ES Parent Bulletin Vol#6 2011 Oct 21

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21 October 2011Volume 06

ES PARENT BULLETIN

International School Manila

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

OCT

24 -Nov 1

School Holiday - No Classes

NOV

2, 9,16, 23

Wednesday Morning Student Late Start @8.30am

11 ES Parent Bulletin

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

15 ES Parent Coffee @ 7.30am, Little Theatre

21 - 24 PTA New Book Fair, FAT Lobby

25 Filipiniana

30 Bonifacio Day Holiday - No Classes

From the ES Administrationrom the ES AdministrationDear Elementary School Parents,

Pressing Pause on our Learning

This week brings us to the end of our first quarter andover twelve weeks of learning in the ElementarySchool. It marks an appropriate time for us to presspause and reflect as a community on where we havecome from since August. For new families to ISM, youhave been through a transition phase into a new school,

a new country and a new culture. For others who havebeen here longer, this quarter has heralded a newgrade, new teacher and new friendships. Part of thelearning process is providing suitable time forreflection. This can look very different, dependentupon the grade and the understanding, but operates on

a number of central premises:

Reflection and metacognition are central toteaching & learning

Students think in different ways

Students reflecting on their own learning enablesthem to select strategies which best suit them,

which then supports them in setting their owngoals

Thinking skills can be taught

As teachers, we aim to model thinking andmetacognition for our students, such that it becomesnatural for our students and part of their own learningcycle. We also use this as a central tenant of all ourteaching, in order to be reflective about our practiceand constantly look for better ways to guide and

facilitate our students learning.

Hopefully as a family, you get the chance to press

pause over the next couple of weeks and enjoy sometime together.

Pezzettino

This morning at our second ES assembly for the year,we had the pleasure of sharing a story by Leo Lionni,called Pezzettino, which means little piece in Italian.Pezzettino is small in stature and is surrounded by

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UPDATING PARENT CONTACTINFORMATION

In order to best serve the ISM Parent Community, it isessential that information be quickly disseminated whennecessary. For this reason, the accuracy of yourcontact details in our database is of the utmost

importance. Please note that Parent ContactInformation must be updated online by the parent.

To make any changes or verification in contactinformation, please access one of your childrens datafile via the ISM website (www.ismanila.org) and thenunder Login, click on Powerschool Public Access andenter your Username and Password. On the page thatopens, click on the Demographic Update icon forchanging or updating demographic information.


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others who are big and daring and wonderful. As such, he is on a quest tofind out where he belongs. After asking the one-who-runs, the strong

one, the swimming one, the one-on the mountain, the flying-one, andfinally the wise-one, he is sent to the Island of Wham for the answer. Hediscovers that like everyone, he too is made up of little pieces and he is

actually himself, rather than a little piece of someone else.

We hope that over the past months, your children have continued on theirjourney to discover who they are and that ISM has helped in their journey.Whilst we are all little pieces that help to make ISM a community, we arealso unique little pieces that are very different for all the right reasons and

that these differences are a cause to celebrate.

Have a wonderful holiday.

Adam Campbell Michael RourkeElementary Principal Elementary Asst. Principal

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From the ES Administrationrom the ES Administration

From the Music Departmentrom the Music Department

CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATERAre you in Grade 4? Do you like to: Sing? Dance? Act? Are you interested in costume or set design? Would you liketo help with lights and sound, assistant directing, playing in the orchestra or backstage support? Or maybe youhave another creative talent you would like to share! Would you like to take part in an amazing and creative journeythat ends in a spectacular stage performance? Then Childrens Musical Theater is the activity for you!!! This is yourchance to express your creativity, have fun and SHINE!!!

Childrens Musical Theater:Mon., Oct. 10 Fri., Oct. 21 Registration with Ms. Toni in ES OfficeNov. 2 Feb. 1 (Wednesdays) Rehearsals in FAT 2:30-4Mon., Feb. 6 and Tues., Feb. 7 Rehearsals in FAT 2:30-5

Wed. Feb. 8 Dress Rehearsal in FAT 2:30-5Thurs., Feb. 9 School Performance 1:00pm

Evening Performance 6:00pm

If you have any questions please feel free to send me an email at [email protected], or come by my room before orafter school. I hope to see many of you involved in this very special activity!!!!!

Sincerely,

Ms. MarnieRoom 1164


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For those families going away this coming holiday

the ES PE department are planning another bulletin

board to showcase all the ways our children (along

with parents too) are physically active outside of

PE lessons. Please send/e-mail me a photo of you

and/or your children being active together. You

can place photos in an envelope and send to school

with your child addressed to Amanda Pekin,

Elementary School Physical Education or simply e-

mail me your photos after the break. We are

looking for any photos where adults and children

are being physically active! Recommended

guidelines for children are one hour of physicalactivity per day as a minimum.

ES PE Dept.

From the PE Departmentrom the PE Department

ITEMDESCRIPTION

COLOR SIZE20%

Discount50%

discount

"SECONDS"items @ 50%

discount

Kids Shirt

White

2 41

4 39

6 21

8 13

Yellow 4 2

Green 2 90

Black 2 1696 9

KIDS BOTTOMS

G/Skort Khaki 12 1

MALE TOPS

Male Shirt White M 3

Total Itemsfor Sale

41 259 88

From the Uniform Shoprom the Uniform Shop

ES Art Department needs your junk!

We have been so busy creating amazing art thissemester that we have used up a lot of theresources you sent at the beginning of the year.We would hugely appreciate your help inproviding any of the flowing items:

Boxes, toilet and kitchen roll tubes, newspapersand magazines, egg cartons, yogurt pots,polystyrene and plastic takeaway boxes, old andeven broken toys and dolls, cds, wrapping paper,ribbons, fabric, beads and unwanted costumejewelry, old shoes and bags.

