parent bulletin issue 33 sy1516

8/16/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 33 SY1516

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ISM Upcoming Events

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Admissions & Advancement

Parent CommunityAssociaon

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Athlecs & Acvies

Operaons & Security

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Cashier’s Oce

Clinic 4

Fine & Performing Arts

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 33

SY 2015–2016

WEEK OF:

MAY 23 TO 27

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue:

MAY:

MS Upcoming Events:

K-8 DANCE RECITAL

Saturday, May 14

MS SPIRIT WEEK

May 23 to 27

AFAC CONCERT

Tuesday, May 31

Dear Parents,

We had an excing start to the week as we learnedthat our MS Bearcats won gold over the weekend inthe MS Mixed Touch Rugby compeon. The girls’team came in 4th overall and boys’ team came in5th. The students had an enriching experience inJakarta and brought back an amazing trophy that isnow proudly displayed in the MS Oce!

Yesterday, the G5 students in Ms.Arrieta’s G5 Strings class visited the

oce to play three musical pieces. Their nal piece, “Don’t Stop Believing” was dedicatedto Ms. Susan Aguila as she reres at the end of this school year. Students wanted Ms.

Susan to ‘never stop believing’ that she will always be part of the MS family! It was a verytouching tribute and the students delivered an impeccable performance!

THIS WEEK:

MS Spirit Week This fun-lled week has nally arrived! Below is an overview of the daily themesso you can remind your child each evening!

Monday, May 23rd

Spirit Day: Twin/Triplet Day Student who do not wish to parcipate must wear their regular ISM uniform

Tuesday, May 24th

Spirit Day: Pajama Day

Student who do not wish to parcipate must wear their regular ISM uniform

Wednesday, May 25th

Be the Change No Uniform Day. Cost= 50 pesos Student who do not wish to parcipate must wear their regular ISM uniform

Thursday, May 26th

Spirit Day: Crazy Hair or Hat Day Student who do not wish to parcipate must wear their regular ISM uniform

Friday, May 27th

Project Awesome No Uniform Day (CRIBS– donaon/ collecon) Student who do not wish to parcipate must wear their regular ISM uniform

Need to top up?

ISM goes cashless in SY16-17!

Starng SY2016-2017 ISM will implement a full

debit system in the MS/HS Canteen. The debit

system provides customers with a cashless pay-

ment 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.

Click here for details.

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NEXT WEEK:

Tuesday, May 31st AFAC Recitals

Time : 3:00- 5:00 p.m.

Locaon: Lile Theater Check out the AFAC Blog for more details.

MS Concert

Time: 5:30 p.m. Locaon: FAT This will feature performances by the MS Band,

Strings and Choir students

Wednesday, June 1st

Math Carnival!

Time: 8:30 - 11:00a.m. Locaon: Lohouse

For their nal unit on probability, all students inGrade 7 Honors Mathemacs have been busydesigning and creang games of chance. All ofthese games will be combined to form the se-cond MS Math Carnival Day. All members of theISM community are invited to aend and helpthe Grade 7 students apply their knowledge ofprobability to real life. Come along and join in thefun!

Thursday, June 2nd

Advocang for Change Day

Who: G8 students Time: All Day (Opening assembly is at 7:30)

Locaon: Various locaons

Thursday, June 2nd Advocang for Change Day

Who: G8 students Time: All Day (Opening assembly is at 7:30) Locaon: Various locaons

Friday, June 3rd G8 to G9 Transion Morning for Students

Time: 7:30 - 12:00 noon G8 students will spend the morning rotang

around dierent HS classes so they can learnmore about their upcoming transion to HS.

Students who are deparng ISM at the end ofthis school year, we have a separate programfocused on transions.

G8 students are dismissed at 12:00 noon so theycan go home and get ready for the Dinner Dance.

G8 Dinner Dance

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Locaon: Lohouse Please note this is a student event and parents

do not aend.

Library Renovaons and Revised Book Check Out Dates:

Please remember the library is being renovated this sum-

mer! The revised schedule below will help you stay organized

in regards to book returns and summer check outs.

May 3rd -12th = Normal daily operaons- all resources

available for usage and check-out.

May 11th - 20th = Summer check-out for students/

parents/faculty commences - resources in the non-con

secon will be limited.

