M I D D L E S C H O O L

F R I D A Y
BULLETIN
WEEKLY PUBLICATION FOR PARENTS
Issue # 16 Week of January 15 — 19  SY1718

Dear Parents, printed copies available.

Welcome back to school!
This semester we welcome 28 new students to the Middle
School, bringing our overall total to 707 students. ISM is very
proud of its caring and supportive climate and we look for-
ward to embracing all new families into our community. If
you are new, please don’t hesitate to stop by the MS Office
or our wonderful PCA office if you have any questions. We
understand how difficult transitioning to a new school mid-
year can be, so please let us know if we can be of any assis-
tance. Please also note that we have a dedicated New Par-
ent Coffee scheduled for Tuesday, January 23rd at 7:30 a.m.
This session will help all new parents learn more about our
Middle School and provide them with the opportunity to ask
questions of the MS Leadership and Counseling Teams.
The second semester is kicking off at full speed with MS after
-school activities starting, auditions for the MS play (Peter
Pan) taking place from January 15th - 17th and we also have
a visiting literacy consultant called Matt Glover on campus.
 Cost: 350 PHP per ticket. (Tickets go on sale on
Tuesday)
 All proceeds go to charity and there will be ser-
vice learning vendors, food stands and some
amazing raffle prizes including an IPhone 8 and a
Go-pro camera!
 Venue: ISM Campus (Bus car park area by Gate 3)
 Organizers: HS Student Committee
COMING UP NEXT WEEK: (JANUARY 22 - 26)
Tuesday, January 23rd:
 MS New Parent Coffee:
 Presenters: MS Leadership Team and Counselors
 Time: 7:30 - 9:00 a.m.
 Venue: Little Theater (LT)
 Focus: Information session for new parents.
 Please note, if you joined ISM after August 2017,
you are more than welcome to attend this ses-
sion.

Please check out the dates and informational points below,

so you are firmly in the communication loop!
What’s
Inside?
IMPORTANT DATES:

THIS WEEK: (JANUARY 15 - 19)

Thursday, January 18th:
 Parent Coffee:
 Presenter: Matt Glover (International Consultant) MS Play: Peter Pan 3
 Time: 7:45 - 9:15 a.m.
 Venue: Little Theater (LT) Campus Card Corner 3
 Focus: Literacy (Reading and Writing)
Alumni News 3
Saturday, January 20th:
Athletics & Activities 4
 Battle of the Bands - Prelims:
 Time: 5:00 - 9:30 p.m. Admissions & Advancement 6
 Permission Slips: MS students will need to submit
a completed permission slip in order to purchase ISM Upcoming Events 6
a ticket. Permission slips will be emailed to par-
ents on Monday and the MS office will also have
Wednesday, January 24th Friday,
January 26th:
 MS/HS Report Cards  Run to the Sun:
 The MS report cards are uploaded to PowerSchool  Time: 4:30 - 8:30 p.m.
and will be open for parent access on Wednes-  Venue: HS Track and Field
day, January 24th.  Focus: Fundraising event for our Service Learning
 Please make sure your PowerSchool access code Partners
is up and running and all fees have been paid so  Please look out for the flyer that will be shared
you don’t experience any difficulty accessing next week.
your child’s report card.
Kind regards,
Thursday, January 25th: Rachel and Amanda
 MS/HS Parent Coffee:
 Presenter: Tom Nehmy (International Consultant)
 Time: 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.
 Venue: Little Theater (LT)
 Focus: Wellbeing

