M I D D L E

Issue # 34 May 14 to 18, 2012

Student Bulletin
May 14 to 18, 2012

S C H O O L

WEEK AT A GLANCE
Monday, May 14 Tuesday, May 15 Wednesday, May 16 Thursday, May 17 Friday, May 18 Dear Students: This Friday, May 18 is the last day to return items to the MSMC. Make sure to plan so all items are returned. It is time to enjoy some great music at the MS Finale Concert: Light/Dark. The show starts at 5:30 PM in the FAT this Wednesday, May 16. Student Council voting takes place this Thursday and Friday. The Student Council has many important responsibilities so remember to vote for who you think can perform the role best. Looking aheadThe last day of school will be on Thursday, May 31 and students will be dismissed at 12:00 noon. Please make the necessary arrangements to have your child picked up from school. Yours in Education, Mr. Gillespie and Ms. Sayson Regular Schedule Regular Schedule Student Late Start/Regular Schedule
Grade Level Assembly (11:40 A.M.)

Regular Schedule Regular Schedule

Upcoming Events in the Middle School

May 14 to 18 16 22 22 25 29 29 30 31 Gr. 4 Tour and Talk MS Finale Concert (5:30 P.M., FAT) Grade 8 Advocating for Change (AFC) Homeless World Cup (3:00 P.M., HS Field) Grade 8 Dinner Dance (7:00 P.M., LT) Grade 8 Fun Day End of Season Sports Awards (3:15 P.M., Lofthouse) Grade 8 Moving On Ceremony (4:00 P.M., FAT) Early Student Release (12:00 noon)

PowerSchool Grade Update

May 25 - PowerSchool Closes May 31 - PowerSchool Opens

21 to June 01 Lost & Found Viewing (Room 1118)

ART WORKS!!! Middle Schoolers: PLEASE collect your art work from the ART SHOW in the hallway outside of Ms. Morgans classroom on Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday. Carefully take this art work home for your parents to see. After these four days, all uncollected art work will be sold on EBAY or thrown out. Thank you!
Inaugural Meeting for IASAS Golf
Golf has been approved and is now the newest IASAS sport. There will be an inaugural meeting held Thursday, May 17 at 3:15 P.M. in room 2023. MS grads that can golf are invited to attend this meeting. The IASAS golf tournament will be played during the third season but we want to start getting organized now. Please come to this informational meeting if you are keen about the ISM golf program. Thanks, Mr. Hamaguchi

FROM THE ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES OFFICE

Since the launch at the beginning of the school year, the ATAC blog has to date received over 25,000 visits and has provided valuable up to date information for ISM students/parents in a wide variety of ATAC program areas. We are constantly updating the blog to provide current information and in our quest to do so, you will notice a new twitter service now available. Tweets from ISManilaAD will be posted for important ISM information/updates related to the ATAC program. This service will be especially relevant to HS students/parents who are heavily involved in our program and who may travel frequently with school teams. If buses or flights are delayed, a tweet can be posted to inform parents and to allow them to keep updated if events like this occur. If you are a regular IASAS host family, this service may be of use as tweets will be posted if arriving teams have been delayed at the airport and pick up times are affected. You can view tweets on the blog home page and also by subscribing to twitter/setting up an account. You can follow ISManilaAD by clicking on the follow me button at the blog home page and you can receive updates directly to your cell phone to keep updated on the go with all the Bearcats action! During IASAS weeks score updates/results and medal performances will also be posted! ISM Summer Camps: Please register ASAP if you are planning on taking any of our summer sports slots for camps are filling up fasthttp://atac.ism-online.org/atac/atac-summer-sportscamps/. Exciting developments for next school year: In our quest to ensure ISM maintains and keeps improving the wonderful sports facilities we have, it gives me great pleasure to advise that work has already started on the new roof top tennis court project and that work will be starting in late May on resurfacing our track. The tennis court redevelopment is a large scale project which when completed in mid/late October will provide a fully covered facility for tennis and PE classes with the addition of two courts (currently 6 to 8 courts), along with male/female locker rooms, extra storage space for equipment, roll away tennis nets, a small office and two areas of spectator bleachers. Our athletics track will be resurfaced and the jumps runway/ landing pit area will be relocated slightly to improve this facility. ISM hosts IASAS Tennis and Track & Field next school year and these improvements will ensure we have the best facilities possible to host the IASAS Championships in 2013 and for our students/ teams to use for their PE classes and team training on a day to day basis during the school year. ATAC Events Coming Up: May 12 - Aikido and Judo meet in the Gymnastic area/ Covered Court May 22 - ISM Homeless World Cup Football Tournament, 3:00 to 5:00 P.M. See Ms. Vogt to pay/register your team. Open to MS/HS students. Funds raised will help support the Philippines Homeless World Cup team to travel to Mexico City to compete. GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (access to game schedule information) Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATAC blog. Please note the game schedule does change often due to involvement with many local schools so please check the page regularly to find out the latest information of where and when the Bearcats teams are playing. Click on schedules tab or the Bearcat logo to be directed to the http:// powerschool.ismanila.org/public/. You will need your power school user name and password to access the game schedule. Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, from 11:30 A.M. 1:00 P.M. & 2:30 P.M. 4:00 P.M. Tuesday & Thursday afternoons, from 2:30 - 4:00 P.M. If you are interested in joining our group of volunteers in the Bearcat Den, please contact our BCD volunteers coordinator, Radhika at radhikasavantmohit@yahoo.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. Anyone interested in joining the den next school year starting in August names are being taken, please contact Radhika to submit your information and expression of interest. Please note final day for den sales this school year is Wednesday, May 30th. On Thursday, May 31st, the den volunteers will be doing inventory and closing up the den for summer hibernation. The den will not be open for sales on the final day of school May 31st. Regards, Mark Pekin Director of Athletics/Activities BEARCAT DEN: (http://atac.ism-online.org/bearcat-den/) The new dri-fit t-shirts are now available along with new Bearcat bags and arriving soon are the new ISM/Bearcat dri-fit caps (great for PE classes).