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8/11/2019 Parent Bulletin Issue 8 SY1415

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ISM Upcoming Events 9

Admissions 8

MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL

ISSUE # 8

SY 2014 2015

WEEK OF:

SEPTEMBER 29 toOCTOBER 3

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday Bulletin

MAP Tesng 2

Inside this issue:

Events & Acvies:

SEPTEMBER

29-30 MAP Tesng

Dear Middle School Parents,

Thank you to all of our students and teachers for fully parcipang in our Classroom Without

Walls experiencethis ThursdayandFriday. This has been an opportunity to build stronger con-

necons, a sense of community and to have fun together. With the ulmate goal of enhancing

the experience in the classroom throughout the year. When students have strong and sup-

porve relaonships with their peers and teachers there is a correlaon to improved student

learning. Thank you to our CWW organizers and to all teachers involved in the overnight expe-

rience.

This next week we begin MAP tesng in grades 5 -8. This is a standardized test students take

twice per year for Reading, Language Use and Mathemacs. Students will each take part in 3

sessions, the test is taken online. Results will be shared with parents at a later date along with

a complete descripon of the assessment. We use this to get a beer understanding of student

growth along with an overall look at student learning at ISM. This is one piece of data we use

to analyze student learning. Three are 550 schools internaonally that use this assessment so

we are able to get eecve benchmarking data.

This week we have a literacy consultant working with our English Language Arts teachers across

Middle School. Stevi Quate will also hold a session for parents onTuesday September 30in the

morning from7:30 -8:45 a.m.in the AMR. This is a good opportunity for parents to learn more

about how students learn and acquire literacy skills and how these are taught at ISM.

The Parent Teacher Conferences are once again just around the corner and we would like toinform you of the schedule in making your reservaons for the Middle School PTCs

onMonday, October 20thand Tuesday, October 21st. (1pm -6pmfor both days )Like last

year, this years parent teacher conferences will be reserved onlinethrough the Power Parent

portal.

The system will go live at 8.00 am on Tuesday, October 7th, at which me you will have access

to the PTC Scheduler part of PowerParent. Once logged in you will see an icon, named MS PTC

Scheduler towards the boom of the navigaon links on the le hand side of the page click-

ing this icon will send you directly to the PTC Scheduler. Pop-up-blockers will need to be turned

o to allow access to the next page.

Next Fridaywe will send a reminder email and aach a step -by-step guide which will walk you

through the reservaon process. If you have misplaced or forgoen your PowerParent

username and password, please call the Middle School Oce at 840 8550 / 8553 or email Kris-

ne Fong ([email protected]).

We look forward to seeing you in the aernoons of October 20th and 21stand hope that your

Parent-Teacher Conference runs smoothly. Many thanks for your connued support.

Have a great weekend ahead!

Yours in Educaon,

Simon Gillespie, Middle School Principal

Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal

Parent Coees

Service Learning / PTA

Clinic

Athlecs & Acvies

Aer-School Acvies

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Parent Coee

Campus Card Cornere-Account

Would you like to know how much you have spent

for a specic period or what items you have pur-

chased using the Campus Card? Heres how:

Log in to your account Go to Reports tab Click e

-Account Report (or Card Acvity Report) Select

your dates Click Show Results tab. You have to

opon to print it too.

For more informaon, visit:

hp://campusonline.ismanila.org

For quesons/concerns, email:

[email protected]
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PLEASE CLICK

HERE

TO SIGN UP.
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INVITATION TO JOIN COMMITTEE TO REVIEW PTA CONSTITUTION AND BY LAWS

Dear ISM Parents and Teachers,

The Parent Teacher Associaon (PTA) is calling for six parents or teachers to join a commiee, independent of the PTA Execuve, to over-

see a review of its Constuon and By Laws (By Laws).

The review will be conducted in consultaon with the broader ISM community over the course of this school year. If any changes are made

on the basis of the review, the enre parent teacher community will be called on to approve the changes.

The commiee will also include a small number of members of previous PTA Execuve Commiees who have worked closely with t he cur-

rent By Laws. ISM's administraon may also choose to add commiee members from the administraon.

How to Express Interest

We are calling for two parents or teachers from each of the three schools* (2 represenng HS, two represenng MS and two represenngES) who can conrm their availability and capacity to:

-aend meengs at least twice a month for the school year mostly during the school day but may include evenings;

-parcipate in various forms of community consultaon as required;

-dra various secons of the By Laws based on consultaon; and

-provide considered comment on various dras.

The parent's school is determined by which school your eldest child is currently enrolled in at ISM.

Please [email protected] Monday 29 Septemberto express interest or for more informaon. The current By

Laws can be viewed atismanila.org/pta

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Beginning on September 13, dierent service opportunies will be oered on Saturdays. Some events involve a trip to visit a

service partner while others involve hosng a local educaon program. Along with the joy of giving, students benet by in-

teracng with children from dierent backgrounds and geng to know the Philippines beyond Maka and Taguig. To parci-

pate, students simply pick up a permission slip from the MS Oce on the Monday before the trip. Once its been signed andreturned to the oce, a student can sign up on the roster. Some trips ll up quickly so encourage them to sign up early. Par-

ent are welcome to aend!

Saturday Service Dates for Semester 1

(Dates are subject to change.)

