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Student Bulletin

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Volume 3, Issue # 19

WEEK AT A GLANCE

Dear Students:

Welcome back to Middle School after the long break. We hope you enjoyed yourselves and are nowready to get started with Semester 2. It will be an eventful one.

Lets continue demonstrating respectful and responsible behavior this semester. You can set the tonfor the type of Middle School you want to be a part of.

There will be an All Choirs Concert this Thursday, January 20 at 5:30 P.M. in the LT. Stick around tohear your classmates sing.

Semester 1 reports will be available on PowerSchool this Friday, January 21 after 4:00 P.M.

Ms. Fredericks and Ms. Sayson

Upcoming Events in the Middle School PowerSchool Grade Updat

January 17 to 21, 2011

January 19 - 23 AMIS Band

20 Understanding Third Culture Kids (9:30 A.M., LT)

20 All Choirs Concert (5:30 P.M., LT)

25 PTA Bearcat Welcome (7:30 A.M., LT)26 New Student Luncheon (11:00 A.M., Rm. 1057)

31 to Feb. 04 Bearcat Book Week

February 02 Grade 4 to 5 Student Transition Assembly (1:00 P.M., LT)

02 Grade 4 to 5 Parent Transition Meeting (5:00 P.M., LT)

04 Courtyard Mini-Concert: MS Strings (3:00 P.M., Courtyard)

04 MS Party - Grade 5-6 (5:00 P.M.)

05 PTA Family Fun Day (ES Field)

09 to 13 AMIS Honor Girls Choir Festival

14 to 18 Classroom Without Walls

23 Grade 8 Parent Session on Transitioning to High School

(5:30 P.M., FAT)

24 MS Parent Coffee (7:45 A.M., LT)

28 School Holiday (EDSA Revolution Day)

Jan. 21 - PowerSchool opens

for Semester 1 Reports

Jan. 24 - Semester 1 Report Card

Distribution (via courier)

January 17 to 21, 2011

Monday, January 17 Regular Schedule

Tuesday, January 18 Regular Schedule

Wednesday, January 19 Student Late Start/Regular ScheduleMS Grade Level Assembly (11:40 A.M.):

Gr. 5 - MS Gym; Gr. 6 - TBA ; Gr. 7 - FAT; Gr. 8 - AMR

Thursday, January 20 Regular Schedule

Friday, January 21 Regular Schedule

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FROM THE ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES OFFICE

IASAS BASKETBALL HOUSINGIASAS Basketball will be taking place of ISM on January 27-29, 2011 and housing placements are now being accepted.As of this week, we have 55 students housed but we require100 housing slots in total.All 1st season athletes who were housed, this is your time tofulfill your responsibility and offer housing for Basketball.

All varsity and JV basketball teams should also have re-turned housing forms by now as well. We welcome offers ofhousing from anyone in our ISM community. Please supportthe ATAC Department by getting these forms in ASAP. Westill require 45 slots for visiting IASAS athletes.Go Bearcats! Show your pride and support of the programand get behind our teams by hosting a pair of visiting play-ers from our IASAS sister schools. Housing forms are avail-able from ATAC office or on the ATAC Blog athttp://atac.ism-online.org/iasas-basketball-jan-26-31-2011/

IASAS BASKETBALL

Please see the IASAS Basketball Championships schedule inthis bulletin. I hope many of the ISM community will comeand support our teams during this event. We hope to havefull gyms and a great atmosphere for all our visiting teams.Come out and cheer for the Bearcats.

Whilst our Basketball teams are battling here at home ourother season 2 teams will be doing the same in Taipei(Rugby/Touch), Singapore (Tennis), Kuala Lumpur(Swimming). To all our travelling teams and coaches, wewish you the best of luck at IASAS. All the action/resultsfrom all IASAS events can be followed by visiting the IASASwebsite where you can find links to results and live stream-ing for some of the events. Visit www.iasas.asia for all the2nd seasons IASAS Championships action!

ATAC ANNOUNCEMENTS

GAME SCHEDULE INFORMATIONInformation about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISMteams can be found by going to the GAME SCHEDULE tab onthe ATAC page of the ISM website. You can also access thisinformation via the ES/MS/HS divisional web pages. Pleasenote the game schedule does change often due to involve-ment with many local schools so please check the pageregularly to find out the latest information of where andwhen the Bearcats teams are playing. Access to the game

schedule page is also available via the ATAC blog. Click onthe Bearcat logo to be directed to the game schedulepage. http://atac.ism-online.org

ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES JANUARY/FEBRUARY(for ALL match/schedule details check game schedule pag Jan. 14 - HS Basketball at Brent

- MS/HS rugby vs. BSM and Faith at ISM, HS fieldfrom 3:30 P.M.

- Swim team to Bangkok for pre-IASAS meet

Jan. 15 - JV/varsity Rugby at Brent- JV/varsity touch at Faith- MS boys and girls Basketball at ISM- Varsity girls Basketball at ISM- PRADA Chess at ISM

- ISTA MS boys A tennis vs. Ateneo A at CSA,from 1pm

- ISSA Tennis at CSA- PRADA boys Tennis at ISM

Jan. 21 - Basketball at Faith Jan. 22 - ISM Touch Invitational Tournament

- MS Boys B tennis vs. Ateneo 8:00 A.M. and vs.

Brent B 1:00 P.M. Jan. 26 - IASAS Basketball Teams arrive,

ISM Teams Depart for IASAS Jan. 27-29 - IASAS Basketball at ISM Jan. 27-29 - IASAS Rugby/Touch in Taipei, Swimming in

KL, Tennis in Singapore Jan. 29 - MS PRFU Juniors Touch/Tackle Rugby

tournament at ISM- JV Touch at UP for UP Invitational Touch

Tournament Jan. 31 - 3rd season sports tryouts begin for HS teams

(Track/Softball/Badminton) Feb. 3 - 3rd season sports tryouts begin for MS teams

(Track/Softball/Badminton/Mixed Touch)

MS 2nd Season Sports Awards on February 9, 4:00 P.M. in EGym (Touch/Tennis/Rugby/Basketball)

HS 2nd Season Sports Awards on February 11th, 5:30 P.M. HGym (Touch/Rugby/Tennis/Basketball/Swimming/ Cheer-leading)

BEARCAT DENRegular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 A.M. 1:00

P.M. and 2:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:30-4:00 P.M.

Thanks to all our great volunteers.

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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