parent bulletin issue 28 sy1516

8/18/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 28 SY1516

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ISM cannot take credit for this wonderful resource, we are

simply sharing a great idea! If you nd having conversaons

of this nature with your child challenging or frustrang,

please feel free to print it out and keep it in your wallet or onthe fridge!

Upcoming Dates to Remember:

Service Learning Trips:

These trips are oponal and students can collect permis-

sion slips from the MS Oce.

Saturday April 16th

Papaya Academy on campus Cheryl Thompson

Saturday April 23rd

La Mesa Watershed—Giorde Pasamba

MS Parent Cofee:

Tuesday, April 19th from 07:45 - 09:00 (LT)

Focus to be announced next week

MS Acvity Day:

Thursday, April 28th

MAP Student Progress Reports

Date to be announced next week.

Leaving ISM?

If you are leaving ISM at the end of the school year, please

remember to contact Grace Gabay in the MS Oce. Grace is

the point person for all transcripts and handles the withdraw-

al process for the MS students. If you have any quesons,

she is more than happy to support you!

Time o School:

Please remember that all requests to take your child out of

school during scheduled school me need to go through the

MS Oce. Please include informaon such as the reason forthe request (Sibling’s graduaon, family wedding etc) as well

as the number of school days your child will miss. ISM tracks

these requests and there are some logiscal maers, such as

communicang with teachers, that we try to centralize and

lter through the oce. We’d be most grateful if parents

remember to include the MS Oce on all communicaons of

this nature.

PCA Used Book Fair:

Do you have some great books sing on your bookshelf gath-

ering dust? If so, why not donate them to the PCA Used Book

Fair!

Date = April 18th - 22nd

Locaon = In the rear of the ES and MS Libraries

(High ceilinged secon by the pool)

Details:

On Mon and Tues the Book Fair is open to par-

ents and students. However, due to the fact

that the ES classes have a set schedule to aend

the Book Fair during these days, parents cannot

purchase ES books on these days.

On Wed, Thurs and Fri the Book fair is open to

all members of the ISM Community.

Please note that the nal date for donang

books is Thursday, April 14th. Books can be

dropped o at the PCA oce, MS Oce or in

the various donaon boxes around school.

PCA Elecons:

Looking to get more involved at school? The PCA has

openings at both the leadership and grade levels for next

school year. The Execuve Commiee openings include

vice president, assistant treasurer, coordinang secre-

tary, recording secretary, MS ocer and ES ocer.

At the grade level two parent reps are needed per grade.

Middle school has one opening in each of the following

grades: grades 5, 6 and 8.

The PCA is a great way to make friends with other parents

and get to know teachers and administraon beer. If inter-

ested, please send your name to:

[email protected]

Have a great week!

Kind regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

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Best wishes to all our HS IASAS athletes who are com-

peng right now at the S3 Championships at TAS for T&F,

JIS for Golf, ISB for Soball and SAS for Badminton. To

keep in touch will all the results and live streams goto www.iasas.asia from Thurs-Sat April 7-9.

Of special note this will be the 33rd and very last IASAS

slow pitch soball tournament played at ISB as next year

boys will play baseball and girls will play fast pitch so-

ball. The IASAS board conrmed the change of sports at

last April's board meeng. This will be an excing change

and challenge for all IASAS schools to implement both

these sports into the athlec programs.

ISM summer camps informaon/yer is now posted to

ATAC blog. Summer camps are oered the rst 3 weeksof the summer vacaon. Please note due to the large

amount of facility construcon planned for this summer

camps will only be oered in the mornings and all ses-

sions will end by 12 noon or before. hp://atac.ism-

online.org/atac/atac-summer-sports-camps/

S4 pracce schedule is now posted on noce boards and

on ATAC blog schedules page this week. S4 pracces are

open to all Gr 8-11 student athletes. Current Gr 8's who

will be freshmen next SY are encouraged to come out as

it is a great opportunity to meet the coaches and other

HS athletes while geng in some pre season pracce inreadiness for next SY. ATAC S3 sports for MS/HS have

now concluded.

