middle school parent bulletin - issue no. 29 - april 15 to 19

7/28/2019 Middle School Parent Bulletin - Issue No. 29 - April 15 to 19

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From the Middle School OfficeISSUE # 29

WEEKOF APRIL15 TO 19, 2013

Friday BulletinMIDDLE SCHOOL

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

From the Office of Admissionsand Advancement

From the ATAC Office

Form the HS Guidance office

Adult Language Courses

Moving On Workshop

Inside this issue:Dear Parents:

We hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday with their families. The

students denitely came back recharged and excited to see their friends.

Its hard to believe that only eight weeks remain in the 2012 2013 school

year and they are guaranteed to y by. Please talk to your child about ways

that they can stay focused and on top of their assignments. If they need

support, please encourage them to talk to a teacher or guidance counselor.

We want everyone to connue to progress and end the year on a high note.

Looking aheadwe will be hosng a Parent Coee on Thursday, April 25 in the

Lile Theater from 7:30 9:00 A.M. and we will connue to explore the role

that technology and social network sites play in the lives of adolescents.

Please mark your calendars and plan to join us!

Have a fabulous weekend with your children!

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie Clarissa SaysonMiddle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal

The Yearbook Picture

are now available for pi

up in the MS Office.

POWERSCHOOL UPDATPOWERSCHOOL UPDATMAY

10 Progress ReportsDistribution

From the Treasury Department

Dear ISM Parents:

This is a reminder to please view and check the ISM Web Online at hp://

community.ismanila.org/d/2/ for the latest update on your billing statement and

sele any remaining balance of account(s).

Please note that the 2nd

semester Tuion fee for SY2012-2013 was due last December

07,2012 while other school fees on your billing statements are already due as billed.

For those who havent seled yet, we appreciate your immediate selement of the

accounts.

For related billing and payment quesons including any username and password con-

cerns, please call 840-85-22/ 840-85-06/840-85-12 and look for RHODA VILLA

(Accountant) or MARISSA DULAY (Treasury Supervisor) and Elmer Esguerra ( Cashier).

You can also email us at [email protected] or [email protected]. and esguer-

[email protected].

UPCOMING EVENTSUPCOMING EVENTS

APRIL

15 to 19 ESL Placement Testi

19 Courtyard Event

25 Parent Coffee

MAY

2 to 15 Art Exhibit

20 to 24 MS Tour & Talk

24 Grade 5 to 8 Party/

Bearcat Idol

28 Grade 8 Advocating

Change

29 Homeless World cup

Tourney
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FRIDAY BULLETIN PAGE 2

From the Office of Admissions and Advancement

Dear Parents,

Please be reminded that keeping your contact informaon updated is vital to facilitang communicaon with theschool. If you would like to view/change any of the details on your current record, simply follow the steps below.


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Withdrawal Procedure for Students Leaving ISM

For those students who will be withdrawing from Internaonal School Manila this year, the following procedure applies:

Parents are obliged to inform the School ocially through a WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM, before the second Friday ofMay, if their children will not be returning to ISM.

Failure to do so will lead to a deducon of US$1,000 from the Facilies Upgrade Deposit (FUD), in compensaon for having held a

space for the child and thus prevenng the School from oering that space to another child prior to the summer holiday break.

The Withdrawal Nocaon Form can be obtained from the Admissions Oce or directly from the ISM website www.ismanila.org

under Admissions > Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal > Withdrawal

STEP 1:Return the Withdrawal Nocaon Form to the Admissions Oce or scanned and e-mailed as an aachment to

[email protected] .

Upon receipt of the Withdrawal Nocaon Form by the Admissions Oce, a copy will be forwarded to the appropriate

School Oce and the Finance Oce for their acon.

The School Oce, upon receipt of the Withdrawal Nocaon Form, will iniate the student clearance procedure which

requires a Middle or High School student to have the Student Clearance Slip signed by the indicated teachers and oces

for clearance. For Elementary students, the Elementary Oce will handle the withdrawal clearance.

