ES Parent Bulletin Vol#3 2014 Sep 12

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12 September 2014Volume 3

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

SEPT

16 Parent Coffee, 7.45 - 9AM (LT)

17Kindergarten Parent Coffee, 8.30 - 9.30AM

ES Faculty Lounge

17, 24Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,

8.30AM

25MAP Information Parent Coffee, 7.45 - 9AM

(RM.2123)

26 ES Parent Bulletin

OCT

1, 8, 15,

22Wednesday Morning Student Late Start ,

8.30AM

6 NO CLASSES, School Holiday

7 PS-12 Parent Workshop, 7.45 - 9.30AM (LT)

10, 24 Parent Bulletin

14, 15Parent Teacher Student Conferences

Early Student Release, 12.00PM

24 Filipiniana

27-31 NO CLASSES, Semester Break

From te ES AdministrationFrom te ES Administration

ALearningCommunity

Educaon is one field that has a language and vernacular all

of its own. At mes, this can prove to be puzzling for the

families as you bear the onslaught of phraseology coming at

you, parcularly if English is not your first language, as is the

case for over two thirds of our community. One of these o

heard phrases is a learning community what does this

actually mean? Well, over the past week we feel that on anumber of levels, ISM has been true to this concept. Last

Tuesday, we held a successful Open House evening where a

large proporon of our parent community was able to get an

insight into their childs learning at ISM. On Thursday, Friday

and Saturday, the Elementary School then hosted a group of

25 vising teachers and leaders from three other established

Internaonal School in Asia Western Academy Beijing, China

(WAB), New Internaonal School Thailand, (NIST) and

Yokohama Internaonal School, Japan (YIS). This is the third

symposium which has been held by the four schools, with a

purpose of bringing together teachers and leaders in similarinquirybased schools to open up discussions and

collaboraon based upon classroom pracce and

pedagogy. A key element of the symposium rests upon the

fact that students are actually in school at the me, such that

classroom observaons can take place and elements of co

planning and coteaching can occur. Eleven praconers

from ISM parcipated in this collaborave project, with the

premise of moving from theory to pracce.

On Sunday, ISM hosted Michael Thompson, author and

educaonal psychologist. He spent three days with our

community, where he had the opportunity to meet with ourleadership team, teachers, parents, counselors and

students. The depth of discourse was inspiring and powerful

as all our key stakeholders were involved in the discussions.

Three separate events all held at ISM over the past week,

supporng the learning of our enre community students,

parents and faculty. Does this make us a learning

community?

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Homework

It is amazing how one simple word can evoke so many

emoons in so many of us. Ask a Middle or High Schooler

and their eyes may roll. Ask any adult their opinion on

homework and you will get a broad range of responses,mainly stemming from their own experiences with

homework and how this has now influenced their thinking.

On Tuesday next week at our Elementary Parent Coffee

session, we will be looking at the topic of

homework. Some of the ideas we will be thinking about

are:

What should learning at home look like?

Upon which principles of learning is this based?

What are the homework guidelines in the Elementary

School at ISM?

Please join us at 7:30 am next Tuesday, 16th September in

the Lile Theater for an interacve session.

Adam CampbelElementary Principal

Michael RourkeElementary Assistant Principal

Please note that PE venues for all classes are changing as of next week (beginning September 15). Your child's class will be in the

following facilies for the next four weeks:

PE Venues: September 15 October 10, 2014

John Van GaalenES Physical Education Program Leader

From ES Physical Education TeamFrom ES Physical Education Team

From te Art Team

Dear Families,

Please consider the Elementary Artroom when you aredisposing of your gently used items. Cardboard pieces,

toys, books, paper bags, wire hangers, Old t

shirts, Newspapers, Paper towel rolls, Styrofoam trays,

Broken toys would be greatly appreciated for the

Artroom treasure boxes here at

ISM.

Thank you in advance for your

help in strengthening our class

room resource

collecon this year!

Coach Bill ES Gym

Coach Chapman Covered Court/ES Field

Coach van Gaalen Swimming Pool

Coach Nat Gymnastics


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ISM UNIFORM SHOPSTARTING SEPT 02,2014

THE UNIFORM SHOP WILL OPEN EVERY

TUESDAY & FRIDAY FROM 7:00AM TO 4:00PM

THANK YOU

BY MANAGEMENT

MB GARMENTS MFG INC

Message from te Clinic:

The Common Cold or Sipon is an infecon of the nasal mucosa, including the sinuses, the throat

and or bronchi. It is caused primarily by viruses of different species, like Rhino, Entero, Corona,

Adenoor Paramyxoviruses, and there are more than 200 strains known to cause a common cold.

