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MIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOLMIDDLE SCHOOL 

ISSUE # 24 

SY 2015–2016 

WEEK OF: 

FEB 29 TO MAR 4 

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

Friday BulletinInside this issue: 

FEBRUARY—APRIL:  

MS Upcoming Events: 

NO SCHOOL 

Friday, February 26 

MAP TESTING 

February 29 to March 23 

G8 PARENT TRANSITION MEETING 

Wednesday, March 2 

ACADEMIC BOWL 

Wednesday, March 9 

STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES 

Wednesday, March 16 

SCHOOL HOLIDAY 

March 24 to April 1 

PARENT COFFEE 

Tuesday, April 19 

DRAMA CLASS SHORT PLAYS 

Tuesday, April 26 

ACTIVITY DAY 

Thursday, April 28 

Dear Parents, 

There’s a lot going on this week, so we will get straight down to business!

DATES TO REMEMBER: 

Grade 8 Transion Meeng: Wednesday, March 2nd from 5:30—7:00pm in the Lile Theater 

MAP Tesng - Spring Tesng Window: Monday, February 29th - Friday, March 11th 

Course Registraon: 

Week of March 7—11th 

Student-Led Conferences: Wednesday, March 16th from 12:30 to 5:00pm

G8 to G9 Parent Transion Meeng: The G9 counselors, Steve Ayling and Crystal Cappuccio, will be hosng a Grade 8 toGrade 9 transion meeng on Wednesday, March 2nd from 5.30 - 6.30pm in the LileTheater. The purpose of this event is to share key informaon regarding the transionto high school and to aord parents an opportunity to ask any quesons they may have

about this key me in their child’s life. The parent session will cover common transionissues, diploma opons at ISM, graduaon credits and the course selecon pro-cess. Please mark this date in your calendars, if you haven't already done so! 

G8 Yearbook Dedicaon: A focal part of the Middle School Yearbook (Salinlahi) is the G8 dedicaon page. Duringselected Advisory sessions, the G8 students have been given the opportunity to work ontheir dedicaons. They have been given guidance and support as well as exemplarswrien by previous students. The individual dedicaons are tradionally accompaniedby a baby photo as well as this year’s yearbook photo. We are aware that some stu-dents may leave it to the last minute to ask for a baby photo and we therefore want tomake sure all parents are in the communicaon loop. The deadline students have beengiven for subming the nal version of their dedicaon and a baby photo is Friday,March 4th.

Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) Tesng: The MAP tesng window starts on Monday and will run for a two week period of me.The MAP tests are computerized and are adapve in nature. This means that quesonsget harder or easier depending on whether a child responds correctly or incorrectly.These tests are unmed and take place during regular scheduled class me. Studentswill be taking 3 dierent MAP tests - Reading (English class), Language Usage (SocialStudies class) and Mathemacs (Math class). ISM uses the data from these assessmentsto guide the next instruconal steps and to monitor curriculum strengths and areas ofimprovement. 

NEED TO KNOW:

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 Book Signing Event: 

The ISM Community, in conjuncon with Naonal Bookstore is very pleased to be hosng a book signing and special

sale for New York Times Bestselling Author, Victoria Aveyard (hp://victoriaaveyard.com/). She is a young adult and

fantasy writer from the United States. She is known for her fantasy work Red Queen, which is going to be adapted into

a movie. 

To sign-up, please click here: hp://bit.ly/BookSigningwithVictoriaAveyard 

Course Registraon for Next School Year:  

March is course registraon month! This is a busy me with lots of informaon being shared with students and parents

about course oerings for the coming academic year. There are two key events that are taking place soon and we want

to make sure all parents are in the loop!

This Week - Grade Level Assemblies: 

During Advisory on Wednesday, March 2nd all students will aend a grade level assembly where we will share

the course oerings and opons for the coming school year. Following these assemblies, the presentaons to

students will be made available on the MS Blogs so parents and students can view them together. Please have

conversaons with your child so they can make an informed decision when asked to register online. 

