HS Friday Bulletin March 18
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International School Manila
For ATTENDANCE concerns, please contact the HS Office (Sam Ramos or Laurie Atilano) Atilano) Tel: 840 8650 / 840 8653 or email [email protected]
March 18, 2011
For GUIDANCE concerns, please contact Gigi Azarcon and Jasmin Andres Tel:840-8655 / 840-8660
Dear Parents, We made it to Spring Break! We hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable vacation!
From the HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AD MINISTRATION HS Calendar: March 21 25: NO CLASSES SPRING BREAK ‐
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Monday, March 28: IB2 Computer Science Dossier Due IB1 Math IA Start Tuesday, March 29: IB1 Math IA Start Wednesday, March 30: Student Late Start IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12) Thursday, March 31: IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12) Friday, April 1: IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12)
Upcoming Events: March 30 April 5: IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12) April 1 2: Gr. 11 Geography Field Trip April 4 April 20: MAP Testing (Gr. 9 & 10) April 6: ISSBA Elections April 8: Finale Concert 5:30 7:00pm (FAT) of the Bands (ES Field) April 9: Battle of the April 12: HS Parent Coffee of the Bands Finals (ES Field) April 9: Battle of the ‐
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SCHEDULED COLLEGE VISITS:
College Rice University
Representative Location Mrs. Grace Panares HSGO
Date 4/6/11 11:30 AM
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FROM THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE: OFFICE:
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Re-Enrollment Re-Enrollment for SY201 1-12
The Admission Office and the individual school offices are making plans and gathering re-enrollment data for next school year, SY 2011-2012. Middle and High School students must indicate re-enrollment intentions through their Course Selection form (which is done done on-line). If you have any questions about this, please contact the individual school offices. URGENT: If you know that your child(ren) will not be returning to ISM for the 2011-12 school year, please inform the Admission Office as soon as possible if you have not already done so. We currently have very few families indicating that they will not be returning and consequently there are an ever growing number of applicants applicants in a WAITPOOL for possible openings. This is causing great distress and anxiety in those families that are waiting to hear if their children will be accepted into ISM. If you are sure that your child will be leaving ISM, please please submit a Withdrawal Notification Form. Form. The Withdrawal Notification Form can be obtained from the Admission Office or from the ISM website: Admission tab and then click on Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal. This will be a great help for our our planning and to the many families waiting to be admitted. Thank you.
Re-Enrollment requirements will be similar to last year and a Re-Enrollment DEPOSIT PAYMENT is not required to reserve a space at the School for SY2011-12. However, parents are obliged to inform the School in writing, before the second Friday of May, if their children will withdraw at the end of the academic year. There is a WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM for such purpose and this must be submitted to the Admissions Office before the second Friday of May of each school year. Failure to do so will lead to a deduction of US$1,000 from the Facilities Upgrade Deposit (FUD), in compensation for having held a space for the child and thus preventing the School from offering that space to another child prior to the summer holiday break. The Re-Enrollment Form and other requested forms for each re-enrolling student will be available by the beginning of April in both 'hardcopy' at the Admission Office and online on our website under Admission and Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal. If you do not download this information from the website then please drop by the Admission Office during office hours (7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) p.m.) and pick up the set of Re-Enrollment Forms. Parents may do this personally or your child can come to the Admission Office and and get the forms. If you would like to have your driver or househelp pick up the forms, please give them a letter of authorization to collect the Re-Enrollment Forms for your child/children. Regards, Gary W. Jerome Director of Admission
