ISSUE # 23

SY 20152016

MIDDLE SCHOOL
WEEK OF:

Friday Bulletin

Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents

FEBRUARY 22 TO 26

Inside this issue:

Dear Parents,
What an action-packed week! The CWW experience is now drawing to a close and, student feedback indicates that all students have had a great time. All student groups are
safely back at school, and it has been wonderful to see all of them again. For those whose
children have been away on overnight CWW trips, Im sure you will enjoy hearing all about
their adventures while away from home! Next week we will create student and teacher
surveys so we can gather more in-depth feedback on the CWW experiences so we can
continue enhance our practices.
DATES TO REMEMBER:
Paint-a-Thon (HS Student Run Event)
Saturday, February 20th
MS Yearbook Photo Retakes
Monday, February 22nd 2016 in room 1123
MS Parent Coffee: Bonnie Singer
Wednesday, February 24th from 9:00 - 10:30 in the LT
No School:
Thursday, February 25th (No school for students - teacher work
day)
Friday, February 26th (No school for students and teachers)
MAP Testing - Spring Testing Window:
Monday, February 29th - Friday, March 11th

NICE TO KNOW:

Rustic Pathways

Athletics & Activities

After-School Activities

MS Guidance Office

ISM Upcoming Events

MS Upcoming Events:
FEBRUARYMARCH:

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MS YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOOT
Monday, February 22
PARENT COFFEE - LITERACY
Wednesday, February 24

Paint-a-Thon Event - student announcement

Hello everyone! This SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20th, come and join the National Honor Society, the National Art Honor Society and the PCA for a fun day of canvas painting, face
painting, and finger painting at the Paint-a-thon! This event will be held at ISM, in the Lofthouses A and B from 10:00am to 2:00pm, and you can stay for as long or short as you
like! Art produced during the paintathon will be digitally auctioned at a later date and the
funds raised will go to Operation Smile. Operation Smile is a service organization that gives
free, life-changing surgeries to kids with facial deformities. Everyone is welcome to participate: artists, first time painters, parents, kids, and families alike! Join us for a fun day of
art, music, and food from clubs such as SHS, FHS, and the Cub Scouts! We look forward to
seeing you there!

Please sign up for the activities that you're planning to participate in here*: http://
tinyurl.com/paintathon2016
*Please note: each activity has a separate price, but entrance to the event is free of
charge

Kind Regards,
Rachel Harrington, Middle School Principal
Amanda Pekin, Assistant Middle School Principal

NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Thursday, February 25
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

Want to spend a week of

your summer in Thailand
helping protect endangered elephants?

Exciting opportunity from Rustic Pathways for current ISM

Grade 8 students only!

CLICK HERE TO LEARN HOW!

Password: ism

Last Saturday our MS Girls green tennis team and our MS boys
Grey team both won 1st place in the local ISTA league tennis
finals. Our MS boys green team placed 3rd losing a very close
semi final in the morning match. Congratulations to all our MS
tennis players on a great effort to win the ISTA league competition this year. Thanks to our coaches as well for their hard work.
Girls green defeated CSA 3-2/Boys grey defeated Ateneo 5-0!
This past weekend a group of our gymnasts and their families
along with 3 ISM coaches went to Bangkok to compete at the ISB
meet. From all reports it was an excellent meet and we will post
results in the Friday bulletin when they are received from the
tournament organizers.

meet.
Mar 4-6 Bangkok Splash meet for Sailfish swim team.
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, Softball at ISB)
May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta

For our Sailfish swim team program please check the Sailfish blog
for information. http://sailfish.ism-online.org/
Please note the practice times 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

A great track meet at ISM on Saturday the first for the season
with some exciting racing on the track and solid competition for
our field event athletes. Congratulations to Junior Trinity
McPherson who broke Smriti Sridhar's 2009 school record of
12.47 for the 100m dash with a blistering 12.45 sec run. Well
done Trinity for a fantastic result at the first meet for the season.

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

seasonal teams practice 3:15-4:45pm. In order to clear the campus prior to 5pm all after school programs will conclude
by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus is4:55pm this is due to the
ever increasing traffic concerns in our area.

A busy day on campus last Saturday with the ISM Chess invitational at the ES cafeteria. Our chess players did very well with
Abinav Bathula winning his division winning the team championship along with ES player Srihaaan Poddar gaining 2nd place and
the ES team placing 3rd overall. A big thanks to all participants.

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 endeavor to assist you as best
I can.

Our ISM judo team also had a competition last Saturday with
Brody Barba, Johna Barba, Christian Donnel and Xavier Scholey
winning gold medals. Silver medals went to Connor Platt and
Alessandro Gatti with ISM team also taking our the overall champions team trophy. Well done to all members of our Judo team
that competed last weekend.
Season 3 (S3) tryouts concluded last week. S3 practice schedule
is posted on notice boards and on ATAC blog schedules page.
Due to MS CWW this week there has not been any ATAC or AFAC
after school programs. Programs will resume from Mon Feb 22.
Remember next week is a short week with no school for students on Thurs and Friday.

The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by Triz

Gonzalez (ATAC Athletics Coordinator) gives the most up to date
information on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be
playing throughout the school year. Access to the game schedule
is now via the ISM parent portal not via power school as in the
past. A navigation 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 left side quick links. Don't forget to refresh the pdf page each
time it opens so you access the most current schedule. Please
note this schedule does change often and at short notice due to
involvement with many local schools and organizations.

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

and Co-ed Softball. For HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, SoftCheck it regularly for the most up to date information. For secuball and Badminton.
rity purposes....access to the ATAC game schedule pdf must be
linked via the secure parent portal and details should not be
Upcoming events:
shared with non ISM community members.
Feb 19 HS girls softball teams vs Brent at home 4pm and
5:45pm
Bearcat Den- drop by our fantastic spirit store. Bearcat Den
Feb 19 Charity soccer match ISM Faculty vs Alumni in suphours of operation- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri.
port of Coach Eric Bajada 7pm MS field
Feb 20-21 ISM Aikido meet at Covered Court.
Best Regards,
Feb 20 HS Academic Bowl at Brent.
Mark Pekin
Feb 20-21 Philippine Cup Gymnastics at Rizal Stadium/Mar Director of Athletics & Activities
12 BSM Gymnastics meet/May 7 ISM Goodwill Gymnastics