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 MS PLAY: PETER PAN
Hi Middle school,
This year's play is a devised performance. This
means we will be using a structure and creating
the script.
Main Role/Speaking Role :
Sign Ups will be the first week back outside Ms
Grev's room 1149. You also need to indicate if
you don't get a main role if you would like to be
part of the ensemble or crew.
Auditions:
second week back 15th - 17th January. 3.10 to
3.50 or 3.55 to 4.35. callbacks Thursday
and Friday.
15 people per audition. Student need to create
their own audition of 30 sec to 1 minute and then
will work in groups to devise scene. Character
from Peter pan.
Ensemble sign up here - Not need to audition -
just fill out this form - https://goo.gl/forms/
lLcUrlBkWQCbWSWE2
Crew sign up - Behind the scenes - No need to
audition - just fill out this form. https://goo.gl/
forms/WDV2WOxwRaLjKKRA2
Any questions please contact Ms. Rankin or Ms.
Grev.
CAMPUS CARD CORNER
NOTICE
On 8 January 2018, there was a debit card issue at
the start of the day and manual transactions were
required to be done in the canteen for food pur-
chases. The system was restored by 9:30a.m. and
the concessionaires were instructed to transact the
manual purchases into their system. In case you
notice a transaction made during school hours (and
not at break time) by the students on this day,
please consider this.
For more information, visit:
http://campusonline.ismanila.org
For questions/concerns, email:
campuscard@ismanila.org
ALUMNI NEWS
Director and Producer Paul Soriano ‘00 has won
several awards for his film, “Siargo” at the recently
concluded Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), in-
cluding Best Director, Cinematography and Sound.
MMFF is an annual film festival that focuses on Fili-
pino films. Starting Christmas Day untik the first
weekend of January, all films shown in local movie
theaters are MMFF entries.
Please watch the trailer HERE.
Please contact Maica Cruz of the Alumni Office at
alumni@ismanilaorg to share your Alumni Bearcat
News!
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ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES
Welcome back Bearcats to a very busy semester 2 of sports
coming up with local league finals for season 2 soon and of
course season ending IASAS championships just around the
corner at the end of January. ISM proudly hosts Tennis Jan
31-Feb 4 and Track&Field/Golf April 12-14
First up....IASAS Tennis housing update- As of Thurs Jan 11
70 beds are promised with 80 needed, so 10 more to
go.! Please help house a pair of visiting IASAS tennis players…
see link below to register online. Tennis athletes arrive Wed
Jan 31st.
Housing forms for hosting IASAS tennis players Jan 31-Feb 4 is
available here. If you are participating in our tennis program
S2 or were housed at a S1 IASAS event in Bangkok or Singa-
pore please help out by housing a pair of tennis players.
Bearcat community support is encouraged and needed to
support these events.
Season 3 will begin Feb 4 through until mid April. Tryouts
and practice schedules will be released next week on ATAC
blog and will be posted on divisional notice boards. S3 sports
for MS- Track&Field, Badminton and Mixed Touch. HS S3
sports are Baseball, Softball, Track&Field, Badminton and
Golf.
The S2 practice schedule is posted (see link below) and is on
the ATAC blog schedules page and are posted on notice
boards around school.
2nd season practice sched 17-18
For our year round teams practice schedules are posted on
notice boards around the school and on the schedules page
of the ATAC (Athletics) blog and provided in the ink below.
All season sports sched 17-18.xls – 17-18
Please take the time to navigate the ATAC blog as it is our
one stop shop for all information related to the competitive
ISM sports program.
Upcoming Events:*matches at ISM unless specified as *away
venue. Check ATAC game schedule at the parent portal for
all the midweek and weekend matches upcoming. Please
check on a regular basis as venues and time do change at
short notice. Players will always be informed by their coach-
es if times/venues change.
 Jan 12 HS Basketball away at Brent
 Jan 13 MS/HS Basketball at ISM
 Jan 13 Touch at Faith/Rugby at ISM
 Jan 14 ES Rifa girls soccer festival at BSM
 Jan 20 Touch finals at Brent/ISM HS Swim meet
 Jan 25-27 HS Hardeman Cup Basketball at Faith/
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 Feb 1-3 IASAS S2 Championships- Tennis at ISM/
Basketball at ISB/Rugby and Touch at TAS/
Swimming at JIS
 Feb 5 HS S3 tryouts begin(Badminton/
Track&Field/Golf/Softball/Baseball)
 Feb 9-11 Wall climbing team- Hong Kong Climb-
ing competition
 Feb 12 MS S3 tryouts begin(Badminton/
Track&Field/Mixed Touch)
Information on our ES/MS Activities program is available on
the ES and MS Activities blogs. Links to these blogs are on the
helpful shortcuts menu on the home page of the ATAC blog
or accessible via the ISM website.
For our Sailfish swim team program please check information
about tryouts at Sailfish blog
For gymnastics team information please check Gymnastics
blog Look for Coach Jas or Coach Ramon at the MS gym
when attending training sessions.
Please note the practice times for ATAC programs for SY 17-
18 are as follows:
 All year round team team training sessions are – 3:15-
4:30. See schedule for our All year round
teams program here…
 See Sailfish blog for swim squad start and finish times
after the tryouts period has concluded and squads have
been finalised.
 Gymnastics team training is 3:10-4:50pm every M,W,F
All HS seasonal teams practice from 3:05- 4:50pm.
MS seasonal teams practice 3:15-4:40pm.
In order to clear the campus prior to 5pm all after school
programs will conclude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus
is 4:55pm this is due to 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 after
reading the information on the blog please send an email
to pekinm@ismanila.org and I will assist you as best I can.
Bearcat Den- drop by our fantastic spirit store. There is a a
range of new products and items to purchase including items
from our service partners.
Best Regards,
Mark Pekin
Director of Athletics & Activities 4
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ADMISSIONS & ADVANCEMENT

