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Parent Bulletin Issue 21 SY1516
Parent Bulletin Issue 21 SY1516
SY 20152016
MIDDLE SCHOOL
WEEK OF:
Friday Bulletin
FEBRUARY 8 TO 12
Rustic Pathways
After-School Activities
MS Guidance Office
MS Upcoming Events:
FEBRUARYMARCH:
IS
NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Monday, February 8
CLASSROOM WITHOUT WALLS
February 15 - 19
MS YEARBOOK PHOTOSHOOT
Monday, February 22
PARENT COFFEE - LITERACY
Wednesday, February 24
NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Thursday, February 25
DATES TO REMEMBER:
No School:
Monday February 8th (Lunar New Year)
Family Social: Parent/Child Dance
Friday, February 12th
Classroom Without Walls:
Monday, February 15th - Friday, February 19th
MS Yearbook Photo Retakes
Monday, February 22nd
NO SCHOOL
Friday, February 26
MAP TESTING
February 29 to March 23
G8 PARENT TRANSITION MEETING
Wednesday, March 2
ACADEMIC BOWL
Wednesday, March 9
Thailand (Elephants)
MS: groups.rusticpathways.com/
trips/ismelephants2016/
Congratulations to all our Bearcats teams that represented at Basketball in ISKL, Tennis at ISB, Swimming at SAS and Rugby/Touch
here at ISM. What a wonderful, historic and exciting 3 days
of competition last weekend.
Results:
Swimming- Girls 5th, Boys 6th (8 new school records broken
and 21 out of 24 swimmers on our team broke their own personal best times with 5 medals. (Maia Ner Bronze 100 Bstroke/
Dias Konysbayev Silver 100 Backstroke/Bronze 800 and 400
Freestyle and Boys 4x50m relay)
Tennis- Boys Silver, Girls Gold (6peat! 6th Gold in a row for ISM
girls tennis)
Basketball- Boys 5th and Girls Silver
Touch- Gold (repeat-2nd Gold in a row)
Rugby- Gold (first rugby Gold for ISM)
To all our 2nd season varsity coaches thank you for your hard work
and dedication during S2.
HS awards Thurs Feb 11 5:30-7:30pm at the lofthouse 3rd floor. For
all HS 2nd season Asp/JV and Varsity teams and parents- (Rugby/
Touch/Tennis/Basketball/Swimming)
Thanks to all our community for the fantastic support with housing
and the support at all the R&T matches. It was a wonderful atmosphere to watch our girls and boys win double Gold at home.
Congratulations to the JV girls basketball who won the local league
ISSA final on Saturday going through the season undefeated. Our JV
boys lost to Beacon in the semi final and play for 3rd place this Saturday.
Well done to our ISM Table Tennis teams who won all 3 divisions
(ES/MS/HS) at the ISM Invitational Table Tennis Tournament held
last Saturday at the covered court.
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...
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.
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.
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.
This Saturday our MS Girls gold basketball team plays off for 3rd
place in the local league and our MS Boys gold basketball team plays
their semi final, if they win the final will be
Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your user name/
played Saturday afternoon.
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
Sunday is the start of the local softball league season with Varsity
opens so you access the most current schedule. Please note this
girls and JV boys having games to kick off S3.
schedule does change often and at short notice due to involvement
with many local schools and organizations.
Next weekend a group of our gymnasts will be heading to Bangkok
to compete at the ISB meet.
Check it regularly for the most up to date information. For security
Season 3 (S3) tryouts will begin this week announcements are posted on notice boards and on ATAC blog schedules page for tryouts
and the season practice schedules.
ATAC S3 sports for MS are Badminton, Track&Field, Mixed Touch
and Co-ed Softball. For HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, Softball
and Badminton.
Upcoming events:
Feb 1-5 S3 tryouts week for MS/HS teams (see schedules on
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