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24 April 2009Volume 18

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

APR

27 - 30ES Book Week

PTA Used Book Fair, Children’s Media Center

MAY

1 Labor Day Holiday - No School

5 AFAC Concert @ 1pm, Fine Arts Theatre

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Middle School Parent Evening @ 5-6.30pm,

Fine Arts Theatre

Information regarding the changes to grades 5and 6

9 K-12 Dance Recital @ 3pm, Fine Arts Theatre

13 - 15 Grade 5 Camp Caliraya Field Trip

JUNE

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Grade 4 Moving-On Ceremony @ 8-9am, Fine

Arts Theatre

Grade 5 Moving-On Ceremony @ 10-11am,

Fine Arts Theatre

Early Student Release @ 12 noon

End of 2nd Semester

29Children’s Musical Theatre performance @

1pm for students, Fine Arts Theatre.evening show @ 6pm, Fine Arts Theatre

Next week we have a lot going on in the ElementarySchool. Our CMC Book Week will be taking place to provide our students opportunities to learn more about howbooks are created by meeting with different authors andtaking part in storytelling sessions. Classes will each be as-signed to different times throughout the week. Our Chil-dren’s Musical Theater directed by Linell will be presenting“The Nightingale” performed by students in grades four anfive. They will be on stage in the Fine Arts Theatre for a

student performance on Wednesday April 29 at 1:00 p.m.,followed by an evening performance at 6:00 p.m. We lookforward to watching our students sharing their singing andacting talents!

It is at this time of the year that we start to receive a lot oquestions about classes for the next school year. In Elemetary School next year, we will be adding an additional class grade 2 and grade 5 will become a part of MiddleSchool. Therefore we will have the following classes:

Pre School 4 classesECLC 5 classes

Grade 1 – 4 6 classes each

Aside from the students going into their second year of PrSchool, where we maintain the group and teachers as mucas possible, mixing of classes is something that happens atevery grade level. We have a relatively transient studentpopulation and we feel it gives us the opportunity to balancthe classes for the start of the new year. It also helps thechildren expand their circle of friends and helps them toadapt to change.

The sectioning process is very involved, one in which all thteachers spend considerable time on and give a lot of thought and consideration. The aim of the process is to cate balanced groups in terms of gender, language proficiencacademic needs, emotional and social dynamics and a mix oethnicities. Students receiving Learning Support and ESL aalso distributed evenly across the classes. As much as possble, we also try to place each child with at least one otherperson he/she works well with.

The teachers of the grade are responsible for establishingthe classes their students are moving to. For example,

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From the ES Administrationrom the ES Administration Dear Elementary School Parents,

First of all I would like to update you on a staffing changethat took place last week. Mary Cunning, our CMC librar-ian, will no longer be with us for personal reasons, and forthe remainder of this school year the CMC will be underthe direction of David Birchenall, our Director of LibraryServices, with the support of Jo Cayabyab, our CMC In-structional Assistant. Joining the CMC next school year asour Librarian is Rebecca Pierce, one of our current gradefour teachers.



24 April 2009Elementary School Parent Bulletin

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Dear ISM Parents,

Greetings from the Admission Office! The Re-Enrollment Re-

quirements for School Year 2009-10 will be available for pick-

up in the Admission Office starting next week . All of the genericre-enrollment forms are ALSO available on the website if you wishto download and print the forms from there. The forms can befound under Admission and then under the Re-Enrollment &

Withdrawal tab.

The complete Re-Enrollment Packet will include the…1. Re-Enrollment Clearance Form for SY2009-10 (2-pages) for

each child in the family.2. Health Clinic Clearance Procedure (1-page) letter 3. Health Clinic Updating Form (2-pages) for each child in the

family4. Tuberculosis Screening Form (2-pages) for students entering Grades 1, 5, or 95. Parent and School Shared Agreements (4-pages) form for each child in the family6. OPTIONAL Board Proxy Form (1-page) for each family7. OPTIONAL PTA Directory Form (1-page) for each family

URGENT…if you know that your child(ren) will not be returning to ISM for the 2009-10 school year, please in-

form the Admission Office as soon as possible if you have not already done so. We currently have very few fami-

lies indicating that they will not be returning and consequently there are an ever growing number of applicants in

a WAITPOOL for possible openings. This is causing great distress and anxiety in those families (and in the Ad-

mission Office). If you are sure that your child will be leaving ISM, please submit a Withdrawal Notification

Form or contact and verify with the Admission Office (840-8488) that he/she is listed as not returning for SY2009-

10. The Withdrawal Notification Form can be obtained from the Admission Office or from the ISM website un-

der the Admission tab and then click on Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal. This will be a great help for our planning

and to the many families waiting to be admitted to the school. Thank you.