September 13 Philippine Community Fund

October 18 La Mesa Watershed & Hospicio de San Jose

November 8 Coolengo Filipino & CRIBS

November 15 Chosen Children Village

November 22 Love to Learn and PAWS

November 29 Papaya Academy

December 6 Tzu Chi Foundaon

If you have quesons, please send an email to Mr. Cory Willey at [email protected].
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Sprains and Strains

Asprainis an injury to a ligament. A ligament is a thick, tough, brous ssue that connects bones together. Com-

monly injured ligaments are in theankle,knee,and wrist.The ligaments can be injured by being stretched too far

from their normal posion. The purpose of having ligaments is to holdyour skeletontogether in a normal align-

ment --ligaments prevent abnormal movements. However, when too much force is applied to a ligament, such

as in a fall, the ligaments can be stretched or torn; this injury is called a sprain.

Astrainis an injury to a muscle or tendon. Muscles move your skeleton in an amazing variety of ways. When a

muscle contracts it pulls on a tendon, which is in turn connected to your bone. Muscles are made to stretch, but

if stretched too far, or ifstretched while contracng,an injury called a strain my result. A strain can either be a

stretching or tear of the muscle or tendon.

Causes of a Sprain

As said earlier, a sprain is caused by a ligament being stretched too far. A common sprain is an injury we oen

call a 'twisted ankle.' This injury oen occurs in acvies such asrunning,hiking, and basketball. People will fall

or step on an uneven surface (in basketball this is oen another player's foot) and roll their foot to the inside.

This stretches the ligaments on the outside of the ankle, called the talobular and calcaenobular ligaments.

Sprains are commonly graded according to the extent of the injury. Grade I and Grade II ankle sprains can usually

be treated conservavely with treatments such as icingandphysical therapy.Grade III ankle sprains can place

individuals at higher risk for permanent ankle instability, and an operaon may be a necessary part of treatment.

Causes of a Strain

Strains are injuries to muscles or the tendons that aach the muscles to your bones. By pulling too far on a mus-

cle, or by pulling a muscle in one direconwhile it is contracng(called an'eccentric contracon')in the other

direcon can cause injuries within the muscle or tendon. Strains can also be caused by chronic acvies that de-

velop an overstretching of the muscle bers.

Many sports place parcipants at risk for sprains and strains; these include football, basketball, gymnascs, vol-

leyball, and many others. These injuries also oen occur in normal everyday acvies such as a slip on ice, a fall

on your wrist, or jamming a nger. Repeve acvies may also cause a sprain or strain.

Not every injury can be prevented, but some common methods used to prevent sprain and strain injuries in-

clude:

Stretching beforeyou workout

Wear proper footwearfor the acvity

Warm up properly before acvies

Do not run on icy or uneven surfaces

Signs of Sprains and StrainsThe symptoms of a sprain are typically pain, swelling, and bruis-

ing of the aected joint. Symptoms will vary with the intensity

of the injury; more signicant ligament tears (Grade III injuries)

cause an inability to use the aected joint and may lead to joint

instability. Less serious injuries (Grade I injuries) may only cause

pain with movement.

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IASAS Volleyball/XC housing needed ASAP!ISM is hosng the IASAS Volleyball/Cross Country Champion-

shipsfrom October 15 to 19. We need to house 170 athletes for this event and as of today(Friday, September

26) we sllneed 25 beds with 3 weeks to go.

Please print and submit a housing leer to ATAC oce asap if

you can support this event. We really need lots of ISM community spirit to help make this a wonderful event

for our community. You can access housing informaon/FAQ's and the housing leer via this link: hp://

atac.ism-online.org/iasas/iasas-housing/

Due to the early release last Friday and cancellaon of matches last weekend local league organizers have

been meeng this week to reschedule matches. Please see updates posed on ES and MS Rifa Fesvals pages

and check the ATAC game schedules page for the most updated matches.

Upcoming matches:

Saturday, September 26-HS Volleyball teams away at Faith

Saturday, September 27- Cross Country meet at Brent

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 ES/MS Soccer Fesvals have informaon at these links. Please check carefully as these links are current

and updated hp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/1st

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-soccer

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and

hp://atac.ism

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online.org/atac/1st-season/ms-soccer-rifa-league-fesvals/

Bearcat Den: Drop by our new spirit store. There is a range of new products and items to purchase including

items from our service partners.Bearcat Den hours of operaon:7:00 A.M. 4:00 P.M.Monday Friday.

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 via the ISM parent portal not via power school as in the past. Use

thislink to access the parent portal, log in with your user name/password and look for the ATAC Game Sched-

ule tab. Remember to refresh the page when the pdf schedule appears so you view the most current schedule.

GO BEARCATS!

Regards,

Mark Pekin

Director of Athlecs/Acvies

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Please send us an email for any claricaons or concerns:

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IASAS Volleyball/Cross Country-housing needed ASAP! ISM is hosting the IASAS Volleyball/CrossCountry ChampionshipsOct 15-19. We need to house 170 athletes for this event. Please print and submita housing letter to ATAC office asap if you can support this event.

You can access information/FAQ's and housing letter via : VB/XC housing information

We really need lots of ISM community support to help make this a wonderful event.
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For more information about

the Vicky SyCip Herrera Scholarship,

click HERE or drop us a note at

[email protected].
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ISM CommunityArtAucon onNovember 20, 2014

You are cordially invited to the ISM CommunityArtAucon onNovember 20, 2014at The Fine Arts Theater.Butrst...

WEWANTYOURART!Weare looking for arsc works and/or estate objects made or owned by members or friends of

the ISM community. This includes,butnot limited to, painngs, photographs, drawings, prints, sculptures, jewelry, tex-

les, ceramics and estate items such as furniture and china. For more informaon, visit artaucon.ism-online.orgor email

[email protected].
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