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29 January 2010Volume 11

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

FEB

3, 10,17, 24

Wednesday Morning Student Late Start @8.30am

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Gr3 Subic Trip Parent Information Meeting @

2.30pm, 1057

ES Childrens Musical Theater Performance @6pm, Little Theatre

6 PTA Family Fun Day

18ES Parent Coffee @ 7.30am, Little Theatre

Agenda to follow

19 ES Sports Day

22 EDSA Revolution Holiday - No School

2PTA General Meeting @ 7.30am, Little Theatre

Special Guest: Efren Peaflorida

From the ES Administrationrom the ES AdministrationDear Elementary School Parents,

According to our students in ECLC and Grade One,

today marked the 100th day of school, which they have

been counting since day one looking at number pat-

terns, grouping numbers, and skip counting. Happy

100th day of the school year!

Next week, our Childrens Musical Theater will be per

forming Dig It. All students in ECLC to Grade Four

will be watching the performance on Thursday Februar

4th at 1:00 p.m. in the afternoon, followed by a perform

ance in the evening at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are not re-

quired for the performance. Please note that there wil

be limited seating in the afternoon performance, how-

ever, space is available for parents. We are looking for

ward to watching our students perform after a few

months of rehearsals it is set to be an interesting ar-

chaeological dig around the world!

We had the opportunity to meet with many of our new

ES parents this week during our new parent coffee on

Tuesday morning. If you were unable to attend, please

stop by the ES Office to introduce yourself. Transition

to a new school, especially during the middle of the yea

can have many ups and downs, so please ensure you ar

in regular contact with your childs class teacher and ouguidance counselor team. We are here to support you

Yours in Education,

Simon Gillespie Michael RourkeES Principal ES Assistant Principal


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From the Fine Arts Officerom the Fine Arts Office


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Dear ISM Parents,

IASAS Art/Music Festival is fast approaching! March 3-7

th

!Please see sign up letter and information included in this bul-letin.

I would like to ask for your assistance with housing for a visit-ing IASAS Art/Music student. We require 160 housing place-ments for this event. If you have not housed before it is greatchance to meet fantastic students from our IASAS schools.Requirements are listed to give you an idea of what isneeded if you say yes.

IASAS Art and Music Festival: Housing requirements/details:

Housing needed from Wednesday night 3rd March untilSunday morning 7th March. (4 nights)

A bed/futon/fold-out couch or comfortable place for guest to sleep.

Provide transportation to and from ISM each day

Provide a breakfast each morning

Provide one or two evening meals (Wed and Thursday most likely. Evening meals not required on Friday or Satur-day.

Be at home in evenings (coaches will make curfew calls each night at 10pm to check students are at home)

Treat and welcome your guest as you would like your own child treated if they were attending an event at anotherIASAS school and being housed.

If you can assist with housing visiting students please print out the letter attached, fill it in and return theslip to ATAC or Fine Arts office or call/email Joan in ATAC office or Rochelle in the Fine Arts office if youhave any further questions.

In addition there will be a fantastic event for ISM community and lovers of the Fine Arts to attend on FridayMarch 5th.

The Art Exhibition opening in the FAT Gallery and then the Festival Concert in our FAT on Friday after-noon/evening will be a great showcase of all the hard work done by the IASAS participants.

All art pieces from IASAS delegates will be on display for viewing prior to the festival concert featuring allIASAS Strings, Band, Piano and Vocal delegates under the direction of our visiting conductors. The highquality of artwork on display and the incredible musical talents of the IASAS participants will make for a

great evening of arts and music at this years ISM Art & Music Cultural Convention. Tickets for this art ex-hibition/concert will go fast and will be available soon. More details to come in upcoming bulletins.

I look forward to your support to make this a great ISM community event.

Mark PekinAthletics & Activities Director

From the ATAC Officerom the ATAC OfficeIASAS UPDATES

For those of you keen to fol-low the progress of our IASAS

athletes from Thursday to Sat-urday this week please check

out and the new and improved

IASAS website at

www.iasas.asia

Swim meet at SAS

Rugby/Touch/Tennis tournaments at JIS

Basketball at ISKL

Schedules, draws and live streaming of some events

will be available via this website.