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FROM THE ATAC OFFICE: OFFICE:
IASAS 3rd Season information: IASAS travel packets for 3rd season teams will be distributed this week. w eek. Please get documents and information returned asap. Please bring your passport to Joan at ATAC office so we can begin processing for your trip. IASAS Send off assembly is April 6th IASAS Send off lunch sponsored by parents is April 13th IASAS 3rd Season sports awards is Friday May 6th at HS Gym starting at 5:30pm - dress to impress! IASAS BADMINTON: April 18 21 Information related to the IASAS Badminton Tournament can now be found on the ATAC Blog http://atac.ism online.org We are currently accepting housing offers for the 80 visiting Badminton athletes if you can help with housing please read details on the blog and a housing letter can also be accessed via the blog or hard copy picked up from the ATAC office. ‐
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ATAC Blog: http://atac.ism online.org For information related to the ATAC Department please check the newly refurbished ATAC Blog. Weekly updates/newsletter items and other information related to the ISM ATAC extracurricular program and seasonal sports can be found here as well as links to the latest game schedule and IASAS website are available. ‐
GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (new procedure in place for access to game schedule pdf information) pdf information) Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATAC blog. You can also access this information via the ES/MS/HS divisional web pages. 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 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 ID# to access the game schedule pdf now pdf now located in power school ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES – (for ALL match/schedule details check game schedule page as above) April 2 Track Meet at Brent April 8 Twilight Track Meet at ISM v Brent at ISM April 17 (Sunday) Teams depart for IASAS
Track at ISB, Softball at JIS, ISM is hosting Badminton BEARCAT DEN: Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:
Mon, Wed and Fridays from 11:30 am – 1:00pm and 2:30pm – 4:00pm. Tues and Thurs afternoons from 2:30-4pm. Thanks to all our great volunteers. If you are interested in joining our group of volunteers in the Bearcat Den please contact our BCD volunteers coordination Chantel ([email protected] [email protected])) 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.
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ISM AQUATHON 2011 Saturday 2 n d April Presenting the Annual ISM Aquathon 2011 Open to all ISM Student/Faculty/Staff/Parent Community. RACE 1 – 13/14, 15-18 and Adults - Start Time 8:00am Run 600m Swim 400m Run 1400m RACE 2 – 9/10 11/12 Age Groups – Start Time 8:30am Run 300m Swim 300m Run 1000m RACE 3 - 8 and Under Start Time 9:00am Run 150m Swim 200m Run 500m RACE 4 - Relay – Student/Student, Adult/Student, Adults/Adult, Start 9:30am - Run 600m Swim 800m Run 1400m
Awards Ceremony – 10:00am ISM AQUATHON 2011 – ENTRY FORM 1 . Present this entry form to the Cashiers office and pay 300 pesos en try fee 2 . Cashier will Stamp Entry Form. 3 . Present this form to the Sw Sw imming Po ol Office
Participants Name Birth date
Gender Gender M / F Age on Day
DIVISION
AGE GROUP – Please Select a division and Age Group (X) 8&U 9/10 11/12 13/14 15/18 Adult Relay
Race 1 8:00am
13/14
15/18
Adult
Student Student
Student Parent
Adult Adult
Race 2 8:30am Race 3 9:00am Race 4 Relays 9:30am
Cashier STAMP Office)
9/10
11/12
8&U
Teacher Teacher
300 P eso Entry Fee(Cashier Fee(Cashier
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COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES: CONGRATULATIONS!
