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CIS Newsflash: January 26, 2018 Page 1 of 11
In this week’s Issue:
• Admin News
• K-12 News
• Elem – 100 days of School
• Plastic Waste Reduction Conference
• Open Day
• Redesigned SAT
• College Visits (Edu Canada)
• PTA News
Newsflash Friday, January 26, 2018
Upcoming Events:
• Jan. 29: EDU Canada Fair
• Jan. 31: Elem/MHS Goal Setting
Conferences
• Feb. 5: 3rd Photoshoot
• Feb. 12 -15: Week Without Walls (WWW)
• Feb. 12 – 19: Grade 12 Mocks Exams
• Feb. 16 – NO SCHOOL ← Note
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In order to give more space to photos, I just have
a short note this week to thank the PTA, the
Sinulog Family Day Committee members, the
Student Council and all the support staff who
contributed to making our new-format such a
wonderful day of fun and culture!
All the best to our ISAC boys soccer and girls
basketball teams this weekend as they compete
in Manila!
Happy 100 days of school, everyone!
Regards,
Dr. Gwyn Underwood, Superintendent
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On Wednesday, January 31, from 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Elementary will have their Goal Setting
Conferences and Grade 6 – 11 will have their Student-Teacher-Parent conferences. Classes
will be adjusted to accommodate all 7 periods in elementary and 4 blocks in MHS. All students
will be dismissed at 12:00 noon. Student buses will leave school at 12:15 PM. For parents who
are able to schedule a conference between 1:00 and 1:30, students may stay at school and
meet parents here. However, for all other scheduled conferences, students must be picked
up and return with their parents at the scheduled conference time.
As a quick reminder on how to sign up through the family portal, these are the steps:
1. Log-in to the Family Portal - http://portal.cis.edu.ph/Family/
2. The sign-ups are in the CONFERENCE SIGNUPS tab.
3. Conference labels are
• ELEMENTARY: SY1718 T2 Preschool-G5 Goal Conferences.
• GR 6 – GR 11: SY1718 G6-G11 Student-Parent-Teacher Conferences
4. Double click the title and your child’s/ children’s name will appear on the right side.
5. Double click your child’s name & a schedule grid will appear at the bottom portion of
the page.
6. Double click on the column labelled with the teacher’s name & on the row
corresponding with the time you have chosen.
For elementary from Kinder to GR 5, parents will join students in their classrooms, and along
with teachers, review the goals your child has set for himself or herself for the coming weeks
of learning. Each grade level has set up different goal setting procedures, but all of them
want your feedback and input into the process. Parents of our pre-schoolers will be meeting
the teachers, without their preschool children. Grade 6 – 11 students will be joined by their
parents to meet their teachers.
See you all on Wednesday!
Have a wonderful weekend with family and friends!
Dr. Ted Mockrish, K-12 Principal
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For our Week Without Walls (we have invited local Highschool students to participate
together with a selection of our students in an Eco-Leadership Training. Together we will put
on a Plastic Waste Reduction Conference for students and community members on the last
day of WWW Thursday, February the 15th. As part of the awareness campaign, students will
be handing out reusable shopping bags at Gaisano Mall, working with eco bricks at the
Mandaue dumpsite, and creating plastic sculptures with Mr. Duran-Webb as symbols of the
impact plastic pollution has on
sea creatures. In order for this to
be successful.
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
• Please collect any type of clean plastic at home and bring this to school. In order to design
the art pieces, we need to know the materials we can work with. (Examples: bags, take-out
containers, utensils, straws, candy and chip wrappers, bottles, etc.)
•If you have ample reusable shopping bags at home and would like to donate some for
students to hand out to shoppers, please drop these off in a bin in the front lobby.
•Collect small plastic pieces in big soda bottles to make more Eco-Bricks and bring these to
school. More information on how to do this can be found at www.ecobricks.org/how
Thank you for your support
Dan Monfre & Maike Silver - Chairs of the ECO Leadership Training
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CIS is offering redesigned SAT prep classes which will run for six (6) Saturday
sessions. Classes will run from 8:00am - 12:15pm with a 15 minute break in between 2-hour
sessions.
Feb. 3, 10, 17, 24 and March 3, 10
Cost for CIS students: Php6500
Cost for non-CIS students: Php8000
We will need a minimum of 6 students to run the classes. To register, please see Ms. Loida, the
school cashier and pay the above registration fee. All classes will be held in the CIS Library. For
more information, please call Ms. Jenny Basa at 261-0247 local 112 or email
Jennifer Basa, College/Careers Counselor Alumni Liaison
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Dear parents,
I hope everyone enjoyed Sinulog Family Day! I know the day was very different from previous
years, but I hope it was enjoyable for everyone. We will be sending a survey via email soon
and we would really appreciate your honest feedback so we can improve the Fiesta Lunch
next year. I really want to thank Jean Saclo for all of her hard work on the event. We would
not have had a Fiesta Lunch if she had not dedicated so much time and energy to serving
the community. Please thank her when you see her! We also want to thank Ms. Jane Sabandal
for the time she spent on pricing and ordering food.
100% of the Homeroom Funds were used to cover the cost of the catering, so the extra costs
for food items that were not provided by the caterers were covered by the PTA general fund.
However, we did receive some generous donations from our community which covered
much of the cost of the roasted vaca and lechon baboy. Many thanks go to the Board of
Trustees, ECC (English Cebu Center), CIEC (Cebu Ivy Education Center), and Ms. Joanna
Lhuillier! If we missed your name, please accept our apologies and thanks for your donations
and support as well.
On another note, the PTA Board and entire CIS Community would like to welcome all newly
enrolled families. We hope you are all settling in well. Please email us at [email protected] if
you have any questions. concerns, or ideas concerning the parent community.
A more detailed letter from the PTA will be coming to your inbox soon. Until then, thanks again
for your support and enjoy your weekend!
Wendy Tanagho, CIS PTA President
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Cebu International School
Pit-os, Cebu City 6000, Philippines
Tel no. +63 32 261 0247 || Fax no. +63 32 261-0247 ext. 217
www.cis.edu.ph