issue no. 18 (week of december 13 to 17)

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From the Middle School Office

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Dear Parents:

The MS Art Exhibit opened this past week and was a feast for the eyes. We wereamazed by the creativity and talent of our students! We hope you had a chanceto stop by the FAT gallery to enjoy their work. Thank you to Ms. Barton, Ms.Dodd, Ms. Jacobs and Ms. Lim for nurturing the students’ artistic abilities.

The Beginners Recital was also held this week. The students did an outstandingjob under the direction of their teachers Ms. Gander, Mr. Howrey, and Mr.Odendaal. A big thanks to the Music Department for a wonderful evening of music.

For the past five days the Middle School celebrated Spirit Week and it wasexciting to see the students who dressed up and showed their Bearcat spirit.Thanks to the MS Student Council for organizing the theme days and the MS Party.Monday is the last day of Spirit Week and students can come dressed as aSuperhero. Please remember that students should not bring to school any weaponor copy thereof when dressed in costume. If your child opts not to dress in thetheme of the day, your child is expected to be in school uniform. On Tuesday,December 14 the PE Department has organized a Sports Day and all students arerequired to wear their House shirt for a fun-filled day of activities. All parentsare invited to attend and cheer on their child.

Next week is a short week for our students. Please take note of the followingschedule:

• December 13 – Regular Schedule

• December 14 – Sports Day

• December 15

♦ Late Start for Students

♦ Early Release – Dismissal at 12:00 noon. Please make the necessarytransportation arrangements so that your child is picked up promptlyat dismissal time.

As the semester draws to a close and grades are finalized please be informed thatPowerSchool will be closed starting 10 January 2011 and will reopen on 21January 2011. During this time teachers will be finalizing narrative reports oneach student.

During this festive time of year we'd like to wish all the families of the ISMcommunity a warm and happy holiday season. We hope you all have anopportunity to relax, reflect on and celebrate the achievements andaccomplishments of this past year. The students have earned a well deservedbreak. When we return in January, we look forward to seeing their smiling facesand listening to their stories. Enjoy the holidays and best wishes for a prosperous2011!

Danielle Fredericks Clarissa SaysonMiddle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

ISSUE # 18

WEEK OF DECEMBER 13 TO 17, 2010

Middle School

MIDDLE SCHOOL

POWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATEPOWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATE

Jan. 10 PowerSchool Closes

Jan. 21 PowerSchool Opens forSemester 1 Reports

Jan. 24 Semester 1 Report Card Distribtion (via courier)

Gr. 5 & 6 Art StudentsService & Environmental Learning UpdatesUpdating Parent Contact Information

2

Lost & Found ViewingPTA Used Book Fair Eco Newsflash

3

ATAC Announcements 4

IASAS Basketball Schedule 5

Withdrawal Procedures from Admissions 6

MSMC Reading Suggestions for Gr. 5 & 6 8

MSMC Reading Suggestions for Gr. 7 & 8 9

Inside this issue:

UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING EVENTS

Dec. 16 to Jan. 09 - Semester Break

JANUARY

10 Classes Resume

19-23 AMIS Band

25 PTA Bearcat Welcome

(7:30 A.M., LT)

26 New Student Luncheon(11:00 A.M., Rm. 1057)

31-Feb. 04 Bearcat Readers’ Week

02 Gr.4 Student Transition Assembl(1:00 P.M., LT)

02 Gr. 4 Parent Transition Meeting(5:00 P.M., LT)

04 Friday Afternoon Mini-Concert:MS Strings (3:00 P.M., Courtya

05 PTA Family Fun Day (ES Field)

07-11 ERB Testing

FEBRUARY

26 Activity Period (12:20 P.M.)

09-13 AMIS Honor Girls Choir Festival

10 PTA Liaison Meeting(8:00 A.M., MS Conference Ro

04 MS Party (Gr. 5 & 6)



M IDDLE SCHOOL FRIDAY BULLETIN PAGE 2

Thanks to all students and teachers who donated diapers for CCV. The kids will be so happy and DRY ☺. The CCV trip ison this Saturday the 11th. The winning home base will be announced next week for their free dress day- so listen to the

announcements.