May 20th = All books/resources must be returned from

students/parents - except those on summer borrowing!

May 23rd - 25th = MSMC is open but no book/resource

check-outs will be available

May 26th = Library closes for the 2015/16 school year.

Last Day of School:

The last day of school for students is on Thursday, June

9th. Students will be dismissed at 12:00 noon. If you are

taking your child out of school before this date, please be

sure to email the MS Oce.

Kind regards,

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

NEED TO KNOW:

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PROJECT AWESOME (Grade 7)

7th grade Cobras are going to donate school supplies

to an organizaon called Springboard which will pass

them on to schools in need.

If you have any backpacks or school supplies that you

can donate, please bring to advisory during upcoming

weeks.

If you want to know more about this organizaonSpringboard, you can visit this website:

hp://springboard-foundaon.org/

If you have any quesons about this, please ask Ms.

Lepp ([email protected]) or Mr.Richardson

([email protected]).

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The ISM Fine & Performing Arts Oce lms many performances throughout the school year. Unfortunately, due to copyright

laws, we cannot post many of these events to a public access site such as YouTube. In order to make access to these events

easy for ISM families, we have now added a Google folder containing the lms in the "Quick Links" list of the Parent Portal.

Here is a screenshot of this link:

Once you have clicked on this link, you will be taken to the Google folder that contains folders label by the school year.

Click on the year in which the event you want to watch took place and a list of video les will appear.

Because the le sizes are so big, downloading the video you want to watch to your personal computer is recommended.

This also means you will retain access to it aer you leave ISM and it will be easy to share with family members via le

share sites such as Google Drive or Dropbox.

You can download by clicking on the video le you want. A similar screen as seen below will open and then you select the

download tab, which is located at the top-center of the screen:

You will be asked to select where you want to

save the le on your personal computer.

Currently we only have events for this year

available, but will work on shiing over the last

two years as well in the coming weeks. We will

also eventually include folders containing pho-

tos taken by our ISM student photographers at

some events.

SHARING POLICY

The videos in this folder are provided for pri-

vate family viewing only. These videos

SHOULD NOT be uploaded to the internet for public access. If this becomes an issue, we will have to stop providing the

lms in this manner. You can certainly share your downloaded les to family members in other countries but please make

it clear to them that these videosSHOULD NOT be uploaded to any social media or public access site.

Happy viewing!

Marsha Hillman

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YEAR-END CLEARANCE REMINDERS:

NOTE 1 : Student charges will be FINAL on June 07,2016 . Kindly view the ISM Web Online and sele the re-maining outstanding balance(s) in me for year end clearance SY2015-2016 .

NOTE 2 : In ancipaon of the year-end clearance for SY2015-2016, please note that only students with fullypaid SY2015-2016 fees will have their clearance forms signed by the cashier and will then have access toschool documents such as report cards and transcripts.

Likewise, for next school year’s incoming Pre-School 4 to Grade 4 old students, secon cards will be releasedby the Accounng Oce on June 9, 2016 and thereaer only if current school year (2015-2016) fees are fullyseled.

NOTE 3 :Please be informed that for the purpose of clearing the accounts of students for SY15-16, On-ly CASH payment will be accepted by ISM cashiers both for dollar and peso payments aer the cut o dates

below :

Peso checks will no longer be accepted starng on May 23, 2016 (Monday) while US$ checks will no longerbe accepted starng on April 25, 2016 (Monday). This is to allow enough me for the check to get cleared bythe bank in me for the student clearance in June. Please also note that US dollar coins are not accepted bythe cashier, however, the same can be converted to its peso equivalent to sele the remaining fees.


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IDs for the New School Year

Parent IDs

The previously issued black and white parent IDs will connue to be valid for the new school year. Standard par-ent cards are issued free of charge. Parents may, however, elect to apply for a smartcard ID which will be usable

with the cashless payment system introduced into the school for SY 2013-14. There will be a fee of P250.00 for a

smartcard.

Applicaons for parent IDs can be processed through the Security Oce.

Student IDs

All students will be issued with new ID cards at the beginning of the new school year. The cards will be compa-

ble with the cashless payment system. There will be no need for returning students to visit the Security Oce as

we will be ulizing the photographs taken for the yearbooks.