Season 4 HS sports session oered at this stage are-

Girls- Soccer/Volleyball/Basketball/Touch

Boys- Soccer/Volleyball/Faculty/Student Basketball

Upcoming events:

April 6-10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at

SAS, Golf at JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB)

Apr 21 5:30pm HS S3 sports awards (all S3 athletes

and parents invited)

Apr 22-23

ISM Sailsh Spring Meet

Apr 24-25 IASAS Board Meeng- Bangkok

May 7 ISM Goodwill Gymnascs Meet

May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the Sail-

sh blog for informaon. hp://sailsh.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...

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

is4:55pm this is due to the ever increasing trac con-

cerns 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 pleasesend an email to [email protected] and I will endeav-

or 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 par-

ent portal not via power school as in the past. A naviga-

on guide is available here. ATAC Game Schedule Users

Guide.

Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your user

name/password and then look for the ATAC Game Sched-

ule tab under the le side quick links. Don't forget to re-

fresh 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 sched-

ule pdf must be linked via the secure parent portal and

details should not be shared with non ISM communitymembers.

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store. Bearcat

Den hours of operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

Best Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs & Acvies

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If you are available this Saturday, please come

and support Coach Cha in her nal game of the

season for F2 Logiscs Cargo Movers Team. It will

be great for the girls to see Volleyball played not

only at a professional level, but also to see their

Coach in acon. The game is also available live on

TV.

Saturday April 9, 2016. 12:30pm at FilOil Flying V

Arena, San Juan. You can get ckets at the venue,

100pehp for lower box and 150php for patron.

Need to top up?

ISM goes cashless in SY16-

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Starng SY2016-2017 ISM will implement a full debit system in the MS/HS Canteen. The debit system

provides customers with a cashless payment system once the customer's ID has been loaded with funds.

Parents and Students are encouraged to start using the debit system if they

aren't already doing so.

Click here for details.

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Important informaon on Re-Enrollment for SY 2016-17

Dear Parents:

We will begin On-line Re

-Enrollment for school year 2016

-17 on Monday, April 4. As before, parents will have to log into

PowerSchool in order to do this. Below are instrucons to help. If you are not sure of your PowerSchool log-in or need sup-

port, please contact the Middle School Oce.

Please note that you must complete re-enrollment Steps 1 & 2 by 4pm on Friday, May 27 at the latest. PowerSchool will close

on that date unl the start of SY16-17. We have over 500 students on our waitlist, and we will assume that your children are

leaving if you have not completed the re-enrollment process.

If your child/ren will not be returning for SY16-17, you MUST follow the Withdrawal Procedure and submit a Withdrawal No-

caon Form on or before Friday, May 13. Click here for more informaon.

Online Re-Enrollment

Step 1: Visit www.ismanila.org and click on Parent Portal under the Quick Links drop -down menu. Log-in to the Parent Portal

and click on PowerSchool. Please refer to the aached guide on “How to Access Online Re-Enrollment.”

Step 2: Look for the Re-Enrollment Clearance icon on the le hand panel. Click on the icon. Create your Re-enrollment Clear-

ance Form and click submit aer updang. You will receive an email nocaon verifying that you have been successful up-

dang your child’s record.

Step 3: Submit Forms (if applicable)

Students entering Grade 6 will be required to download and complete the Standard Physical Examinaon Form

(with ECG) which should be submied to the ISM Health Clinic as soon as possible.

Students entering Grade 7 will be required to download and sign the ISM Drug Policy Form which should be sub-

mied to the MS Oce as soon as possible.

Step 4 You must sele all charges for SY15-16 which may include incidental fees not covered by company sponsorship (ATAC

uniforms, instrument rental, payment for lost textbook, etc.).

Step 5: You must pay the rst quota of tuion fees for SY16-17 to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION for your

child to aend class on August 4, 2016.

Tuion and Fees: Please sele your accounts through our Cashier’s Oce.

Successful compleon of required steps will generate a NO REPLY email conrmaon. Compleon of all steps is necessary in

order to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION.

To check status of Re-Enrollment, please visit the Parent Portal page.

Class Schedule distribuon dates are as follows:

August 01, 2016: Grade 5 and 6 (MS Intersecon)August 02, 2016: Grade 7 and 8 (MS Intersecon)

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