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MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL
ISSUE # 09
SY 2015–2016
WEEK OF:
OCTOBER 5 TO 9
Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents
Friday BulletinInside this issue:
SEPTEMBER—NOVEMBER:
MS Upcoming Events:
Dear Parents,
Thanks to all the MS parents who aended the Parent Coee with Lance King on Tues-
day morning. A focal point of Lance’s presentaon was the concept of ‘failing well’ and
Lance highlighted how this approach to facing challenges can foster higher levels of re-
silience in children. The key points relang to the concept of ‘failing well’ or ‘failing bad-
ly’ are summarized below:
Failing Well:
Acknowledging failure and taking responsibility for your own acons.
Working at what you did wrong.
Making the necessary changes.
Going back and trying again being mindful of what you needed to change.
Failing Badly:
Placing the blame on someone else - Teacher’s, school’s, parents’ or
schedules fault.
Adding unnecessary drama to the situaon and blowing the issue out of
proporon.
Using avoidance techniques and acvies.
The task of growing resilient children is a prime concern for most parents. Parents needto encourage their child/children to take on new challenges and to perceive failure as a
source of feedback. Have you ever had a family conversaon where you shared some
of your personal experiences with failure as well as the strategies you used to move
forward in a proacve and reecve manner? If you have not done this, why not give it
a go!
Lance King also spoke to the MS faculty on Wednesday morning where he further ex-
plored the concept of resilience and failing well. Later in the day, he gave an engaging
presentaon to the MS students where he explained how our brain builds neural path-
ways.
Overall, Lance’s visit was a very engaging experience for students, parents and teachers
and we hope that collecvely we can connue to foster greater levels of resilience in
our students.
Parent-Teacher Conferences (PTCs):
Parent Teacher Conferences (PTCs) in the Middle School are scheduled for Wednesday
October 14, Monday October 19, and Tuesday October 20 from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00
p.m. We will use an online reservaon system for making appointments, and the sys-
tem will open to parents at 8:00 a.m. on Monday, October 5. A step-by-step guide on
how to make appointments for Parent Teacher Conferences can be found on the next
page.
NO CLASSES (Learning 2.0 Conference)
Friday, October 2
PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES
Wednesday, October 14
Monday & Tuesday, October 19 & 20
FILIPINIANA
Friday, October 23
SCHOOL BREAK
October 26 to November 2
MAP TESTING
October 5 to 13
ACADEMIC BOWL
Tuesday, November 10
MS YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOOT
November 9 to 12
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In some instances a pre-booked conference me may be visible when you log onto PowerParent to schedule
your conferences for October 14, 19 and October 20. The pre-booking was made upon the request of your child's teach-
er. If a pre-booking has been made, you may change the given me slot to suit your availability but please do not delete
it as this is a priority request. If you wish to know more about this request, please email your child’s teacher.
In order to reserve an appointment, you will need your PowerSchool username and password. If you have misplaced or
forgoen your PowerSchool login details, please call the MS Oce at 840-8550 or 840-8575. You may also email Krisne
Fong ([email protected]) or MS oce ([email protected]).
This year, you will noce that we have acted upon parent and teacher feedback from last year’s PTCs and have added in
an extra aernoon. There is now a sucient number of me slots to allow parents to meet with the teachers they wish
to talk with. During the three PTC aernoons, all teachers are available and so this makes it easier for parents to meet
with numerous teachers on the same day or over the course of the three days. We respecully request that parents en-
deavor to amend their schedules so they can aend the PTCs. This is the only me we can coordinate all of the teachers’
schedules and our ability to reschedule conferences will be limited.
PCA Cookbook Fundraiser:
Do you have a favorite recipe that reminds you of home? If so, why not share it with the PCA so it can be considered for
the PCA Cookbook Fundraiser? The PCA are hoping to gather 400 recipes and to date they have received less than 50
submissions. Any addional recipe submissions would be greatly appreciated!
IASAS Soccer:
ISM will be hosng the IASAS soccer tournament on Thursday and Friday of next week. Please know that you are more
than welcome to come to school and help cheer on the ISM Bearcats! The full schedule is available on the ATAC blog and
is posted on the TV screens around school.
We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to
all the MS parents who volunteered to host athletes
during this event- it’s wonderful to know that we
have such a supporve community!
MS Courtyard Event:
Check out the poster on this page and get ready to
come and show your Bearcat spirit! This event is
open to all MS students and will take place in the MS
Courtyard. Students are welcome to come and join
in the pep rally fun and games before heading o to
support the IASAS soccer game.
