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Rusc Pathways
Parent Community
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Athlecs & Acvies 3
Guidance & Counseling
MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL
ISSUE # 25
SY 2015–2016
WEEK OF:
MARCH 7 TO 11
Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents
Friday BulletinInside this issue:
MARCH—APRIL:
MS Upcoming Events:
MAP TESTING
February 29 to March 11
ACADEMIC BOWL
Wednesday, March 9
STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES
Wednesday, March 16
SCHOOL HOLIDAY
March 24 to April 1
PARENT COFFEE
Tuesday, April 19
DRAMA CLASS SHORT PLAYS
Tuesday, April 26
ACTIVITY DAY
Thursday, April 28
NO CLASSES
Friday, April 29
Dear Parents,
This week, our focus has been on course registraon for the coming schoolyear. On Wednesday, students watched grade level presentaons so they couldlearn more about the available course opons and ask clarifying quesons. Thesepresentaons are now available via the MS blog if parents would like to viewthem. Students will register for courses next week during their Modern Language,Strategy instrucon or English for Academic Purposes classes. A conrmaonemail will be sent to parents aer your child has successfully completed the regis-traon process.
We respecully request that parents take the me to discuss the various courseregistraon opons over the weekend so you and your child are on the same page.
UPCOMING DATES TO REMEMBER:
MAP Tesng - Spring Tesng Window: Monday, February 29th - Friday, March 11th
Course Registraon: Week of March 7—11th
Student-Led Conferences: Wednesday, March 16th from 12:00 to 5:00pm
No ATAC and AFAC acvies for MS on this day (See respecveblogs for details)
Student-Led Conferences (SLC):
The SLCs are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 16th from 12:00 - 5:00p.m. Session 1 = 12:30 - 2:30p.m. (Students whose surnames begin with A- K.)
Session 2 = 3:00 - 5:00p.m. (Students whose surnames begin with L - Z.)
The parent brochure for the SLCs will be emailed home on Monday. This brochurewill contain all the informaon/details parents need to know in order to be pre-pared for this event.
Kind Regards, Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal
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Full results from the Philippine Gymnascs Cup are now
posted to ATAC blog gymnascs page as received from the
meet organizers. Well done to our ISM gymnasts who com-
peted at Rizal Stadium. The next meet for our gymnascs
team is Mar 12
at Brish School Manila.
S3 pracce schedule is posted on noce boards and on
ATAC blog schedules page. ATAC S3 sports for MS are Bad-
minton, Track&Field, Mixed Touch and Co-ed Soball. For
HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, Soball and Badminton.
Upcoming events:
Mar 4-6 Bangkok Splash meet for Sailsh swim team.
Mar 5 HS girls soball teams at Brent/MS Boys bad-
minton at Brent/ MS girls and HS Badminton at ISM
Mar 6 HS Soball teams scrimmage matches
Mar 12 BSM Gymnascs meet/May 7
ISM Goodwill
Gymnascs meet.
Mar 12 Brent track meet/Mar 18 ISM twilight track
meet
April 6-10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at SAS,
Golf at JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB)
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 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 ques-
ons 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 ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by
Triz Gonzalez (ATAC Athlecs Coordinator) gives the mostup to date informaon on where/when and who our Bear-
cat teams will be playing throughout the school year. Ac-
cess 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 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 withmany local schools and organizaons.
Check it regularly for the most
up to date informaon. For se-
curity 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 fan-
tasc spirit store. Bearcat Den
hours of operaon- 7am-
4pm Mon-Fri.
Best Regards,
Mark Pekin
Director of Athlecs & Acvies
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