ISM Upcoming Events

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MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLE SCHOOL MIDDLE SCHOOL
ISSUE # 7
SY 2014 2015
WEEK OF:
SEPTEMBER 22 to 26
Weekly Publication for Middle School Parents
Friday Bulletin
Inside this issue:
Events & Actvites:
SEPTEMBER
25-26 CWW
29-30 MAP Testng



Dear Middle School Parents,

We would like to invite all Middle School parents to our frst parent cofee this
coming Tuesday September 23, 2014 in the Litle Theater from 7:45 - 9:00
a.m. We will begin with a short performance by our grade 7 and 8 strings stu-
dents and then we will be discussing what is happening in Middle School,
along with further informaton and learning about our new assessment and
grading practces. Together with the counseling team we will be available for
discussions and questons afer our presentaton and an opportunity for you
to also meet with other parents.

Next week is Classroom Without Walls - we are excited about this opportunity
for our students. The aim of CWW is to promote students' personal growth
and development while enhancing community, team building, service learn-
ing, and being immersed in our local culture of the Philippines. Grade 5 will
be on campus, and Grade 6, 7 and 8 will each be going to a diferent site. We
will communicate with everyone via email how the trips are going, and in ad-
vance we will be closely monitoring the weather to ensure the trips can take
place.

Please take note that our Parent Teacher Conferences will be taking place on
the afernoons of October 20 and 21. We will be sending out details of our
online appointment system for scheduling your conferences with the teachers
you would like to meet with. This is a great opportunity for you to touch base
with your child's teachers and learn more about their progress.

Yours in Educaton,

Simon Gillespie, Middle School Principal
Amanda Pekin, Middle School Assistant Principal
MAP Testng
Admissions & Advancement
Saturday Service Learning
Academic Bowl
Clinic / PTA
23 Parent Cofee
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Stevi Quate
Parent Cofee
We hope you received your copy of the ISM SY 2014 -
2015 school calendar. If you have not yet received
your copy or if you want to purchase extra copies,
please stop by the Communications and Marketing
Office. We are located at the reception area near the
Admissions Office. Thank you.

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Beginning on September 13, diferent service opportunites will be ofered on Saturdays. Some
events involve a trip to visit a service partner while others involve hostng a local educaton pro-
gram. Along with the joy of giving, students beneft by interactng with children from diferent
backgrounds and getng to know the Philippines beyond Makat and Taguig. To partcipate, stu-
dents simply pick up a permission slip from the MS Ofce on the Monday before the trip. Once
its been signed and returned to the ofce, a student can sign up on the roster. Some trips fll up
quickly so encourage them to sign up early. Parent are welcome to atend!

Saturday Service Dates for Semester 1
(Dates are subject to change.)

September 13 Philippine Community Fund
October 18 La Mesa Watershed & Hospicio de San Jose
November 8 Cotolengo Filipino & CRIBS
November 15 Chosen Children Village
November 22 Love to Learn and PAWS
November 29 Papaya Academy
December 6 Tzu Chi Foundaton

If you have questons, please send an email to Mr. Cory Willey at willeyc@ismanila.org.

INVITATION TO JOIN COMMITTEE TO REVIEW PTA CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS

Dear ISM Parents and Teachers,

The Parent Teacher Associaton (PTA) is calling for six volunteers to join a commitee, independent of the PTA Executve Com-
mitee, to oversee a review of its Consttuton and By-Laws (By-Laws).

The review will be conducted in consultaton with the ISM community over the course of this school year. If any changes are
made on the basis of the review, the entre parent teacher community will be called on to approve the changes.

The commitee will also include a maximum of three members from previous PTA Executve Commitees who have worked
closely with the current By-Laws. The total number on the commitee will be nine. Additonal commitee members may also
be chosen from the administraton.

If you are interested, please submit an expression of interest confrming your availability and capacity to:
- atend meetngs at least twice a month for the school year mostly during the school day but may include evenings;
- partcipate in various forms of community consultaton as required;
- draf various sectons of the By-Laws based on consultaton; and
- provide considered comments on various drafs.

Please email ismptabylawsreview@gmail.com by 5pm, Tues 23rd September to express interest or for more informaton.
The current By-Laws can be viewed at ismanila.org/pta.
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The Common Cold or Sipon is an infecton of the nasal mucosa, including the sinuses, the throat and or bronchi. It is caused pri-
marily by viruses of diferent species, like Rhino-, Entero-, Corona-, Adeno- or Paramyxoviruses, and there are more than 200 strains
known to cause a common cold. Colds are the most common infecton of mankind.

While adults catch a cold in average two to three tmes a year, children are afected up to thirteen tmes more ofen.
In the past few days there have been artcles about respiratory complicatons, caused by Enterovirus (EV) D68 in children in some
states of USA, as well as in some Asian countries, including the Philippines.

Enteroviruses form a quite large family of viruses, and cause 10 15 million infectons in the US yearly. Generally they tend to have a
summer/fall season that ofen peaks in September, and can be easily spread when you have close contact with an infected person.
You can also get infected by touching objects or surfaces that have the virus on them then touching your mouth, nose or eyes, the
CDC (the US based Center for Disease Control and Preventon) says.