We are proud to announce that our ISM seniors were accepted to the following universities: COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCES: Academy of Art of Art University University of Alberta of Alberta American University American University of Rome of Rome Ateneo de Manila University (17) Babson College (2) Barnard College Bath Spa University College Bentley University (5) Binghamton University University of Birmingham of Birmingham University of British of British Columbia Okanagan University of British of British Columbia (3) Brock University Brown University Bryant University University of California of California at Irvine University of California of California at Los Angeles (4) University of California of California at Riverside University of California of California at Santa Cruz California State University, East Bay California State University, Sacramento Carnegie Mellon University University of Chicago of Chicago City University Colgate University The Culinary Institute of America of America De Anza College De La Salle University Manila University College Dublin University of Dundee of Dundee Durham University University of East of East Anglia Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne University of Edinburgh of Edinburgh (2) Embry Riddle Aeronautical University FL Emmanuel College University of Exeter of Exeter Fisher College Franklin and Marshall College George Mason University ‐
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Glasgow Caledonian University Glion Institute of Higher of Higher Education Goldsmiths College, University of London of London (2) Hamilton College NY University of Hawaii of Hawaii at Hilo Hiram College The Hong Kong University of Science of Science & Technology University of Illinois of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (5) Imperial College of Science, of Science, Technology, and Medicine (2) Indiana University at Bloomington Iona College The University of Iowa of Iowa Johnson & Wales University University of Kent of Kent at Canterbury Lakehead University Lancaster University University of Leicester of Leicester London School of Economics of Economics (2) University College London (6) Longwood University Loyola Marymount University (2) Loyola University Chicago (2) Manhattanville College (3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Technology McGill University (2) Menlo College Michigan State University University of Michigan of Michigan (2) Middlesex University Northeastern University (6) Northwestern University University of Notre of Notre Dame Nottingham Trent University (2) University of Nottingham of Nottingham (2) University of Oregon of Oregon Pace University, New York City (2) Pennsylvania State University, Berks College Pennsylvania State University, University Park (2) University of Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania (2) University of the of the Philippines (2) ‐
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Purdue University (5)
Stony Brook University
Queen Mary, University of London of London
Syracuse University (2)
Radford University
University of Toronto of Toronto (2)
Rider University
Trinity College Dublin
Ringling College of Art of Art and Design
University at Buffalo The State University of New of New York
Saint Louis University
University College Utrecht
Saint Mary's College of California of California
University of Oxford of Oxford (2)
Salve Regina University
University of the of the Arts London
Salve Regina University
University of Victoria of Victoria
University of San of San Diego (3)
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of San of San Francisco (6)
University of Warwick of Warwick (3)
School of Pharmacy, of Pharmacy, University of London of London
Waseda University
Sheffield Hallam University
Wesleyan University (2)
University of Southern of Southern California
Western Michigan University
University of St. of St. Andrews (Scotland)
University of Western of Western Ontario Yale University
Stanford University University of Stirling of Stirling
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For ATTENDANCE concerns, please contact the HS Office (Sam Ramos or Laurie Atilano) Atilano) Tel: 840 8650 / 840 8653 or email [email protected]
March 18, 2011
For GUIDANCE concerns, please contact Gigi Azarcon and Jasmin Andres Tel:840-8655 / 840-8660
Dear Parents, We made it to Spring Break! We hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable vacation!
From the HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AD MINISTRATION HS Calendar: March 21 25: NO CLASSES SPRING BREAK ‐
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Monday, March 28: IB2 Computer Science Dossier Due IB1 Math IA Start Tuesday, March 29: IB1 Math IA Start Wednesday, March 30: Student Late Start IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12) Thursday, March 31: IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12) Friday, April 1: IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12)
Upcoming Events: March 30 April 5: IB2 Mock Exams (Grade 12) April 1 2: Gr. 11 Geography Field Trip April 4 April 20: MAP Testing (Gr. 9 & 10) April 6: ISSBA Elections April 8: Finale Concert 5:30 7:00pm (FAT) of the Bands (ES Field) April 9: Battle of the April 12: HS Parent Coffee of the Bands Finals (ES Field) April 9: Battle of the ‐
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SCHEDULED COLLEGE VISITS:
College Rice University
Representative Location Mrs. Grace Panares HSGO
Date 4/6/11 11:30 AM
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FROM THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE: OFFICE:
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Re-Enrollment Re-Enrollment for SY201 1-12
The Admission Office and the individual school offices are making plans and gathering re-enrollment data for next school year, SY 2011-2012. Middle and High School students must indicate re-enrollment intentions through their Course Selection form (which is done done on-line). If you have any questions about this, please contact the individual school offices. URGENT: If you know that your child(ren) will not be returning to ISM for the 2011-12 school year, please inform the Admission Office as soon as possible if you have not already done so. We currently have very few families indicating that they will not be returning and consequently there are an ever growing number of applicants applicants in a WAITPOOL for possible openings. This is causing great distress and anxiety in those families that are waiting to hear if their children will be accepted into ISM. If you are sure that your child will be leaving ISM, please please submit a Withdrawal Notification Form. Form. The Withdrawal Notification Form can be obtained from the Admission Office or from the ISM website: Admission tab and then click on Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal. This will be a great help for our our planning and to the many families waiting to be admitted. Thank you.
