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8 April 2016Volume 15

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

APR

13, 20, 27Wednesday Morning Meeting,

Student Late Start 8:30AM

12 - 21 Art Exhibit Week, FAT Lobby

15ESL Coffee Morning, 7:45 - 9:00 AM

Children’s Media Center

18-22 PCA Used Book Sale, CMC Lobby

19

Student-Led Conferences

Early Student Release, 12nn

Art Exhibit Opening, 12:30 PM, FAT

22 Parent Bulletin

29 School Holiday: No Classes

MAY

4,11,18,

25Wednesday Morning Meeting,

Student Late Start 8:30AM

6, 20 Parent Bulletin

18Parent Coffee, 7:45 - 9:00AM,

Little Theater

From e ESSS dminist ation

View. Create. Explore.

One of my favorite TED talks is by Sir Ken Robinson, an English

author, speaker and internaonal advisor on educaon in the

arts. In this talk he discusses the noon of creavity and in

parcular, the role of schools in fostering creavity. If there was

one ‘big

idea’

which

runs

through

his talk,

it is about

the

hierarchy of subjects which many schools and school systems

around the world create, by valuing more tradional ‘academic’

learning areas, over some of the more creave pursuits, such as

dance, drama, art and music. He quotes the famous arst Pablo

Picasso, when he says,

“Picasso once said this, he said that all children are born ar sts.

The problem is to remain an ar st as we grow up. I believe this

passionately, that we don't grow into crea vity, we grow out of

it. Or rather, we get educated out of it.”

From next Tuesday 12th April, we will be hosng the Elementary

Art Show for 2015/16. View. Create, Explore. This is a me for

our students to showcase some of their creavity in Art over the

past year. It is also a me to come and create and explore

yourself, with an interacve area designed for everyone to

become arsts themselves. Please do come and join us through

the week and help to dispel the noon that schools kill

creavity.

hps://www.ted.com/talks/

ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creavity?language=en

Adam Campbe l Elementary Principal


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Need to top up? ISM goes cashless in SY16-17!

Starting SY2016-2017 ISM will implement a full debit system in the MS/HS Canteen. The debit system pro-

vides customers with a cashless payment system once the customer's ID has been loaded with funds.

Parents and Students are encouraged to start using the debit system if they aren't already doing

so.

Please go to this link: https://goo.gl/q9fXlA for more details.

FROM THE AFAC

OFFICE

If you are available this Saturday,please come and supportCoach Cha in her final game of theseason for F2 Logistics Cargo Mov-ers Team. It will be great for thegirls to see Volleyball played notonly at a professional level, but alsoto see their Coach in action. Thegame is also available live on TV.

Saturday April 9, 2016. 12:30pm atFilOil Flying V Arena, San Juan.

You can get tickets at the venue,100pehp for lower box and 150phpfor patron.


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Campus Card Corner

Lost Campus Card

Whether you are on a family or individual

account, you can sll set a spend limit per day at

the Cafeteria, Copy & Print, and Bearcat Den

Here’s how:

Log in to your account →Go to E‐Account → Set Spend Limit →Click Save when done.

For more informaon, visit:

hp://campusonline.ismanila.org

For quesons/concerns, email:

[email protected]

A MESSAGE

FROM THECLINIC

Head Lice Checks

Next Monday 11th April, we will be commencingour final (of four) regular head lice checks. Weknow that everyone is susceptible to head lice,however children in an Elementary school setting are even more susceptible. Head lice is easily spreadthrough head-to-head contact.

Our checks involve one of our nurses visiting every classroom in the Elementary school and individuallychecking each student. In the event that a student is found to have head lice, they will be personally con-tacted by the Clinic (in confidence) and also sent information regarding treatment. Should there be twoor more cases within a particular class, all students in that class will receive a generic letter regardingtreatment and raising awareness.

Should you have any question about our program please get in touch with our Clinic administratorDorothee Binsfeld (840 8581 or BinsfeldD@ismanila org).

NO IMPACT WEEK

This year in ES we are taking part in 'No Impact Week' in collab‐

oraon with both MS and HS. 'No Impact Week' will take place

on April 18‐22, as we hope to promote a beer understanding

of sustainability and encourage sustainable behaviors in our

community. On Friday April 22, there will be a movie screening

of a movie that is themed around conservaon. The movie that

will be screened will be The Lorax in the Lile Theater

from 3:15 ‐ 4:45 pm.

Please note all Elementary students a ending, must be chaper-

oned by either a parent or a Middle or High School older sibling.

If it is the la er, please ensure they remain with their sibling at

all mes.

Thank you and we hope to see you all there.

Sophie and Inge (ES Service Learning Coordinators)


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From the ATAC Office

Best wishes to all our HS IASAS athletes who are compeng

right now at the S3 Championships at TAS for T&F, JIS for Golf,

ISB for Soball and SAS for Badminton. To keep in touch will all

the results and live streams go to www.iasas.asia from Thurs‐

Sat April 7‐9. Of special note this will be the 33rd and very last IASAS slow

pitch soball tournament played at ISB as next year boys will

play baseball and girls will play fast pitch soball. The IASAS

board confirmed the change of sports at last April's board

meeng. This will be an excing change and challenge for all

IASAS schools to implement both these sports into the athlec

programs.

ISM summer camps informaon/flyer is now posted to ATAC

blog. Summer camps are off ered the first 3 weeks of the

summer vacaon. Please note due to the large amount of

facility construcon planned for this summer camps will only be off ered in the mornings and all sessions will end by 12 noon or

before. hp://atac.ism‐online.org/atac/atac‐summer‐sports‐

camps/

S4 pracce schedule is now posted on noce boards and on

ATAC blog schedules page this week. S4 pracces are open to

all Gr 8‐11 student athletes. Current Gr 8's who will be

freshmen next SY are encouraged to come out as it is a great

opportunity to meet the coaches and other HS athletes while

geng in some pre season pracce in readiness for next SY.

ATAC S3 sports for MS/HS have now concluded.

Season 4 HS sports session off ered at this stage are‐

Girls‐ Soccer/Volleyball/Basketball/Touch

Boys‐ Soccer/Volleyball/Faculty/Student Basketball

Upcoming events:

April 6‐10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at SAS, Golf at

JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB)

Apr 21 5:30pm HS S3 sports awards (all S3 athletes and parents

invited)

Apr 22‐23 ISM Sailfish Spring Meet

Apr 24‐25 IASAS Board Meeng‐ Bangkok

May 7 ISM Goodwill Gymnascs Meet

May 13‐15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta

For our Sailfish swim team program please check the Sailfish

blog for informaon. hp://sailfish.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 at hp://

atac.ism‐online.org/schedules/all‐year‐round‐teams/

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 is 4:55pm this is due to the

ever increasing traffic 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.

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 be

playing 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. hp://

atac.ism‐online.org/files/2011/08/ATAC‐Game‐Schedule‐Users‐

Guide.pdf

Access the parent portal via this link (hp://203.177.92.107/

ParentPortal/LogInCommunity.aspx), 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.

Regards,

Mark Pekin Athletic Director


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