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24 April 2009Volume 18
ES PARENT BULLETIN
International School Manila
IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER 
APR
27 - 30ES Book Week PTA Used Book Fair, Children’s Media Center
MAY
5 AFAC Concert @ 1pm, Fine Arts Theatre6Middle School Parent Evening @ 5-6.30pm,Fine Arts Theatre
Information regarding the changes to grades 5and 6
9 K-12 Dance Recital @ 3pm, Fine Arts Theatre13 - 15 Grade 5 Camp Caliraya Field Trip
 JUNE
4Grade 4 Moving-On Ceremony @ 8-9am, FineArts TheatreGrade 5 Moving-On Ceremony @ 10-11am,Fine Arts TheatreEarly Student Release @ 12 noonEnd of 2nd Semester1Labor Day Holiday - No School29Children’s Musical Theatre performance @1pm for students, Fine Arts Theatre.evening show @ 6pm, Fine Arts Theatre
Next week we have a lot going on in the ElementarySchool. Our CMC Book Week will be taking place to pro-vide our students opportunities to learn more about howbooks are created by meeting with different authors andtaking part in storytelling sessions. Classes will each be as-signed to different times throughout the week. Our Chil-dren’s Musical Theater directed by Linell will be presenting“The Nightingale” performed by students in grades four andfive. They will be on stage in the Fine Arts Theatre for astudent performance on Wednesday April 29 at 1:00 p.m.,followed by an evening performance at 6:00 p.m. We look forward to watching our students sharing their singing andacting talents!It is at this time of the year that we start to receive a lot of questions about classes for the next school year. In Elemen-tary School next year, we will be adding an additional class of grade 2 and grade 5 will become a part of MiddleSchool. Therefore we will have the following classes:Pre School 4 classesECLC 5 classesGrade 1 – 4 6 classes eachAside from the students going into their second year of PreSchool, where we maintain the group and teachers as muchas possible, mixing of classes is something that happens atevery grade level. We have a relatively transient studentpopulation and we feel it gives us the opportunity to balancethe classes for the start of the new year. It also helps thechildren expand their circle of friends and helps them toadapt to change.The sectioning process is very involved, one in which all theteachers spend considerable time on and give a lot of thought and consideration. The aim of the process is to cre-ate balanced groups in terms of gender, language proficiency,academic needs, emotional and social dynamics and a mix of ethnicities. Students receiving Learning Support and ESL arealso distributed evenly across the classes. As much as possi-ble, we also try to place each child with at least one otherperson he/she works well with.The teachers of the grade are responsible for establishingthe classes their students are moving to. For example,
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From the ES Administrationrom the ES Administration 
Dear Elementary School Parents,First of all I would like to update you on a staffing changethat took place last week. Mary Cunning, our CMC librar-ian, will no longer be with us for personal reasons, and forthe remainder of this school year the CMC will be underthe direction of David Birchenall, our Director of LibraryServices, with the support of Jo Cayabyab, our CMC In-structional Assistant. Joining the CMC next school year asour Librarian is Rebecca Pierce, one of our current gradefour teachers.
 
24 April 2009Elementary School Parent Bulletin2
Dear ISM Parents,Greetings from the Admission Office!
The Re-Enrollment Re-quirements for School Year 2009-10 will be available for pick-up in the Admission Office starting next week 
. All of the genericre-enrollment forms are ALSO available on the website if you wishto download and print the forms from there. The forms can befound under 
Admission
and then under the
Re-Enrollment &Withdrawal
tab.The complete Re-Enrollment Packet will include the…1.
Re-Enrollment Clearance Form for SY2009-10
(2-pages) for each child in the family.2.
Health Clinic Clearance Procedure
(1-page) letter 3.
Health Clinic Updating Form
(2-pages) for each child in thefamily4.
Tuberculosis Screening Form
(2-pages) for students entering Grades 1, 5, or 95.
Parent and School Shared Agreements
(4-pages) form for each child in the family6. OPTIONAL
Board Proxy
Form (1-page) for each family7. OPTIONAL
PTA Directory
Form (1-page) for each family
URGENT…if you know that your child(ren) will not be returning to ISM for the 2009-10 school year, please in-form the Admission Office as soon as possible if you have not already done so. We currently have very few fami-lies indicating that they will not be returning and consequently there are an ever growing number of applicants ina WAITPOOL for possible openings. This is causing great distress and anxiety in those families (and in the Ad-mission Office). If you are sure that your child will be leaving ISM, please submit a Withdrawal NotificationForm or contact and verify with the Admission Office (840-8488) that he/she is listed as not returning for SY2009-10. The Withdrawal Notification Form can be obtained from the Admission Office or from the ISM website un-der the Admission tab and then click on Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal. This will be a great help for our planningand to the many families waiting to be admitted to the school. Thank you.
 