Re-Enrollment requirements will be similar to last year and a Re-Enrollment DEPOSIT PAYMENT is not required to reserve a space at the School for SY2011-12. However, parents are obliged to inform the School in writing, before the second Friday of May, if their children will withdraw at the end of the academic year. There is a WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM for such purpose and this must be submitted to the Admissions Office before the second Friday of May of each school year. Failure to do so will lead to a deduction of US$1,000 from the Facilities Upgrade Deposit (FUD), in compensation for having held a space for the child and thus preventing the School from offering that space to another child prior to the summer holiday break. The Re-Enrollment Form and other requested forms for each re-enrolling student will be available by the beginning of April in both 'hardcopy' at the Admission Office and online on our website under Admission and Re-Enrollment & Withdrawal. If you do not download this information from the website then please drop by the Admission Office during office hours (7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.) p.m.) and pick up the set of Re-Enrollment Forms. Parents may do this personally or your child can come to the Admission Office and and get the forms. If you would like to have your driver or househelp pick up the forms, please give them a letter of authorization to collect the Re-Enrollment Forms for your child/children. Regards, Gary W. Jerome Director of Admission
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FROM THE ATAC OFFICE: OFFICE:
IASAS 3rd Season information: IASAS travel packets for 3rd season teams will be distributed this week. w eek. Please get documents and information returned asap. Please bring your passport to Joan at ATAC office so we can begin processing for your trip. IASAS Send off assembly is April 6th IASAS Send off lunch sponsored by parents is April 13th IASAS 3rd Season sports awards is Friday May 6th at HS Gym starting at 5:30pm - dress to impress! IASAS BADMINTON: April 18 21 Information related to the IASAS Badminton Tournament can now be found on the ATAC Blog http://atac.ism online.org We are currently accepting housing offers for the 80 visiting Badminton athletes if you can help with housing please read details on the blog and a housing letter can also be accessed via the blog or hard copy picked up from the ATAC office. ‐
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ATAC Blog: http://atac.ism online.org For information related to the ATAC Department please check the newly refurbished ATAC Blog. Weekly updates/newsletter items and other information related to the ISM ATAC extracurricular program and seasonal sports can be found here as well as links to the latest game schedule and IASAS website are available. ‐
GAME SCHEDULE PDF: (new procedure in place for access to game schedule pdf information) pdf information) Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISM teams can be found via the ATAC blog. You can also access this information via the ES/MS/HS divisional web pages. 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 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 ID# to access the game schedule pdf now pdf now located in power school ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES – (for ALL match/schedule details check game schedule page as above) April 2 Track Meet at Brent April 8 Twilight Track Meet at ISM v Brent at ISM April 17 (Sunday) Teams depart for IASAS
Track at ISB, Softball at JIS, ISM is hosting Badminton BEARCAT DEN: Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:
Mon, Wed and Fridays from 11:30 am – 1:00pm and 2:30pm – 4:00pm. Tues and Thurs afternoons from 2:30-4pm. Thanks to all our great volunteers. If you are interested in joining our group of volunteers in the Bearcat Den please contact our BCD volunteers coordination Chantel ([email protected] [email protected])) 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.