Thanks in advance to all students, teachers and parents who will come to help out with the Community Garden Exten-sion this Saturday, December 11th here at ISM. Check out the Blog http://ms-eco.ism-online.org/ for Photos of the

event and other service and environmental news and updates.

PCF- Comes to ISM!- Saturday, January 22nd, 2011. Sign up at guidance to help out here at ISM with the PCF kids. Weneed Sporty, Arty, Music, IT, service minded students to help with the various activities. If you have ideas of activities

we would love to hear about them!

‘I CAN’ Drive- 10th – January 21st, 2011. Please bring in some can food to help provide for PCF kids. Collection Box lo-

cated in MS Guidance office. Sardines, Meat loaf, Corned Beef, Sausage please.

‘"Peace, One Day, One Goal"- Shoe Drive- January10th – 28th, 2011. Bring in your shoe donations to the box located

outside guidance and help support underprivileged kids in a soccer league.

PAWS- Saturday Service Trip – January 29th, 2011 -sign up at MS Guidance.

Tara Barton

HS/MS Visual Art- 1169

MS Service and Environmental Learning Coordinator

[email protected]

http://ms-eco.ism-online.org/

Service and Environmental Learning Updates

ALL GRADE 5 and GRADE 6 ART Students,

Please take art work and sketchbooks home by Tuesday, December 14. Your parents are expecting to see

evidence of your learning in art!

THANKS!Ms. Morgan

Grade 5 and 6 Art Students

In order to best serve the ISM Parent Community it is essential that information be quickly disseminated when necessary.For this reason, the accuracy of your contact details in our data base is of the utmost importance. Please note that Par-

ent Contact Information must be updated online by the parent. However submitted information will be screened for

correct format and the parent may be called for clarification. To make any changes or verification in contact informa-

tion, please access one of your children’s data file via the ISM website (www.ismanila.org) and then under Login, click

on Powerschool Public Access and enter your Username and Password.

On the page that opens, click on the Demographic Update icon for changing or updating demographic information. Note

that if there are siblings also enrolled in ISM, changes will automatically be made in the data files of all other enrolled

siblings in the same family at the same time.

Updating Parent Contact Information




Other Announcements




From the Athletics and Activities Office

IASAS BASKETBALL HOUSING

IASAS Basketball will be taking place at ISM January

27-29, 2011 and housing placements are now beingaccepted. As of this week we have 45 students

housed but we require 100 housing slots in total.

All 1st season athletes who were housed this is your

time to fulfill your responsibility and offer housing

for Basketball. All varsity and JV basketball teams

should also have returned housing forms by now as

well. We welcome offers of housing from anyone in

our ISM community. Please support the ATAC De-

partment by getting these forms in ASAP. It would

be great to have the housing completed before we

go on Christmas break! Go Bearcats show your pride

and support of the program and get behind our

teams by hosting a pair of visiting players from our

IASAS sister schools. Housing forms are available

from ATAC office or on the ATAC Blog at

http://atac.ism-online.org/iasas-basketball-jan-26-

31-2011/

ATAC ANNOUNCEMENTS

GAME SCHEDULE INFORMATION:

Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures

for ISM teams can be found by going to the GAME

SCHEDULE tab on the ATAC page of the ISM website.

You can also access this information via the

ES/MS/HS divisional web pages. Please note the

game schedule does change often due to involve-

ment with many local schools so please check the

page regularly to find out the latest information of

where and when the Bearcats teams are playing.

Access to the game schedule page is also available

via the ATAC blog. Click on the Bearcat logo to be

directed to the game schedule page.

http://atac.ism-online.org

ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES - NOV/DEC: (for ALL

match/schedule details check game schedule page

as above)♦ PRFU Rugby Tournament in ISM HS field from 8:00

A.M. MS/JV rugby teams competing - December 11

♦ Varsity Touch at Nomads Tournament from 1:00

P.M. - December 11

♦ Varsity/JV Tennis in CSA - December 11

♦ MS Girls Tennis in ISM - December 11

♦ Wall climbing Invitational in ISM, MS Gym - De-

cember 11

♦ Last Day of School for 2010 DECEMBER 15th, Noon

dismissal

MS 2nd Season Sports Awards - February 9th

HS 2nd Season Sports Awards - February 11th

BEARCAT DEN

Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:

♦ Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 11:30 A.M.

