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March 18, 2016

A weekly bulletin for Parents and Students

For ATTENDANCE concerns, please contact the HS Office (Sam Ramos or Laurie Atilano) Tel: 840 8650 / 840 8653 Email [email protected] For COUNSELING or IB/AP concerns, please contact Nyla, Tina or Arni Tel: 840-8655 / 840-8660

MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION: Dear Parents, ISM is very fortunate to have a dynamic, supportive, enthusiastic and incredibly talented Parent Community Association (PCA). I would like to thank them for all their hard work this year and for their ongoing assistance with supporting the multitude of high school programs that we offer. Not to be outdone by the wonderful student performances that we have witnessed this year, the PCA have organized and choreographed their very own show and I am eagerly anticipating their performance tonight. After the performance you can dine at the International Food Faire. It promises to be a virtual extravaganza of international cuisine. If you have nothing planned for tonight then come along and enjoy the show. I hope to see you there! IB Mock exams for seniors have gone very well this week and will be completed for all seniors next week prior to our dismissal for the holiday on Wednesday. There will not be a high school bulletin next week, so I would like to wish you all a relaxing and refreshing spring break and when we return in April there will be a short sprint of about 10 weeks until the end of the year. Kind regards,

William Brown

HS Principal

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HS CALENDAR: Monday, March 21: Gr. 9 & 10 MAP Testing IB2 Visual Arts Exhibit (FAT Lobby) IB2 Mock Exams Tuesday, March 22 Gr. 9 & 10 MAP Testing IB2 Visual Arts Exhibit (FAT Lobby) IB2 Mock Exams Wednesday, March 23: Student Late Start Gr. 9 & 10 MAP Testing IB2 Visual Arts Exhibit (FAT Lobby) IASAS 3rd Season Send Off IB Theatre Solo Theatre piece and Portfolio Collection (External HL)

CAMPUS CARD SYSTEM: Need to top up? ISM goes cashless in SY16-17!

Starting SY2016-2017 ISM will implement a full debit system in the MS/HS Canteen. The debit system provides customers with a cashless payment system once the customer's ID has been loaded with funds.

Parents and Students are encouraged to start using the debit system if they aren't already doing so.

March 24-April 3: School Holiday Monday, April 4: Start of 4th Quarter

for details.

Tuesday, April 5 Wednesday, April 6: Student Late Start Thursday, March 17: IASAS 3rd Season Golf@JIS; Track at TAS; Softball@ISB; Badminton@SAS Friday, March 18: IASAS 3rd Season Golf@JIS; Track at TAS; Softball@ISB; Badminton@SAS

UPCOMING EVENTS: April 16: PROM April 29 - May 2: School Holiday May 2 – 20: IB Exams May 9: National Holiday

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FROM THE ATAC OFFICE: Congratulations MS track team for your efforts at Brent last Saturday. The following new MS track records were set at the Brent meet. Cheska Diolanto Girls Shot Put 11.03m Reed Santos Boys High Jump 1.65m Boys 4x400m relay Lorenzo, Reed, Manuel, Jun Suh 4.10.91 Boys 4x100m relay Lorenzo, Quinn, Reed, Lake 50.84 Boys 400m dash Jun Suh Kwon 59.91 Congratulations to Junior Trinity McPherson who broke her own 100m record at Brent on Saturday with a time of 12.32. Trinity also set a new record for the 200m with a time of 26.25 which broke Smirti Sridhar’s 2011 record of 26.44. Today we host the ISM twilight track meet, come on out to support our HS/MS track athletes at the final meet for this year for the local season. Well done MS Boys badminton teams who won 2nd and 3rd place at the LSMS Badminton meet at Brent. Gymnastics results from the BSM meet are now posted to the Gymnastics results blog page. Well done to all our Bearcats gymnasts who competed at BSM. We now look forward to hosting our own ISM Goodwill Meet on May 7th. Well done to our HS softball teams and Badminton team who participated in and gained some valuable preparation at the pre-IASAS exchanges this past weekend in Singapore and Bangkok. ISM summer camps information/flyer is now posted to ATAC blog. Summer camps are offered the first 3 weeks of the summer vacation. Please note due to the large amount of facility construction planned for this summer camps will only be offered in the mornings and all sessions will end by 12 noon or before. http://atac.ism-online.org/atac/atacsummer-sports-camps/ S3 practice schedule is posted on notice boards and on ATAC blog schedules page. ATAC S3 sports for MS are Badminton, Track&Field, Mixed Touch and Co-ed Softball. For HS S3 sports are Golf, Track&Field, Softball and Badminton. UPCOMING EVENTS:

Apr 24-25 IASAS Board Meeting- Bangkok May 13-15 Mixed Touch Tournament at Jakarta For our Sailfish swim team program please check the Sailfish blog for information. http://sailfish.ism-online.org/ Please note the practice times for ATAC programs for SY 15-16 are as follows: ATAC all year round teams- 3:15-4:30. See schedule for our All year round teams program here... All HS seasonal teams practice from 3:05- 4:50pm each day. MS seasonal teams practice 3:15-4:45pm. In order to clear the campus prior to 5pm all after school programs will conclude by 4:50pm or earlier. The last bus is 4:55pm this is due to the ever increasing traffic concerns in our area. Parents and students please take some time to peruse the ATAC blog it has a wide variety of information and links to our sports and activities program. If you have any questions regarding the competitive program of sports at ISM after reading the information on the blog please send an email to [email protected] and I will endeavor to assist you as best I can. The ATAC game schedule pdf which is updated regularly by Triz Gonzalez (ATAC Athletics Coordinator) gives the most up to date information on where/when and who our Bearcat teams will be playing throughout the school year. Access to the game schedule is now via the ISM parent portal not via power school as in the past. A navigation guide is available here. ATAC Game Schedule Users Guide. Access the parent portal via this link, log in with your user name/password and then look for the ATAC Game Schedule tab under the left side quick links. Don't forget to refresh the pdf page each time it opens so you access the most current schedule. Please note this schedule does change often and at short notice due to involvement with many local schools and organizations. Check it regularly for the most up to date information. For security purposes....access to the ATAC game schedule pdf must be linked via the secure parent portal and details should not be shared with non ISM community members. Bearcat Den- drop by our fantastic spirit store. Bearcat Den hours of operation- 7am-4pm Mon-Fri

Mar 18 ISM twilight track meet Mar 19 ISM mini TKD meet at Covered Court/JV Boys softball at home (ASSL League game) Mar 20 Var boys softball at home (ASSL league game) April 6-10 IASAS S3 Championships (Badminton at SAS, Golf at JIS, Track at TAS, Softball at ISB) Apr 22-23 ISM Sailfish Spring Meet

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FROM THE COUNSELING OFFICE:

FROM THE FINE ARTS OFFICE:

Calling all Bearcat Parents! As some of you may already know, it is almost time for the annual ISM Bearcat Career Experience Week! What is the ISM Bearcat Career Experience Week? Now in its sixth year, the ISM Bearcat Career Experience Week is a week-long internship opportunity open to our 10 and 11 grade students. Last year, approximately 140 students were able to gain valuable job experience in various fields, thanks to the more than 30 participating companies. th

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Great! How can I help?  Be a host company/organization for a couple 10th and 11th grade students  Provide information on companies/organizations interested in hosting interns What are the need-to-know details? INTERNSHIP DATES: June 13-17, 2016 (5-day internship) Meet & Greet Date: June 2, 2016 The Meet & Greet session is between host companies and their assigned interns. The goal is to get to know each other and share key information. For those who are interested, please contact Crystal Cappuccio ([email protected]) or Janelle Grier ([email protected]) at the HS Counseling Office. Thank you very much!

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