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9 October 2015Volume 5

Es parent bulletin

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER 

OCT

14Wednesday Morning Student Late Start

8:30AM

14-15Parent Teacher Student Conference-

Early Student Release 12pm

23 Friday, Filipiniana

26-30 No Classes- School Holiday

NOV

2 No Classes- School Holiday

4Wednesday Morning Student Late Start

8:30AM

Fom e ESSS dministration

 

Literacy in the Elementary School 

This week both our Kindergarten team and our Preschoolteam held successful parent information sessionson literacy learning and teaching at ISM. We talked abouthow together, we can best support your child’s growth inthese areas - both at school and at home. 

If there was a core message from both Kindergarten andPreschool, it was that every child’s positive self -conceptabout being a reader and a writer is critical. Our role as

adults it is to create a ‘culture’ of reading and writing, bothat home and at school, such that your children grow intothis image. Lev Vygotsky, Russian psychologist, oncesaid, ‘Through others, we become ourselves’.  We needto create an environment where our children viewthemselves as real authors and readers. As well asdeveloping skills in decoding, comprehending and informal written notation, children as young as three yearsold can see themselves as readers and writers when theylook at pictures and narrate their own story, or when theydraw pictures and symbols as part of the first stage ofwriting. 

Ron Ritchart, from the Harvard School of Education, talksabout culture in terms of eight cultural ‘forces’ whichdefine our classrooms. These are: time, opportunities,routines and structures, language, modeling, interactions& relationships, physical environment and expectations. Itis his belief that culture is the hidden tool in transformingour classrooms into places of high level thinking and

learning. When looking at these forces through the lens of literacy development, we must start to ask ourselvesthese questions: 

How do we provide time, every day, for literacy development in our classrooms?  

What purposeful and authentic opportunities in reading and writing do we provide for our children everyday? 

Do our routines and structures support literacy development? 

Do we provide our students with the ‘right language’ at the ‘right time’ to able to be able to articulate andmake visible the strategies that readers and writers use? 

Do we model reading and writing every day and the thinking that goes into these processes? 

Do we provide opportunities to talk about reading and writing every day? With each other and with adults?  

Is the physical environment supportive of reading and writing? How accessible are materials? Do we havegreat, real literature at our fingertips? 

Do we clearly articulate our expectations about reading and writing and make it meaningful, rather than‘work to do’? 

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Calling Parent Pianists! 

 Are you a pianist who reads music well, enjoys making music with children and has a flexible sched-ule? I'm looking to find a few volunteer parent pianists who might be available to accompany ISMSing! (our grade 3-4 vocal ensemble) from time to time as they prepare to perform. 

If you are interested, please contact me sooner than later: 

Julie Lodi, ES Music Teacher  lodij@ismanila.org 

Filipiniana 

On Friday 23rd October, we will be celebrating Filipiniana at ISM. This is a time for students fromElementary, Middle and High School to celebrate and discover Philippine culture together as an internationalcommunity of learners. 

We will begin the day with a whole Elementary School assembly starting at 7:45am in the Fine Arts Theatre.

Parents are invited to the assembly, however, please be aware that seating is limited when we are alltogether as an Elementary School. Students are encouraged to wear clothes representative of thePhilippines or they may choose to wear their school uniforms. More information, including a detailedschedule for your child’s class, will be forthcoming closer to the event.  

 Adam Campbe  

 Michael RourkeElementary Principal  Elementary Assistant Principal 

Campus Cardampus Card  Copy Centeropy Center 

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rom the T C Office

 

Thank you to all our ISM host families for housing the

visiting athletes this week for IASAS Soccer. Your support

for this event is very much appreciated and makes for a great

tournament for all the players. 

With season one coming to a close soon Season 2 tryouts will

be starting after IASAS. See this link for tryouts and practiceschedules. Season 2 sports are Basketball/Rugby/Touch/

Tennis and HS varsity swimming.  MS/HS tryouts and

practice schedules 

Congratulations to the Boys Volleyball team for winning the

ISSA League title last Saturday, the Varsity girls volleyball team

 placed 2nd to CSA along with our Varsity girls soccer team who

also placed 2nd with a 2-4 loss to Zobel. The JV girls soccer

team lost to LaSalle Lipa and will now play for bronze vs

Miriam. 

IASAS Week   Oct 8-10  - ISM is currently hosting the IASAS

Soccer Championships and whilst we are hosting soccer our

Volleyball and Cross Country teams are striving for success in

Bangkok at their season ending championships. Live streamaction/results from Manila and Bangkok are available

via www.iasas.asia. 

Find below the schedule of matches for soccer. We hope to have

 big crowds out to all games but especially when our ISM girls

and boys teams are playing. Please come out and support our

teams.

RIFA ES/MS soccer festival finals for teams that have qualified

are on Oct 17th. Finals venues are now posted on notice boards

and via the ES/MS Festival ATAC blog pages.  Please check

carefully and If you are in doubt about whether the event will go

ahead due to heavy rain or extreme weather please follow the

 procedure at this link. http://atac.ism-online.org/manila-weather -

forecast/atac-event

-cancelation

-extreme

-weather/

 

ES RIFA festivals information and  MS Rifa festivals

information 

This coming October break ISM will be hosting a Fall Basket-

 ball Camp run by Filipino Basketball Academy FBA.  See FBA

flyer   for details. Flyer is also posted on notice boards around

school. Sign up quick as places will go fast. 

Upcoming events: 

Oct 8-10

 IASAS VBall/XC at Bangkok/IASAS Soccer at ISM

 Oct 10 Wall Climbing team at PowerUP Tandang Sora  

Oct 12-14 HS S2 tryouts 

Oct 15,16 and 21 MS S2 tryouts 

Oct 17 ES and MS girls soccer festival finals at ISM (for teams

who qualified) 

Oct 18 MS boys festival finals at BSM (for team that qualified) 

For our Sailfish swim team program please check the Sailfish

 blog for information. http://sailfish.ism-online.org/ 

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... 

All HS seasonal teams practice from 3:05- 4:50pm each day. MS

seasonal teams practice  3:10-4:40pm. In order to clear the

campus prior to 5pm all after school programs will conclude

 by4:50pm 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 time to peruse the ATAC

 blog it has a wide variety of information and links to our sports

and 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  pekinm@ismanila.org  and I will endeavor to assist you as

 best I can. 

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantastic spirit store.  Bearcat Den

hours of operation- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri. 

 Regards 

 Mark Pekin 

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From the Professional Learning Department

rom the Professional Learning Department