– 1:00 P.M. and 2:30 P.M. – 4:00 P.M.

♦ Tuesdays and Thursdays afternoons from 2:30 -

4:00 P.M. Thanks to all our great volunteers. The

Bearcat Den will go into Christmas hibernation

from Tuesday, December 14 and will reopen on

Wednesday, January 12, 2011.

Mark Pekin

Director of Athletics/Activities

International School Manila

E-mail: [email protected]

ISM Website:http://www.ismanila.org/

Blog: http://atac.ism-online.org/




Dear Parents,

If you will be withdrawing your child(ren) before the start of the second semester or at some other timebefore the close of this school year, please read the following information carefully.

Withdrawing from International School Manila

First of all, we are sorry that you will be withdrawing, or not re-enrolling, your child in International

School Manila. We hope, however, that their stay, whether for one semester or for many years, was en-

riching and rewarding academically, socially and emotionally.

In order to make the withdrawal process go as smoothly as possible, we would like to remind you of the

following:

STEP 1: Please come by the Admission Office to fill out, sign and return a Withdrawal Notification

Form. The form is also available on the ISM website to download and print and it can also be faxed back to

the Admission Office at 840-8489.

STEP 2: If the student will be withdrawing BEFORE the last day of this school year, parents or stu-

dents need to pick up the following forms from the Admission Office (or download and print the appropriate

form):

♦ The Withdrawal Clearance Slip should be taken to the indicated teachers and offices for

signatures.

High School Student Withdrawal Clearance Slip (Grades 9-12)

Middle School Student Withdrawal Clearance Slip (Grades 6-8)

♦ For elementary students, the elementary office will handle the withdrawal clearance form

for them.

♦ To receive the child’s YEARBOOK, if withdrawing before the end of the school year, com-

plete and return the correct form to the child’s school office for follow-up.

Elementary School Yearbook: ALAALA

Middle School Yearbook: SALINLAHI

High School Yearbook: KAWAYAN

♦ Note that school transcripts and records will be available from the particular school office

approximately 5-working days after the child’s last day of attendance at ISM. Please coor-

dinate directly with the particular school office if you require other arrangements.

Withdrawal Procedures from the Admissions Office




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STEP 3: When completed, the Withdrawal Clearance Slip must be taken to the Accounting Office

Cashier. Only after the Accounting Office Cashier has received and signed the completed Withdrawal Clear-

ance Slip will the child’s transcript or school records be released from the Elementary, Middle or High

School Office. Please note that one copy of the transcript is provided free of charge, additional copies cost

P100 each, payable at the Cashier’s Office before release. Please coordinate directly with the particular

school office if you require more than one copy of school records.

STEP 4: The refund of the Facilities Upgrade Deposit (FUD) will be available approximately 15-

working days after the signed Withdrawal Notification Form, by the parent, is given into the Admission

Office. However, in any event, it cannot be released before the child’s last day of attendance at ISM and

the completed Withdrawal Clearance Slip is signed by the Cashier. The refund check can be picked up from

the Accounting Office Cashier only upon return of the original signed FUD certificate. Note that the refund

of the deposit shall only be made to the person or authorized company representative whose name appears

as the certificate holder on the certificate. Please call the Cashier if you have any question about this.

Please allow the withdrawal process to go smoothly by starting the process early. Thank you for your help

and understanding.

If you need help searching for a school at your next location, please try one of the following websites:

http://www.ecis.org/ http://www.nais.org/index.cfm

http://www.internationalschools.net/

http://www.eteach.com/hosted/schoolList.asp?list=international

or use a search engine and query ‘independent school search’ or ‘international school search’ or ‘private

school search’ for example

Again, we hope that your child has had a successful and enriching stay at International School Manila and we

wish you and your family the very best in the future. If you have any suggestions or comments about Admis-

sion, School Life, and/or Withdrawal, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Sincerely,

Gary W. Jerome Margie Endelman

Director of Admission Deputy Director of Admission

[email protected] [email protected]

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