From the Admission Officerom the Admission Office

Hate to wait and be in a

long line?!?

Purchase your uniforms in advance for

School Year 2009-2010…

Just visit the ISM Uniform Shop at

Room P069 (beside the Security Office)every Tuesdays and Thursdays from

7:00a.m. to 4:00p.m.

See you there!!!

From the Uniform Shoprom the Uniform Shop

From the PE Departmentrom the PE Department Thank you to all those parentswho have sent in photos of chil-dren being active. They are nowon display outside the LittleTheatre. A recent article pub-lished in the School Health AlertNewsletter from Nashville Ten-nessee discusses a study thatconcluded that aerobic fitnesshas a significant relationship tocognitive function as measuredby academic performance. Rec-ommended activity guidelines for elementary aged children is a minimum of one hour per day. Good for your body and your brain it seems! Con-gratulations to all our 5th grade athletes that participated inthe final Amazing PE Race for the year today! It is good to

know that exercise also providesopportunities for fun and to be withfriends.It is terrific to see so many childrenwearing hats to PE lessons sched-uled on the ES Field.As of April 27th Coach Pekin’sclasses will be in the gymnasticsarea, Coach Bill’s classes will beswimming, Coach Noli will be on theCovered Court and Coach Perry’sclasses will be in the ES Gym.

Amanda PekinES Physical Education

[email protected]




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From the Art Departmentrom the Art Department Dear Parents,

Just a reminder that we, in the ArtDepartment, are still in recycling

mode. We particularly require news-papers at the moment and lots of it. Weare also currently in need of ribbons, string, bot-tle caps and tops, old tools and toys (even if it does notwork), gift wrap, greeting cards, magazines, hardware(broken is fine), transparent plastic wrap etc . Frankly,there is not much we can’t find a use for. Howeverplease do not send juice or milk containers as they at-tract cockroaches even when washed.

Thanks so much,

Olivia Jones ES Art

From the CMCrom the CMC The CMC celebrates the world of books and storytelling during our

More Than A Book Week! More Than A Book Week!

From Monday 27th April to Thursday 30th April, the CMC will celebrate the worldof books and stories by hosting several exciting events which will showcase local

authors, illustrators, storytellers and performing artists. We’ll be welcoming backsome of the guests from last year’s book week as well as introducing some newones, including:

Alitaptap Storytelling GroupAnino Shadow Puppet TheatreMs. Carla Pacis, AuthorMr. Elbert Or, IllustratorMs. Gidget Jimenez, AuthorMs. Melody Remorca, StorytellerMs. Neni Sta. Romana Cruz, AuthorMr. Robert Magnuson, Author and Illustrator

The schedule, including the location of each event, is posted on the bulletin board outside the ES Office. Par-ents are welcome to attend any of the events during the week and join in the celebration with us.

We hope that you and your children will enjoy More Than a Book Week and be inspired to explore all the dif-ferent ways that stories can be told. Congratulations to Candice Hodges, a student librarian from Grade 5who wins a book voucher from Fully Booked for suggesting the name of our event.

See you next week!

CMC Staff




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From the ATAC Officerom the ATAC Office Name Gender Age Group Time Place Overall

Place AgeGroup/Gender

M S / H S / AD UL T L ON G C O UR S E - 8 : 0 0 AM

Ray Oo M 13+14 14:37.0 1 1 Justin van Klaveren M 13+14 15:24.0 2 2

Gabriel Anaya M 15+18 16:36.0 3 1 Angie Oo F 15+18 16:45.0 4 1 Tyler Sy M 13+14 16:49.0 5 3 Noa Sison M 13+14 17:06.0 6 4 Lars Cohen M 13+14 17:57.0 7 5 Drew Caudill M 15+18 18:14.0 8 2 Masanori Kurisu M adult 18:47.0 9 1 Alex Wordling F 15+18 18:53.0 10 2 Eve Caudill F 11+12 18:55.0 11 1 Andrew Jeffries M adult 20:28.0 12 2 Yoatzin Anaya M 13+14 20:34.0 13 6 Gabriel Anaya M adult 23:34.0 14 3 Meg Caudill F adult 23:39.0 15 1