Note that school transcripts and records will be available from the parcular school oce approximately een working

days aer the childs last day of aendance at ISM. Please coordinate directly with the parcular School Oce if you

require other arrangements.

STEP 2: If required, and when completed, the Student Clearance Slip must be taken to the Cashiers Oce. Only aer the Cashier

has received and signed the completed clearance form will the childs transcript or school records be released from the Elementary,

Middle or High School Oce. Please note that one copy of the transcript is provided free of charge, addional copies cost P100

each, payable at the Cashiers Oce before release. Please coordinate directly with the parcular School Oce if you require

more than one copy of school records.

STEP 3: In order to receive your Facilies Upgrade Deposit or FUD (formerly the Special Project Deposit) refund, the following must

be submied to the Cashiers Oce:

1) Signed Student Clearance Slip

2) Signed Facilies Upgrade Deposit Cercate

Please note that the FUD refund will not be released before your childs last day of school and may take up to thirty (30) days. Only

the person whose name appears on the FUD Cercate may claim the refund at the Cashiers Oce.

Please call the Cashier at 840-8506 if you have quesons regarding your FUD Cercate.

Please allow the withdrawal process to go smoothly by starng the process early. Thank you for your help and understanding.

If you will be withdrawing before the end of the school year and wish to receive your childs YEARBOOK please submit the appropri-ate form to the School Oce. The forms are available through the web site: Admission > Re-Enrollment & Withdraw-

al>Withdrawal

Elementary School Yearbook: ALAALA

Middle School Yearbook: SALINLAHI

High School Yearbook: KAWAYAN

Sincerely,

Stephanie H. Hagedorn

Director of Admissions & Advancement

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From the Athletics & Activities Office

MS/HS 3rd Season sports have now concluded with the IASAS Championshipstaking place this week. The 3rd season sports awards will be held April 24, 3:15

p.m.-

4:15 p.m. for MS (Badminton/Track teams) at the Little Theater and from5:30pm at the Lofthouse for the HS awards (Badminton/Softball/Track teams).

Full results from the recently held Gymnastics competition are now available onthe ATAC blog gymnastics page!

Good luck to all our IASAS teams who will travel to TAS (softball), ISKL (Golf), Ja-karta (Badminton) this week. Whilst we are hosting IASAS Track and Field at ISM,our other teams will be battling for Gold medals at their season ending champion-ships. We wish them all the very best. Keep in touch with all the action viawww.iasas.asia. ISM will be live streaming IASAS Track and you can access the

live stream link via the track link on the www.iasas.asia site.

IASAS Track and Field April 10-14: Thanks to everyone that has housed athletesfor this event. We cannot do this without you. Your support of our school andIASAS athletics program is much appreciated. Come out and cheer on our Bear-cats athletes this afternoon and tomorrow as they compete for Gold!

Sailfish Head Coach Appointment:We are pleased to announce that ES PE teacher/varsity swim coach Miss Holly

Chapman has been appointed as Head Sailfish Coach for next year to replaceCoach Andy. Coach Chapman has already started working with Coach Andy andhas the added bonus of being able to mentor with him over the next 2 months toensure a smooth transition for next year. She will attend theGold Coast Australia swim coaches conference in May tofurther her coaching credentials. She has her Australianswim coaches competitive strokes qualification, was a juniorcounty swimmer in the UK and has coached swimming inher previous employment prior to arriving at ISM.

Coach Andy has done a wonderful job with our Sailfish pro-

gram since his arrival 5 years ago. His enthusiasm and drivewill certainly be missed. He has developed a strong pro-gram, doubled the numbers of squad swimmers, brought to-gether a committed parent support group and establishedclear guidelines and operating systems for swimmers, par-ents and coaches and more importantly has provided excel-lent coaching to our sailfish swimmers. We wish Andy andhis family the very best for their move to Europe this sum-mer.
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Please remember the swimming facility will close for renovation starting May 17and the planned reopening of the pool is set for September 1 st. We are building anew 2 level grandstand, new locker rooms, new storage area, new coaches lockerrooms, additional restrooms for the public and resurfacing the pool surrounds.