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Name: Phone #: _______________________________________

Mobile #: _______________________________________

Address: Email: _______________________________________

Number of Students you can host? 2 3 4 5Circle your preference for athletes: Boy or Girls

Do you have pets? Yes No If yes, please indicate _______________

_______________________ __________ _________________________ _________________________

Student Name Grade Parents Signature Date

International School Manila

IASAS Art & Music Housing

March 3 7, 2010

January 2010

Dear ISM Community Members,

ISM will be hosting students from Singapore American School, Jakarta International School, International School of Kuala Lumpur, TaipeiAmerican School, and International School Bangkok for the IASAS Art & Music Convention. In order to put this event on we are required to

provide home stays for the guest delegates while they are in Manila. We are required to house 160 visiting students for this event. It is school

policy that students involved in ATAC sports/activities are willing to house a visiting student during IASAS. This policy will be strictly

enforced this year and all students will be expected to house. Teams will arrive Wed March 3 and students depart Sunday March 7.

Many of our students will be home stayed at other IASAS competitions during the year so this is a great opportunity to assist the school by provid-ing accommodation for visiting delegates

Please detach the form below and return it to Fine Arts Office or ATAC office ASAP. We will contact you within three days before the event tolet you know all the details relating to pickup/drop off times etc, to make the event a fulfilling and successful one for our student delegates, and forthose from SAS, JIS, ISKL, ISB and TAS.

General guidelines/expectations for host families when housing for an IASAS event:Pick up and drop off from and to school on arrival and departure days.Transport to school each morning and transport home in the evenings each day of the event.Provide a breakfast and snacks in evening. Visiting student should advise if they will require an evening meal. Some teams will have a team dinner or arrangeddinner one evening during their visit. Host families may only need to provide one evening meal.Ensure there is parental supervision when visiting student is at your home each evening.Expect to receive curfew calls from the visiting students coach around 10pm each evening.Please note: submission of the form to house does not guarantee you will get a guest to host.

Thank you very much in anticipation of your support.

Regards,

Mark PekinATAC Director

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please return this form to your son/daughters coach or ATAC Office as soon as possible.

Fine Arts/ATAC Office only: Date Received _________________________


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ISM Goodwill Gymnastics Meet 2010.

Our ISM varsity gymnastic team will be proudly representing ISM on February 13th at the ISM Goodwill GymnasticsMeet.

Meet starts at 8am and runs all day and with over 200 gymnasts competing in bars, beam, floor and vault you are sure to

see some great action. Please stop in and see the MS gym transformed with gymnasts twisting/tumbling and paparazzi ofphoto taking parents a plenty.

This day is the biggest on the calendar for our gymnastics team and the gymnastics parent booster club who assist greatly inthe set-up and organization of the meet.

Hope you can come on Saturday Feb 13th to cheer and support our ISM gymnastics team.

Attached is the program for the day.

International School ManilaGoodwill Gymnastics Meet 2010

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Feb. 13, 2007 (Saturday)

7:15 8:00 am General Warm-up

8:15 am Parade of Gymnasts

8:30 10:30 am Competition Proper ofLevel 1Level 1- (7 & under)

(8 yrs old)(9- 10 yrs. old)(11 yrs & above)

Parade of Gymnasts

10:30 12:30 pm Competition Proper ofLevel 2 and 3Level 2- (8yrs.& under)

(9- 10 yrs old)(11 yrs & above)

LUNCH BREAK (45 mins)

Parade of Gymnasts

1:30 4:30 pm Competition Proper ofLevel 3, 4 and 5Level 3: (11 yrs old & under)(12 yrs & above)

Level 4: (10yrs & under)(11 & above)

Level 5: Open

Awarding will take place in the ISM Little Theater right after the completionof each competition, which is located on the 2nd floor beneath the MS gym.


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From the PTA Officerom the PTA Office


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Calling all ISM Parents!!

International Family FunDay - ISM's annual PTA-

organized event to bring anafternoon of FUN, enter-tainment, and an incredibleinternational array of foodto all ISM families and fac-ulty - is set for Saturday,February 6th, 2-6 pm on theMS Field.

To make the event a success

(and help ISM's Commu-nity Service efforts), weneed MANY volunteerswilling to donate just one totwo hours of their time forwhat really is a fun andmemorable afternoon. Andthe first 50 volunteers whosign up will be given a spe-cial Family Fun Day tee-shirt to commemorate thespecial day!

Helping out is even morefun since as a volunteeryou'll be an active part ofthe memorable day - sellingitems at the on-site "Sari-Sari" store or coupons sothat kids can enjoy gamesand yummy treats! Bringyour family, volunteer one

hour, and then spend the rest of the time enjoying all that Family Fun Day has to offer!

Please consider volunteering for Family Fun Day - we need YOU to make this a great day - and contact JanicePowell ([email protected]), 0916-357-7720 or Sonali Hutchison ([email protected]) to sign up to vol-unteer or for more info. Thank you!!!!! "


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From the Security Officerom the Security Office


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