School Passes School passes issued to parent’s employees and representaves need to be replaced for next school year. As of

August 31, 2016 (Wednesday) the brown bordered passes will be invalid.

The security oce is now accepng applicaons for new school passes, however the cards will not be available

for collecon before July 1, 2016. These passes will not be compable with the cashless payment system.

Each family will be given two free school passes. Addional school passes may be obtained aer paying a pro-

cessing fee of Php100.00 each to the Cashier’s Oce.

Car Sckers for the New School Year

The car sckers for school year 2016/2017 will beavailable from the security oce beginning July 1,

2016.

To obtain a new vehicle scker please submit a com-

pleted vehicle scker form. Applicaons for vehicles

registered with companies or other instuons

should be supported by a leer of assignment.

Each ISM family will be issued one vehicle scker free

of charge. Any addional sckers will be issued fol-

lowing payment of P100 to the cashier’s oce.

I would like to thank all members of the ISM community for

their cooperaon across this school year in helping us main-

tain ISM as a safe and secure environment for our children.

Sincerely,

MIKE FLYNN

Director of Operaons

and Security

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6/16

Congratulaons to our MS Mixed Touch team who played at theirend of season tournament at Jakarta last weekend. The mixedteam won Gold, the girls team placed 4th and boys team placed5th. Well done Bearcats players and coaches.

Thank you and well done to all that took part in the Sailsh Aqua-thon at the ISM pool and MS eld last Saturday morning. Nextweek the Sailsh season comes to and end with the annual poolparty and Sailsh awards on Tues May 24th. To all sailsh swim-mers, parents and our coaching team led by Coach Holly and Ha-zel well done on an excellent year. Sailsh tryouts will begin therst full week of the school year in August, stay in touch via theSailsh blog for announcements for new student tryouts and re-turning sailsh member tryouts. If you will not be parcipang inSailsh next SY please contact Coach Hazel to inform her so thatsquad numbers can be sorted and spaces allocated for new mem-bers.

End of year awards/cercate distribuon for our all year round

ATAC teams will take place this year at the nal training session ofthe year the week beginning June 1st. Snacks/drinks will be pro-vided at the last session and coaches will present parcipaonand individual awards to conclude the year for Table Tennis,Chess, Wall Climbing, Aikido, Tae Kwon Do and Judo teams.

ISM summer camps informaon/yer is posted to the ATAC blog.Summer camps are oered the rst 3 weeks of the summer vaca-on. Please note due to the large amount of facility construconplanned for this summer camps will only be oered in the morn-ings and all sessions will end by 12 noon or before. hp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/atac-summer-sports-camps/

S4 runs from April 11 to June 3 and the pracce schedule is post-

ed on noce boards and on ATAC blog schedules page . S4 prac-ces are open to all Gr 8-11 student athletes. Current Gr 8's whowill be freshmen next SY are encouraged to come out as it is agreat opportunity to meet the coaches and other HS athleteswhile geng in some pre season pracce in readiness for next SY.ATAC

Season 4 ATAC HS seasonal sports sessions oered are-

Girls- Soccer/Volleyball/Basketball/Touch

Boys- Soccer/Volleyball/Basketball/Faculty/Student Basketball

Please note due to the very hot weather ISM reserves the right tocancel acvies on short noce if the use of our outdoor facilies

is deemed too hot on any given day. Every eort will be madewhere possible to schedule S4 pracces on the shaded MS eld orin a covered facility.

Upcoming events:

May 24 Sailsh end of year pool party and awards evening

June 1 Bearcats for street soccer MS/HS fundraiser for chari-ty

May 30-June 3 End of year awards presentaons for ATAC all

year teams(Chess/Table Tennis/Wall Climbing/Aikido/TKD/Judo)

June 3 Last day of AFAC and ATAC training

Aug 4,5,8,9 S1 HS Tryouts (Volleyball/Soccer/Cross Country)

Aug 8,9,10 S1 MS Tryouts (Volleyball/Soccer/Cross Country)

Aug 8,9,10 Tryouts/Registraon for ES Rifa League Soccer

Gr1-4.