Julie Gooden F adult 24:32.0 16 2 Tim Klepp M adult 24:32.0 17 4

M S / H S / AD UL T S H ORT

C O UR S E - 8 : 3 0 AM

Jung Ho Kim M 13+14 09:17.0 1 1 Tatsuro Irie M 15+18 09:28.0 2 2 Tim Thomson M 13+14 10:19.0 3 3 Kara Maeda F 13+14 10:28.0 4 1 Conrad Lee M 13+14 10:44.0 5 4 Ca Yi Yoon F 13+14 10:46.0 6 2 Ethan Que M 13+14 10:56.0 7 5 Osamu Irie M Adult 12:58.0 8 1 Michael Liu M 13-14 16:45.0 9 6 Tzoalli Anaya F 13+14 18:05.0 10 3

E S GRADE S 3 - 5 - 8 : 4 5 AM

Sidney Miralao F 9+10 07:30.0 1 1 Georgina Pekin F 9+10 08:00.0 2 2 Alexander Woodruff M 9+10 08:06.0 3 1 Cayli Chia F 9+10 08:26.0 4 3 Panarin Sungkboon M 9+10 08:34.0 5 2 Claire Wordling F 9+10 08:50.0 6 4 Victoria Burgos F 9+10 08:58.0 7 5 Aleny Serna F 9+10 09:15.0 8 6 Martin Narciso M 9+10 10:02.0 9 3 Kaya Newton M 9+10 10:11.0 10 4 Julia Woodruff F 9+10 10:28.0 11 7 Pawarin Sungkboon F 9+10 10:37.0 12 8 Bryan Tan M 9+10 12:30.0 13 5 Adrian Li M 9+10 12:30.0 14 5

Yuma Sato M U8 04:14.0 1 1 Gabriela Miralao F U8 04:16.0 2 1 Charlotte Feeiki F U8 04:35.0 3 2 Imaya Jeffries F U8 04:36.0 4 3 Aleah Gooden F U8 04:38.0 5 4 Awe McCallum F u8 04:39.0 6 5 Daniel Klepp M U8 04:39.0 7 2 Seiryo Saki M U8 04:40.0 8 3 Kaichi Kurisu M U8 05:08.0 9 4

E S GRADE S 1 -2 -

9 : 1 5 AM




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International School Manila

SUMMER SPORTS CAMP

Badminton, Basketball and Soccer Camps will start on

June 8 to 26, 2008. These camps are open to ALL ES/MS/HS ISM students only.

Camp details are as follows:

Date: June 8 to 26, 2009Cost: Php 4,000.00

If you are interested in joining one or more of the camps please fill up form below and return to ATAC onor before May 13, 2009.

As soon as we have reached the minimum amount of participants to run the program,a formal permission slip will be sent to you through your child.

Limited slots available…… This is of first come first serve basis.

Sincerely,

Mark Pekin, Athletic and Activities Director

Reservation SlipDate: __________________________

Please reserve a slot for my child for this years 2009 Summer Mini Sports Camp(Please check sport/s below)

Basketball Soccer Badminton(Gr. 1 & Above) (Gr. 1 & Above) (Gr. 3 & Above)

Name of student Grade Parents Name and Signature

________________________ _______ _________________________

As soon as we have reached the minimum amount of participants to run the program, a formalpermission slip will be sent to you through your child.

GRADE SPORT DAYS TIME VENUE

ES/MS/HS Basketball T-TH 10:30am – 12:30nn MS/HS Gym

FRI 1:00pm – 3:00pm

ES/MS/HS Badminton M-W-F 10:30am to 12:00nn MS Gym

ES/MS Soccer M-W-F 8:00am to 10:00am HS Field

A3 Basketball Camp will be run by PBA coaches and National Team

Players

Asuncion Badminton Camp training will be conducted by the country’s top

shuttlers Kennie and Kennevic Asuncion.

