MIDDLE SCHOOL

Middle School
Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents ISSUE # 22
WEEK OF FEB. 07 TO 11, 2011

From the Middle School Office

Inside this issue:
Dear Parents:
Free Dress Day For A Cause 2
Yearbook Photos
AMIS Girls Honor Choir Festival

A Chiang Mai Real Adventure 3

As of this Friday, we are four weeks into the second semester, and
After School Activities Schedule 4

it’s time to reflect on student progress. For individuals who are AFAC Announcements 5
End of Season Awards

currently earning a C- or below, a progress report will be sent ATAC Announcements 6

IASAS Swim Report 7
home. If you have any questions or concerns about your child, Video Recordings of Performing Arts Events 8

please contact your child’s classroom teacher or guidance UPCOMING EVENTS

FEBRUARY
counselor. 07-11 ERB Testing
09-13 AMIS Honor Girls Choir Festival
10 PTA Liaison Meeting
(8:00 A.M., MS Conference Room)
Looking ahead…The Middle School Classroom Without Walls (CWW) 14-18 Classroom Without Walls
23 Grade 8 Parent Session on Transi-
activities will get underway the week of February 14. The tioning to High School
(5:30 P.M., FAT)

teachers and students have been busily preparing for the week- 24 MS Parent Coffee (7:45 A.M., LT)
28 School Holiday (EDSA Day)

long activity and excitement has been building. Please take some MARCH
01 School Holiday (Faculty In-Service)
time to talk to your child about their grade level’s destination and 02-03 World Maths Day

02-04 Course Registration

activities. If you have any questions about the activities, please 04 Friday Afternoon Mini-Concert:
MS Advanced/Intermediate Band
(3:00 P.M., Courtyard)
contact your child’s Homebase teacher.
07 MS Academic Bowl
12 ISM Goodwill Gymnastics (LT)
15 Parent Teacher Conferences
(1:00 P.M.)
Have a relaxing weekend and see you at Family Fun Day!
18 Activity Period (1:20 P.M.)

18 Courtyard Activity (3:00 P.M.)

21 to 25 Spring Break

Danielle Fredericks Clarissa Sayson 30 - Apr. 20 MAP Testing

31 PTA Liaison Meeting (8:00 A.M., MS
Conference Rm.)
Middle School Principal Middle School Assistant Principal
POWERSCHOOL GRADE UPDATE

Feb. 11 Grade Update

Feb. 25 Grade Update
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Free Dress Day For A Cause

Next Tuesday, 8th February will be a non uniform day. Students who wish to come to school not in school uni-
form may do so if they pay 100 pesos. The money raised will be going towards CWW service learning projects
mainly helping a native tribe in Subic. Students from grade 8 will be collecting the money for the non uni-
form day during home room time on Monday, 7th February. So make sure you bring your money to help a good
cause and wear your favorite clothes to school.

