M I D D L E S C H O O L

Volume 3, Issue # 22
February 07 to 11, 2011
Student Bulletin
WEEK AT A GLANCE
February 07 to 11, 2011
Monday, February 07 Regular Schedule

Tuesday, February 08 Regular Schedule

Wednesday, February 09 Student Late Start/Regular Schedule

Grade Level Assembly (11:40 A.M.):
Gr. 5 - FAT; Gr. 6 - LT; Gr. 7 - AMR; Gr. 8 - MS Gym
Thursday, February 10 Regular Schedule

Friday, February 11 Regular Schedule

Dear Students:

ERB testing will take place this week. Remember to get a good night’s rest and eat breakfast before
testing. We are also halfway through the third quarter so make sure you are staying on top of your
assignments. If you are having any difficulties, take the initiative and talk to your teachers.

Third season sports and activities are underway. Best of luck and have fun!

As CWW nears, be sure you have everything ready for the week. Take some time to think about why we have
CWW and what you can add to the program. Please remember to make positive choices which are safe,
respectful and responsible. We want everyone to have a memorable experience.

Ms. Fredericks and Ms. Sayson

Upcoming Events in the Middle School PowerSchool Grade Update

February 07 to 11 ERB Testing

09 to 13 AMIS Honor Girls Choir Festival Feb. 11 - Grade Update
14 to 18 Classroom Without Walls
23 Grade 8 Parent Session on Transitioning to High School Feb. 25 - Grade Update
(5:30 P.M., FAT)
24 MS Parent Coffee (7:45 A.M., LT)
28 School Holiday (EDSA Revolution Day)
March 01 School Holiday (Faculty In-Service)
02 to 03 World Maths Day
02 to 04 MS Course Registration
04 Courtyard Mini-Concert: Advanced/Intermediate Band
07 MS Academic Bowl
12 ISM Goodwill Gymnastics (LT)
15 Parent Teacher Conferences(1:00 P.M.)
18 Activity Period (1:20 P.M.)
18 Courtyard Activity (3:00 P.M.)
21 to 25 Spring Break
30 to April 20 MAP Testing
 FREE DRESS DAY FOR A
CAUSE
Next Tuesday, 8th February will be a non uniform day.
Students who wish to come to school not in school uni-
form may do so if they pay 100 pesos. The money
raised will be going towards CWW service learning pro-
jects mainly helping a native tribe in Subic. Students
from grade 8 will be collecting the money for the non
uniform day during home room time on Monday, 7th
February. So make sure you bring your money in to
help a good cause and wear your favorite clothes to
school.