ISM Soccer Camp will be made possible by our very own ISM soccer

coaches.




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CONGRATULATIONS!ISM JUDO BEARCATS

2009 ISM JUDO INVITATIONAL

NAME CATEGORYKwee, Brian +84kg.Sapinoso, Joshua +66kg.Hosoda, Rikuto Kids CategoryRoberts, Grace Kids CategoryTorres, Jerrick Kids Category

NAME CATEGORYFajardo, Ty Boy Kids CategoryLamont, Hugh Kids CategoryStevens, Grace Rose Kids CategoryTorres, Donnell Kids Category

NAME CATEGORYAbe, Honami Kids CategoryCaro, Amado -55 CategoryLee, Sangnon Kids CategoryTanaka, Brannon Kids CategoryTumiwa, Maya Kids Category

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

Dear Parents:

Please note a change (in bold below) in the payment of the$1,000 deposit for company sponsored Students under Re-

enrollment Clearance Form for SY09-10 for STEP2 – De-posit Payment:

Step 2: DEPOSIT PAYMENT. To guarantee a place for thecoming school year, the Cashier must receive $1,000 or itsequivalent payment, on or before May 15, 2009. This deposit will be applied to the tuition for the first semester.Except for US Embassy & ADB (Cashier’s signature stillrequired), parents and other companies with sponsored

students are directly responsible for the payment. If the

student subsequently withdraws, the enrollment deposit will be refunded via a graduated refund guideline

(available at the Cashier’s Office for review). No refund is

available within two weeks prior to the opening day of

school.

From the Treasury Officerom the Treasury Office

Grade 3 teachers will organize the Grade 4 classes fornext year. Once the grade level has made their final draft,

the lists are then reviewed by myself, Counselors, LearningSupport and ESL program leaders. At the end of the

school year, you will receive a section card informing youof your child’s teacher for the next school year.

It is not uncommon to receive special requests from par-ents. In order to minimize inequalities among sections, we

do not accept special requests from parents for placementwith a particular student, classmate or teacher. To do sowe would have to honor 770 preferences and this would

be impossible to do.

Thank you to those of you who have returned your re-enrolment forms for next school year. We have a number

of families who have not notified us of their enrolmentintentions at this time. We would like to encourage you

to do so as soon as possible. We have a number of our

grades and programs that currently have waiting lists fornext school year.

Have a great weekend,

Yours in Education,

Simon GillespieElementary School Principal

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From the ES Administrationrom the ES Administration




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From the Operations & Security Departmentrom the Operations & Security Department A MESSAGE FROM

THE OPERATIONS AND SECURITY DEPARTMENT

I. IDs for the New School Year

Parent IDs

Current parent IDs will continue to be valid for the newschool year 2009-2010.

Parents who require replacement school IDs due to lossor damage can acquire these from the Security Office upon pay-ment of Php100.00 to the Cashier.

Student IDs

All students will be issued with new ID cards at the begin-ning of the new school year. To facilitate this they should visit thesecurity office before the end of the current school year for thetaking of their photograph.

School Passes

School passes issued to parent’s employees and representatives need to be replaced for next schoolyear. As of August 31, 2009 the blue bordered passes will be invalid.

The security office is now accepting applications for new school passes, however the cards will not beavailable for collection before July 1, 2009.

Each family will be given two free school passes. Additional school passes may be obtained after payinga processing fee of Php100.00 each to the Cashier’s Office.

2, Car Stickers for the New School Year

The car stickers for school year 2009/2010 will be available from the security office beginning July 1,2009.

For vehicles already displaying an existing sticker, parents should submit a completed renewal form witha copy of a current LTO official receipt. For new vehicles, parents are reminded that a copy of the vehicle’s cer-tificate of registration and a current official receipt need to be submitted with the application. Applications for ve-hicles registered with companies or other institutions should be supported by a letter of assignment.

Each ISM family will be issued one vehicle sticker free of charge. Any additional stickers will be issuedfollowing payment of P100 to the cashier’s office.

I would like to thank all members of the ISM community for their cooperation across this schoolyear in helping us maintain ISM as a safe and secure environment for our children.

M I KE FLYNNDirector of Operations

and Security

ANNOUNCEMENT!ANNOUNCEMENT!ANNOUNCEMENT!

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