EV D68 however is a rare virus. A peak has been noted in the past weeks in some hospitals in several states of the US, where EV D68
caused a large percentage of respiratory complicatons in children, 6 weeks to 16 years of age, with symptoms of common cold. Dr.
Anne Schuchat, director of CDCs Natonal Center for Immunizaton and Respiratory Diseases said it was too early to say whether the
virus would spread to other states and how long the outbreak might last.

The CDC stated last Monday that none of the cases so far this year were fatal, nor did any result in paralysis, as far as the CDC knows.

Health ofcials note that there are no vaccines specifcally formulated to prevent Enterovirus D68 or antviral drugs to treat it. Afect-
ed children were receiving asthma medicatons, oxygen and intravenous fuids as needed, the Kansas City Star reported.

Schuchat stressed that one warning sign parents should look for in their children is difculty breathing, which should prompt parents
to seek immediate medical atenton.

It seems to produce illness with a more severe component (such as) difculty breathing, Dr. William Schafner, an infectous diseas-
es expert at Vanderbilt University, told NBC News in a Monday report. But the vast majority of these kids will get beter.


IASAS Volleyball/XC housing needed ASAP! ISM is hostng the IASAS Volleyball/Cross Country Championships from Octo-
ber 15 to 19. We need to house 170 athletes for this event and as of today (Friday 9/19) we stll need 45 beds with 3
weeks to go. Please print and submit a housing leter to ATAC ofce as soon as possible if you can support this event. We
really need lots of ISM community spirit to help make this a wonderful event for our community. You can access housing
informaton/FAQ's and the housing leter via this link: htp://atac.ism-online.org/iasas/iasas-housing/

Congratulatons again to Sophia Jimenez (Grade 10) for her winning poster design for IASAS Volleyball/Cross Country.
Sophia's posters will be used for promoton, tarp banners and on the ofcial program for this event.

Congratulatons and well done to our Volleyball teams who both made the fnal games in Singapore last weekend. This
was an excellent preparaton for the upcoming IASAS here at ISM from October 16 to 18. Also our XC runners did very
well in Bangkok at their exchange with Molly Bailey winning the 5km event and sophomore Dirk Staal postng the fastest
tme for the ISM boys team. XC results are available via htp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/1st-season/cross-country-race-
results/

Well done to our JV girls soccer team who played their frst league game and had a win 4-1 over San Beda Taytay last
Tuesday evening.

Upcoming matches:
Saturday, September 20 - Cross Country at Faith/Swim meet at Brent
Saturday, September 20 - RIFA Festvals see ATAC blog festval pages for tmes and venues

Parents and students please take some tme to peruse the ATAC blog it has a wide variety of informaton and links to our
sports and actvites program. If you have any questons regarding the compettve program of sports at ISM afer reading
the informaton on the blog please send an email to pekinm@ismanila.org and I will endeavor to assist you as best I can.
The ES/MS Soccer Festvals have informaton at these links. Please note recent festval venue changes for the C and G
teams. Please check carefully as these links are current and updated. htp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/1st-season/es-
soccer-rifa-league-festvals/ and htp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/1st-season/ms-soccer-rifa-league-festvals/

Bearcat Den: Drop by our new spirit store. There is a range of new products and items to purchase including items from
our service partners. Bearcat Den hours of operaton: 7:00 A.M. 4:00 P.M. Monday Friday. We have new frisbees, swim
goggles, bearcat socks and other products now available.

The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by Triz Gonzalez (ATAC Athletcs Coordinator) gives the most up
to date informaton on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be playing throughout the school year. Access to the
game schedule is via the ISM parent portal not via power school as in the past. Use this link to access the parent portal,
log in with your user name/password and look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab. Remember to refresh the page when the
pdf schedule appears so you view the most current schedule.

Regards,
Mark Pekin
Director of Athletcs/Actvites
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IASAS Volleyball/Cross
Country- housing needed
ASAP! ISM is hosting the
IASAS Volleyball/Cross
Country Championships Oct
15-19. We need to house
170 athletes for this event.
Please print and submit a
housing letter to ATAC office
asap if you can support this
event.
You can access information/
FAQ's and housing letter
via : VB/XC housing infor-
mation
We really need lots of ISM
community support to help
make this a wonderful event.
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For more information about
the Vicky SyCip Herrera Scholarship,
click HERE or drop us a note at
ism95@ismanila.org.
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ISM Community Art Aucton on November 20, 2014
You are cordially invited to the ISM Community Art Aucton on November 20, 2014 at The Fine Arts Theater. But frst...

WE WANT YOUR ART! We are looking for artstc works and/or estate objects made or owned by members or friends of
the ISM community. This includes, but not limited to, paintngs, photographs, drawings, prints, sculptures, jewelry, tex-
tles, ceramics and estate items such as furniture and china. For more informaton, visit artaucton.ism-online.org or email
at ism95@ismanila.org.