Aug 8, 10, 12- Tryouts/Registraon for ATAC All Year teams( Sailsh swim squads, Gymnascs, Wall Climbing, Table Ten-nis, Chess, Akido, Judo, TaeKwonDo

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the Sailsh blogfor informaon. hp://sailsh.ism-online.org/

Please note the pracce mes for ATAC programs for SY 15-16are as follows: ATAC all year round teams- 3:15-4:30. See sched-ule for our All year round teams program at ATAC blog schedulespage

All HS seasonal teams pracce from 3:05- 4:50pm each day. MSseasonal teams pracce 3:15-4:45pm. In order to clear the cam-pus prior to 5pm all aer school programs will conclude by4:50pm or earlier. The last bus is 4:55pm this is due to the everincreasing trac concerns in our area.

Parents and students please take some me to peruse the ATACblog it has a wide variety of informaon and links to our sportsand acvies program. If you have any quesons regarding thecompeve program of sports at ISM aer reading the infor-maon on the blog please send an emailto [email protected] and I will endeavor to assist you as best Ican.

The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by TrizGonzalez (ATAC Athlecs Coordinator) gives the most up to date

informaon on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will beplaying throughout the school year. Access to the game scheduleis now via the ISM parent portal not via power school as in thepast. A navigaon guide is available here. ATAC Game ScheduleUsers Guide.

Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your user name/password and then look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab underthe le side quick links. Don't forget to refresh the pdf page eachme it opens so you access the most current schedule. Pleasenote this schedule does change oen and at short noce due toinvolvement with many local schools and organizaons.

Check it regularly for the most up to date informaon. For securi-

ty purposes....access to the ATAC

game schedule pdf must belinked via the secure parent portal and details should not beshared with non ISM community members.

Bearcat Den- drop by our fantasc spirit store for year end saleitems. Get some Bearcat gis for friends and family Bearcat Denhours of operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

Best Regards, Mark Pekin Director of Athlecs and Acvies

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Important informaon on Re-Enrollment for SY 2016-17

Dear Parents:

We will begin On-line Re

-Enrollment for school year 2016

-17 on Monday, April 4. As before, parents will have to log into

PowerSchool in order to do this. Below are instrucons to help. If you are not sure of your PowerSchool log-in or need sup-

port, please contact the Middle School Oce.

Please note that you must complete re-enrollment Steps 1 & 2 by 4pm on Friday, May 27 at the latest. PowerSchool will closeon that date unl the start of SY16-17. We have over 500 students on our waitlist, and we will assume that your children are

leaving if you have not completed the re-enrollment process.

If your child/ren will not be returning for SY16-17, you MUST follow the Withdrawal Procedure and submit a Withdrawal No-caon Form on or before Friday, May 13. Click here for more informaon.

Online Re-Enrollment

Step 1: Visit www.ismanila.org and click on Parent Portal under the Quick Links drop -down menu. Log-in to the Parent Portal

and click on PowerSchool. Please refer to the aached guide on “How to Access Online Re-Enrollment.”

Step 2: Look for the Re-Enrollment Clearance icon on the le hand panel. Click on the icon. Create your Re-enrollment Clear-ance Form and click submit aer updang. You will receive an email nocaon verifying that you have been successful up-dang your child’s record.

Step 3: Submit Forms (if applicable)

Students entering Grade 6 will be required to download and complete the Standard Physical Examinaon Form(with ECG) which should be submied to the ISM Health Clinic as soon as possible.

Students entering Grade 7 will be required to download and sign the ISM Drug Policy Form which should be sub-

mied to the MS Oce as soon as possible.

Step 4 You must sele all charges for SY15-16 which may include incidental fees not covered by company sponsorship (ATAC

uniforms, instrument rental, payment for lost textbook, etc.).

Step 5: You must pay the rst quota of tuion fees for SY16-17 to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION for yourchild to aend class on August 4, 2016.

Tuion and Fees: Please sele your accounts through our Cashier’s Oce.

Successful compleon of required steps will generate a NO REPLY email conrmaon. Compleon of all steps is necessary in

order to receive your FINAL CLEARANCE NOTIFICATION.

To check status of Re-Enrollment, please visit the Parent Portal page.

Class Schedule distribuon dates are as follows:

August 01, 2016: Grade 5 and 6 (MS Intersecon)August 02, 2016: Grade 7 and 8 (MS Intersecon)

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