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11 September 2015Volume 3

Es parent bulletin

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER 

SEPT

16Wednesday Morning Student Late Start

8:30AM

22MAP Information Parent Coffee, 7:45-9am

(Rm 2123)

24 No Classes –  National Holiday

25 No Classes –  Faculty In-Service

OCT

7Wednesday Morning Student Late Start8:30AM

14-15Parent Teacher Student Conference-

Early Student Release 12pm

26-30 No Classes- School Holiday

Fom e ESSS dministration

 

Kath Murdoch Visit 

This week we have had the benefit of Kath Murdoch,educational researcher, consultant, and a world leader ininquiry based learning, working with all our teachers. Kathhas spent time focusing on our transdisciplinary skills anddispositions and how we support the teaching andlearning of these in our classrooms on a daily basis. Kath

has provoked our thinking, challenged us and most of all,modelled the inquiry process with us, as we have gonedeeper into these skills and dispositions. Aligned withthis, Kath has also worked on using an inquiry approachwithin our literacy program and more specifically, how wecan ‘inquire into’ reading and writing. Kath held a parentworkshop on Tuesday about inquiry based learning andhow we, as adults, can continue to foster that life longpursuit of ‘wondering’ and learning. One big idea that wewalked away with, was that the more we as adults, cannotice and name our own thinking processes, how welearn and ‘find out stuff’ (other than just google), the moreour children will see this as second nature and a part ofhow they live their lives. The notion of building their own‘learning power’ or capacity to learn new things, will becentral to their lives as they grow older and pursue theirpassions. Thank you to all those who took part inTuesday’s workshop with Kath. Below is the link toKath’s website, where there are a myriad of resources oninquiry based learning, for those who want to delve evendeeper and keep their ‘inquiry’ going. 

http://www.kathmurdoch.com.au/index.php?id=3  

Open House 

Thank you to all our parents who were able to attend our Open House presentations last week. It was great tosee so many parents engaging with their class teachers and getting a deeper insight to both our pedagogy andour program. For those that missed the event, below is a link to a recording of the Little Theater presentation. 

https://drive.google.com/a/ismanila.org/file/d/0B3pIaZWYUrXqZkt0TTVaT21ZWnM/view  

Have a great weekend. 

 Adam Campbe    Michael RourkeElementary Principal  Elementary Assistant Principal 

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From the T C Office

rom the T C Office

 

Tomorrow is the third of the RIFA ES/MS soccer festivals. See links at the ES/MS festival pages for venues and times.Venue information is also posted on ES/MS notice boards. Please check carefully and If you are in doubt about whetherthe event will go ahead due to heavy rain or extreme weather please follow the procedure at this link.  http://atac.ism-

online.org/manila-weather -forecast/atac-event-cancelation-extreme-weather/ 

ES RIFA festivals information and  MS Rifa festivals information 

Housing needed for IASAS soccer  Oct 7-11. ISM proudly hosts IASAS Soccer this year and it is going to be a fantas-tic event for our community. In order to host we need to house 160 athletes from the IASAS schools. Please considerhosting it is a great experience.  ES and MS along with HS parents can host. Check out the link at  IASAS housing infor-mation if you have any questions please contact the ATAC office. Forms can be printed and turned in to ATAC office oremailed to pekinm@ismanila.org. We currently need to house 75 more athletes!  

This coming October break ISM will be hosting a Fall Basketball Camp run by Filipino Basketball AcademyFBA.  See FBA flyer  for details. Flyer is also posted on notice boards around school. Sign up quick as places will gofast.

Well done to our ISM Bearcats Climbing team and coaches who participated in the 2nd round of the local wall climbingseries at PowerUP last Saturday. Out of 40 entrants in 3 categories ISM girls and boys won 2 gold (Emma and Leo-pold), 2 silvers (Patrick and Ruitong) and 2 bronze (Jacob and Gabie) 14 ISM climbers took part and all but 2 made it

into the final round. Well done Bearcats Climbing team and coaches.

Well done to our XC team who competed at Brent last Saturday. Race results can be found here  Brent meet results.

Next weekend our Varsity Volleyball and Cross teams travel to Kuala Lumpur for their exchange weekend and our Var-sity soccer teams travel to Singapore. Good luck to all players and coaches, this is great preparation for the IASAS S1championships in October.

Upcoming events: 

Sept 11 HS Volleyball teams away at Brent  Sept 11th Midgets A1/Asp vs DLSZ from 3:30pm/VBoys at 5:30pm 

Sept 12th Rifa Soccer Festivals ES/MS teams 

Sept 12 Rifa MS Girls Festival 1pm at ISM 

Sept 12th Cross Country meet at Faith

 8am

 start

 Sept 12th HS Soccer teams away at Faith 

Sept 18-20 Pre- IASAS exchange at KL(V'ball/XC teams) and Singapore(soccer teams) Sept 19 Swim meet at Brent. Sept 21- PRFU/CBRE Rugby clinic #2 with former All Black Geoff Alley 5:15-7pm @ HS Field ISM rugby players wel-come. For our Sailfish swim team program please check the Sailfish blog for information. http://sailfish.ism-online.org/ Please note the practice times 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 practice from 3:05- 4:50pm each day. MS seasonal teams practice 3:10-4:40pm. In order to clearthe campus prior to 5pm all after school programs will conclude by4:50pm  or earlier. The last bus is  4:55pm  this is dueto the ever increasing traffic concerns in our area.

Parents and students please take some time to peruse the ATAC blog it has a wide variety of information and links to

our sports and activities program. If you have any questions regarding the competitive program of sports at ISM afterreading the information on the blog please send an email to pekinm@ismanila.org and I will endeavor to assist you asbest I can.

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantastic spirit store. There is a new school  year sale on at the moment and a range of newproducts and items to purchase including items from our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operation- 7am-

4pm Mon-Fri.

GO BEARCATS...

Regards, 

Mark Pekin Athletic Director  

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Learning 2.0 at ISM - Now Open to ISM Parents!!!

Dear ISM parents,

You may have heard that ISM will be hosting one of theworld's leading technology conferences, Learning 2.0,from October 1-3. You may not know that we are involvingstudents from Manila area schools to give their voice to the

many innovations we will be considering at this conference.In addition, and for the first time, we would like to invitemembers of the ISM parent community to take part in thisconference. Having the voice of the parent community can

give the thinkers in this conference valuable insights into thelives of our young learners and how we can best supportthem with technology as we progress through the 21st Cen-

tury.

With this in mind, please read the announcement below andvisit the Learning 2.015 Website to find out more and regis-ter for the conference. ISM parents can receive a 20% dis-

count off the registration by entering the following promo-tional code: "ISMParents".

When selecting your Cohort, please select the "Int'l SchoolManila Parents Cohort".

If you have any questions please contact the ISM LearningOffice at learning@ismanila.org.

We hope to see you at the conference!

Kind regards,

ISM Learning Office

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PCA’s Newest Fundraiser!!! 

ISM Family Cookbook 

The Parent Community Associaon, in collaboraon with

Naonal Book Store, invites you to share your favorite

family recipe. Maximum of 2 recipes/family will be

considered. Your children’s best-loved recipes are most

welcome! 

Please submit your favorite recipes through the quick online

form ISM PCA Family Cookbook 

Recipes need to be submied by October 2, 2015 in order

for us to add them in our rst ever ISM Family Cookbook. 

**Books will be sold on campus and through Naonal Book

Store outlets.** 

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rom the PC Office

 

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