Thanks
SUBIC CWW

YEARBOOK PHOTOS
The Yearbook Photos are here! Please drop by the Middle School Office to
pick up your photo!
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Athletics and Activities Office Announcements
IASAS 2nd SEASON REPORT:
Basketball - A big thanks to all the ISM community for
supporting the IASAS Basketball tournament. There were
some very close and exciting matches played over the
three days and our Bearcats boys and girls teams were in
the thick of the action in the close matches. A one point
win over Taipei on Friday morning and then a close 4
point loss to eventual runners up ISKL Friday evening had
the gyms jumping and the fans screaming support for our
boys team. The girls team made a great comeback win
over ISKL and then pushed all other teams with tight de-
fense and a scrappy ’never say die’ attitude in all their
games. The Bearcats boys kept the excitement rolling in
the finals on Saturday by taking out an overtime win
against ISB to claim 3rd place and the Bronze medal. Our
girls team with one win and 4 losses finished in 5th place
overall. Well done to all players and coaches.
Other IASAS Results:
♦ Girls Touch defeated ISB in the final in Taipei and
claimed IASAS Gold for the 2nd year in a row.
♦ Girls Tennis won Gold and Boys Tennis won Bronze at a
rain affected IASAS Tennis championships in Singapore.
♦ ISM Swim teams: Girls placed 6th and boys 4th with many
swimmers breaking PB’s(personal best) times
Individual Achievements:
All tournament Players:
Basketball
♦ Girls Katrina Gavino
♦ Boys JP Campos, Jonathon Moran
Touch
♦ Chelsea Ferguson
♦ Sierra Lee
♦ Denise Fransisco
♦ Smirti Sridhar
Rugby
♦ Arlan Parry
Tennis
♦ Jasmine Ho, Sarina Samson/Stephanie Guest, Daniel
Um, Gino Roque/Javier Ra Ra
3rd Season Sports
See attached practice Schedule, this takes effect from
February 7th until April 15th.
ATAC ANNOUNCEMENTS
GAME SCHEDULE INFORMATION:
Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISM
teams can be found by going to the GAME SCHEDULE tab
on the ATAC page of the ISM website. You can also access
this information via the ES/MS/HS divisional web pages.
Please note the game schedule does change often due to
involvement with many local schools so please check the
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page regularly to find out the latest information of where
and when the Bearcats teams are playing. Access to the
game schedule page is also available via the ATAC blog.
Click on the Bearcat logo to be directed to the game
schedule page. http://atac.ism-online.org
ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES – FEBRUARY: (for ALL
match/schedule details check game schedule page as
above)
♦ Feb. 12 - Brent track meet for MS/HS
♦ Feb. 19/20 - ISM International Swim meet
♦ Feb. 26 - ISM Track Meet
♦ Mar. 2 - IASAS Cultural Convention Teams Depart
♦ Mar. 3-5 - IASAS Cultural Convention (Art/Music at JIS,
DDDF at ISKL)
♦ Mar 5 - ISM Goodwill Gymnastics Meet
♦ Middle School 2nd Season Sports Awards on February 9,
4:00 P.M. in the ES Gym
(Touch/Tennis/Rugby/Basketball)
♦ High School 2nd Season Sports Awards on February 11,
5:30 P.M. in the HS Gym
(Touch/Rugby/Tennis/Basketball/Swimming/Cheerleadi
ng)
BEARCAT DEN
Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:
♦ Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 A.M. – 1:00
P.M. and 2:30–4:00 P.M.
♦ Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:30-4:00 P.M.
Thanks to all our great volunteers. If you are interested in
joining our group of volunteers in the Bearcat Den, please
contact our BCD volunteers coordination Chantel
(fam.wanten@hotmail.com) or pop in to the Den near the
HS Cafeteria and talk with one of our volunteers. They
will be very happy to make you welcome.
IASAS BASKETBALL HOUSING: A huge thanks to all the
families below who housed last week for the Basketball
athletes. These events cannot happen without your sup-
port. On behalf of the ISM admin team and the ATAC Dept
THANK YOU for being an integral part of IASAS Basketball
2011:
Thompson, Park, Soriaga, Kumar, Hyun, Danaux,
Jalandoni, Ching, Piguing, Diaz, Gaskin, Endleman, Ol-
fato, Ocampo, Kobza, Seneviratne, Gregori, Reyes, Piper,
Ahmed, Gill, Wanten, McGuire, Moran, Ayala, Willnow,
Bell, Stevens, Hamaguchi, Pekin, Cho, Bagli, Anderson,
Saubier, Lee, Dodwell, Schmid, Sicat, Sy, Raniolo, Squil-
lantini, Francisco, Campos, Razon, Fodstad, Ursem
THANK YOU FAMILIES!
Mark Pekin
Director of Athletics/Activities
International School Manila
E-mail: pekinm@ismanila.org
ISM Website:http://www.ismanila.org/
Blog: http://atac.ism-online.org/
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IASAS SWIM REPORT

The ISM Swim team achieved very encouraging re- An encouraging point for future IASAS events
sults at the IASAS Swimming Championships last is that of the 45 swim in finals. Our grade 9
week in Kuala Lumpur. It is the first time for many students featured in finals 15 times.
years that both our teams did not finish 6th, our Medals
boys finished 4th and our girls were leading JIS right ♦ 3 x3rd place medals
up to the final event. A huge improvement from ♦ 4 x2nd place medals
previous years and our freshman swimmers now ♦ 4 x1st place medals
have the experience and are hungry for success
next year. In fact, they are already back in the Outstanding efforts by:
pool training for next year’s IASAS at Jakarta Inter- Lotta Toppari
national School. 3rd, 5th, 6th & 9th
Justin Van Klaveren
Boys finished 4th. Girls finished a very close 6th 3rd, 6th, 8th & 1th
with JIS beating them to 5th in the last event. Ray Oo
3x 2nds and 1 3rd
Some statistics of note… There were 50 personal 3 x3rd place medals
best times. Ray Oo
Justin Van Klaveren
9 new Individual ISM school swimming records by: Lotta Topari
♦ 4 records to Lotta Toppari 4 x2nd place medals
♦ 2 records to Luna Iai (Freshman) 2 for Ray Oo
♦ 2 records to Raymond Oo Justin Van Klaveren
♦ 1 record to Joanna Hirsch (freshman) Sam Drury
4 x1st place medals (boys relay)
1 new ISM School Relay record goes to Noah Sison
♦ Noa Sison Justin Van Klavaren
♦ Justin Van Klaveren Yong An
♦ Yong An Ray Oo
♦ Ray Oo
Andy Astfalck
ISM swam in 31 B Finals Head Coach
ISM swam in 14 A Finals ISM Swimming
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