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ISM AQUATHON 2011 Saturday 2 n d April Presenting the Annual ISM Aquathon 2011 Open to all ISM Student/Faculty/Staff/Parent Community. RACE 1 – 13/14, 15-18 and Adults - Start Time 8:00am Run 600m Swim 400m Run 1400m RACE 2 – 9/10 11/12 Age Groups – Start Time 8:30am Run 300m Swim 300m Run 1000m RACE 3 - 8 and Under Start Time 9:00am Run 150m Swim 200m Run 500m RACE 4 - Relay – Student/Student, Adult/Student, Adults/Adult, Start 9:30am - Run 600m Swim 800m Run 1400m
Awards Ceremony – 10:00am ISM AQUATHON 2011 – ENTRY FORM 1 . Present this entry form to the Cashiers office and pay 300 pesos en try fee 2 . Cashier will Stamp Entry Form. 3 . Present this form to the Sw Sw imming Po ol Office
Participants Name Birth date
Gender Gender M / F Age on Day
DIVISION
AGE GROUP – Please Select a division and Age Group (X) 8&U 9/10 11/12 13/14 15/18 Adult Relay
Race 1 8:00am
13/14
15/18
Adult
Student Student
Student Parent
Adult Adult
Race 2 8:30am Race 3 9:00am Race 4 Relays 9:30am
Cashier STAMP Office)
9/10
11/12
8&U
Teacher Teacher
300 P eso Entry Fee(Cashier Fee(Cashier
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COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES: CONGRATULATIONS!
We are proud to announce that our ISM seniors were accepted to the following universities: COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY ACCEPTANCES: Academy of Art of Art University University of Alberta of Alberta American University American University of Rome of Rome Ateneo de Manila University (17) Babson College (2) Barnard College Bath Spa University College Bentley University (5) Binghamton University University of Birmingham of Birmingham University of British of British Columbia Okanagan University of British of British Columbia (3) Brock University Brown University Bryant University University of California of California at Irvine University of California of California at Los Angeles (4) University of California of California at Riverside University of California of California at Santa Cruz California State University, East Bay California State University, Sacramento Carnegie Mellon University University of Chicago of Chicago City University Colgate University The Culinary Institute of America of America De Anza College De La Salle University Manila University College Dublin University of Dundee of Dundee Durham University University of East of East Anglia Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne University of Edinburgh of Edinburgh (2) Embry Riddle Aeronautical University FL Emmanuel College University of Exeter of Exeter Fisher College Franklin and Marshall College George Mason University ‐
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Glasgow Caledonian University Glion Institute of Higher of Higher Education Goldsmiths College, University of London of London (2) Hamilton College NY University of Hawaii of Hawaii at Hilo Hiram College The Hong Kong University of Science of Science & Technology University of Illinois of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (5) Imperial College of Science, of Science, Technology, and Medicine (2) Indiana University at Bloomington Iona College The University of Iowa of Iowa Johnson & Wales University University of Kent of Kent at Canterbury Lakehead University Lancaster University University of Leicester of Leicester London School of Economics of Economics (2) University College London (6) Longwood University Loyola Marymount University (2) Loyola University Chicago (2) Manhattanville College (3) Massachusetts Institute of Technology of Technology McGill University (2) Menlo College Michigan State University University of Michigan of Michigan (2) Middlesex University Northeastern University (6) Northwestern University University of Notre of Notre Dame Nottingham Trent University (2) University of Nottingham of Nottingham (2) University of Oregon of Oregon Pace University, New York City (2) Pennsylvania State University, Berks College Pennsylvania State University, University Park (2) University of Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania (2) University of the of the Philippines (2) ‐
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Purdue University (5)
Stony Brook University
Queen Mary, University of London of London
Syracuse University (2)
Radford University
University of Toronto of Toronto (2)
Rider University
Trinity College Dublin
Ringling College of Art of Art and Design
University at Buffalo The State University of New of New York
Saint Louis University
University College Utrecht
Saint Mary's College of California of California
University of Oxford of Oxford (2)
Salve Regina University
University of the of the Arts London
Salve Regina University
University of Victoria of Victoria
University of San of San Diego (3)
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of San of San Francisco (6)
University of Warwick of Warwick (3)
School of Pharmacy, of Pharmacy, University of London of London
Waseda University
Sheffield Hallam University
Wesleyan University (2)
University of Southern of Southern California
Western Michigan University
University of St. of St. Andrews (Scotland)
University of Western of Western Ontario Yale University
Stanford University University of Stirling of Stirling
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