Next Week - Online Registraon: 

Students in Grades 5 - 8 will register for their elecve choices during the week March 7-11th. This will be done

online during the school day. Parents will receive a conrmaon email once your child has registered. 

Student-Led Conferences (SLC):

 The SLCs are scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 16th from 12:30 - 5:00 p.m. Typically we divide this block of

me into two separate sessions. The rst session is from 12:30 - 2:30p.m. and is for students whose surnames begin

with A- K. The second session is from 3:00 - 5:00p.m. and is for students whose surnames begin with L - Z. More infor-

maon about this event will be sent out next week, but we wanted to give you a courtesy head -sup about how the me

is divided up so you can book me o work in advance. 

Kind Regards, 

Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal 

Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal  

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Parcipants: 

Tia Sharma, Khya Narang, Anusha Thomas, Razel, Suansing,

Lucie Curry, Sarah Norman, David Ha, and Will Haresch

MIS Honor Band and Honor Girls’ Choir

 

 Yangon, Myanmar

February 18-20, 2016

This past weekend, eight ISM

Middle School students parci-

pated in the AMIS music fes-

vals in Yangon, Myanmar. Six

choir students and two band

students joined over 150 music

students from 15 internaonal

schools for a weekend of re-hearsing with guest conductors,

culminang in a gala concert at

the Naonal Theater of Yangon! 

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Congratulaons to all ISM gymnasts who competed in the

Philippine Cup meet last weekend. Results from the Philip-

pine Cup will be posted to ATAC blog gymnascs page as

soon as they are received from the meet organizers.  

S3 pracce schedule is posted on noce boards and on

ATAC blog schedules page. 

Remember this week is a short week with no school for

students on Thurs and Friday. 

ATAC S3 sports for MS are Badminton, Track&Field, Mixed

Touch and Co-ed Soball. For HS S3 sports are Golf,

Track&Field, Soball and Badminton. 

Upcoming Events: 

Mar 4-6 Bangkok Splash meet for Sailsh swim team.

 

Mar 12 BSM Gymnascs meet/May 7 ISM Goodwill

Gymnascs meet. 

Mar 12 Brent track meet/Mar 18 ISM twilight track

meet 

April 6-10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at SAS,

Golf at JIS, Track at TAS, Soball at ISB) 

May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta 

For our Sailsh swim team program please check the Sail-

sh blog for informaon. hp://sailsh.ism-online.org/ 

Please note the pracce mes for ATAC programs for SY 15-

16 are as follows: ATAC all year round teams- 3:15-4:30. See

schedule for our All year round teams program here… 

All HS seasonal teams pracce from 3:05- 4:50pm each day.

MS seasonal teams pracce 3:15-4:45pm. In order to clear

the campus prior to 5pm all aer school programs will con-

clude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus is 4:55pm this is

due to the ever increasing trac concerns in our area.  

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 pekinm@ismanila.org and I will endeavor to assist you as

best I can. 

The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly byTriz Gonzalez (ATAC Athlecs Coordinator) gives the most

up to date informaon on where/when and who our Bear-

cat teams will be playing throughout the school year. Ac-

cess to the game schedule is now via the ISM parent portal

not via power school as in the past. A navigaon guide is

available here. ATAC Game Schedule Users Guide. 

Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your user

name/password and then look for the ATAC Game Schedule

tab under the le side quick links.  Don't forget to refresh

the pdf page each me it opens so you access the most

current schedule. Please note this schedule does change

oen and at short noce due to involvement with many

local schools and organizaons. 

Check it regularly for the most up

to date informaon. For security

purposes....access to the

ATAC  game schedule pdf must be

linked via the secure parent portal

and details should not be shared

with non ISM community mem-

bers. 

Bearcat Den-

drop by our fantascspirit store.  Bearcat Den hours of

operaon- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.

Best Regards, 

Mark Pekin 

Director of Athlecs & Acvies 

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