From the Admission Officerom the Admission Office 
 
 Hate to wait and be in along line?!? 
 Purchase your uniforms in advance for  School Year 2009-2010… Just visit the ISM Uniform Shop at  Room P069 (beside the Security Office)every Tuesdays and Thursdays from7:00a.m. to 4:00p.m. See you there!!!
From the Uniform Shoprom the Uniform Shop From the PE Departmentrom the PE Department 
Thank you to all those parentswho have sent in photos of chil-dren being active. They are nowon display outside the LittleTheatre. A recent article pub-lished in the School Health AlertNewsletter from Nashville Ten-nessee discusses a study thatconcluded that aerobic fitnesshas a significant relationship tocognitive function as measuredby academic performance. Rec-ommended activity guidelines for elementary aged children is a minimum of one hour per day. Good for your body and your brain it seems! Con-gratulations to all our 5
th
grade athletes that participated inthe final Amazing PE Race for the year today! It is good toknow that exercise also providesopportunities for fun and to be withfriends.It is terrific to see so many childrenwearing hats to PE lessons sched-uled on the ES Field.As of April 27
th
Coach Pekin’sclasses will be in the gymnasticsarea, Coach Bill’s classes will beswimming, Coach Noli will be on theCovered Court and Coach Perry’sclasses will be in the ES Gym.
Amanda Pekin
ES Physical Educationpekina@ismanila.org
 
24 April 2009Elementary School Parent Bulletin3
From the Art Departmentrom the Art Department 
Dear Parents, Just a reminder that we, in the ArtDepartment, are still in recyclingmode. We particularly require news-papers at the moment and lots of it. Weare also currently in need of ribbons, string, bot-tle caps and tops, old tools and toys (even if it does notwork), gift wrap, greeting cards, magazines, hardware(broken is fine), transparent plastic wrap etc . Frankly,there is not much we can’t find a use for. Howeverplease do not send juice or milk containers as they at-tract cockroaches even when washed.Thanks so much,
Olivia Jones 
ES Art
 
From the CMCrom the CMC 
The CMC celebrates the world of books and storytelling during our
 More Than A Book Week! More Than A Book Week! 
From Monday 27
th
April to Thursday 30
th
April, the CMC will celebrate the worldof books and stories by hosting several exciting events which will showcase localauthors, illustrators, storytellers and performing artists. We’ll be welcoming backsome of the guests from last year’s book week as well as introducing some newones, including:
Alitaptap Storytelling GroupAnino Shadow Puppet TheatreMs. Carla Pacis, AuthorMr. Elbert Or, IllustratorMs. Gidget Jimenez, AuthorMs. Melody Remorca, StorytellerMs. Neni Sta. Romana Cruz, AuthorMr. Robert Magnuson, Author and Illustrator
The schedule, including the location of each event, is posted on the bulletin board outside the ES Office. Par-ents are welcome to attend any of the events during the week and join in the celebration with us.We hope that you and your children will enjoy More Than a Book Week and be inspired to explore all the dif-ferent ways that stories can be told. Congratulations to Candice Hodges, a student librarian from Grade 5who wins a book voucher from Fully Booked for suggesting the name of our event.See you next week!
CMC Staff  
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