No School:
Please remember that there is no school forstudents on:
Friday, October 2nd (Learning 2.0 Edu-
cators’ Conference is being hosted at
ISM)
Kind regards,
Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal
Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal
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ATAC oce is sll seeking some more host fami-
lies for IASAS Soccer. See below if you can assist.
Hosng leers with guest informaon and event
details will be distributed via email at the end of
this week. Check out the link at IASAS housing infor-
maon if you have any quesons please contact the
ATAC oce. Forms can be printed and turned in to
ATAC oce or emailed to [email protected].
With season one coming to a close soon Season 2 try-
outs will be starng aer IASAS. See this link for try-
outs and pracce schedules. Season 2 sports are Bas-
ketball/Rugby/Touch/Tennis and HS varsity swim-
ming. MS/HS tryouts and pracce schedules
IASAS is next week Oct 8-10, 2015 - ISM is hosng the
IASAS Soccer Championships and whilst we are hosng
soccer our Volleyball and Cross Country teams will be
striving for success in Bangkok at their season ending
championships in two weeks me. Live stream acon/
results from Manila and Bangkok
will be available
via www.iasas.asia. Hosng an
IASAS event has a whole school
focus to bring our community to-gether across all divisions (ES/MS/
HS) to support our Bearcats soccer
teams.
Find here the schedule of matches
for your forward planning. We
hope to have big crowds out to all
games but especially when our ISM
girls and boys teams are playing.
RIFA ES/MS soccer fesval nals for
teams that have qualied are onOct 17th. Finals venues are now
posted on noce boards and via
the ES/MS Fesval ATAC blog pag-
es. Please check carefully and If
you are in doubt about whether
the event will go ahead due to
heavy rain or extreme weather
please follow the procedure at this
link. hp://atac.ism-online.org/
manila-weather-forecast/atac-
event-
cancelaon-
extreme-
weather/
ES RIFA fesvals infor-
maon and MS Rifa fesvals infor-
maon
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Leaving ISM?
Please be reminded that parents are obliged to ocially inform the School in wring through
a WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM if their child will not be returning for the 2nd Semester
(January 2016 term). Families are encouraged to submit the Withdrawal Nocaon Form,
stang the student's nal date of aendance, immediately. Failure to submit the form may lead
to a delay in the forwarding of your child's transcript to his/her new school.
The Withdrawal Nocaon Form can be obtained from the Admissions Oce, by clicking the
link above, or directly from the ISM website under Admission > Re-Enrollment
& Withdrawal > Withdrawals
Please feel free to contact the Admissions Oce at 840.8601 for quesons or claricaons.
This coming October break ISM will be hosng a Fall Basket-
ball Camp run by Filipino Basketball Academy FBA. See FBA
yer for details. Flyer is also posted on noce boards around
school. Sign up quick as places will go fast.
Well done to our MS/HS XC teams who raced at Faith last
Saturday. Full results are available here.. hp://atac.ism-
online.org/atac/1st-season/cross-country-race-results/
Upcoming events:
Oct 2 Mid A1/Asp/VBoys vs Claret 3:30/5pm/3:30
Oct 3 Mid A1/Asp vs Hedcen 9am/10:30am
Oct 3 Rifa HS girls Div 1/Div 2 soccer nals.
Oct 3 ISSA Volleyball semis and nals
Oct 8-10 IASAS VBall/XC at Bangkok/IASAS Soccer at
ISM
Oct 10 Wall Climbing team at PowerUP Tandang Sora
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 3:10-4:40pm. In order to clear
the campus prior to 5pm all aer school programs will con-
clude 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 informaon on the blog please send an email
to [email protected] and I will endeavor to assist you as
best I can.
Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store. There is a
new school year sale on at the moment and a range of new
products and items to purchase including items from our
service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operaon-7am-
4pm Mon-Fri.
GO BEARCATS!
Best Regards,
Mark Pekin
Director of Athlecs and Acvies
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SAVE THE DATE!
Join us in support of theVicky SyCip Philippine ScholarshipProgram on November 13th,2015 in the Little Theater. Rockthrough the ages with live musicprovided by our very own FacultyBand, The MamSirs. Early Bird tick-
ets will go on sale soon!
All proceeds of the event supportthe Philippine Scholarship for atruly deserving Filipino student toattend ISM. For more informationon the Philippine Scholarship
please visit this LINK.
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