These items can be brought to room 1189-1191

at anytime or you can get your children to bringthem in with them to their art class. If you donot have any items now we hope you will collectthem for us and bring them in the future.

Many thanks for you continued support,

The ES Art Team

From the Art Departmentrom the Art Department


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From the School Clinicrom the School ClinicFirst Aid Workshops for Parents, Helpers and Teens

Do you wonder what to do in case of an emergency to help a person in need before the arri-

val of medical support? Would you like to feel more confident in your first aid skills?Then this

course is for you.

In November we will be hosting three sessions designed especially for parents, helpers

(yayas/drivers) and teenagers

Medical Emergency Awareness course presented in English, 8am 12nn Thursday 3rd November

Medical Emergency Awareness course presented in Tagalog, 8am 12nn Thursday 10th November

Medical Emergency Awareness Course for Teens, 3pm 7pm Thursday 3rd November

The courses will cover-

Cost 700PHP for the 4 hour session. For enquires and to reserve your place please email Monique at the Clinic

[email protected]

Recognizing an Emergency Assessing for Response

Activating Emergency Medical Services Basic Life-Supporting Skills Clearing the Airway Log Roll Recovery Position Breathing Ventilations Mask/Shield Circulation Chest Compressions Sudden Cardiac Arrest Using an AED Severe Bleeding Management Eye injuries

Managing Shock Choking

Anaphylaxis Fractures and dislocations Warning Signs of Serious Illness Altered Level of Responsiveness Pain, Severe Pressure, or Discomfort in

Chest Breathing Difficulty, Shortness of Breath Specific First Aid Problems Simulation

Vaccination

The Clinic is offering the second session of vaccination on Wednesday November

2nd .

This month in partnership with GSK we are offering Typherix vaccine at a cost of

871.00PHP.

Typherix is a vaccine which helps prevent typhoid fever, an infectiousillness caused by a type of bacte-ria called Salmonella typhi. This vaccine can be given to both adults and children aged 2 years andover. Typherix contains a small part of the bacterium which causes typhoid fever. This is not infectious

and cannot make you ill.When you are given the vaccine it will trigger the bodys immune system toprepare itself to protect against typhoid fever in the future. Typherix will only prevent disease causedby the bacteriumSalmonella typhiand not against salmonella bacteria that can cause food poisoning orgastroenteritis.Since the bacterium is present in the bowel movement (motion), the infection can occurin any country, but it more commonly occurs in places or countries with

poor personal or public hygiene.

This vaccine is required every 3 years.


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From the ATAC Officerom the ATAC OfficeIt is IASAS week and I would like to wish all our teamsthe very best for this years 30th anniversary tourna-ments in Singapore. All the ISM community will be sup-porting our teams as they do their very best to play hard

and represent ISM to the very best of their ability onand off the field of play during this exciting event.

For interested community members the 1st Season IASASfull tournament draw is available with details of all

events on the ATAC blog.

SAS will be live streaming the IASAS champion-ships..go to www.iasas.asia to find the live stream-ing sites. All the action starts Thursday morning Oct

20th.

Well done to our Bearcats Golf Team who participatedin Taipei last weekend at the IASAS Golf Exchange twoday tournament. Our girls team won GOLD with Angela

De Villa (72,78) and Mika Kubota (84, 84) shooting terri-fic scores to take out the team award and also place 2ndand 3rd in the individual awards. Our boys team placed6th and I would like to thank all participants and our

golf advisors for taking part in this years event.

ISM Varsity Boys soccer played Ateneo last Friday Oct 14in the RIFA boys Elite division semi-final and in a thrill-ing game won 2-1. They will now play in the champion-

ship final on Friday Nov 4th here at ISM at 5:15pm.

The JV girls soccer team played their final last Saturdayof the girls division 2 v ICA and lost 1-2 in a close game.Well done to all players and coaches Mr. Cooling and Mr.

Reilly for their efforts this season.ES/MS Soccer Festival Results: ISM Midgets C-CoachErics team placed 3rd, ISM ES Midgets E-Coach Francissteam placed 1st-congratulations! and Midgets G, CoachMikes team placed 3rd. MS Girls festival teams of Coach

Kleng and Coach Chrisplaced 2nd and 3rd inthe finals Saturday af-ternoon at Xavier. A bigthanks to all players/coaches and parentswho attended the RIFAFestival Finals held at

Xavier and ISM.

2nd Season ATACsports for MS and HSteams (Basketball,Rugby, Touch, Swim-ming and Tennis) getunderway when wereturn from breakplease check the try-outs flyers in this bul-letin and the ATACblog for 2nd season

information.The seasonpracticeschedule will

be postedsoon.

The ATAC Blog(http://atac.ism-online.org/) isthe one stopshop for infor-mation re-lated to thesports/activities pro-grampleasetake sometime to perusethe blog for

information.

GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule infor-mation)Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISMteams can be found via the ATAC blog. Please note thegame schedule does change often due to involvementwith many local schools so please check the page regu-larly to find out the latest information of where andwhen the Bearcats teams are playing. Click on schedulestab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to the http://powerschool.ismanila.org/public/ You will need yourpower school user name and password to access the

game schedule pdf.

BEARCAT DEN:

Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:

Mon, Wed and Fridays from 11:30am 1:00pm and2:30pm 4:00pm. Tues and Thurs afternoons from

2:30-4pm.

If you are interested in joining our group of volunteersin the Bearcat Den please contact our BCD volunteerscoordinator Radhika [email protected] pop in to the Den near the HS Cafeteria and talkwith one of our volunteers they will be

very happy to make you welcome.

Mark PekinDirector of Athletics/ActivitiesInternational School ManilaE-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.ismanila.org/ATAC Blog: http://atac.ism-online.org/
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