MS Parent Bulletin (Week of February 1 to 5)

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MS PLAY

January 28 - 30

PARENT COFFEE - LITERACY

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Rusc Pathways

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Athlecs & Acvies

Aer-School Acvies

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MS Guidance Oce

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ISSUE # 20

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

FEBRUARY 1 TO 5

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

JANUARY - FEBRUARY:

MS Upcoming Events:

CLASSROOM WITHOUT WALLS

February 15- 19

G4-5 PARENT TRANSITION MEETING

Wednesday, February 3

NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Monday, February 8

NATIONAL HOLIDAY

Thursday, February 25

NO SCHOOL

Friday, February 26

Dear Parents,

The ISM campus has been a hive of acvity this week! The MS is buzzing with excitement follow-ing the successful opening night of the MS play - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play is soldout for this evening and almost sold out for Saturday evening. Tickets for the Saturday maneeare sll available, so if you haven't bought a cket yet...do so quickly! The Teacher Dunk Tankwas a major hit during this aernoon’s MS Courtyard Event with Mr. Maclachlan, Mr. Respecki,Mr. Milewski and Mr, Cargile taking the plunge as students proved they have pitching skills thatwould rival Sandy Koufax!

Bearcat spirit is permeang every aspect of school life as the community rallies around the IASAS

Rugby/Touch events, here at ISM, as well as the Tennis (ISB), swimming (SAS) and Basketball(ISKL) events abroad. We wish our varsity teams the very best of luck as the respecve tourna-ments come to a close over the weekend. Go bearcats! A special shout out goes to all ISM fami-lies who quickly oered to invite vising athletes into their homes aer the Rugby/Touch eventswere transferred from Jakarta to Manila. Special menons also go to our MS teachers who coachvarsity teams - Jason Juteau (Basketball), Dave Allen (Tennis), Wayne Hamaguchi (Tennis) and MJDurkin (Touch). We look forward to sharing the results of these events over the weekend!

DATES TO REMEMBER:

MS Play - A Midsummer Night’s Dream - HS Courtyard Saturday, Jan 30th @3pm and 6pm

IASAS - Rugby and Touch - Hosted at ISM(Please see the ATAC blog for the match schedule)

Saturday, January 30th & Sunday, January 31st

No School:

Monday February 8th (Lunar New Year)

Family Social: Friday, February 12th

Classroom Without Walls: Monday, February 15th - Friday, February 19th

No School: Thursday, February 25th (No school for students - teacher work day) Friday, February 26th (No school for students and teachers)

MAP Tesng - Spring Tesng Window: Monday, February 29th - Friday, March 11th

Classroom Without Walls (CWW): Please remember to sign and return your child’s CWW permission slips as they come home. Ifyou have any quesons, please contact the site leader, grade level program leader or the MSOce.

Student Absences:

If your child is unable to aend school, please remember to call (02) 840 8550) or email the MSOce and share the reason why your child is absent. The MS Oce will then pass along this mes-sage to the respecve teachers. Parents are reminded that in order to receive full credit from aclass, students may miss no more than 8 class periods of each subject area per semester. (Pleasesee page 13 of the MS Student Planner for more specic informaon.)

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MAP Tesng - Round 2:

The Measures of Academic Progress tests are conducted twice a year at ISM during September and March. Students

are assessed in three areas - Math, Language Usage and Reading. During this round of MAP tesng, all MS students will

be tested in their regular classrooms during scheduled class me (Math class and English/Social Studies classes) unless a

student has specic needs that warrant tesng in a dierent seng. Students do not need to prepare for these tests -

apart from having a good night’s sleep and a healthy breakfast! If you are new to ISM a more detailed leer about the

MAP tests will be emailed home closer to the tesng dates.

We hope all our MS families are well and wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Kind Regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal


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S2 concludes this week with our IASAS teams o to the IASAS

Championships. Good luck to all teams and coaches as they strive

to represent ISM and bring home some medals. Keep in touch

with the Bearcats progress via www.iasas.asia for all live stream

and up to date results from host venues. Basketball at ISKL, Tennisat ISB, Swimming at SAS and Rugby/Touch here at ISM

ISM is hosng Rugby/Touch due to the bombing in Jakarta two

weeks ago. Thanks to all our community who have stepped up at

short noce to house the 140 athletes that are here compeng

this weekend.

Come on out and watch the acon.

Well done to our varsity girls basketball team who placed 2nd at

the Hardeman Cup this past weekend. They also placed 2nd in the

local league nal vs Chang Kai Shek played last Monday evening.

Also congratulaons to the MS boys rugby team who placed 2nd

and the JV green and gold rugby teams who placed 3rd and 2nd in

the PSL local rugby nals on Saturday. A great day of rugby for ISM

teams.

Season 3 (S3) tryouts will begin rst week of Feb, announcements

are now posted on noce boards and on ATAC blog schedules

page for tryouts and the season pracce schedules.

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.

Congratulaons to our VGirls Touch and VBoys Rugby teams who

both won their local league compeons last weekend. A great

eort all season from players and coaches.

Upcoming events:

Jan 27-31 IASAS Tennis at ISB, Swimming at SAS, Basketball at

ISKL

Jan 28-30 IASAS Rugby/Touch at ISM

Jan 30 ISM invitaonal Table Tennis meet Covered Court

Feb 1-5 S3 tryouts week for MS/HS teams (see schedules on

noce boards and on schedules page of ATAC blog)

Feb 5-8 ISM Climbing team trip to Cebu

Feb 11 S2 HS sports awards night (for all Season 2 HS teams

V&JV)

Feb 13 ISM Track meet/ Mar 12 Brent track meet/Mar 18 ISM

twilight track meet

Feb 12-14 Gymnascs meet at Bangkok/Feb 20-21 Philippine

Cup Gymnascs at Rizal Stadium/Mar 12 BSM Gymnascs

meet/May 7 ISM Goodwill Gymnascs meet.

Mar 4-6 Bangkok Splash meet swimming for Sailsh team.

May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the Sailsh 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 cam-

pus 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 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 infor-

maon 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 beplaying 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. 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 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.

Best Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs & Acvies

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