naonalies, living now in the Philippines, having previously lived in another country. Others belong to our host country

born here and proud to be Filipino. And there are of course many other circumstances, including those where our

students are experiencing a new culture for the first me, or have another naonality but were born here in Manila. All

of us, with our diff erent family backgrounds, languages, cultures, and flags, belong to this incredibly dynamic and diverse

yet connected and supporve learning community at ISM where, as stated in our Mission, our community acknowledges

and celebrates our di ff erences and encourages empathy, compassion, understanding and respect for human dignity. Nex

Wednesday’s Internaonal Day gives us all an opportunity to pause and pay aenon to how amazing it is to be so

diverse as a community, yet so united and harmonious.

We look forward to welcoming you next Wednesday.

Adam Campbe l Michael Rou r keElementary Principal Elementary Assistant Principal


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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]


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New Dengue Fever Vaccine approved in the PhilippinesNew Dengue Fever Vaccine approved in the PhilippinesNew Dengue Fever Vaccine approved in the Philippines!!!

Now made available

ow made available

to the ISM Communityo the ISM CommunityThe only approved dengue fever vaccine “Dengvaxia” is now available from Sanofi Pasteur and will be offered in schoolon Wednesday, April 20. The complete series of three sessions (April and October 2016, April 2017) reduces cases ofDengue fever symptoms by about 60%, and severe cases by about 90%.

Everybody 9 – 45 years of age at the beginning of the series can avail the vaccination, since it has been approved by thePhilippine FDA for this age range only, as of now. Excluded are pregnant and lactating women, and immune deficientindividuals. It has also to be made sure that an interval of 28 days is observed to conception, a dengue infection or anyother vaccination.

We offer Dengvaxia (Sanofi Pasteur) for 3,300 PHP per vial*

Everyone with a valid ISM ID, teachers and their children may participate in this vaccination. Please complete the vac-cination payment form (available at the Cashier office and the Clinic) and make your payment to the Cashier (openMo – Fr 7:00am – 3:15 pm). Payment must be made not later than Wednesday, April 13. The vaccines will then be or-dered and no further registration can be accepted.

Please note that vaccines will be solely administered at the clinic and cannot be handed out. If you are unable to receivethe vaccine on April 20 for medical reason please get in touch with the clinic, otherwise all unused vaccines will be for-feited.

If you have any questions please contactJowell Custodio or Dorothee Binsfeld at the clinic:

Clinic numbers: 840 85-81 (Dorothee) / -82 (Jowell)Email: [email protected]

* Please take note that vaccination requires three vials therefore the total cost will be PHP 9,900 over the period of one year


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18 March 2016

From the ATAC Office

Congratulaons MS track team for your eff orts at Brent last

Saturday. The following new MS track records were set at the

Brent meet.

Cheska Diolanto Girls Shot Put 11.03m

Reed Santos Boys High Jump 1.65m

Boys 4x400m relay Lorenzo, Reed, Manuel, Jun Suh 4.10.91

Boys 4x100m relay Lorenzo, Quinn, Reed, Lake 50.84

Boys 400m dash Jun Suh Kwon 59.91

Congratulaons to Junior Trinity McPherson who broke her

own 100m record at Brent on Saturday with a me of 12.32.

Trinity also set a new record for the 200m with a me of

26.25 which broke Smir Sridhars 2011 record of 26.44.

Today we host the ISM twilight track meet, come on out to

support our HS/MS track athletes at the final meet for this year

for the local season.

Well done MS Boys badminton teams who won 2nd and 3rd

place at the LSMS Badminton meet at Brent.

Gymnascs results from the BSM meet are now posted to the

Gymnascs results blog page. Well done to all our Bearcats

gymnasts who competed at BSM. We now look forward to

hosng our own ISM Goodwill Meet on May 7th.

Well done to our HS soball teams and Badminton team who

parcipated in and gained some valuable preparaon at the

pre‐IASAS exchanges this past weekend in Singapore and

Bangkok.

ISM summer camps informaon/flyer is now posted to ATAC blog. Summer camps are off ered the first 3 weeks of the

summer vacaon. Please note due to the large amount of

facility construcon planned for this summer camps will only be

off ered in the mornings and all sessions will end by 12 noon or

before. hp://atac.ism‐online.org/atac/atac‐summer‐sports‐

camps/

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 Soball. For HS S3 sports

are Golf, Track&Field, Soball and Badminton.

Upcoming events:

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 Sailfish Spring Meet

Apr 24‐25 IASAS Board Meeng‐ Bangkok

May 13‐15Mixed 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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Need to top up? ISM goes cashless in SY16-17!

Starting SY2016-2017 ISM will implement a full debit system in the MS/HSCanteen. The debit system provides customers with a cashless payment sys-

tem once the customer's ID has been loaded with funds.

Parents and Students are encouraged to start using the debit systemif they aren't already doing so.

Please go to this link: https://goo.gl/q9fXlA for more details.


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