ISM Summer Sports Camps information is now available on the ATAC summercamps blog page. The informational flyer will also be in the parent bulletins. Signups are on a first come first served basis!

A great way to stay in touch with the ISM ATAC program is to subscribe via RSSfeed to the ATAC blog and also to follow via twitter (see twitter feed on the bloghome page). Each Monday, I will post the weeks happenings and highlight im-portant events for students and parents information on the ATAC blog and in theregular Friday parent bulletins.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF (access to game schedule information): Informationabout all mid-week/ weekend fixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATACblog. Please note the game schedule does change often due to involvementwith many local schools so please check the page regularly to find out thelatest information of where and when the Bearcats teams are playing. Click onschedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to the power school secure sitehttp://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/

You will need your power school user name and password to access the gameschedule pdf.

BEARCAT DEN: http://atac.ism-online.org/bearcat-den/

Our Bearcat Den is open for business, please drop by to check out the range ofBearcat products. We have a great team of volunteers who run the den and are al-ways looking for more people to help out. If you are interested in joining a fantasticgroup please contact any of our den members during den opening hours. If youreinterested in joining the Den volunteers please contact Carolyn Ching for [email protected]. We are always looking for new volunteers and encour-

age parents from ES/MS to join our group.

Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den: Wed and Fridays from 11:30 a.m. 1:00 p.m. and each afternoon from 2:30 p.m. - 4p.m.
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Dear HS Parents,

We are very pleased to introduce/reintroduce you to an excing iniave developed back in 2010 by

the HS Guidance Department in cooperaon with the HS Administraon:

Bearcat Career Experience

As we all know well, high school for students is (among many things) a me of self-discovery. It is ame where our students begin to beer acknowledge their aptudes/likes, where they hone their strengthsand where they begin to sort through that rather complicated map known as their educaonal and future ca-reer path. Unfortunately, it is oen a map with gaps between what they learn in their academic classrooms

and the real world their teachers are working to prepare them for.

In short, we hope to help bridge that gap for some of our high school students through a ve-daysummer internship (June 10th 14th, 2013) with various companies in the Metro Manila area.

Last year we were very fortunate to place over 120 ISM highschool students (sophomores and juniors) with 30 companies(including Alaska Milk, Asian Development Bank (ADB), and MakaMedical Center to name a few) in the Metro Manila area. This year, wedenitely feel those numbers could increase. However, in order tomake this a reality, we need reputable companies from a variety ofindustries to form partnerships with us and take part.

As parents of our dedicated and movated HS students, youmay own, be employed by, or know of a company interested in sup-

porng this very worthwhile endeavor. We ask for your support inhelping us develop potenal Career Experience placements and sub-sequently, lasng posive relaonships with companies in the MetroManila area.

We ask that you take me to reect on this important iniave (currently in its 3rd

year) and its valuefor our ISM community.

Please take a look at our website here hp://bearcat-careers.ism-online.org/what-is-a-bearcat-career-experience/ . This page should give you an idea of what the program is all about.

You might also want to check out this video too. hp://bearcat-careers.ism-online.org/media/

If you are in a posion to take one or more of our students at your company or know of an interest-ed company, please let me know.

Please also contact me at [email protected] if you have any quesons or need further claricaon.

Informaon about how your son or daughter (current sophomores and juniors only) could apply for aCareer Experience posion will be communicated to all of you at a later date.

You can also get more informed and up to date posts about the Bearcat Career Experience by liking ourfacebook page at hps://www.facebook.com/BearcatCareerExperience

Thank you very much for your support and I look forward to hearing back from some of you. J

Sincerely,Doug McQueenHigh School Counselor


From the High School Guidance Office
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