Leaving ISM?

Students Leaving During the School Year:

Parents are obliged to officially inform the Admissions Office through a Withdrawal Notification Form
at least (15) days prior to your child’s last day of school.

Students Leaving at the End of the School Year:

Parents are obliged to officially inform the Admissions Office through a Withdrawal Notification Form
on or before the second Friday of May.

The Withdrawal Notification Form and complete Withdrawal Procedure can be down-
loaded from HERE and submitted to the Admissions Office.

Instructions for Demographic Update

We encourage all families to check their demographic information and make necessary
updates. CLICK HERE for the step-by-step instructions on how to do this.
Please contact your School Office for PowerSchool log-in information.

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ISM UPCOMING EVENTS

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Calling all ISM families for the first PCA event of 2018! Join
us for the ISM PCA Family Build event with rED on Saturday,
27 January 2018 from 7:30 am - 12:00 noon.

rED or Renovate to Educate aims to restore classrooms, li-

braries and playgrounds of public schools all over the Philip-
pines. For our upcoming event, we will visit a local high
school in Taguig (just over 4 km from ISM) to help with re-
storing chairs, tables, and painting a community mural.

Slots are limited. Please sign up through this link: https://

goo.gl/forms/LO89LrebxcCYhR9o2

Please note that this is a parent-child event. Meet us at the

ES playground or at the build site.

Directions to the site:

Rene Cayetano Memorial Science and Technology High
School
https://goo.gl/maps/fvmM13UEK942

Hope you can join us!

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Call for Art: Gavel & Block + ISM Art Auction for the Benefit of
the VSH Scholarship

Gavel & Block and ISM would like to invite you to take part in
"benefit" -- an auction in support of the Vicky SyCip Herrera Filipi-
no Scholarship. The Filipino Scholarship Program seeks to fund
local national students of exceptional ability but whose parents
lack the financial capacity to fund an education at IS Manila. Since
1967, ISM's Filipino Scholarship Program has changed the lives of
over 150 students -- and often the lives of their families as well.
Your participation in this auction will contribute to the fund that
that will provide for the continuing tuition and support for an ad-
ditional, truly deserving Filipino Scholar.

We welcome consignment or donations of art pieces, jewelry,

antique & modern furniture, as well as other valuable items.
Please email images and details of your items
to alumni@ismanila.org before February 28, 2018.
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