Thanks
SUBIC CWW

YEARBOOK PHOTOS
The Yearbook Photos are here!
Please drop by the Middle School
Office to pick up your photo!
 FROM THE ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES OFFICE
IASAS 2nd SEASON REPORT:
Basketball - A big thanks to all the ISM community for supporting
the IASAS Basketball tournament. There were some very close and
exciting matches played over the three days and our Bearcats
boys and girls teams were in the thick of the action in the close
matches. A one point win over Taipei on Friday morning and then
a close 4 point loss to eventual runners up ISKL Friday evening had
the gyms jumping and the fans screaming support for our boys
team. The girls team made a great comeback win over ISKL and
then pushed all other teams with tight defense and a scrappy
’never say die’ attitude in all their games. The Bearcats boys kept
the excitement rolling in the finals on Saturday by taking out an
overtime win against ISB to claim 3rd place and the Bronze medal.
Our girls team with one win and 4 losses finished in 5th place over-
all. Well done to all players and coaches.
Other IASAS Results:
♦ Girls Touch defeated ISB in the final in Taipei and claimed IASAS
Gold for the 2nd year in a row.
♦ Girls Tennis won Gold and Boys Tennis won Bronze at a rain
affected IASAS Tennis championships in Singapore.
♦ ISM Swim teams: Girls placed 6th and boys 4th with many swim-
mers breaking PB’s(personal best) times
Individual Achievements:
All tournament Players:
Basketball
♦ Girls Katrina Gavino
♦ Boys JP Campos, Jonathon Moran
Touch
♦ Chelsea Ferguson
♦ Sierra Lee
♦ Denise Fransisco
♦ Smirti Sridhar
Rugby
♦ Arlan Parry
Tennis
♦ Jasmine Ho, Sarina Samson/Stephanie Guest, Daniel Um, Gino
Roque/Javier Ra Ra
3rd Season Sports
See attached practice Schedule, this takes effect from February
7th until April 15th.
ATAC ANNOUNCEMENTS
GAME SCHEDULE INFORMATION:
Information about all mid week/weekend fixtures for ISM teams
can be found by going to the GAME SCHEDULE tab on the ATAC
page of the ISM website. You can also access this information via
the ES/MS/HS divisional web pages. Please note the game sched-
ule does change often due to involvement with many local schools
so please check the page regularly to find out the latest informa-
tion of where and when the Bearcats teams are playing. Access to
the game schedule page is also available via the ATAC blog. Click
on the Bearcat logo to be directed to the game schedule
page. http://atac.ism-online.org
ATAC HIGHLIGHTS/UPDATES – FEBRUARY: (for ALL match/schedule
details check game schedule page as above)
♦ Feb. 12 - Brent track meet for MS/HS
♦ Feb. 19/20 - ISM International Swim meet
♦ Feb. 26 - ISM Track Meet
♦ Mar. 2 - IASAS Cultural Convention Teams Depart
♦ Mar. 3-5 - IASAS Cultural Convention (Art/Music at JIS, DDDF at ISKL)
♦ Mar 5 - ISM Goodwill Gymnastics Meet
♦ Middle School 2nd Season Sports Awards on February 9, 4:00 P.M. in
the ES Gym (Touch/Tennis/Rugby/Basketball)
♦ High School 2nd Season Sports Awards on February 11, 5:30 P.M. in
the HS Gym (Touch/Rugby/Tennis/Basketball/Swimming/
Cheerleading)
BEARCAT DEN
Regular Opening Hours for the Bearcat Den:
♦ Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M. and
2:30–4:00 P.M.
♦ Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:30-4:00 P.M.
Thanks to all our great volunteers. If you are interested in joining our
group of volunteers in the Bearcat Den, please contact our BCD volun-
teers coordination Chantel(fam.wanten@hotmail.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.
IASAS BASKETBALL HOUSING: A huge thanks to all the families below
who housed last week for the Basketball athletes. These events can-
not happen without your support. On behalf of the ISM admin team
and the ATAC Dept. THANK YOU for being an integral part of IASAS
Basketball 2011:
Thompson, Park, Soriaga, Kumar, Hyun, Danaux, Jalandoni, Ching,
Piguing, Diaz, Gaskin, Endleman, Olfato, Ocampo, Kobza, Senevi-
ratne, Gregori, Reyes, Piper, Ahmed, Gill, Wanten, McGuire, Moran,
Ayala, Willnow, Bell, Stevens, Hamaguchi, Pekin, Cho, Bagli, Ander-
son, Saubier, Lee, Dodwell, Schmid, Sicat, Sy, Raniolo, Squillantini,
Francisco, Campos, Razon, Fodstad, Ursem
THANK YOU FAMILIES!
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/
 IASAS SWIM REPORT
The ISM Swim team achieved very encouraging results at the An encouraging point for future IASAS events is that of the 45
IASAS Swimming Championships last week in Kuala Lumpur. It is swim in finals, our grade 9 students featured in finals 15 times.
the first time for many years that both our teams did not finish Medals
6th, our boys finished 4th and our girls were leading JIS right up ♦ 3 x3rd place medals
to the final event. A huge improvement from previous years and ♦ 4 x2nd place medals
our freshman swimmers, now have the experience and are hungry ♦ 4 x1st place medals
for success next year. In fact they are already back in the pool
training for next year’s IASAS at Jakarta International School. Outstanding efforts by:
Lotta Toppari
Boys finished 4th. Girls finished a very close 6th with JIS beating 3rd, 5th, 6th & 9th
them to 5th in the last event. Justin Van Klaveren
3rd, 6th, 8th & 1th
Some statistics of note… There were 50 personal best times. Ray Oo
3x 2nds and 1 3rd
9 new Individual ISM school swimming records by: 3 x3rd place medals
♦ 4 records to Lotta Toppari Ray Oo
♦ 2 records to Luna Iai (Freshman) Justin Van Klaveren
♦ 2 records to Raymond Oo Lotta Topari
♦ 1 record to Joanna Hirsch (freshman) 4 x2nd place medals
2 for Ray Oo
1 new ISM School Relay record goes to Justin Van Klaveren
♦ Noa Sison Sam Drury
♦ Justin Van Klaveren 4 x1st place medals (boys relay)
♦ Yong An Noah Sison
♦ Ray Oo Justin Van Klavaren
Yong An
ISM swam in 31 B Finals Ray Oo
ISM swam in 14 A Finals
Andy Astfalck
Head Coach
ISM Swimming
Sailfish Blog - www.sailfish.ism-online.org