Colds are the most common infecon of mankind.

While adults catch a cold in average two to three mes a year, children are affected up to thirteen

mes more oen.

In the past few days there have been arcles about respiratory complicaons, caused by Enterovirus

(EV) D68 in children in some states of USA, as well as in some Asian countries, including the Philip

pines.

Enteroviruses form a quite large family of viruses, and cause 10 15 million infecons in the US yearly. Generally they tend to have

a summer/fall season that oen peaks in September, and can be easily spread when you have close contact with an infected per

son. You can also get infected by touching objects or surfaces that have the virus on them then touching your mouth, nose or eyes,

the CDC (the US based Center for Disease Control and Prevenon) says.

EV D68 however is a rare virus. A peak has been noted in the past weeks in some hospitals in several states of the US, where EV

D68 caused a large percentage of respiratory complicaons in children, 6 weeks to 16 years of age, with symptoms of common

cold. Dr. Anne Schuchat, director of CDCs Naonal Center for Immunizaon and Respiratory Diseases said it was too early to say

whether the virus would spread to other states and how long the outbreak might last.

The CDC stated last Monday that none of the cases so far this year were fatal, nor did any result in paralysis, as far as the CDC

knows.

Health officials note that there are no vaccines specifically formulated to prevent Enterovirus D68 or anviral drugs to treat it.

Affected children were receiving asthma medicaons, oxygen and intravenous fluids as needed, the Kansas City Star reported.

Schuchat stressed that one warning sign parents should look for in their children is difficulty breathing, which should prompt par

ents to seek immediate medical aenon.

It seems to produce illness with a more severe component (such as) difficulty breathing, Dr. William Schaffner, an infecous dis

eases expert at Vanderbilt University, told NBC News in a Monday report. But the vast majority of these kids will get beer.


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Campus Card Corner

LowBalanceAlertNoficaonHave you been receiving this noficaon in your email? Do you wish to keep receiving it but with a different amount or turn it

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Log in to your account Go to Profile ManagementEdit Contact Details Click Save when done.

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For more informaon, visit: For quesons/concerns, email:

hp://campusonline.ismanila.org [email protected]

From te PTA


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From te ATAC OfficeFrom te ATAC Office

IASAS Volleyball/XC housing needed ASAP! ISM is hosng the IASAS Volleyball/Cross Country Championships Oct 1519.

We need to house 170 athletes for this event. Please print and submit a housing leer to ATAC office asap if you can

support this event. We really need lots of ISM community spirit to help make this a wonderful event for our communi

ty. You can access housing informaon/FAQ's and the housing leer via this link: hp://atac.ismonline.org/iasas/iasas

housing/

IMPORTANTplease note as of Tuesday Aug 26th the final bus will now depart at 5:05pm, not 4:45pm. This later bus

departure me is being done on a 1 month trial basis.

Upcomingmatches:

SatSept12Cross Country at Faith

SatSept1213Varsity Cross Country exchange at ISB/Volleyball exchange at SAS

VarsitySoccerexchangeatISM ComeonouttosupportourteamsthisFridayandSaturday.

FriSept12VGirls vs UP 4pm MSF/VBoys vs Ateneo 5:30pm HSF

SatSept13VGirls vs UST 8am and vs Ateneo 2pm/VBoys vs UP 8am and vs Lyceum 12:30pm

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 ES/MS Soccer Fesvals have informaon at these links. Please note recent fesval venue changes for the C and G

teams. Please check carefully.

hp://atac.ismonline.org/atac/1stseason/essoccerrifaleaguefesvals/

hp://atac.ismonline.org/atac/1stseason/mssoccerrifaleaguefesvals/

Bearcat Dendrop by our new spirit store. There is a range of new products and items to purchase including items from

our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operaon7am4pm MonFri. We have new frisbees, swim goggles, bearcat

socks and other products now available.

TheATACgameschedulepdfwhichisupdatedregularlybyTrizGonzalez(ATACAthlecsCoordinator)givesthe

mostuptodateinformaononwhere/whenandwhoourBearcatteamswillbeplayingthroughouttheschool

year.AccesstothegamescheduleisviatheISMparentportalnotviapowerschoolasinthepast.Kindlyaccess

theparentportal,loginwithyourusername/passwordandlookfortheATACGameScheduletab.Rememberto

refreshthepagewhenthepdfscheduleappearssoyouviewthemostcurrentschedule.

Regards,

Mark PekinAthletic Director


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