International School Manila d For ATTENDANCE concerns, please contact the HS Office (Sam Ramos or Laurie Atilano) Tel: 840 8650 / 840 8653 Email hs@ismanila.org April 25, 2014 A weekly bulletin for Parents and Students For GUIDANCE or IB/AP concerns, please contact Bella, Eloisa or Nyla Tel: 840-8655 / 840-8660 MESSAGE FROM THE ADMINISTRATION: Dear Parents, It has been a great week in the High School. Everyone seemed refreshed and focused after the well- earned break. My highlights for the week were many and varied! On Wednesday, we had a double header with the 100% Dance performance, immediately followed by the Vicky Sycip Herrera Art Auction in aid of raising funds to support our Filipino Scholar Program. Not to be out done by the Dancers and their amazing variety, was the annual ISM Film Festival which screened 23 short films all completely created by our budding film students. The quality and diversity of different types of films was really outstanding this year; from the IB narratives to music video, from documentary to experimental. If you are like me when you see these films and realize that they are entirely created by students, including the acting, film techniques and effects, you are left wishing that you had your time all over again and could drop back in time and do HS all over again! Mr. Toze was out of town today and so I had the honor of laying a wreath on ISM s behalf during the ANZAC Day dawn ceremony this morning. A number of Australian and New Zealand students joined me and I would encourage all Australian and New Zealand students to join with the school next year as it will be the 100 th year anniversary of this most significant event in the history of both countries. Kind Regards, They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, We shall remember them. William Brown High School Principal 1
HS CALENDAR: FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: Monday, April 28: IB1 English Lang & Lit Orals Tuesday, April 29: Parent Meeting with ESL Specialist Dr. V. Rojas, 7:30 AM- 9:00 AM (LT) Parent Coffee 9:30-11:00 AM (LT) College Essay Writing Workshop 3:00-4:00PM Wednesday, April 30: IB1 History IA Historicla Investigation DUE Thursday, May 1: No School Friday, May2: IB2 Final Exams UPCOMING EVENTS: April 25: PROM May 2-9 IB2 Final Exams May 12: K-12 Dance Recital INVITE TO HS PARENT COFFEE: Invite to HS Parent Coffee: We would like to invite all Parents to attend the HS Parent Coffee Morning When: Tuesday, April 29 Time: 9:30 am 11:00 am Venue: Little Theater (LT) REMINDERS FROM THE HS OFFICE: Photo Orders for Grades 9, 10 11 and 12 Students for the Kawayan Photos taken by our school photographer, Tino Ley, are now ready for pick up at the HS Office. Parents and students may come pick it up. Representatives will need an authorization to claim on your behalf. Thank you. 2
FROM THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE Dear Parents, Please take a moment to review the re-enrollment procedure for your child to attend classes on August 7, 2014. STEP 1 - Please complete this step immediately. You are required to log-in to POWERSCHOOL beginning March 17th to complete STEP 1of the process. After May 22nd you will not have access to POWERSCHOOL and this may result in a delay for your child to attend classes on the first day of school for school year 2014-2015. Please follow this link for the detailed step-by-step guide and required forms for students entering Grade 1, 6 and 9. To access the Parent Portal and PowerSchool, please download the PDF instructions here. The forms should be completed and submitted to the appropriate offices at any time prior to the start of school in the Fall. We encourage you do start this process NOW to avoid long lines. For information regarding your POWERSCHOOL access information please contact the school in which your child is currently enrolled. For information regarding our Health Clinic Clearance procedures, please contact the Clinic at clinic@ismanila.org. For information regarding billing or tuition and fees, please contact our Treasury department at villar@ismanila.org (for billing) and esguerrae@ismanila.org or felipen@ismanila.org (for tuition and fees). May we request that if you are NOT RETURNING that you send the Admissions Office your official WITHDRAWAL NOTIFICATION FORM immediately as this will help us to clear student account(s) in a timely manner. We request one form per child. Please note: Parents who fail to notify the school by Friday, 9th May that their children are leaving ISM will forfeit US$1,000 from each Facilities Upgrade Deposit. We appreciate your assistance with this procedure as we have many anxious families awaiting word regarding spaces for their children for school year 2014-2015. Sincerely, Stephanie H. Hagedorn Director of Admissions & Advancement International School Manila admissions@ismanila.org +63-2 840-8488 +63-2 840-8489 3
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FROM THE COUNSELING OFFICE: The Bearcat Career Experience is BACK! ISM HS Guidance is now requesting any companies interested in providing a one week (June 9 to 13) "internship" to one or more of our sophomore/junior students to check the following link for more information on the popular program. http://bearcat-careers.ism-online.org/ If your company is already willing to accept some of our students, please see this link below for our online application. http://bearcat-careers.ism-online.org/how-to-apply/ If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact Doug McQueen at mcqueend@ismanila.org or at 840 8664. 5
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